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Probably also killed a lot of elderly or immunocompromised adults since he lobbied against a covid vaccine becoming open source.

The only one I'd give you shit for is andre 3000 on the right since he's been around forever and the outfit matches him perfectly.

The rest are unknowns to anyone not deep into the met galaxy and pop culture

Cars, heating and meat consumption will do that. Yeah the top .1% taking there private jets around is doing a lot more damage then your average middle class westerner but that person driving there car and eating beef everyday are doing a lot more damage then your average person living in east and south asia.

It is horribly under covered by mainstream press and does have atrocities equivalent to the war on gaza. The Sudanese military has kicked the rapid support forces (rsf) out of most of the east and capital region, but the rsf holds a lot of the west / darfur region except for the city of al fasher which is currently under siege and probably has conditions comparable to Gaza in terms of lack of food and water coming in.

The reason no one is out protesting or trying to raise awareness is because we (the west) can't do anything about it. We aren't supporting either side and shouldn't be, the RSF is worse but the Sudanese military has no shortage of war crimes. So we have no leverage to try and get a ceasefire, whereas in Israel we continue to send them billions in military aid to continue a genocidal war. We could tell them to take peace talks seriously or we cut off aid any day now but refuse to because trump wants a new beach resort.

Cool, another state race to the bottom for tax incentives. This always works out great for all involved, i.e. Production companies and major studios.

It's cutting both ways, Israel is using Sudan for whataboutism. Saw this bill board on the 101 the other day

Boxy Bulgaria becomes boxier.

We have bottle deposit in some states in the u.s. Some do it better than others though, grew up in Michigan and there any place that sold bottles had to be able to return them and a lot of the grocery stores had the machines. Moved to California and it seems like none of the stores are set up for it and the cashier will often turn you to a recycling center.

Housing as an investment leads to real estate speculation which pushes up prices. It creates a class of people who stand to gain when property values, and downstream of that rent, go up.

This class of people are very wealthy and tend to oppose any action that will decrease there property value. That includes things like building dense affordable housing, especially close to them, as that increases the supply of housing and thus decreases there property value.

This is true especially for land lords, even small "mom and pop" landlords. There goal is to raise rent and the value of there investment. Anything that will lower rent or even stabilize it like rent control they will oppose, no matter their scale.

Tl;dr: housing speculation creates a wealthy class of people opposed to housing affordability.

another of these clearly illegal things

They seem to be actually doing work. Yeah it's illegal to work without authorization but by the same logic an undocumented migrant working is illegal. Sure but I wouldn't argue it's immoral or would make them a rogue state.

There's plenty of other horrible shit that north Korea is doing, but I wouldn't put this in that bucket, this is probably the most honest work they can do considering they're sanctioned by nearly every country.

Interesting that it is a very clear downward trend. Hopefully this is a sign that more and more people realize the two parties are failing them and are ready for a shake up.

In general the president has been gaining power over the past 50 years as congress has become more gridlocked and inept.

Now we're at the point where a president can bomb a foreign country backed only by the approval of his buddies in a signal chat.