OpenStars

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[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's probably already too late.:-P

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

Well, now I'm back on my original device (laptop), and I see the color too. Maybe it was legit white there for a bit, like a partial file upload that somehow finished?

Surely that's it. All the other comments, all the upvotes for my comment, yes, all the evidence points to that. Indeed. Surely. Indubitably.

... and yet. I prefer the alternative facts explanation that I am simply a crazy person:-P.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't it be funny if it were Harris v. Trump in 2028? I mean Donald to be clear:-P.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

But... why does that look like vanilla though? I iz too dumb for this meme?

Edit: damn, apparently I need to get my laptop monitor cleaned, or checked, or something! :-P

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 15 points 2 years ago

Good work tracking them down though!

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Robert Reich can definitely explain it better than I:-). Basically any law that further enhances their protection moves them forward - e.g. Citizens United - while other things may pull them back, e.g. Obama raised the marginal top tax rate on dividends.

But corporations can do many things, like corporation A takes out a huge loan, builds a building, then hands it to B, then defaults on the loan, even while the board members of B are the same humans as were on A. Sounds like stealing right? Humans need to eat, breathe, sleep, and pay their debts, but corporations do not, plus have special protections besides. In the USA, a "President" of a legal entity can be held liable for actions taken by either himself or by the company, whereas a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) not as much.

Corporations helped do things not otherwise possible, e.g. didn't they build the Panama Canal? At the time that was such a huge endeavor that a single normal company could not have done it.

But there's a balance, and all told that balance has as of late tipped towards enhancing protections for corporations while offering less rights to the humans, i.e. the former has risen and by implication, at the expense of the latter.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Don't let the devil steal your joy"

- Joel Osteen, speaker who makes money talking up a message of positivity

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

Assuming there is TP where it should be, perfection:-).

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

WHERE DID HER MOUTH GO!? :-P

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

LUCK has nothing to do with it:-P

Edit: he sexy

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