It does, however the result is that the small group of assholes that “own” the company get insanely rich. Workers rarely benefit from increased productivity.
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Pressure is growing on US President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to use West-supplied weapons to strike Russian territory.
Russia's Vladimir Putin has warned of "serious consequences", especially for what he called "small countries" in Europe.On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington’s stance on the matter would "adapt and adjust" based on changing battlefield conditions.
He is currently in the Czech capital, Prague, for a meeting of Nato foreign ministers.White House national security spokesman John Kirby said late on Wednesday that even though US support for Kyiv had evolved, "right now, there's also no change to our policy".
Ukraine has been struggling to counter a Russian offensive in the east of the country, while the city of Kharkiv has suffered weeks of deadly attacks, often launched by Russia from military outposts near the Ukrainian border.Mr Blinken’s statement, during a trip to Europe, followed more direct comments made earlier this week by France’s President Emmanuel Macron, who said Ukraine should be “allowed” to use weapons supplied by the West against military sites on Russian territory - although strictly not on civilian targets.
Mr Macron has for some time advocated for more direct intervention in the Ukraine war – but other Western leaders also appear to be softening to the idea.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has remained cautious in public but a spokesman in Berlin said that "defensive action is not limited to one's own territory, but also includes the territory of the aggressor".Last week, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg told the Economist that the West should allow Ukraine to defend itself by striking military bases in Russia.
And that includes striking targets on Russian territory,” he said.UK Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron said earlier this month that it was up to Ukraine to decide how to use British weapons, while this week the Polish Deputy Defence Minister said that Ukrainians could use Polish weapons “as they see fit”.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously said it was "unfair" for Western countries to impose limits on the use of their weapons, while acknowledging that Ukraine could not risk the support of its partners.
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Families of the victims of the Uvalde school shooting are suing the manufacturer of the gun used in the attack, the maker of a video game and Instagram parent company Meta.
In two new lawsuits, they claim the companies helped promote dangerous weapons to a generation of “socially vulnerable” young men, including the 18-year old gunman.Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the attack at Robb Elementary School.
The dual lawsuits - filed in Texas and California - are against Activision, the developer of the military video game series “Call of Duty”; Daniel Defense, the gun manufacturer known for its high-end rifles; and Meta.
The companies are accused of being responsible for “grooming” a generation of young people who live out violent video game fantasies in the real world, with easily accessible weapons of war.
The gunman, Salvador Ramos, used an AR-15 style rifle in the attack.The lawsuits contend that Meta and Activision "knowingly exposed" him to the gun he used at Uvalde and conditioned him to see it as the solution to his problems.
Additionally, the families announced that they will be taking new legal action against 92 individual officers from the state's Department of Public Safety for "shocking and extensive failures" during the shooting response.With files from Peter Bowes
A bunch of pieces by neolib outlets like NYT basically predicted that Netanyahu would end this by early Summer at the latest, and that would give Biden enough time to recover in the polls. Leaving aside how cynical that is ("those silly kids/ activists will get bored, and Muslims will all forget after a few months, right!?"), Biden's team needs to give real thought to what happens if Israel is still in Gaza in November (and they will be, since Netanyahu has made clear that withdrawl is not his plan even after the active bombings are "done").
There are so many ways his support for this is hurting not just himself, but Democrats and any semblance of youth faith in political engagement. If this was translating to actual loss of political power for the USFG, I'd be all for it, but by all appearances it's just going to negatively impact down-ballot Democrats, and progressive-Left staffing in government agencies, ceding power to the Right.
There is a point at which, regardless of what Biden's personal views might be, he needs to act as though he actually cares what his constituents want. This paternalistic "I know the best way to handle it" act may have fooled some people back at the start, but Biden's 'concerned-friend' approach has visibly not worked to rein in Netanyahu, and sticking to it now just looks like he doesn't understand, or can't admit, that he was wrong.
A psychiatrist explained to me, years ago, that women are much more likely to attempt suicide, but by using less-violent means, are much less-likely to succeed in terminating their lives.
Males are less likely to try it, but more likely to succeed.
Girls/women usually try pills, overdoses, guys usually try something violent.
See the "more suicides are tried by girls & women" part of the equation, not just the "more successful suicides are by males" part of the equation.
( I've faint marks from when I opened both wrists with a scalpel-blade, when I was about 10yo, and haven't had the guts to intentionally make-absolutely-certain of my termination .. perhaps-ever.
Both parts of the equation I'm identifying are offensive/wrong, and mis-representing of what's actually going on, as various "activist" factions do, is what I'm attacking. )
Three young men smile for a photo in the pub - 45 minutes later, two of them are dead.Lewis Moghul, 22, was found to be more than three times the legal alcohol limit when he crashed his red BMW 225D MSport, killing himself and his 19-year-old passenger Sammy Phillips.One witness described the car as travelling at "insane" speeds before it left the road and smashed into trees in Oxfordshire in February last year.
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) data for the UK also reveals men under the age of 25 are four times more likely to be caught drug-driving - and twice as likely to be caught drink-driving.Sammy's older brother Jamie Morris, 25, told the BBC he feared the combination of young men and cars was "lethal".Watch on BBC iPlayer: Drive Fast Die YoungJamie, from Llangynog, Wales, said he remembered "hyperventilating" when he learned of his brother's death.
Government casualty statistics state "young male car drivers are four times as likely to be killed or seriously injured" compared with all older drivers.Dr Elizabeth Box, RAC Foundation research director and transport psychologist, cited evidence that young male brains develop "at a slightly different rate" to females.She said this made them more likely to take risks, especially in social situations.
Both Dr Box and Dr Helman believe graduated driving licences could stop between 20% and 40% of crashes involving young drivers, who currently account for a fifth of all road deaths and serious injuries in the UK each year.Graduated driving licences could see a minimum supervised learning period, curfews and a limit to the number of passengers new drivers can carry.Dr Helman said for all young people, carrying passengers of their own age in a "party car" scenario increased the risk.
She wants to see greater sentencing powers and graduated driving licences and said behaviour that puts other people's lives at risk was a crime.
As part of its investigation into the disproportionate number of young men killed or causing the deaths of others on the roads, the BBC uncovered an alarming trend of young men filming themselves driving dangerously and posting their exploits on social media for "likes".Judge Francis Sheridan, who has overseen a number of high profile criminal cases involving road deaths, has described this as "a serious development".
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I’d like to point out that there’s few times scarier/more life threatening than interacting with a cop - esp as a black person. Something about knowing someone can murder you and people will make excuses for them.
I don’t blame her for driving away at all. Exactly because of the bullshit cops pull- aka their guns. There’s no amount of following directions that will save you if the cop is racist/trigger-happy enough.
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