I think its such a perfect comparison because Tolkien meant for the ring to be a physical representation for fascism. Much of Tolkien’s work was heavily influenced from his experiences in World War I

No no you got it wrong, FBI is investigating how to purchase said data.

Do you know the price of those giant letters?? this was a prudent cost saving measuee

Unless they are literally on a spit above a fire then torched is on the same level as someone being slammed, which is to say not at all.

VP role means nothing in finance, BofA alone has hundreds if not thousands of people with that title. Its basically the 2nd lowest full time employe title they have in their markets side, over assistant VP

Sonys been evil as fuck for decades dude, remember when 20 years ago they hid rootkits in their cds for drm protection.

My parents cat had that for a bit but that’s because he got into some hair dye that was sitting in a bowl lol

When we were trying to liquidate my late FILs massive rock collection, one of the rock shops we were recommended ended up being owned by young earth creationists, dude was a geologist who thought all these rocks were 6000 years old. People be crazy.

Not sure if that’s a Microsoft problem, or a general capitalism problem. None of the industry giants seem to understand art or games, just dollar signs

Why would he? trump is already committed to this quagmire with no winning way out, he’s in no position to make demands from them.

I mean, the alternative is taxing their heads off

Let them fight.

Becoming clear that the military industrial complex is actually a very badly diaguised kleptocracy, not that I like either option.

Who could have ever foreseen this? /s

Who the fuck cares, its not like you pay taxes anyway. Go be a leech on someone else for awhile.

Even selfishly, considering said battlefield has a non-zero chance of being on US soil against protesters since apparently its ok now to mobilize the marines against protests now.

Thanks for this bit of history. I wish more history books in school covered this part of our past.

This is going to backfire as gloriously as DARE did in the US for drugs

Double the odor double the fun

Fmla is none of those 3 things. FMLA doesn’t pay for care, or pay while your sick; it doesn’t even guarantee your job, it guarantees a “similar” job. Its enough of a weasel word for employers to fuck with you if they want to over fmla leave.