Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

@bagder curl beer | glass

@thomas Isn't there some enormous German word for 'Battery Backup'? 😄

@HebrideanHecate "But it's my job" Said the beleaguered leader

Throwback to this banger from over a decade ago. Always makes me want to watch the things it clips.

https://youtu.be/DFM140rju4k

A bank just got a 50bn bailout for basiically doing nothing but being incompetent and likely actually criminal. The cost of 1 year's student loan debt relief is 30 billion. We've given the Ukraine over 3 times that in a single year. Don't ever let anyone in government tell you they can't afford things, because when it comes to getting paid there's no shortage of cash.
https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-estimate-biden-harris-student-debt-relief-cost-average-30-billion-annually-over-next-decade

@annaghughes I groaned but I am here for it, I cannot deny.

@matrix The gas block of an M-14 with a bollard in front of it.

So First Republic bank senior staff performed insider trading in $12 million stock options in the months before the collapse. They were not required to report this, only to FDIC. We should be rewarding such initiative, by giving them even more money to steal.

@h_thoreson Actual snort 🐽

@feld This *is* the insurance

@feld I doubt they can afford the premiums/have sufficient liquidity to cover the amount.

@feld Fire! Fire! Someone get some gasoline!

@josemanuel It scares me what sort of future we've built printing endless amounts of currency to pay for what's basically a gambling habit. At some point the chickens come home.

@FemaleIsNotAFeeling Been trying those too!

@Flick My car just doesn't fit very well (I'm 6'3") but I'm not in it too much, it's mainly my office desk and at home where I have to really watch it. I can watch my posture a lot easier at work. At home it's too easy to sink into the sofa with the dog sleeping on me (yes I am blaming the dog)

I started doing some simple yoga to help out with my core strength on the bike, which I discovered is very poor. What I have *also* known but had verified is I have absolutely dreadful posture. It's a real effort to correct a lifetime of slouching.

@TomLarrow@vis.social Most people have no clue how long things take.

Absolutely no good can come from teaching financial criminals that it's okay, no matter what you do, you'll be bailed out.

At some point they'll fuck up enough that it will beyond fixing. If I helped myself to my neighbors money and hit the casino I'm pretty sure the result would not be "Oh *you*. Here's a few thousand dollars - do you promise not to do it again?" People need to go to jail for this shit.

@dev0ur@hachyderm.io @waves@liminalisland.xyz Also, the Neil Sheehan book 'A Bright Shining Lie' is an amazing and moving tome about the absolute needless tragedy of it all.

@dev0ur@hachyderm.io @waves@liminalisland.xyz It's really good.