@FluentInFinance Grim. Deeply grim.

And they have the gall to call themselves healthCARE businesses.

They are pathologically uncaring profit predators like far far too many businesses.

@QasimRashid Astounding not so much that he said it but that he must have felt it safe to say - as if this was a universal truth for all except Muslims.

Sickly bad. Doubly so as the system does nothing in response.

@TheWeeOwl Delightful! Dominant background works but I would never have thought to try. I would have felt obliged to saturate the blue bell colours.

@BruceMirken Time for legal representatives - in legal gear to make their presence clear - to accompany these innocent people.

But basically, in a fascist regime, you have no say or control over events. Or so it seems.

@EugeneMcParland They clearly forgot the spirit of the Olympics. This is just evil politicising.

@JugglingWithEggs If you visit the Shorpy web site and scan through some of their old glass plate building photographs, you will see how deeply sadly far we have gone from quality and beauty to profit-serving.

@QasimRashid His own teenage daughter was the subject of his sexual attention. Kind of hard to hide is perversions. And STILL he holds the most powerful position in his land. Astonishingly stupid human race to allow this.

@briankrebs The International reaction to Trump led fascism will grow fast now. Feel sorry for millions of innocent Americans caught up in this.

@lazyb0y @iFixit Thanks. But it is also not everyone. Dan Price is a good example of an exception ...

@lazyb0y @iFixit Not really. That is how it has become though. But it is essentially private enterprises making private profit - but competition shifts the focus away from serving staff, customers and suppliers well to a manic single obsession with profit.

@iFixit The pathological sour side of economic systems allowed to operate with profit as the principle concern.

Exploitative Capitalism and even vulture Capitalism ... I had a £2,000+ quote for roof repair work that was way beyond what was needed. I found out cause and can fix for £10.

Their quote should have been deemable a criminal offence in my opinion.

@GeofCox The sheer depth of depravity coupled with gross senses of unbridled entitlement are beyond galling. These are mentally ill behaviours I feel, not least that the are perpetrated in a vacuum of concern for the targets of their obsessions.

All perpetrators and enablers should be in prison.

@rasterweb Yup. How I hate Apple in this regard. I mean, iPhone 17? Really? Just milking a gullible status-obsessed audience in my view.

@GossiTheDog Many behave in herd fashion down the path of outsourcing all they do to devices. The brain LOVES to economise so just lets cognitive functions atrophy as it does with unused muscles.

A systemically alarming state of affairs that is only now slowly being addressed - young children absent face to face spoken words are struggling to learn to read ... etc. etc.

@Pantouffles Amazing. Very Escher-like. How did you get the 3d rendered so accurately on paper?

@skinnylatte Documentation is a fine art requiring patience, people skills and a deep understanding of what you are documenting. Rarely, it seems, is that understood by decision makers.

@rufustheduck But point also is that the media give it that simple, deceiving label.

A better descriptor would include, if not unwieldy doing so, the brain atrophying effects of using FB.

@rufustheduck The media falsely describe FaceBook as a social media platform when it is really a means of addicting users in order sell more ads. Money from grabbing user attention via mindless doomscrolling. Individual posts drowning in a sea of system posts.

@briankrebs Documents released with redactions should be seen as a complete failure of transparency and an overt declaration of things to hide. Governments should not be allowed to redact. At all.

@augieray Thanks for informing. Much appreciated. There is hope, even if up against corrupt power.

It baffles me why citizen arrests of failed politicians rarely seems to happen.

I loved the Serbian fight against Milosovic - using humour to belittle him.