“U.S. payrolls”?

You mean job figures?

DDG is the search engine, just change your engine with the drop down.

“It hurt itself in its confusion!”

I really wanted this article to have more “YEET” and less “controlled burn.”

DDG should do the currency conversions. But, you know your phone has a calculator that doesn’t send data anywhere, right? Why wait for the server to do math when you can do it all in your hand?

Lol, OK, kiddo. Whatever you need to tell yourself.

But keep in mind that you’re also calling my friend that is STILL, actually a businesses owner with the ceramics studio, a thief. I presume from herself? Lol, you tankies are so funny sometimes, but you get confused so easily. You’ll do anything as long as it’s not learning or challenging yourself intellectually.

Keep sticking to that unwavering spoon-fed ideology! I’m sure one day reality will bend to the will of your sassy comments.

All AMERICAN/UK reports that repeat the same crap over and over for the clicks. Just look at how ill-informed you are as the result of trusting the American media and British tabloids.

All the Namibian news call him “well-known” or “prominent” because there’s only like 1,000 people in Windhoek. You’ll note in the stories below, that the first has more detail than anything you’ve read because it’s the local news, and that the words “wealthy” and “rich” are not used at all. Neither are any synonym. I worked in conservation in southern Africa for a few years, and donating to research is by no means something that requires being even close to wealthy if you have things to donate. I knew a couple that also ran a 4x4 shop a country over that did the same thing, and they were by no means what any American should consider “rich.”

https://www.namibiansun.com/accidents/lion-shot-dead-after-taking-mans-life2025-06-02

https://www.namibian.com.na/prominent-outdoorsman-killed-by-lion/

Here’s the shop he used to own https://www.offroad-centre.com/ - do you think that this screams opulent wealth? Hell, just the bribes and corruption alone are probably 20% of his operating expenses. “Former owner” as well, so it’s likely he recently sold the shop anyway. Also, 4x4 people travel a lot, and cost of living in Namibia is cheap. So what? Back in the day, flying SAA to the States or Europe was relatively cheap, and traveling around Africa on Namibian Airways when it used to operate was great. Their little cardboard lunch boxes were adorable.

So, American that knows all and sees all because they read some LLM-generated rehashed “if it bleeds it leads” article, tell me more and more about how things work in the SADC area without asking ChatGPT what SADC means. Then tell me why you’ve entirely missed the fact that the guy had a German last name in Namibia and you’re focused on money when there’s something far more historically important there to discover ;)

I value the people, doing what they can in whatever system they’re stuck in, to do something they like and earn a living. Why is my freind’s ceramics studio a stain on the world because it’s both her passion and something that she trades for medium with which to buy food?

Same as I respect the people that survived the Soviet system, or the Albanian system, or Apartheid by doing whatever they could to survive and still finding joy or personal satisfaction in the process.

Why can you not respect those people and their effort and only define the woes of the system in terms of a myopic view of 0.1% of people that fit the term “businesspeople”?

The guy owned a shop that kits out 4x4s. I doubt he ever wore a suit and tie other than his wedding day.

He was Namibian, in fact. Sure, of European descent, but he was a local, camping in a tent that I think was a pop up mounted to the top of a 4x4. Likely his own 4x4.

An RV trailer park would call itself “luxury” in any country in Southern Africa. Homeboy wasn’t even in a tent luxurious enough to have an en suite bathroom. If a lodge has 2 rooms with mattresses, they will call themselves “luxury” online.

American media makes you think that only rich people can be “businessmen”? 99.9% of American businesses are small business. 14% of American businesses are one person with no paid employees. That includes nonprofits. Rounding up a touch, about half of all American businesses have 4 or fewer paid employees total. Why has the media brainwashed you into thinking a couple people running a dog grooming company out of their garage don’t count as “businesspeople”?

“Hello, my name is [redacted] and I’m a recovering dualboot user. It’s been…wow, yeah, I’m 27 days sober using only Linux on my machine…You know, it’s like they tell you, you think you’ll never stop. You think “How could I stop drinking this Win11 slop? My whole life has been like this!” Naw, man. When they tell you that you don’t miss the taste, that it will come to disgust you, looking back. They’re right. They were all right all alo-” insert meloncolic sobbing for 92 minutes

“Excuse me…sir? This is a Wendy’s.”

Cobbler!

The insect world is a tiny nightmarish hellscape of armor, weapons, and sudden death.

Also, evolution isn’t maximally efficient, it’s just barely efficient enough. Eyes are a janky, often low-fi is good enough, affair. 99.9% of species that have ever existed are extinct. 99.9999999999% of species alive today do the bare friggin’ minimum to throw DNA into either the wind or a hole and maaaaybe do nothing more than reproduce.

The Helicoprion existed.

Jellyfish. WTF?

And goes down the line.

Asks question, with quick cuts between:

Gemini…bullshit!

GPT…wow, such bullshit

Grok…enormous bullshit

Claude… Ehhhh, still bullshit

Naw.

Next question?

It means use the Wise app to throw USD into EUR.

But it’s also a little late for this. The Euro has been plateauing up in this $1.13 range for a while before dropping. It was $1.11 last week.

Short of some TACO, 12 hours of martial law, tariff yoyo shit, right now is the worst time to buy.

“But it turned out the French were the ones producing it all along.”

In which case it’s just a 3D crocodile. 4D crocodile? It’s a beefy necked crocodile, OK?

100% this. The Dursleys have zero clue what’s happening there, and everyone knows they don’t care. These kids get into mortal danger every year and they don’t tell the Durselys about that.

Meaning that Rowling probably got screwed out of a field trip when she was 9 because of a lost permission slip, and this is her resentment embodied.

Are the 10 things:

Market’s closed

No one will do anything

Nothing will happen

No, really, it’s a friggin holiday

“We predict no action, and will be 100% correct.”

Like, I’m psychic, bro. It’s not going down.

I will totally bet you anything about this.

The market change will be any number you want (times zero)

Like, I’m psychic bro. It’s not going up.

It’s Sunday and let’s go day drinking!

I understand what you’re saying. To be fair, my anchor point is oppressive socialist regimes writ large circa 1944-1990. Kim Il Sung predated Enver Hoxha in terms of models and tactics. Hoxha’s governance style changed over about a decade or two to distance Albania from Yugoslavia and the USSR and emulate North Korea.

By no means do I think it’s an “Asian” thing. Honestly, that’s a silly premise when I’m talking about a single country of 26 million out of 4.7 billion people. NK might barely round up to 1% of the population of Asia, so how is that exactly painting the whole continent? But between Hoxha-era Albania and North Korea, North Korea still exists in largely the same state. So it’s easier to reference as a standard right now.