It would be nice if one salary, no matter the gender of the breadwinner, could sustain a family.

They might still cum from the top left one

It’s one whale statue away from becoming a boat

Jeff Bezos is just Dr. Evil without the education.

turnkey /tûrn′kē″/ noun

1. The keeper of the keys in a prison; a jailer.

2. A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.

3. An instrument with a hinged claw, – used for extracting teeth with a twist.

Sounds about right.

Not the person you’re answering but usually these are not a root problem but only a symptom. The answer will range from being told that you are the problem to “let’s schedule a meeting to discuss that”.

The mentality usually stems from higher up, and you don’t really get to speak to people originating policy.

So on the one hand, the CIA did some wicked awful shit all over the world, together with the rest of the US government apparatus. MK Ultra, the crack epidemic, all that shit.

That said, while I can imagine the CIA had some eyes on what was happening in Hungary, because both them and the Soviets had eyes everywhere, I don’t see the point that is trying to be made here. That the CIA was funding the revolution? With what? It lasted like two weeks and the fighting was done with captured Soviet and older Hungarian and I guess some German equipment.

The revolution was not against communism, it was specifically against the fucked up economic policy of Rákosi, and not because he was a communist, but because he wanted to transition a country that was basically one contiguous agrarian farmland into heavy industry and steel manufacturing, which led to poverty as it was braindead. We didn’t have the resources, the know-how or the demand. We did have it for agriculture. The revolution was aimed at installing Imre Nagy, the previous communist leader into power, who was originally a farmer, and had a strong agrarian policy.

The guy in question, Dr. Béla Király was indeed a high-ranking Hungarian military officer at the time. He was indeed appointed the commander of the revolutionary forces, and fled to the US after the defence collapsed.

That said, when would have he been enlisted by the CIA? He served in the armed forces on the Axis side as a captain - he earned recognition for disobeying orders and treating the Jewish prisoners assigned to him humanely. He fought until the USSR conquered Hungary, and surrendered to them. He was then absorbed into the People’s Army and was not really trusted since his wife was the niece of Gyula Gömbös, a late fascist-aligned prime minister of Hungary. That said, he was promoted to general because there weren’t a ton of capable and experienced officers back then in the army. Afterwards, when Stalin called off the invasion of Yugoslavia, he got purged with 350,000 other people in Hungary, and spent the rest of the time until the revolution in prison.

So was he enlisted by the CIA:

• as an unremarkable captain of an unremarkable country on the fascist side of WWII (why him?)
• as the commander of Hungary’s contribution to the planned Yugoslavian invasion (the KGB and the ÁVO would have caught that)
• or as a prisoner in the ÁVO’s dungeon (lol)

Even if he was enlisted by the CIA, how would have he planned or contributed to the revolution from the basement of Andrássy 62? He was released a month before as part of an attempt at appeasement to the masses and spent it in hospital because of undernourishment issues from the 5 years he spent there.

Or, as a much likelier explanation, after the revolution, as he escaped to the US as many others did as the US was open to dissidents at the time, he was employed as someone who actually fought the Soviets in guerrilla warfare, and was helping train anti-Castro forces?

In the late millennium

That’s just the starting grid of the annual Cliff Racer GP

We’re at Black Ops 6 already? They made 6 of them? Are there other Call of Duty games as well since? I think the last I played was Infinite Warfare, I think I have WWII in my library unplayed.

I kinda lost track of the AAA treadmill.

Due to the ubiquity of Internet access today, a lot of games get post-release patches, and ship in a not-entirely-polished state. You wait a few years, you get a game that’s actually finished.

And also, 60 EUR for a single game is a price at least I am not willing to pay for the average game, so in addition to getting a better game, I also get a cheaper one.

There is stuff worth paying that much out there, but it’s not Call of Duty Black Ops Eleventeen

”Dark gothic maga" is trying to take it over I guess

No, that’s what parties are for. Legislation is the job of the government.

Yes. What separates Bruce Wayne from other people apart from money? I’m not saying everyone would do it, but some people would.

No, but he is one, so by definition he is hoarding money. Being a billionaire more than offsets any other societal good you might be doing.

We don’t remember Hitler for his good infrastructure policies either.

The reason is that Bruce Wayne is hoarding money and resources so others can’t do the same as him.

The military, isn’t that what they’re for?

I think the problem there is that GPU temps are spiky themselves.

God I hope our dear leaders do something with all those cards they now hold though