> Tyson, Cargill to pay $88 million to consumers in beef price-fixing lawsuit
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/tyson-cargill-pay-88-million-consumers-beef-price-fixing-lawsuit-2025-10-07/
So basically they get to toss some change from under the couch to the plaintiffs, and anyhow the lawyers will get most of it while the actual customers will get pennies, if they're lucky.
#BadEconomy #ThisIsAmerica #corruption #lawsuit #legal #business #fuckery
Do we really need to ask why? *points at the #fuckery around* Perhaps some good news. Anyhow, survey so caveats apply.
> Religion is declining worldwide in a predictable sequence, study argues https://religionnews.com/2025/10/02/religion-is-declining-worldwide-in-a-predictable-sequence-study-argues/
> Forty-Two Percent of Americans Are Dreaming of Leaving the US https://attackthesystem.com/2025/10/04/forty-two-percent-of-americans-are-dreaming-of-leaving-the-us/
Believe me, if I had the resources, I would've been gone out of the U.S. by now.
@BirdPerHour Damn, that owl there is my mood right here and now, like what #fuckery is this now?
Because there is #stupid #fuckery and then there is bimbo trophy wife level of stupid fuckery.
> Librarian leaves job after declining Melania Trump’s demand for a sword. https://lithub.com/librarian-leaves-job-after-declining-melania-trumps-demand-for-a-sword/
#MelanomaTrump #GOP #PartyOfStupid #librarians #libraries #diplomacy
When I was growing up and we were being taught about the #GreatDepression, one of the cited causes for why things went so horribly sideways is that large chunks of the economy were significantly #OverLeveraged. Watching videos like this one:
https://youtu.be/V64TdrkhTqo?si=W8qfp4dckkeDS--o
It feels like the spiraling concentration of wealth that's happened just within my lifetime has raised a whole other level of leverage-risk compared to what was at play with the Great Depression. We saw those #risks played out in the (2000-2002) bursting of the DotCom bubble and then the (2008) larger bursting of the real estate bubble (and associated "too big to fail" bailouts for reckless billionaires that wasn't extended to the #proles impacted by their recklessness). You look at both the #fuckery and absolutely ungodly amount of circular-leverage on display with the AI bubble and it really feels like (even without #Trump's attempts to single-handedly break the economy) the coming financial apocalypse is going to be larger than either of the 21st century bubble-bursts combined ...and, quite likely, larger than all of the bubble-bursts/recessions/depressions of the last 100+ years (possibly the largest of any since the founding of the first stock/options market).
But, yeah…
> UChicago sells prized institute amid high debt and low returns
https://www.ft.com/content/4501240f-58b7-4433-9a3f-77eff18d0898
So the alleged geniuses of the "Chicago School of Economics," the mofos who gave us all sorts of "free market" #fuckery did FAFO with crypto and well, got fucked. You do have to read a bit to find that tidbit.
Wow!
In reasons to avoid the #FlyingCattleCars: You may get a stroke or other health crisis. Airline says fuck it, we're not turning the plane around. (At least they sued and got some compensation for the #fuckery).
> American Airlines failed to divert flight after passenger suffered debilitating stroke, forced to pay $9.6M in damages: jury https://nypost.com/2025/09/23/us-news/american-airlines-failed-to-divert-flight-after-passenger-suffered-debilitating-stroke-forced-to-pay-9-6m-in-damages-jury/
> Samsung brings ads to US fridges
https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges
Not sure what is more stupid: a refrigerator with a fucking computer screen or the dumbasses who buy them willingly. There really is a sucker born every minute.
Meanwhile in some local #KentuckyProud #fuckery from M4L.
> Moms for Liberty chair can sue out Kentucky educator and poet over 'lesbian threesomes' post https://www.advocate.com/news/moms-for-liberty-lesbian-threesomes-defamation
In useless members of society, deceitful surveillance edition.
> Popular TikTok foodie Elizabeth Eats NYC defends recording servers with Meta glasses: ‘Get off your high horse’ https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/us-news/elizabeth-eats-nyc-defends-recording-servers-with-meta-glasses/
I had a crash that took down Firefox, so when I restarted it it was the newest version (an update I'd installed, but hadn't restarted after).
I just went looking through the settings pages, which is a habit I've unfortunately had to get into because #Firefox and #Mozilla keep adding new anti-user fuckery in their continuing quest to drive users away from the only product they make that anyone gives two shits about.
And lo and behold, *this* is the new fuckery I found. Enabled by default. And it reinforces the need to go *check* for this bullshit every version update.
Firefox, if you had asked me how to cut my already diminishing trust in you to do the right thing by your users to near zero, I wouldn't have even dreamed this batshittery up. It's so much worse than I would have suggested. I have *all* the crap turned off - silently adding new crap and silently defaulting it to on is 1995-era Microsoft-screwing-the-users.
You feel you need to add this shit? Fine. But show me a dialog asking me whether I want it on or not when that version first starts. Don't turn it on behind my back and HOPE I DON'T NOTICE.
#fuckery #TwoShits #batshittery #abuse #DarkPattern #user #BehindYourBack #Enabled #EnabledByDefault #permission #AskPermission #sponsored #ads #privacy #version #update #bullshit
#SaveYouAClick: They're axing the "Prime invitee" thingie where you could extend your free shipping (If you got Prime) to someone outside your home. Amazon says fuck 'em, they can get their own Prime.
> Amazon quietly drops popular free shipping perk right before holidays https://www.thestreet.com/retail/amazon-quietly-drops-popular-free-shipping-perk-right-before-holidays
> Big Horn County closes two libraries, cuts staff salaries and benefits
https://wyofile.com/big-horn-county-closes-two-libraries-cuts-staff-salaries-and-benefits/
No, this is not a feel good story of "look, they managed to stay open despite the odds."
This is a story of "why the fuck do you need funding? You got volunteers willing to work for free."
In typical #GOP #PartyOfStupid fashion, her party's #fuckery was fine. . . until it touched her.
> Tearful Rep. Nancy Mace leaves meeting with Epstein victims, says their painful stories gave her ‘full blown panic attack’ https://nypost.com/2025/09/03/us-news/nancy-mace-spotted-walking-out-of-epstein-meeting-in-tears/
> Leniency on lice in schools meets reality
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/01/nx-s1-5519274/leniency-lice-schools-meets-reality
How standards have fallen over few self-entitled parents. Lice meant, and should still mean, you get your piojoso ass home and don't come back til you are free of any lice or nits. Period, full stop. Keep your filthy kid away from the rest of us.
And if you got a problem with that, #MyBlockIsQuick
In just when I think gringos cannot go any lower, #Idaho says hold my potatoes.
> Idaho’s parental consent law impedes 988 suicide crisis hotline access for some youth
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/idahos-parental-consent-law-impedes-988-suicide-crisis-hotline-access-for-some-youth/
Thanks to Idaho's new parental consent law bullshit, a teen calls a suicide hotline and is told they can talk w/o parent. Teen hangs up.
I guess to those potato heads a few extra dead kids are no big deal. You need to #CullTheHerd somehow.
In local #fuckery from a utility company trying to fuck up our forest. (I am sure they got other options but you know...).
> Utility sues Berea College to get land for controversial transmission line through forest https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/02/utility-sues-berea-college-to-get-land-for-controversial-transmission-line-through-forest/
> Making Your Research Free May Cost You https://www.chronicle.com/article/making-your-research-free-may-cost-you
Fucking #Windows 11 #MSOffice bullshit, can't even print a calendar entry; they took out the damn print option to do that. FFS.
All I want is the one appointment printed so I can have the notes. Just another MS fuckgrade.
(Please refrain yourselves from giving some obvious suggestion. Odds are I already tried it so unless you got an actual solution, zip it).
