God reading the article makes this worse. He didn’t just make a big order to Purell or whatever, he literally took an SUV and made a 1000+ mile roadtrip clearing the shelves of every store he found. So not only is he hoarding/price gouging during a pandemic, he’s probably made it completely unavailable in a lot of communities because he cleared out every store in town. And then he justifies this by saying he’s being paid for his labor/making it available to people in bigger cities that dont have it (at 20x the cost) but I think this part was what really got me:
He thought about it more. “I honestly feel like it’s a public service,” he added. “I’m being paid for my public service.
Someone find this dude.
Rob that fucker of every bottle
I read that article and was inarticulately angry, I’m glad someone else got it to tumblr first.
The fragile peace deal taking shape in Afghanistan could spell the end of an era of for the U.S. military, one marked by efforts at nation-building and winning hearts and minds.
It appears that the Pentagon is also intent on ending a research program from that era — to fund social science for the military.
The program, known as the Minerva Research Initiative, was controversial and never quite delivered, according to its critics. But it was also one of the few Pentagon initiatives that engaged outside researchers to tackle big questions. Some worry that by eschewing outside academics in order to invest in weaponry, the Defense Department risks stumbling into a new arms race.
[ID: Kate on Twitter @KateAndCRPS “Now that there is coronavirus there are so many accommodations being made so people can work/study remotely. Why is this so hard to do when disabled people need this to participate in society? If the world can give #AccessibilityForAbleds give it to disabled people too.”]
With all of the COVID-19 news and panic going on, the U.S. Government has been sneakily trying to pass the so called EARN IT Bill which would remove end-to-end encryption on messages and calls, and allow a scanning software to read all of them. Websites that don’t comply will lose protections.
The Comcast-owned studio and
its specialty label Focus Features will make films such as “The
Invisible Man,” “The Hunt” and “Emma,” all of which are currently
playing in theaters, available to rent on demand services such as Comcast (CCZ), Sky, Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) on Friday. Consumers will be able to rent the films for $19.99 per film for 48 hours.
DreamWorks
Animation’s “Trolls World Tour” will be also on demand starting on
April 10, the same day it’s set to be released in North American
theaters.
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