What does this mean? Those that have a second mortgage might have that mortgage purchased by Fannie or Freddie thereby relieving the banks of the risk and making sure they get paid so they don’t have to take the hit of potentially bad loans they gave?

There’s a hallmark/lifetime movie about this. The bank isn’t WF but we all know who it is.

After his corporate rah-rah and disbelief his bank full of good ethical people would do such a thing, at the behest of the main character he finds out from some marketing chuds it is in fact true. Believing in the company to do the right thing he goes against the main character’s wishes and tells an exec who expectedly closes the accts of the vocal customers and sweeps it all under the rug - deleting all record.

The love interest finds out his company doesn’t actually care about their customers when he asks if they are going to do a full company investigation and the exec laughs and instead offers up a potential promotion instead.

I knew the whole plotline was bullshit when he quit to become a whistleblower. As he gave his first interview on the main character’s tv station, he gave his full name as he did a live interview and didn’t get murdered by the bank immediately.

Thanks to Boeing we all learned that whistleblower is a far more dangerous profession than police officer and the chance of dying is thousands of percent higher. You really have to suspend disbelief at the movie plot.

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Cutting the wound and sucking out the poison is an actual solution and has been since people have been getting bit by poisonous snakes.

That’s exactly it. They’ve pocketed it for quarterly gains and executive bonuses.

Because shit like this is done so that extremist right-wing para-military groups that by law should not be able to buy guns can buy guns.

Buy guns. Defend yourself and your family from authoritarians and fascists that have a large group of Trump-appointed government officials protecting them.

All the book burning banning, LGBTQ+ oppression, the violent student protest crackdowns, the oppressive surveillence laws masqueraded as “protecting children” flying in the face of the Constitution aren’t just for the luls. Each are a step in a checklist that ends in law-protected mass-murder.

Buy as many guns as you can.

I’ll bite. Give me 9 “hardcore feminist men” then.

don’t really go out of their way to convince the people around them that they’re trustworthy, unless they want you to trust them so they can take advantage of you.

You just described Trump, every televangelist, and anyone in business.

America’s infrastructure has been ignored ever since corporations got involved. They were gung-ho building it with tax dollars and keeping the profit, but once the tax dollars stop or they have to upgrade, forget it. All the subsidies go to the bottom line as profit instead and out to execs and stock holders.

This is an amazing response.

Maybe the US should just stop arming Israel and give the arms to Gaza instead and see how that plays out.

I can’t believe this bullshit has gone on for so long

Except you can spoof an IP address or get another one from the ISP just by asking. You can spoof a MAC address too.

Intel introduced unique processor id’s back in the late 90s.

Can’t wait to see these driverless trucks on an icy highway during a blinding snowstorm where a massive pile-up of vehicles has already occurred. /s

There are a million startups chomping at the bit to create or have their existing app become the TikTok replacement in the event it does get banned.

This is the nature of American Capitalism. A monopolistic entity is broken up for this reason or that thereby making way for competition. According to all those economists, competition is good and breeds innovation.

I don’t have a problem with this. Next go for Google, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft too.

Everyone calm down. They’re just going to use it for training AI and if you love tech you love AI. So this is a non-issue.

The trained AI will make their public offering so much more desirable

Signed up. Thanks!

He told IGN that one of its upcoming titles, Space Marine 2, will retail for $70, but only because he’s concerned audiences would see a cheaper price as emblematic of poor quality.

Yipes. Saber should throw this minnow back in the water and cast that line out again for a bigger fish that knows anything about the videogame market.

When I see a $70 game my very first thought is an over-promised under-delivered mess barely beta quality that contains Denuvo or some other shitware that had higher priority to work at launch than the game itself. Not to mention a day one patch the size of the entire install, login servers that can’t handle the load, graphical glitches, and constant framerate drops.

That $30 game is $70 because it’s a hot genre and other no name shops a fraction of the size sold a million copies at $30 so this exec’s massive studio with its executive team’s millions of combined man-hours could sell it for $150 and gamers would buy it because the reputation alone is worth $100 per copy according to them.

The now elderly are the ones that voted against their best interests for the past 4 decades and got us all into this mess.

This is one of my favorite pictures because you know all that kid’s friends are all “your mom is the coolest! She plays Gameboy and my mom just yells at me to clean my room!” And then Gameboy Mom makes them ants on a log or like cracker barrel cheese and crackers for a snack.

This is total victim-Christianity. I went to an anti-protest against some militant christians protesting a bookstore that held drag queens reading stories to children. Those christians didn’t know shit about the bible. I offered to come to their church and teach them since they were embarrassing themselves.