Between medical bills and potentially needing a care home or home assistance later on, that amount can disappear quick. If you own your home, which many in the retiring generation still do, you also have taxes, upkeep, and maybe even the rest of a mortgage to pay off as well.

Some US based financial advisors recommend having $1.5M or more saved to retire.

Retirement is for the propertied class.

Those committee seats are like the papcy. You can only be even remotely considered if you've already got two feet in the grave.

Lindt is currently being sued for this in the US. Their defense is basically "well we never promised that there wouldn't be lead and cadmium in our chocolate."

Ironically the US could learn half or more of what they need spies to find out if they just made scientific cooperation between the two countries legal and stopped witch-hunting scientists with Chinese and other Asian heritage.

He definitely is. SpaceX started with help from InQTel (CIA venture capital) and Starlink is a military + intelligence project.

This more than anything else shows that it's a pathological obsession rather than an evidence and merit based approach. A perfect microcosm of liberalism if you will.

Large private companies are effectively the state, so the term nationalisation isn't so far from the truth.

Several leading German news outlets, including Suddeutsche Zeitung, NDR, WDR and Zeit, have predicted that Sweden will close its investigation after failing to identify any suspects. The move will benefit German investigators, according to the news outlets, as Sweden will be able to share evidence with them once its own case is closed.

Inb4 those files go "missing" under unexplained circumstances on the way from Sweden to Germany.

The same Globe and Mail that bangs the drums of US warmongering and Canada's subservient participation?

Just ignore them and carry on not voting for fascists.

Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.

- Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

That's just an invitation to trigger Article 5 and thus nuclear armageddon. On the one hand this can't be serious, on the other hand the owners of the empire don't care.

As I understand it's extortionate consent though. Either you "consent" to your private data being used in this way, or you can't use Zoom.

Good thing there's self hosted and E2EE alternatives.