I wish I didn’t have to drive 6 hours to my nearest one. I’ve heard they’re the best chain around

We’re talking about billions. If he was converting $100,000 of that $4b per day, he’d clean his money in… about 109 years.

That article doesn’t cite anything either, only that “some sources say” he donated some of the money. A far cry from the claim that he donated all of the stolen $4b.

Despite much information on the internet Bendelladj did not get sentenced to death, and claims saying he donated any money to charity are almost impossible to verify. Trial documents did not mention any donations or charity activities, making the claim of charity disputed and not known for sure.

Is there any proof of the charity claims? Because Wikipedia gives nothing

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Scorpion and the toad.

There will always be organizations ofbad actors in a democratic society, it’s just a given. The least we can do is to push back against them instead of kowtowing to their every wish to not “rock the boat.” That’s what we’re mad about the Dems doing

I’m not attracted to 99% of people either? I don’t see what your point is. Maybe you think you’re only into “ultra attractive” people because… you’re attracted to them? I’d love to hear what your “type” is.

Why do you say that? Do you actually believe that there’s a strict hierarchy of dating that everyone has to stay within? The whole “leagues” BS only sorta exists in society because some people believe in it.

Reminds me of a story my French teacher told me in HS:

One year he organized a class trip to Haiti for his students. Weird, I know, but it was a wealthy private school that could afford A) to send a class abroad and B) the security to reassure their parents that they’d be safe. Anyway, in the class there was a “plus-sized” girl who would get picked on by the rich skinny girls all the time. Queue the trip and apparently it became such a issue for the girl getting cat-called on the streets that a guard was assigned to be with her 24/7. None of the thin, fit, SoCal circa-early-Naughties, girls had this problem but in Haiti being “plus sized” meant you had access to lots of food and were wealthy. Anyway, moral of the story (and this part is apocryphal but was nevertheless told to me) is that the girl at some point exchanged contact info with a guy she met there, one of her prospective suitors, and kept a correspondence with him for many years until they were able to save enough money to meet in person again, here, stateside where they eventually got married. Eye of the beholder.

And the “conservative” solution to these problems?

It’s on my Plex, I’ll probably throw it on some night but yeah, a long, self-conscious sequel to one of the most unrestrained movies from a decade ago doesn’t inspire much enthusiasm for me. Besides that I just really don’t like ATJ

The article continually acknowledges and then hand waves away the critiques of Furiosa.

Truly. I could physically feel my eyes rolling in their sockets when I read:

Furiosa, it must be confessed, does not reach the same heights of jaw-dropping splendor. Truly, the worst that can be said of it is that it’s not Fury Road. But isn’t that also what’s special about the film? It’s not trying to be a movie you’ve seen already. Miller, who’s never really repeated himself with this series (every Mad Max is kind of its own eccentric thing), draws a direct line of continuity to Fury Road without mimicking its tight time frame and daisy-chained set piece structure. Having already perfected that form, what would be the point of recycling it?

As if 1) Fury Road was actually a perfect movie and 2) that’s at all relevant for the article’s argument that “this movie should’ve done better!!”

I love Fury Road, it’s possibly my favourite movie of the 2010s and I’ve seen it a dozen times. Truly something special in that film. I skipped Furiosa. Movies are way too damn expensive and it seems like it would be easier to make a list of movies made between 2020-24 that don’t star Anya Taylor-Joy. Throw on the fact that most reviews said it was A) too long and B) no action, no cars, and I figured there wasn’t much reason for me to see it as a Fury Road fan

I saw it in theatres, one in maybe 20 I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. I thought it was fine, everything I’d ever expect a “Batman fights Superman” movie to be.

Doesn’t hurt that I don’t care about either franchise and hadn’t seen any other movies in the universe leading up to it lol. I was just invited last minute to see it with some friends

Reminds me of Ryan Reynolds in Green Lantern

I think that Michael Moore is a good guy, makes some good points in his documentaries, etc., and I’m not saying that he personally has any relationship to what I’m about to say but both of the biggest Michael Moore fans I’ve ever known ended up getting busted for sexual abuse against children and it’s just a weird connection I can’t break. SICKO is great though, arguably “peak” Moore.

I’d put money down to Kickstart a documentary series where we fly American Redditors (and Lemm users) to Europe to film their reaction when they see that, yes, they still need to pay for items with money (and perform labor to get the money! 😱😱)

It’s an older chart but I have no reason not to think the trend it shows has reversed since 2012. Colleges pivoted really hard in the past 30 years to offering a lot more than just classes and a dorm to attract students. Non-teaching positions have more than doubled since than 70s to handle all the “bloat and bullshit” (one of my professor’s terms, a real old-school guy who hated modern academia) that that’s come along since.

Throw in the fact that federally secured loans means that almost any 18 year old can sign off on whatever the sticker price without much thought and you get those kinds of costs for some students

Agreed. The only two options right now are to either do away with federally secured loans (worse option) or nationalize all universities with efficiency overwatch programs in place (better), but what we have right now is the worst of both worlds w/r/t public-private higher education

The biggest issues I think comes from the facts that A) there are a handful of very predatory schools with huge inter/national outreach programmes and B) highschool students are pressured into choosing their college path before graduating HS, when they’re still a kid.

The kids don’t know how to actually evaluate their options and end up picking the big, expensive schools just off brand recognition alone. Lots of people fell for this trap and graduated with degrees that weren’t very competitive to state degrees and cost 2-10x more.

I think the next 10 years are going to see students’ debt at graduation decrease as community college enrollment keeps going up and the stigma of “community college” education, which was a big deterrant for a long time, goes away.

Sounds like you answered your own question there. Tuition for foreign students is expensive because the ones who come here almost always have family that can pay for it. Like I said above, no American is spending $70k per year for undergrad studies. The smart ones are going to community colleges, which are becoming free in some capacity across most states, building up a GPA, and then transferring to a University off scholarships.

I spent 7 years in school without paying anything for tuition, everything was covered by scholarships. I’ve known many people with the same experience