ok but those are the same cisco phones they have at CTU in 24, I wouldn’t get too complacent

I read it as criticising reductionist views of the many diverse nations that existed in North America before Europeans showed up and decided that the whole continent was Terra Nullius.

To this day a significant number of US high school American History textbooks only discuss the tribes in terms of their interactions with European invaders, and shy away from anything that might make them look like they were ever legitimate nations. Referring to them as ‘Native Americans’ instead of by name also has this effect.

Copyright is a compromise, not an absolute. It has all kinds of provisions for things like commentary, public interest etc which generally speaking does allow short clips of a greater work.

Capitalists and Socialists both agree you shouldn’t be allowed to freeload a ton of money off everyone else without producing anything of value. They just disagree on who it is that’s doing the freeloading.

I went to an evangelical type church many years ago and all their charity spending was “missions” to spread the Word. One of the missions while I was there was to Six fucking Flags.

I find people who keep making cracks like that far more tedious, unoriginal and unpleasant than any of the groups you just listed.

I’m not sure anyone actually does fall for it per se; it’s one of those lies that literally everyone knows is a lie, but CEOs and corrupt politicians need it to be true in order to justify what they want to do next so they have to go through the process of saying it first.

“It’s bad for consumers” is one of those phrases that’s been misused so often I’m amazed these cunts still try to use it with a straight face. It’s like “I’m not racist, but” in terms of phrases that are widely understood to mean their direct opposite.

Shame. I never bought it but I did enjoy what it brought to the colours and shapes on the supermarket freezer shelf. RIP sideways orange black and white cylinder.

Likewise Singapore is mostly immigrants. This guy is wrong by such a huge degree that I don’t think it’s even a mistake, I think he knows he’s lying. In fact the more I think about it the more I think it’s some weird ironic bit he’s doing that misfired.

Oh wow you were almost interesting but then you decided to close by being a raging dickhead for absolutely no good reason. Touch grass.

I think they’re exactly what their username implies.

The tech to monitor said emails wasn’t there yet.

LOL wut. email has always been the least secure medium going. If anything email is probably more secure now than it was in 2006. The only reason anyone in 2006 would think it was guaranteed privacy is if they just didn’t know anything about email.

That’s my whole point, it wasn’t Ballet Vision’s option to exercise, it was Kibbutz Hanita’s, but the opening summary erroneously describes it as the exact opposite. Here’s from later on in the article:

As part of the agreements, the Chinese fund granted the remaining minority shareholders an option to require it to purchase their remaining shares for about $9.5 million, now valued at roughly $11 million, by early December 2025.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/putoption.asp

(edit: I had a little search just now to see whether it was true that China have made it illegal to invest in Israeli companies. Half the results were literally reporting on this story, and the other half of results were about Chinese companies actively aiding illegal Israeli settlements, which makes me suspect that BV’s claim that their hands are tied is bullshit.)

accusing it of refusing to exercise an option

Was this written by an AI or by an illiterate? That’s not what the rest of the article says happened. The Chinese fund didn’t refuse to exercise the option, they refused to honour an option that they’d already signed. The opening sentence makes it look like Kibbutz Hanita are pulling a fast one, when it’s the exact opposite.

Ostensibly, yes. As far as I can tell from their entry in influencewatch they also do something called “pro-Israel legal advocacy”, but I don’t know what that is. Either way it’s not a great look having Epstein’s consigliere on board.

Mitch Webber’s original email to him was essentially “yeah you’re golden, fuck as many minors as you like, just bring them to another state first”. And he still seems to have kept his job at (checks notes) an antisemitism group.

…what would happen if one were to transport a minor for sex — or transport oneself with the intent to have sex with a minor — into a state in which the age of consent is below eighteen (assuming the minor is above the age of consent in the given state)? And your intuition was right. The answer is that there is no violation of law.”

Let’s be clear: everyone has a right to be represented by a lawyer in court, and we shouldn’t judge lawyers for defending rapists because they’re literally their job. But that’s not what’s happening here; this is him actively helping Epstein figure out the best way to rape children.

https://jewishpostandnews.ca/uncategorized/antisemitism-group-keeps-board-member-who-emailed-epstein-on-the-legality-of-transporting-minors-for-sex/

It’s sad how the internet has somehow made the quality of ostensibly professional journalism so much worse. It was supposed to make things better.

wait what? I thought like 99% of the point of edge services was to protect you from DDoS? I would hope that they wouldn’t bill you in cases like that.

Every little helps. Perfect is the enemy of good and all.

Also there’s a lot of food that’s not necessarily grown or manufactured in the US but still goes into the pockets of American companies such as Mondelez, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Mars, Heinz, Kellogg’s etc.