That was my first thought, the instance was likely one from Canada

Spider’s-Men?

How can the U.S. say China is preparing for an invasion of Taiwan if they openly state they believe in “One-China,” aka Taiwan being a part of China. We need to start calling Taiwan a sovereign nation if they want to sell that as anything other than a transport of equipment to their own property.

Ugh, if they make it 10 I’m going to have to hope for 2 more to make things nice for the statistics.

100% of them were bad for the common person Huh, maybe it doesn’t matter after all.

Pretty sure he could say that he knew Putin put the effort forward to get him elected in 2016 because he would be a better help to Russia and would hurt relations with the west and a lot of people would immediately say it was the right thing to do just because he did it.

Yeah I don’t know what they’ll block yet but I’m already assuming some of my apps will be blocked. It’s pretty terrible news. I really didn’t want to have to hunt down a phone that was compatible with alternative OS’s.

The prices to import it from the Netherlands decreased from last year (12-13% cheaper than this time last year) which would mean to me they should be able to export more as well.

Hmm, I’ve gotten lucky. I’m constantly doing various things where it is all centralized from my place, but there’s no telling that she’s watching something without a VPN and I opened something in the living room while having a VPN connected. I’ve been trying to use split tunnels recently so my VPN stays on all the time, but I choose specific apps, so like my jellyfin server stays local, but if I torrent something the app goes through Spain, and I usually keep my phone/laptop going through another U.S. location to keep response times down. But I’m sure I’ve had the splits fucked up or just hitting everything before. I’ll have to keep an eye out for that. debrid has been great, think I’ve had 2 outages in 4+ months

That actually sounds like it could be beneficial to a lot of people if we found a way to limit pharma patents.

Free Open Source Pharma (FOSP) would be nice. I’ve only seen small things like the Four Thieves Vinegar Collection before though. https://fourthievesvinegar.org/microlab/

Aka, Israeli Government minister admits genocide has been their goal.

Edit: Also what a desperate attempt to sound as if they were like the U.S. or the U.K. in those scenarios. They are in the position of Nazi Germany. They were the ones expanding their borders and stripping the rights from the peoples/semites in the area who they considered themselves better than. Not to mention, both Germany’s and Japan’s lands weren’t taken and inhabitated and the U.S./U.K. did assist in finding a path that they could rebuild. Japan isn’t a majority Americans, nor is Germany majority English/French/Etc.

Edit 2: so for the U.S. a better example would be what we/they did to the Native Americans, For the U.K. that’s hard to say… maybe Britains treatment of Ireland. But… As history has proven, Ireland survived and has their land and population still.

To bad the world had no food to feed these kids for the last 5 months

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/

I mean Brasil will still get orders from the U.S., but it just tells the country to not depend on trade with the U.S. in the future because U.S. companies may not be able to afford to buy your products.

Edit: you guys know this is the entire point of Tarrifs right? To make it so your companies find other countries products are to expensive… So you find a way to make them cheaper in country. Just in this case they won’t find them cheaper… So it will manipulate the amount sold from Brasil… and hurt their economy unless they make trade deals elsewhere to sell any potential losses

Always a terrible feeling

Seems like they are setting Hegseth up to take a few falls to consolidate blame.

That makes sense.

I imagine Amazon has for more influence than Meta do to AWS, could be wrong though.

Not to mention those trained people mentioned above attempting to move here have to fight deportation for checks notes, coming here on a work visa, having a tattoo, speaking your mind, not being white. Hard to say really.

How is it just blamed on “the west”. China, India and other “Eastern” countries are in the UN as well. Would you not have to say it just shows they care nothing about the international community and it is really about their control and power as well? The world is watching executions around the world, and people are just being censored to/from it by their governments. Israel’s biggest trading partner is China by far, almost twice the U.S. Not any huge press from them about stopping.

Hounding someone on something they don’t agree with just makes them shut down a conversation.

Using something like that brings the bias to light without them ending the conversation. You cannot assist someone with seeing bias in media who just blocks you. While it sucks, sometimes small steps help getting you going in the right direction.

How I pointed something out to a family member this morning.

When Israel attacks housing units in a country it is in a “ceasefire” with, the media says they are “threatening the ceasefire.” If someone fires back. The media will say Israel is being attacked and the ceasefire was broken by the other party.

While that should seem wrong to many, it flies under the radar for many.