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Two weeks after that he’ll be deported to El Salvador.

There’s a few things that could be going on here, or a mix:

This could all be actual corruption, and he’s just dealing with the fact that absolute power corrupts absolutely. There’s so much that he just has to continually prioritize who to go after next.

It could be “corruption” which includes leakers and those who think differently from him. Still corruption from his perspective; larger pool than above, and the rest still applies.

It could be all-out eliminating the competition.

It could be the Chinese equivalent to the Western “enemy” where there always has to be an “other” to root out and punish to keep “us” safe.

I get the feeling that some people learned the opposite lesson from it than they were supposed to.

That, and Europe just figured out how to deal with a large portion of Russia’s shadow fleet. This gives that fleet US protection.

What’s that in Olympic swimming pools?

Do the computer intrusion and hacking laws require intent? If not, these should be open and shut cases of criminal acts stemming from negligence.

“But nobody was harmed and nobody profited!”

Degrading access to databases harms the authorized users. The AI firms are profiting from this daya theft.

To give Cory credit, he was also one of the first people to use it in online forums, years earlier.

“I’m going to take my ball and go home! But the next time I want to play, I expect you to still invite me over AND provide the ball.”

Depends on how you look at it.

If it’s really all about enforcing US hegemony, then the two things line up perfectly.

Well, that could make things simpler, if the only people still Israeli citizens are the ones who support genocide. Draws a clear distinction between those opposed to the actions of this government and those who are actually antisemitic.

Well, it’s good to hear something positive has come from it.

OK; Iran is playing a clean “attack military targets“ game and the US responds with terrorist tactics.

Who’s supposed to be the good guy here?

The width looks good; the height looks really stretched near the equator.

I like the tear apart ones better myself, with the cutouts at top and bottom, for a whole earth perspective.

The answer seems pretty obvious to me — holds true for arachnids and bugs too — they rely on pneumatics, which would be difficult if you always lived under water.

Many insects can survive just fine under water, but eventually they’ll need air.

So… Gulf of America to the south and Lake America to the north?

I wholly expect both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans to be renamed “the Great American Ocean” next.

The goal here is to provide a common framework and language to use to discuss the issue. Currently, it’s all filtered to the public through the media, who not only warp and distort the message, but also bring multitudinous frames of reference and self-defined terms to bear on the issue.

The result is that many of us who do know where things are at feel powerless and depressed about it. But with a critical mass of people experiencing the same information framed in a very specific way, the public will actually be able to talk and discuss climate change in an actionable manner.

I hope it works.

This is the key bit:

Apple held ⁠early talks with CXMT, which ​is China’s largest chipmaker by market ​value, about supplying components with the goal of using them in some devices sold ​in China, the report said, ​citing people familiar with the matter.

But Danielle Smith was elected by Albertans.

The fires are predominantly in other provinces, this one being in central BC. A province Alberta has wanted to exploit without regard to its environment for years.

The sad thing here is that these wildfires may result in the current NDP government being replaced by a BC Conservative government in the next election cycle, making everything exponentially worse.

So… recently Russia captured a bunch of Ukrainian drones and is reported to be using them in false flag operations. So that was my first thought.

But realistically, Russia is using those drones in places like Poland and Finland. This looks more like a drone interception over civilian airspace.

What about them? Are they the same as nazis?

And what’s your take on socialism? Capitalism? Fascism?