This is not surprising, given the current state of the US. What’s surprising is how fast they were able to turn on their own patriotic narrative to just become submissive to it all.

Sort of. If you are smart enough to leave, that’s one less voter they have to deal with.

There’s also a whole other slew of issues that affect Accidental Americans usually having to do with non-filed taxes, meaning the whole process also recoups from global earnings that have had zilch to do with the US through tax traps. Making it easier to apply for means they can get a few bucks more, and I suspect the people processing those requests are at the ICE level of quality. William Barr’s daughter, Mary Barr Daly, ended up being placed as a senior adviser to FinCEN, which is closely involved in this process, and she has her own history of exercising her position in let’s just say the traditional Republican manner.

To be fair, both parties have been at fault for the US’ Eritrean system of citizenship, neither really cares, although I suspect with how many bridges they are burning they are seeing the writing on the wall and would rather get something from the people trying to leave “the right way” while their demands on the global banking system are still respected.

“Because of the kids!”

It’s funny that it, using children as a form of gaslighting, is an attitude so obviously wrong it was the plot twist of Unbreakable, but when it’s happening in reality with people who are more openly nefarious people don’t seem to care. One thing that I consider proved beyond doubt is that most people can’t really be taught even when it’s easily digestible entertainment media, the core basic critical thinking skills to bridge the gap from one context to another just aren’t there, otherwise politicians wouldn’t be able to continue using the same form of gaslighting over and over and over again.

NFT just served as a training opportunity for the people behind it to learn how to get away with legally scamming people, not surprised the Reddit admin was all in on it when it came out.

Funny how him “being an idiot” and it “just being his incompetence” is also about the only way he can get off scot free after having done what he has done. Every other possibility can be prosecuted, except the ones where people argue he didn’t have intent.

For the people that don’t see how manufactured some of the attacks against Valve have been lately (not that this will help convince them regardless…)

So we can pirate books as well as long as we aren’t able to reproduce them verbatim from memory as well?

Judge Vince Chhabria either accepts whatever bribes and offers he’s probably getting offered and sides with Meta, or it will eventually go on to the Supreme Court where they most definitely will. That’s the part of this that will work the most under an administration of no accountability.

There are no regulators, they were the first casualty of the Trump administration.

The lesson: AI cannot bridge an air-gapped backup. This could all be prevented with a crappy portable hard drive from costco.

I’ll let you troll up with your drug buddy.

The best prevention is not letting it happen in the first place. If your backup is a crappy portable hard drive from costco, you get what you buy, I wouldn’t have much faith on that either.

Just have them add a disclaimer or have the hosts be liable for what their chatbots say, stop adding bureaucracy just asking to get selective prosecuted and abused.

You already have one. It’s called your payment provider.

Disable your laptop webcam and microphone, use headset instead. I’ll be looking to see if I can switch to Teams web.

I remember how a subcontractor’s company called me with a lot of private information I assume the subcontractor had spoken to them about. The subcontractor had no clue about it, which completely changed how I had been perceiving the situation. The problem is companies are using the excuse of keeping tabs on their workers to perform outright continuous surveillance on them and try to see how they can exploit any and all information they can salvage for their benefit, which becomes a problem when there is no clear division between personal and professional space.

Sounds like Epstein got the confidential-informant-who-gets-a-fake-identity treatment. From the sounds of the rumors, it wouldn’t be the FBI either. Given it involves international parties, it would probably involve the CIA and Epstein would literally be protected by the Intelligence Identities Protection Act if his new identity were to be revealed, and at the highest classification of secrecy, so nobody involved in the operation probably even knows who they are providing support to.

It shouldn’t, but as a problem it is no longer preventable, at least for most people not able to be born into a socioeconomic bubble now that it has been identified as a problem. Lumping them altogether into microplastics is like lumping all addictive substances - coffee, alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine - into the same category. Sure, you’d be a lot better not being addicted to anything, but some addictions are worse than others, and for different reasons. It also lumps carcinogenic agents under the same smoke screen as, say, biodegradable microplastics which have considerably lower ecotoxicity.

It only works when they aren’t bribing each other off.

Yeah, I remember reading that tires are the biggest microplastic contributors. Those are some good points.

They’ll get their tariff money back - if they remember to bribe Donny. Otherwise, he’ll probably try to get federal agencies to harass them.

Correlation still doesn’t prove causation. Tumors process resources different than surrounding cells. The worst thing about the study is that it chooses to focus on microplastics without distinction when we know certain types of plastics have far higher carcinogenic risk than others, it would have just taken than slight bit more effort to actually make it worthwhile.

Notably, tumor tissue contained significantly more plastic. On average, cancerous samples had about 2.5 times the concentration found in healthy prostate tissue (about 40 micrograms of plastic per gram of tissue compared with 16 micrograms per gram).

Still, correlation does not imply causation. It might just be that because of the nature of what tumors are, they get stuck with more microplastics. The biggest problem with this study is that there are known carcinogens in some types of plastics over others, and it seems to outright choose to dismiss any attempt at distinction for the sake of the microplastic boogieman.