“Save us, China!”

Can’t argue about bases if you refuse to elaborate beyond Presburger arithmetic. (Guy pointing at head meme)

Why not? The law is made up, you know.

I’m going to take a guess that, if they were over the age of consent, it would have been consensual.

Check my hard drives all you want. A teenager is not exactly the same thing as a child.

Pretending otherwise is counterproductive, and just reads as trying to prove you’re not a pedo very hard.

Oh, well if you pinky promise. /s

I think the most interesting thing here is the trajectory of Russian demands. They’ve really moved closer and closer to an actually reasonable ask over the past few months. It makes me think they know exactly when they’re going to run out of stuff.

I have a feeling the Yakuza’s definition of poor and weak was pretty flexible.

Edit: It mentions at the end they’re getting in on the scams too now.

Yep, still sounds like Russia’s new space station.

(To be clear, you’re not wrong that it’s always distinguished from earlier systems by people who know the debate)

It seems like that description shows just how vague the term is. It starts with private ownership of the means of production, but then pivots into supply/demand and minimal government intervention as a driver, and lists three additional emphases on top of that.

You can focus on profit, but nobles were all about that too - they needed to fund all the expensive stuff for warfare and subjugation, and sometimes they did go broke and have to marry a rich commoner. Europeans moved into Canada for fur pelts, and across Africa and into the Caribbean for spices. Other agrarian civilisations had their own tradable resource dramas.

The original Marx definition is at least coherent, but runs into the problem that it’s not politically useful anymore. Even among people who really hate the rich, there’s a general reluctance to have no private property.

Side note: The landed gentry saw it’s last blow into irrelevance in continental Europe around WWI, but in America the untitled rich had long dominated - think of Carnegie or Rockefeller - and Britain had it’s own system where the very rich and powerful tended to join the aristocracy.

i work at cloudflare

Thank you for the easier captchas, and pre-emptively damn you for whatever evil thing CloudFlare will eventually do with their MITM access to everything.

Wow, and I hadn’t heard about it until now. You’d think another Pelicot would be big news.

Do they have laws against publicising these things before conviction, maybe?

Literally, catching North Koreans might have been the idea. It’s become a big issue.

Probably one of the less shocking things they track.

Then what is it?

Seriously, people use a million definitions, and unlike with socialism tend to slide between them fluidly.

Yes, especially now that an actual war is making the case for non-Russian nationalism in eastern Europe. Historically that’s where the funding has come from IIRC.

Please tell me that nobody would give up condoms over a 13% price hike.

No transponders makes you harder to target, but also increases the risk of an accedent, That’s fine, though - it’s not like somebody would deploy a sizeable force of military planes in a combat ready position, for an extended period, over a peacetime area, right? Right? /s

As far as I can tell most synagogues aren’t that cool, though. The ones remotely nearby to me give Zionist vibes.

It’s a shame, I was planning to reconnect with my heritage right before Oct. 7.

Not shocked. The fact other people might be shocked just tells you how out of control trust in the magic boxes and the people who sell them has gotten. When they collect something more sensitive or embarrassing, people just assume the security and regulation must be tighter to match.

I’m guessing there’s a lot of smaller steps they could take to make the US hurt, but yes, they shouldn’t ignore it. Going to the media was probably step 1.

So do you trust cell towers more, or just stay offline when out and about?