Darth Jar Jar has always been canon and nothing will convince me otherwise

This is just a long and drawn out way of saying “the meat industry is undergoing a lot of supply-side shocks”

So:

Critics say buying commercially available records allows government agencies to bypass safeguards that could require a warrant or court order if the information were demanded directly.

The SEC is controlled by regime flunkies now. This is an end-run of the 4th amendment.

ARC announced last November that it was shutting down TIP following pressure from lawmakers and reports about its government contracts. The program ended in 2025, but the newly released SEC documents reveal that its reach was far wider than previously known, and that overseas travelers were included in the system.

In related news, it was reported in March that FBI Director Kash Patel defended the bureau’s continued purchase of Americans’ location data, despite warnings from lawmakers that the practice sidesteps Fourth Amendment protections.

You can’t imprison a company

That’s more what I was getting at - I agree that it does seem like she’s getting targeted a bit for a comparatively minimal amount of shady things. Not an excuse, but it does feel disproportionate.

What are you talking about? USB-C is mandated in the EU. All Apple stuff can charge on that now.

For fucks sake can we stop doing flat dollar amount fines on megacorps and do percentage of revenue - yes, revenue specifically, not profit, which can be gamed in tons of interesting ways - as punitive measures? Even astronomical 8 or 9 figure fines on companies with market caps in the ballpark of a trillion fucking dollars are effectively brushed off as the cost of doing business, and are ultimately inconsequential and entirely ineffective in terms of serving as a meaningful deterrent to the things they’re being fined for.

Meta is not going to give a single shit about this. This is a small speed bump, nothing more.

lol I’m so glad I unsubbed back when they started letting ICEatzgruppen advertise on their platform. I paid for ad free, but simply knowing they were running ads for the all-American Stasi made me drop them like a hot potato.

I mean… if candidates do the opposite of what the establishment and their consultants recommend, then yeah.

I mean… I’ll be the one to say it: he’s not gonna know.

Do what you want and need to in order to maintain your sanity. Placate him with a white lie - and it is a white lie - to make him feel better, if you want to. But maintaining your boundaries and avoiding people you find utterly caustic isn’t “childish”. In fact, I’d call it a consummately adult behavior.

Same. Seriously considering popping for one before the 18 releases simply because it’s probs gonna be like $300 more expensive than the analogous 17 models.

Moderate Democrats can fuck all the way off and continue shitting the bed with their electoral results. They are losing relevance; they just won’t admit it.

I’m assuming sarcasm, but still, wow dude.

McConnell made the following comment upon his release:

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It’s one of those iykyk things. I detest TikTok and refuse to use it (and short form brainrot video bullshit in general), but I’ve been aware of it as a hard-right channel/user/whatever for a while now.

No no, that’s simply not possible - they were at my place having a succulent Chinese meal and watching movies

Gaze upon mine field of fucks; ‘lo, it is barren.

I have absolutely zero interest in or sympathy for “influencers”.

Wow I can’t wait for these to be entirely unfit for any possible mission or threat space that the USN would plausibly ever be involved in

I mean, prosecuting corruption is good, but also, the amounts stated in the article are 4-5 orders of magnitude smaller compared to the overt embezzlement and looting going on in the states right now

Geneva Convention, Protocol I, Article 39.2:

It is prohibited to make use of the flags or military emblems, insignia or uniforms of adverse Parties while engaging in attacks or in order to shield, favour, protect or impede military operations.

So yes, I believe that would actually cover it.