I can only hope EU carries that torch going forward and doesn’t bend the knee to US influence. But I have to admit, it’s not looking too good…

Which is exactly what everyone with a brain said would happen with privatization.

If ghosts were real, Guy Fawkes would’ve come back to haunt these guys by now.

1 mill is a very conservative estimate in this regard. I expect it to be orders of magnitude worse.

Spoken like someone who hasn’t been fighting for 15+ years with NOTHING to show for it.

I’m just tired. People don’t give a fuck anyway. May it all burn down in nuclear fire soon.

This shit is happening no matter who votes what. It’s been voted on how many times in the past decade? 5+? It’ll always keep coming back until it passes. Might as well do it now rather than later. Same with online ID verification. Just bite the pillow while they’re going in dry, it’s the shortest pain.

I guarantee he’ll end up shanked to death. There is no way they’re leaving him alive, and due process has its pitfalls.

But random prison violence? Could always happen…

Cream of Sum Yung Gai.

I upgraded my pc - for the first time in nearly a decade - this spring because I felt in my bones it would be the last time most components would be “affordable”. It may very well actually be.

I’d say they are, but not by much.

A lot of this reminds me of the shooting of Pim Fortuyn in NL over two decades ago. He was very charismatic, a born demagogue, and he would’ve taken NL far-right twenty years before they, unfortunately, still went there. But who knows, maybe that shooter saved Europe from an earlier slide into fascism. No telling what ripple effects will still emanate from this entire situation.

Maybe, but Israel has unlimited funds to throw at PR thanks to the USA, so I’m not sure population is going to be a deciding factor there.

Lol they were calling it their Reichstag fire moment without a hint of irony.

I found it on wikipedia of all places

Korea has already indicated they will very much take this into account when making future decisions about investment abroad.

Who can blame them?

Lol, considering what I’ve said online about Vance or Trump I suppose I was never getting in the USA anymore regardless. No big loss.

I don’t know what went wrong that such a patent was granted. I absolutely loathe IP people.

Someone got paid, guaranteed.

I read a detailed anonymous account by someone who claimed to have worked for Epstein as a lowest-level goon and there were absolutely boys “available” on the island. He also mentions how one of his (male) coworkers got raped by one of the clients and everyone just accepted it as normal.

It might’ve been complete fiction given that it was anonymous but a lot of the details felt very… poignant, gritty, stupid little things that only someone really in that position would know.

Well, that side has been itching to start their civil war, and they’re absolutely capable of sacrificing one of their own in order to obtain the license they think they need. Stranger things have happened.