It’s not even necessarily counterfeit, like a fake product made to look like the original, but they’ll run the same exact factory overtime to produce extra product beyond the contracted number, and that will be sold on the grey market. Or they’ll take the QC failures, fix them enough for a B-grade product and sell that.
Black Flag was a mediocre Assassin’s Creed game, at best. It was a phenomenal pirate game
To be fair, those are the exception to the general rule that licensed games suck.
And the LEGO games are sort of cheating. They have no right to be as good as they are.
Nearly everything is a derivative of something from before. Occasionally something new comes up though. I don’t remember anything like Getting Over It seems to have created the Foddian game genre for example. And while Balatro uses relatively normal cards for its base, the gameplay itself is unique.
Let me guess, they shot it down.
… read the article. Yeah, they shot it down.
That is 100% what every country needs to be doing. These aren’t mistakes.
So, these officers will be charged with murder right? Because they’re the same group of pro-life dipshits that try to charge mothers for natural miscarriages and shit. Their actions directly led to miscarrying, that’s manslaughter at a minimum.
Something the dipshits don’t ever seem to realize. That their taxes are literally paying out those multi-million dollar settlements.
That’s where the real and easy to stop government waste is.
This guy is gonna have a field day with his lawsuit once this is over. The prosecutor is going to cost them millions for something no one will remember after it’s over.
All he knows is TV. Well, and cheating at golf. But mostly TV. That’s where he gets his news remember? Not one of the most comprehensive intelligence networks on the planet only available to the POTUS… regular old TV.
So how is that fake? I can’t do any of those things you mention in the first paragraph.
You’re not rich enough where banks know you always have stock available to give them. Where there’s virtually no limit to your stock pool that the bank can just liquidate after the fact. You need to be in the top .1% for that. The fact you’re on lemmy means that’s not a possibility in the slightest.
Getting loans based on assets is not at all the same as selling those assets.
It is for the rich. That’s why so many don’t care about their traditional salary. That’s why so many went out of their way to advertise they were taking a $1 salary during the recession, or even today. Because their salary is subject to income tax, but loans are not. You can get the same end result of cash in hand by receiving your pay in stock, then taking loans against that stock.
Depends on who he talked to last. Like every other time. It’s all just manipulation of the Presidency. Both foreign and domestic.
I count that in the sold category. Because they just get more loans to pay off the previous ones, or default and the bank just takes the shares and does it again because what the loaned is less than the share value. All the while avoiding income and capital gains taxes.
It’s why boycotts and cancelling subscriptions actually do work when done in large enough numbers. Their money can disappear very quickly if shareholders get spooked.
It’s also why Tesla isn’t being affected as much now despite Elon pulling the mask off and going full Nazi, resulting in massive sales drops. Years and years of short sellers and complicit media trying to tank the brand, largely funded and promoted by things like entrenched oil interests and competing car brands have trained many shareholders to ignore a lot.
To be fair, all that money is effectively fake until the shares are sold.
But just think about how much easier it is to see the little icon right there in Teams.
I’m sure this “feature” is aimed at the tech-illiterate micromanagers, like the C-Suite, giving them a nice little icon, not at IT who can easily see this type of thing many different ways.
I’m inclined to say that her vote wasn’t cast in time, even though it wasn’t her fault.
I’d say the exact opposite. The vote was on April 28th, she mailed her ballot on April 5th and it was returned to her on May 2nd.
She mailed her ballot in 23 days ahead of time. That is more than enough time to ensure your vote will be counted. There’s zero reason to expect your ballot to not be received and counted using the pre-printed label or for it be returned to you more than 3 weeks later.
This isn’t a case of someone sending it a day or two before and standard processing taking it past a deadline.
To be fair, it is both a religious and ethnic term. There are a lot of Jewish people that do not practice Judaism. And they follow a matrilineal lineage, regardless of their religious beliefs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality_in_Judaism
So it is actually a legitimate defense, even though we know it’s a crock of shit to try and cover being caught with all of his lies. Especially because he’s not using the actual ethnic vs religion distinction, but instead trying to claim a play on words.
So 90% of the self-proclaimed “power users”.
Conditions are now so bad, the methods used are not even allowed in war.
We’ve allowed the government to do way more to our citizens that the international community, including us, has agreed shouldn’t be allowed.
Tear Gas is a banned chemical weapon. There is a specific carve out in the ban allowing for domestic use. And that’s not the only one.
Our dishwasher has a bright ass white LED when it’s done and clean. As long as you don’t open the door it’s lit up like the Lighthouse of Alexandria. If you’re opening the door, you need to just empty it. Even with that we have a magnet that says “Hella Clean” on one side and “Dirty AF” on the other, makes people actually want to swap it around since it’s not just a basic boring ass dirty/clean sign.