It’s amazing that “lifetime” positions are not considered controversial in and of themselves by most people.

Hope Miriam Adelson is happy, she got what she paid for.

Fellow defense attorney David O. Markus told The Associated Press that in Miami, Black was viewed in legal circles as the GOAT, i.e. the greatest of all time, comparing him to NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan.

Newsweek with some hard hitting reporting.

RIP and him dying and Jonathan Joss getting murdered puts a damper on the KOTH relaunch, but I imagine both will be memorialized in some way on it.

that’s a high effort response, the reason I brought up the change of ownership was to highlight that the company now has a parent company so this person’s refund claims are bouncing all over the place from Canada to Sweden to China which would make it harder to pin down, the actual cars are still designed in Sweden so they are European cars even though a chinese company owns them, it would be like saying riot games is a chinese company although having a parent company has certainly affected the quality & direction of the cars

The whole system just fucked this person over. A European car brand gets bought by a Chinese company so there’s already much less accountability to this one customer than if they had bought an American car (I know they are Canadian, but still). And with the car dealership model in North America and a lot of the rest of the world, it’s not like the dealership can just switch the cars they sell, so they have no leverage to do anything other than close up shop and have dozens of people lose their jobs if the cars start getting crappier like Volvos have been. I think the moral of the story is if you live in North America, don’t buy European cars, it’s not worth it, just buy North American cars or Asian cars, you will have a much easier time getting them fixed and having your problems dealt with.

I don’t think most people who voted for Trump care about the age of consent, biblically it’s not like there’s anything there designating something like that. They might care if he lowered the age of child marriage to 13, but even then that might not tank him.

All toilets will be state mandated to have one of those awful “smile you’re being filmed” stickers

That did he write his thesis on, The Giver?

Arab-Israeli

*Palestinian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pact

For anyone not familiar with how positions in Lebanon are traditionally chosen

Key points of the agreement stipulate that:

Lebanese Christians do not seek Western intervention, and accept that Lebanon had Arab features.

Lebanese Muslims abandon their aspirations to unite with Syria and the Arab World.

The President of the Republic and the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces must be Maronite Catholic.

The Prime Minister of the Republic must be a Sunni Muslim.

The Speaker of the Parliament must be a Shia Muslim.

The Deputy Speaker of the Parliament and the Deputy Prime Minister must be Greek Orthodox Christian.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces must be a Druze.

There must be a ratio of 6:5 in favour of Christians to Muslims (and Druze) in the Lebanese Parliament.

I would probably not abuse 20 interns

https://people.com/politics/young-men-and-interns-describe-how-noted-political-operative-harassed-them-online/

And I would probably not also give money to republicans to try “to push them left”, I think spending the money on almost any other thing would be more politically valuable than that

glad to see the Lincoln project is still wasting rich people’s donations

Tyler Oliveira fucking sucks, don’t promote him. Judging by your posting history you do not align with this guy politically, take a look at his recent videos, he’s accompanying ICE doing deportations.

I would strongly disagree, half the reason AI is being so pushed right now is big business wants to extract growth regardless of how many people are employed and how many people are alive. There is no logical reason to be an anti-natalist, when the problem is quite clearly capitalism, not the amount of people, that’s just rebranded Malthusianism.

https://degrowth.info/en

You are right I did get confused, reach out to Erin on bsky https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com if you want and please cease talking to me thanks

You are more than welcome to let Advocate know about this and see what they respond to you.

https://www.advocate.com/contact

The Advocate is the world’s leading source of LGBTQ+ news and information.

They tend to mention when someone is LGBTQ+ in The Advocate

Imo I think the biggest thing is it would be completing the revolution in the sense that the KMT fled to Taiwan and is a holdout, that would be a huge win for national pride and legitimacy for the government. The second biggest thing would be nothaving another country with an army so close to them that is “hostile” to their interests. And then after that there would be a lot of other benefits like absorbing their industry, economic zones, military bases, etc. They would much rather have the modern KMT party win an election and vote to become a part of China, than invade, which while very unlikely is not impossible by any means in the span of decades.