Revolutions only start when those in charge make living under the current conditions untenable. Basically life has to be so shitty that you're willing to risk getting killed or going to jail for the rest of your life on the mere chance that things get better.

Sounds like the police in England are working overtime to get everyone to that where they feel that way.

I've only read snippets of the indictment, is the US government alleging that Chen and her husband knew the Russians were providing their funding?

It says that they previously had contracts with RT through a Canadian country (presumably legally), and it talks about a fake person and people pretending to be this fake person's agents and employees that we're providing funding and direction, but are they alleging that chin and her husband knew this person wasn't real and that they were actually being funded by Russia?

The entire online ad industry where they pay per click is fundamentally flawed anyway.

While having bots click the links automates the process, it's essentially no more fraudulent than those mobile games that reward you for clicking on ads or watching videos. Nobody is really paying attention, they're just clicking to get whatever the game is rewarding them.

Ultimately there's no way to measure the "quality" of the click, as in whether or not the person clicking it is even paying attention, and it's also easy to outright fabricate clicks, which I believe Google has been accused of doing in the past.

Jesus, those aren't refugees, they're a pack of feral animals.

"Let's just slap a tan sports bra and gym shorts on and call it a day"

It's not just censorship, it's the laziest low effort censorship possible.

FYI, I found 3 books in the list that were free:

• Groom of the Tyrannosaur Queen: a time-travel romance
• On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1)
• RawJack: A Superheroes v. Sorcerers Future Fantasy Action Novel

There are a few others that were marked free but were not, and at least one of them said it would be flipping to free later this week.

We're seeing tons of news organisations go the full paywall route

Which is ultimately self defeating. I don't know single person who pays for a subscription to an online newspaper.

I understand if the ad revenue from open access articles wasn't sustainable, but you can't just bill your way out of that. It's like when a failing restaurant shrinks portion sizes and increases the menu price; it's only going to speed up their collapse.

My favorites, Logitech G613, inexpensive wireless mechanical keyboard that uses regular replaceable batteries.

I'm a big proponent of electronics that just use standard batteries. I used to love rechargeable devices, but I've lost a couple of devices to proprietary batteries that either stopped holding a charge or swelled and were not replaceable because they're no longer being made. Not to mention everything now that comes with an internal battery that can't be replaced.

Rechargeable AA or AAA batteries are the best because they can be swapped instantly, are not proprietary, are available at any store and you still get the benefits of not having to buy disposable batteries.

Is there anyone left that thinks he'll finish this before he dies?

He already lost a ton of interest but not releasing it while the show was still in the air, I doubt anyone even cares if this even releases anymore.

She was arrested in California. Under California law your right to a speedy trial means that the trial must commence within 45 days if you're not in custody or within 30 days if you are. If she was arrested on federal charges they have 70 days to bring her to trial.

The thing is, waiving your right to a speedy trial is pretty standard in almost all cases, because you generally want to give your defense team as much time as possible to prepare. If you are out on bail, it's almost a no-brainer because you can continue to work and live almost to normal life while waiting for the trial to commence.

I'm not sure why more defendants don't refuse to waive it as a tactical maneuver, considering the state will be as rushed as your own attorneys, and if very many people demanded their right to a speedy trial at the same time it would quickly overwhelm the justice system and result in mountains of dismissals.

Particularly in cases where the defendant is denied bail, it doesn't seem very advantageous to waive their rights, is the government pretty much has what it wants as long as you're in jail and have no incentive to not drag the entire process out as long as humanly possible.

Eww. The Chinese are human cockroaches. Both the Koreans and Japanese regard them as absolute trash. They belong at the absolute bottom of the pyramid along with indians, africans, and the rest of the most garbage races you can think of.

And the second is that they just jump over the "why should I?" question.

This. If I am privileged, why would I want to give it up and hand it to someone else? Does anyone believe that if blacks were running things they would have any concerns about the socioeconomic plight of whites?

Life is a game of "haves" and "have-naughts", why would I willingly convert myself into a have-naught?

This is why the voluntary cessation of the ACT in question by the government does not render a case mood in the united states. Otherwise they would just turn off the law anytime they were in danger of losing a court battle and then turn it on again when the coast was clear.

• Not to scale

LoL, the 5'9" guy doesn't even come up to the shoulder of the 6' tall guy when there's only a 3 inch difference.

This. Biden and the dick sucker can't go a complete sentence without some gaffe and the media just ignores it.

Their double standards and obvious advancement of the left and the Democrat party agenda is so transparent now that a child could see it.

QE=Quantative Easing?

If it's outside their control, like weather, they don't have to offer a monetary refund or pay for meals/lodging but they still have to re-rebook you onto the next available flight to your destination.

Also most airlines have pledged to the FAA that they will offer meals and lodging if you're stranded past a certain period of time, which the FAA says is legally binding.

If a delay is due to something considered under their control (maintenance, their computer systems), they have to offer a cash refund for any unused portion of your itinerary. In most cases it's still better to take their rebooking option, because chances are the value of the discount ticket you bought two months ago won't pay for the same-day ticket you'll be buying with another airline and they don't have to provide meals or accommodations if it's not leaving in the near future.

Why does it need to be a conspiracy theory where they gather in dark rooms and concoct evil schemes?

It's well documented that numerous key players in finance, entertainment, and big business are Jews. It's obvious that they will practice an in-group bias towards other Jews and Israel.

The practical effects of 100 or 1000 influential Jews in positions of power practicing this in-group bias would be virtually indistinguishable from an actual conspiracy.

If you recall a few years back the Navy had a series of incidents in a very short span of time including a destroyer running into a commercial cargo ship and another running aground.

I read an article that basically said the crew works almost non-stop when they're at sea, resulting in everyone being perpetually exhausted. There were some procedural and technical details that also contributed to the accidents, but my big takeaway was that the ships have always been undermanned, and the Navy's answer has been to expect the crew to just work harder.

Seeing as they were on the razor's edge a few years ago, any disruption in bringing in fresh recruits to fill empty billets is going to result in mission failure.

I think this was the article I read, sorry about the annoying Propublica layout: https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/uss-fitzgerald-destroyer-crash-crystal/

A modern Russia with a competent military and strong economy has been the bugaboo of Western Europe since at least the 1800s.

Part of why World War I happened was the fear that Russia would eclipse Germany in the next decade or two, which seems utterly ridiculous in hindsight.

Get ready to live in a world with 1950s technology, because the most effective way to defeat armies of drones is to EMP the shit out of everything. Unfortunately all your consumer electronics will get fried as well.

This is just the neverending cycle of military weapons development.

Someone develops a technology that severely disrupts military operations as they were (e.g. rifled musket/minie ball vs. Napoleonic infantry tactics, carrier aircraft vs. battleships, etc.), and then countermeasures are developed and tactics are adapted to mitigate the new technology.

Right now we're in the infancy of the widespread use of drones. You can bet every modern military is developing countermeasures and changing their tactics as we speak.

We're probably seeing the modern version of the Spanish Civil War where new weapons and tactics are getting experimented with prior to the next worldwide conflict.

Note they're requesting DOB, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, and images of IDs.

I don't give my real postal address to any website that I'm not buying shit from, and I don't give any website that other stuff.

It's still truly easy for a government to find you from your IP address, but there's no reason to help them by giving out this information.

Apparently, he's been a French citizen since 2021. That was a mistake.

I'm guessing that most countries are not going to arrest a completely foreign citizen running a completely foreign company for not following their censorship laws simply because it's sets a dangerous precedent that can be used against their own people.

Plus, the one benefit for being a citizen of an oppressive shithole like Russia is that they're not above "disappearing" a dozen nationals from whatever country arrests you in retaliation- like China did to Canada for the Huawei chick that they arrested.

"unrealized capital gains" aren't taxed because they're not income until you sell the asset.

This is designed solely to ruin middle class investors, because you know the truly rich people have a million loopholes to get deductions and exemptions.