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Post by foggyisback on Sept 26, 2023 2:02:13 GMT -5
LOL
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Post by foggyisback on Sept 26, 2023 2:03:29 GMT -5
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Post by foggyisback on Sept 26, 2023 2:16:41 GMT -5
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 26, 2023 5:18:35 GMT -5
X redirects to Twitter. Are we sure it's been rebranded? |
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Post by mrobvious on Sept 26, 2023 5:52:08 GMT -5
Watching a video about grooming. It is from a march against grooming in Canada. 1 guy trots a kid on stage and want the kid to say something. To the delight of the small group of marching 'parents' they kid - perhaps 10 years old proceed to say 'gays are disgusting'.
I guess the march was about how to groom kids into being hateful.
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Post by foggyisback on Sept 26, 2023 6:39:14 GMT -5
X redirects to Twitter. Are we sure it's been rebranded? Wondered that myself. #LoneSkum prolly too cheap to go all the way with it. Plus, he still owns the Twitter trademarks and branding. |
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Post by foggyisback on Sept 26, 2023 6:44:22 GMT -5
Watching a video about grooming. It is from a march against grooming in Canada. 1 guy trots a kid on stage and want the kid to say something. To the delight of the small group of marching 'parents' they kid - perhaps 10 years old proceed to say 'gays are disgusting'. I guess the march was about how to groom kids into being hateful. Using kids to validate the hate they instill in them at the expense of others that they consider as deviant. That's some SUJU* 🤬 right there. *Straight up jacked up. |
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Post by foggyisback on Sept 26, 2023 7:17:47 GMT -5
This goon.
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Post by LA_Randy on Sept 26, 2023 7:27:29 GMT -5
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Post by LA_Randy on Sept 26, 2023 8:57:07 GMT -5
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Post by LA_Randy on Sept 26, 2023 8:58:45 GMT -5
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Post by LA_Randy on Sept 26, 2023 10:13:03 GMT -5
Supreme Court again smacks down Alabama over gerrymandered map that rips off Black voters In yet another blow to Alabama Republicans, the Supreme Court has declined to reinstate a congressional map ruled a racial gerrymander by lower courts, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The order is the second time this year that the generally conservative-favoring court has blocked congressional lines found to discriminate against Black voters in the state, who for years have only been given a single majority district out of seven, despite making up a quarter of Alabama's population... www.rawstory.com/alabama-map/ |
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Post by LA_Randy on Sept 26, 2023 10:38:05 GMT -5
Grain alcohol and rain water Facing 91 felony charges across multiple jurisdictions, Trump believes it violates his rights if he’s not allowed to issue threats, intimidate potential witnesses, and taint jury pools as he campaigns for president awaiting trial. His defense team alleges a “desperate effort at censorship” by federal prosecutors... digbysblog.net/2023/09/26/grain-alcohol-and-rain-water/ |
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Post by LA_Randy on Sept 26, 2023 13:28:24 GMT -5
FCC to reintroduce rules protecting net neutrality — The US government aims to restore sweeping regulations for high-speed internet providers, such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, reviving “net neutrality” rules for the broadband industry – and an ongoing debate about the internet’s future. The proposed rules from the Federal Communications Commission will designate internet service — both the wired kind found in homes and businesses as well as mobile data on cellphones — as “essential telecommunications” akin to traditional telephone services, according to multiple people familiar with the plan. The rules would ban internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking or slowing down access to websites and online content, the people told CNN. Bloomberg was first to report the news. Agency chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel plans to unveil the proposal in a speech at the National Press Club on Tuesday, the people added, saying the FCC plans to vote Oct. 19 on whether to advance the draft rules by soliciting public feedback on them — a step that would precede the creation of any final rules... www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/tech/fcc-net-neutrality-internet-providers/index.html |
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Post by LA_Randy on Sept 26, 2023 15:54:22 GMT -5
Heh! 'Major blow': Judge finds Trump liable in New York fraud case New York Judge Arthur Engoron on Tuesday found former President Donald Trump and others liable in a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Engoron entered a partial summary judgment, finding Trump fraudulently manipulated the value of his assets. Trump's son Eric Trump and former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg are named in the lawsuit. According to New York Times reporters Jonah E. Bromwich and Ben Protess, "Engoron's decision narrows the issues that will be heard, effectively deciding that the trial was not necessary to find that Mr. Trump was liable and that the core of Ms. James's case was valid. It represents a major blow to Mr. Trump, whose lawyers had sought to persuade the judge to throw out many of the claims against the former president." Engoron also ordered sanctions for Trump's attorneys. Each will have to pay $7,500. www.rawstory.com/letitia-james-trump-fraud/ |
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 26, 2023 17:46:27 GMT -5
Today I learned: Canada was, per capita, the second* most mobilized nation during WWII. Only Germany was more mobilized.
*Depending on how you measure but in this case, it was military + military industry
(Also, by the end of WWI, more than a third of all aces for the British Empire were Canadian)
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 26, 2023 19:32:47 GMT -5
Canadian Speaker resigns over the Nazi soldier debacle. beta.ctvnews.ca/national/politics/2023/9/26/1_6577796.amp.htmlAlso, the Polish want to extradite the former Nazi who was part of a unit accused of murdering Jews in Poland. NDP support this as well. Meanwhile, Jewish groups are calling for a public inquiry which strikes me as the height of wasteful. An MP met a constituent who said he was a WWII vet fighting in Ukraine. MP becomes Speaker. MP hears Zelensky's coming, thinks "hey, I know a Ukrainian soldier". MP doesn't know history or how to do a background check. There is zero complexity to this story |
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 27, 2023 3:11:23 GMT -5
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 27, 2023 3:28:46 GMT -5
The arguments to break up companies are sometimes, IMO, illogical. For example, Microsoft back in the day. Microsoft dominated and still dominates the OS market. Microsoft dominated and has less dominance now in the office software market. However, did those really feed into each other? Not really. Would breaking them apart really have changed things? I doubt it. What did matter was the dominance of one product, of Windows or Office individually. There were a few side issues and things like the European ruling on how they bundled software was a good *regulatory* adjustment. But breaking up the company didn't make sense.
When I look at Google, I see a similar reality. The problem is that they're 95% of the search market, not that they leverage their search to make their other businesses dominate their respective markets. You can make an argument that Google helps YouTube slightly, but YouTube legitimately became the #1 video site and you may recall that Google once had Google video that was the default search result that was completely ignored and this would allow a possible option to break YouTube from Google, and there are several other applications Google has that you could do similarly. But you can't break Google's hold of 95% of the search market because it's one product and that is going to continue to break things. Therefore, the changes you need are primarily regulatory, IMO
Amazon, however, there is far clearer evidence of abusing monopolistic power in distinct business units. You can't break up the warehouse and shipping company, but we've seen dozens of instances where Amazon's products have been given preferential treatment or the most insidious, Amazon using their own sales information as market research for their manufacturing side. And with the new lawsuit against Amazon about how they squeeze the vendors, this becomes yet another story about preferential treatment of their own products. Issues like Amazon Prime being impossible to unsubscribe from are regulatory issues, but these are monopolistic issues and they are distinct sides of the business that can be broken out.
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