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> Well deserved. Apple Daily is not pro democrazy but pro-chaos. It routinely manufatures fake news and rumors that only matched by the mainstream fake news.

Whereas the chinese dictatorship is a bastion of transparency, honesty and democracy?

Monarchies are the greatest scam ever perpetrated on modern republics. Spend a few hundred years invading, colonialising, conquering, raping, pillaging, committing genocide, destroying countless civilizations and enslaving many millions.

In the end, the taxpayers are forced to keep ensure you and your heirs remain billionaires without having to do more than wave your hand at a public appearances and attempt to stay out of the tabloids.

(I prefer using dollars because it has a more vague meaning of currency whereas the word “pound” has 30 meanings and uses on Wordnik. The English language sucks, but I digress.)

English tax dollars pay for an unfathomably large amount of money preserving antiquity, much of which was flat out stolen from other nations or came on the backs of slaves.

The whole “give one inbred family billions of dollars per year to maintain their long-since-neutered monarchy” scam always impresses me. As if the Trump family convinced tax payers to give his family a couple of billion dollars every year for the hell of it.

If it makes you feel better more and more of this gets outsourced to spy and mercenary companies like Palantir, Facebook, Google and Blackwater.

The world now belongs to 2 entire generations who never read 1984.

This is only partially true. There is no “policy” aim any city do do this.

What does happen is that charity groups like catholic churches or st vincent de paul will buy homeless and runaways one-way tickets, but only if they have a verifiable destination.

Just the mere idea of visiting the USA gives me more stress than I care to experience. After 7 years away I don’t even have a desire to visit.

It takes a solid 5 years to get over what my friends call “that American Fight or Fight instinct”, and I don’t miss the amount of fear,distrust and readiness to fight that is always in the back of your mind being from the USA.

Also, remotely siphoning $$$ off of bay area tech companies while living in the third world helps with stress a lot.

They’re begging to sell 5-7.5% of the compny for €8m?

Sounds like it is time for Qwant to give up.

Slavery?

Consider a significant number of Googlers are upper middle class kids, possibly on the spectrum, who go straight from the ivy league to google’s cafeteria. These made up numbers seem reasonable and accurate to them because they never had to take care of themselves in the real word.

What’s this here about a social contract, hmm? I never signed any contract.

Nixon, Reagan including Nancy Bush Sr. the original instigators of the federal on drugs are all dead.

> Then again Turkey could go full Islamist crazy and be more Saudi Arabia and Erdoğan could declare himself president for life.

It would never happen. Turks are Turks first and Muslim second. Erdogan is a neo-ottomanist, not a salafist.

He’s as much of a Muslim as Trump is a Christian.

Now I do see him trying to sell more of the nation to Saudis and Emirates while also forcing enough pro-sunni legislation down our throats to keep the Conservative / Nationalists happy and ensure that Saudi / Qatari investment coming and to ensure he can profit like a bandit off of his pre-doomed “Islamic Finance” initiatives.

However, Turks are fairly centrist by American standards. They drink, a lot (alcohol tax revenue is crucial to the government, as well as direct sales as the government still owns some of the Raki and Beer production), smoke weed, party, are getting married and having children later in life, and fewer.

I watched the sweaty shirtless guys beating mislead soldiers to death during the failed coup a few years ago. They weren’t shouting allahu akbar while they did it. They waved Ataturk flags and sang the Izmir march.

> What about the Iranian approach to the U.S.? What if Iran stopped development of nuclear weapons and attacking U.S. forces in Iraq and elsewhere, or sponsoring organizations that are destabilizing the Middle East? It's not like they're not also agitating the situation. It's in their best interest because that way they can maintain power.

It takes threee to tango in this situation

Provocations and aggressions that maybe the US should perhaps stop doing:

- presidential candidates gleefully parodying beach boy songs about bombing Iran. [1]

- spending many 10s of billions of America’s hard earned tax dollars surroinsing Iran with several dozen military bases. [2]

- Assassinating or supporting Israel in assassinating Iranian scientists abroad.[3]

- or assassinating Iranian military leaders [4]

- Organizing violent military coups to replace democratically elected governments with Radical Islamist puppet dictatorships [5], [6]

- Gatekeeping nuclear power by releasing destructive viruses into the world to destroy Iranian Nuclear research labs [7]

1. https://youtu.be/U7s5pT3Rris

2. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1XmUD73hHQVBbdm8UcI...

3. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/29/middleeast/iran-mohsen-fa...

4. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Solei...

5. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état

6. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cia-assisted-cou...

7. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/holloway1/

11 hours ago this was not the case. Sweet. No rfc db is complete without CPIP!

RFC 1149 is missing, weak.

Great design, I only had to click Back about 3000 times.

“ Believe me, Chevron is not an evil company," he added. "I have no compunction — in the least — about owning Chevron. And if we owned the entire business, I would not feel uncomfortable about being in that [industry]."

Believe me, if I were a billionaire I too would be defending other billionaires, peasants be damned. Bigly.

It takes me 15 minutes to file my taxes both for my full-time employment, but I’m not some objectivist trying to scam my way out of paying my share of taxes. Just an engineer making a San Francisco wage working for bay area startups remotely while living in the third world.

I’ve spent the past 7 years traveling and living in DN-friendly countries (Türkiye, Georgia, Czechia). When covid is over I will move to Spain for 2 years under the Non-Lucrative Residency Permit.

More and more countries are coming out with non-lucrative / pensioner / digital nomad visas. They dont care as long as you aren’t doing business locally. From their perspectice it’s free sales tax income.

My domicile is now in Florida. I file my federal taxes as a us citizen and Floridan resident, no state income tax. (which means $60k per year for nothing more than bad consular services).

The Edwardian Ball in San Francisco is a fantastic Gorey themed ball started by the denizens of the larper/renaissance faire/gamer/goth/hacker scene of the early ‘00s.

It’s one of those special costumed events which makes San Francisco magical.

https://www.edwardianball.com/

Sure, whatever.

The fact is that all abrahamists follow some version of a silly book in which some sky daddy told a man in a desert that they are the choosen people and that by following that specific man, they have the right to dominion over the earth.

These philosophies also all lay out rules for how and when they may tax, kill and enslave those of the other religion.

So yes, at least 50% of the earth’s population are OK with one group dominating the tax laws of the planet, as long as it is their group.

My assumption is Theme parks are exempt because it is perfectly valid for Disneyland to prevent pedophile politicians from being too close to that many children?

Isn’t that why more than 50% of the globe blindly worship an abrahamic god?

He dared to report the truth about a maniacal dictator.

> A touch screen is cheaper, because they can re-use the same hardware between different vehicles rather than having to design/build/assemble a slightly different set of physical buttons for different models with different features.

Any savings will be lost by one class action lawsuit or mass recall. Touch screen is the wrong interface when lives are on the line.

This reads to me as:

‘I need X million in USD in engineering spend this year so I can add “I managed a large SRE/DevOps team” on my resume.’

Ireland is also involved in this. All three entities are members of the eu, Greece and Lithuania are in NATO and Ireland is a “partner” of NATO.

They will send Thoughts and Prayers.

Lukashenko is destined to meet the same fate as Nicolae Ceaușescu.

This was an attack on Lithuania, Greece and Ireland.

How many more times will western governments bend over as Putin and other tin pot soviet dicktators shoot down or hijack flights?