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Bullshit. You could sell your physical copy on the second hand market. This is protected by the “doctrine of first sale.” When you buy a a copy of a work, you have the right to lend it, trade it, or sell it. This right was functionally eliminated by platforms like Steam.
I really did think they were going to take territory, (while suffering losses unbearable in the longer term). I did not expect to see them get chewed up and spit out so quickly. They’re like the bad guys in an action FPS who you can casually mow down hundreds of without breaking a sweat.
I think that’s what they mean by “diplomacy.”
“IDF says military goals in Lebanon achieved, gov’t can reach diplomatic resolution” - Jerusalem Post
:yea:
You guys got anything fun going on?
Not at all :(
I guess I can plug this vignette about Josh Gottheimer, my absolute bum ass DEMOCRAT US Rep: https://theintercept.com/2024/03/06/nj-josh-gottheimer-high-school-protest-gaza-israel/
The girls organized a teach-in and walkout at their high school in November. It led to an unexpected flood of backlash from the town’s adults, including elected officials; a deluge of violent threats; a campaign organized by a new pro-Israel, Jewish lobbying group; and intervention by the federal government.
Members of the town council were key instigators — and they found a willing audience in a sitting member of Congress. Within hours of the November protest, council member Karen Orgen emailed videos of it to nearly two dozen people, among them Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., according to emails The Intercept obtained under the New Jersey public records law. Gottheimer did not respond to that thread, but three hours later, fellow council member Goldberg wrote an email thanking him and other officials for their “hard work.” Soon after, Gottheimer issued a statement condemning the Teaneck school district’s “decision allowing an antisemitic, anti-Israel protest during school hours.”
Gottheimer has become fixated with Teaneck’s high schoolers. At his urging, the U.S. Department of Education opened a civil rights probe into discrimination at Teaneck High. After the school district announced that it would partner with two Jewish and Muslim civil rights organizations — the Anti-Defamation League and the Council on American Islamic Relations, respectively — Gottheimer publicly accused the Muslim organization of glorifying terrorism and demanded Teaneck cut ties with it. CAIR’s New Jersey chapter denounced Gottheimer’s “defamatory attacks” in a written statement.
In response to The Intercept’s questions, Goldberg simply wrote in an email, “Release the Hostages.” Gottheimer, Orgen, and Kaplan did not respond to requests for comment.
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A few weeks later, Teaneck hosted the Bergen County Unite for Israel Parade. Allie Orgen, daughter of council member Karen Orgen, told the Jewish Standard that she had been inspired to organize it after attending the Jerusalem Day flag march, an annual Israeli nationalist rally in Jerusalem that has often descended into nationalist hooliganism and anti-Palestinian violence. “I want to move the [Jerusalem Day] parade to Teaneck,” she said.
An estimated 2,000 people from around New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut marched down Teaneck’s streets with Israeli flags. The Standard described the event as a “protest,”“parade,” and “party” all in one. Musicians performed pro-Israel songs at a local park. Gottheimer addressed the crowd, saying that “anyone who says Israel is a terrorist state, or an apartheid state, that’s antisemitism.”
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The controversies in Teaneck seemed almost tailor-made to suck Gottheimer in. He has a history of awkward, defensive, and sometimes downright weird interactions with the public, including in Teaneck.
In 2017, Gottheimer showed up to a fundraiser at a bar in Paterson, a city with many Arab Americans and other people of color, donning a bulletproof vest with an armed guard at his side. In 2019, the congressman had a public meltdown when he saw an elderly citizen-journalist taking notes at a Teaneck town hall event that was supposed to be closed to the press. Two years later, Gottheimer falsely accused a heckler from Teaneck of yelling an antisemitic slur at him. The protester turned out to be Jewish herself. After the October 7 attacks, Gottheimer reportedly said that Muslim Americans should feel “guilty.”
TLDR: If you tell me to vote for this motherfucker I will strangle you.
Actually, for international readers and non-sicko people who ignore this kind of thing, I guess a short recap of Bob Menendez is in order. Bob Menendez has been one of New Jersey’s two US Senators since 2006. Particularly slimy guy even by NJ standards. He’s been indicted on two separate occasions for corruption and bribery. Got off the first one on a mistrial (hung jury). He would be running again, but the second indictment made that improbable so a “caretaker” is serving in his place. Menendez has very close ties with the “Cuban-American” lobby and is one of the most rabid anti-Cuba members of the US Senate (that’s saying a lot).
Running to replace him is US Rep. Andy Kim, from New Jersey’s 3rd congressional district (first elected in 2018). I didn’t read much of his bio but he studied Political Science at the University of Chicago, so he’s probably fucked. He is running against the Republican candidate, a real estate developer with no Wikipedia article named Curtis Bashaw. The election is noteworthy to the mildest degree in that there is no incumbent running for re-election, but the outcome is predetermined (the Democrat will win, the actual election took place on June 4th).
Rewinding to June 4th (the primary elections), life-long organizer and legend Larry Hamm once again ran a campaign for US Senate. This guy was the real deal. He received 47,796 votes, out of the 563,612 ballots cast in the NJ Democratic primary election.
Another important thing to consider is that with the total bloodbath of local newspapers (driven in part by their reliance on ad revenue, and substantially by the social media monopolies sucking up most of that revenue stream), and consolidation of the remaining scraps, national publications like the NYT and WaPo have effectively filled the void. Very few people have any desire to subscribe to multiple newspapers, so outfits like these are well positioned to become the default. They are efffectively the Netflix of print news.
I would likely subscribe to WaPo before subscribing to the biggest regional paper in my area (where many of the articles are just syndicated from USA Today or Associated Press anyway). Good, class conscious, local reporting which isn’t enmeshed in the local political machinery is an exceedingly rare thing in this country.
My man has been posting Ls ever since his head hit that sink.
Another ballot drop-off arson attack has occurred (I believe this is the third), this time in Vancouver, WA.
This is called being a Machiavellian political genius.
The collected evidence data include 238 flight plans and flight logs worked out between June 5, 2023 and October 8, 2024, and the remaining data except the data of October 8 are the data of flight in the territory of the ROK.
Folks. If you are going to send a drone into hostile territory, it might be a good idea for it not to carry a log of every mission it has ever flown.
Spanish Monster Mash played on the jukebox at a bar in Mexico in like… February, and I completely lost my mind.
May I suggest Monster Mash en Espanol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0yt8xeKe7c
A lot of times I’ll run apt-get update / apt-get upgrade on my server and there will be no updates to install. I only reboot if there is a new kernel or something. Otherwise, I can just restart whichever services are directly impacted by the updates.
Debian Stable is a rock. Nothing ever changes. I do recommend subscribing to the debian-announce and debian-security-announce mailing lists though.
VCs invest in emerging technologies like virtual reality and “artificial intelligence” because there is the potential to become a fixture of a small economy and grow with it. The time to do this with web browsers was in the 90s. The browser market isn’t growing, and it is already cornered by one of the largest monopolies in the world. They can’t be undercut on price (Chrome is effectively a loss-leader to promote Google’s other properties). They can’t be outspent on R&D. If you are seeking VC, you need to produce a return on investment somehow, and there is no way to do that without selling out the end users in an even more devious way than Google. There is no viable capitalist development model for web browsers. It is the kind of infrastructure which needs to be funded with grants or state funding.
Real “the Soviet Union is ruining caviar by making it affordable for the poors” energy.
This is probably the funniest thing that could happen in terms of calamities. Sorry Israel, you’re not Reddit enough.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.