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  • I wouldn't be shocked if it were true, but this article looks completely made up.

    The FBI agent isn't named. Despite claiming there are "legal filings" no court is named. There are no links or citing sources. There are no specific allegations including dates, specific actions taken by Russia intelligence or by Musk/Thiel in response.

    It looks honestly like the article itself is part of typical Russian misinformation meant to pull the left further away from the right, and reduce credibility and factual signal by adding tempting noise.

  • I'm fairly convinced they only believe in themselves, as a psychological axiom. Moral good is that which makes them richer, happier, or more powerful.

    That's all there is at the base of our entire system of government at the moment.

  • The entire reason why there is a thriving global market for manga is that these off-books sites have existed for decades, and have raised a generation that treats manga as core culture. So they're strangling their continued relevance in a blind enforcement frenzy.

    The other big problem of publishers acting this way is that if we start buying more manga after this, the message publishers get is that this works, and to do it again and again. They've created an incentive for manga fans to therefore not buy more manga for now. Which is exactly the opposite incentive publishers wish for.

  • My father loved this meme. My favorite memory is of reading this meme with him sitting on the couch with the family puppy. He died tragically ten years ago, hit by a runaway dildo delivery truck while taking our puppy to the vet to have puppy aids treatment. I cry every time I see this meme.

  • I get that it's an easy dunk, but the iterations and options for effective spycraft using freely available technology and knowledge are effectively limitless, when you have weeks of exclusive, unsupervised access to something as big and complex as a plane.

  • Since Qatar knows it will be fully disassembled to find bugs, but also has effectively limitless unsupervised time with it, there will probably be some crazy advanced, near-undetectable bugs in the plane components themselves.

  • Bondi:

    They also determined it does not constitute a bribe because the gift does not hinge on an official act.

    Emoluments clause:

    ...no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.

    Bondi, we're not talking about bribes, we're talking about explicit violations of the Constitution. So where's the Congressional consent?

    Oh, because Qatar gives it to USAF, and USAF gives it to Trump, it's "legally permissible." Gosh, what a novel idea. Definitely not something a first year law student would see as a strawperson introduced in a transaction specifically to evade illegal conduct.

  • It's no downside to them. Either (a) officials do nothing in response, which tells them they can do this again the future, or (b) the officials challenge the illegal arrest, giving the DOJ an opportunity to expand powers by creating court precedent via immunity arguments.

    If in the off-chance, (c) the court rules against them, it makes no difference since they'll ignore the order.