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JFC dude.... I've never said this to anyone before, but I think you need Jesus.

Killing another country's civilian is not casus belli, especially when considering both countries are allied.

These terms are steeped in legal precedent and tradition. You may not agree them, or respect them, but that alone doesn't change how they're defined.

But that also doesn't change the fact that this should be a serious diplomatic row with serious bilateral consequences, but so should have untold numbers of other war crimes committed against the Palestinians in general, and more specifically, against countless American citizens within the occupation zones.

Also, I'm pretty sure Joe isn't cognizant about much lately, and I would wager that he only appears lucid when talking about events that happened 50 years ago.

I really think you're missing the point here.

CNN is running a headline intentionally distorting the reality of what this group is. They're making it sound like Musk destroyed the Humane Society.

They want people to feel pity for the world's largest advertisers, or feel angry that Musk managed to slightly inconvenience them.

If you want to have a debate on the merits, you can't have it in an environment like that.

No, I understand.

Do you really think that if it wasn't for their consortium, companies would think "you know what? I think we should run ads next to Nazis".

Hint: No. They wouldn't.

And Musk has even managed to do a couple of worthwhile things in his life as well. I don't see why that means I should disregard every other terrible thing he has done, and will do.

Because that is your argument. That these gigantic advertising entities, who would destroy the world if it meant an extra 0.5% in their net revenue, are doing the world of service and we should be grateful for it.

I am not, fuck them. I hope all their key decision makers and Musk gather for settlement talks, and a meteor strikes square in the middle of the conference table.

1. I'm aware that the Olympic boxer has DSD, and that it's prevalent in an outsized portion of female combat sports athletes. I'm still of the opinion that they should not be discriminated against for using their genetic condition to their advantage in becoming a world class athlete. I see this as no different from how Michael Phelps has a condition where he produces a lot less lactic acid.
2. If you were implying that the Olympics should start genetic testing of athletes and screening them for these types of conditions, I am entirely against that, see my previous response.

Did you miss the part where I was very clearly and specifically talking about the case of trans women combat sports athletes? Those who had male levels of testosterone during their body's development and who then transitioned.

This is a very niche subject, but for some reason people like the user I was responding to, insist on pretending that puberty as a male doesn't matter if the adult athlete is on blockers, and that it does not give them an advantage in a combat sport. I'm not so much concerned about the advantage itself, as I am about the inherent danger to the other participants.

Striking blows from a musculature developed in male levels of testosterone, present an outsized risk of death, or permanent injury, to a female fighter/boxer. A risk that is significantly higher than the normal risks associated with combat sports.

No, I cited a very specific and highly relevant scientific rationale, and then followed up with an example of what happens when you choose to ignore that reality for the sake of, whatever it is you believe you're doing.

Combat sports are combat sports....MMA, boxing, etc., they're COMBAT sports.

But I can tell from your ignoring the scientific reality of the situation, and choosing instead to call me a discriminatory fuckwad, that you're someone who should be taken seriously. Clearly I'm not up to that task...

What I'm going to say has nothing to do with the Algerian boxer, she was born a woman and if we started banning athletes from the Olympics whose rare genetics gave them an advantage, there'd be no reason to watch.

trans women are actually at a competitive disadvantage since hormone blockers also nullify the low levels of Testosterone that women produce naturally.

That is objectively false for combat sports. Blockers do not reverse the years of effects that testosterone has on their bodies development, such as skeletal structure and bone density.

I don't understand this insistence on denying reality for the very niche topic of trans women competing in combat sports, it is dangerous.

If you don't believe me, go listen to the interviews of female MMA fighters who Fallon Fox destroyed, and I'm talking like fractured skulls.

Oh my God.... You really have no clue what you're talking about, which I suspected earlier, but that reply is almost cringe-worthy.

You don't understand or have any depth of knowledge of British politics and media, which is pretty clear.

You don't even know what a police state is.....

Wait.... Are you really basing all of your views and analysis off of British media coverage...?

It's almost like you don't comprehend the situation any more than you were able to understand what I actually said.

The situation has been building for a couple of decades, but it was created almost entirely by politicians and the media. The same ones who are now pearl clutching, including Starmer.

The same politicians and media outlets who are writing with indignation and feigned horror at the "violent mobs", will suffer no consequence, especially with the attitude you just expressed.

Because, at least in my view, being part of the media class or a politician shouldn't protect you from the legal consequences of fomenting nationwide riots. Clearly you feel differently.

So yeah, this lady and those like her are shit buckets. I genuinely don't care what happens to them, but I do care that people like you are pretending that they are the start and the end of this problem, when that couldn't be further from the truth.

Oh and P.S., it's already a police state. Look no further than their treatment of Muslims the past two decades, including stripping citizenship and imprisoning without trial, or that they're the most surveilled country on earth.... The fact that you think this is a new, or yet to come development, speak volumes.

No shit, non-profit? It's a consortium of the world's largest advertisers. You can hate Musk, and hate them at the same time. I would go so far as to say that's the only reasonable view on the matter.

Everyone here who's cheering this on is missing the point.

Does this person and the other agitators, suck? Yes. Are they vile? Yes.

But putting aside the morality of the UK's lack of free speech, the press and politicians, including the current Labour administration are you using these arrests to pretend that they had no culpability.

Don't think this begins and ends with the Daily Mail and Farage. Starmer made his bones on being anti immigrant just the same, including giving speeches about this shit in the last few weeks.

So if you really do believe in the UK's police state approach to speech for commoners, than at least taken to account that the very rags you're reading while they clutch their pearls, and you all cheer, are in fact the original culprits and exponentially more guilty than any dipshits they've arrested, or will arrest.

I can only approach this from the English language, which is why I said technically correct. But I also feel the article should have done a lot better job explaining that they were Dagestani, which is not unreasonable as if this had happened in Chechnya, it would have said Chechen.

Also, I have never seen Russian used interchangeably with Ukrainian, or Belarusian, before or after, 2014. But again, maybe that's just my English language only bias.

That said, I do appreciate you writing on the explainer for other users who aren't familiar with the status of, or distinction between Russia and the Caucasus.

...this was a regional tournament, in the Caucasus Republic of Dagestan.

So calling them Russian is technically accurate, but really they are a brutalized and subjugated colonial subject of Russia.

Also, you'll find this kind of crazy anywhere you go. She literally just dumped mercury around her opponents chess board when she thought no one was around to notice.

I get why it's catching headlines, but give me a break. It's just crazy being crazy.

I don't see the issue here.

I detest what Spotify has been, and is doing, to artists, but this isn't that.

Spotify jump started a market by infusing it with cash, and then ran out of cash. It sounds similar to when a patron of the arts no longer has the funds available for patronage.

Yes, it sucks for those people who lost their funding, but podcasts are profitable all over without the infusion of cash from Spotify.

I realize that those with a large overhead, or those who are otherwise just unable to adapt, are in a shit situation, but I suspect the rest of them, and those that follow, will adopt the monetization strategies of other successful podcast markets.

Also, who the fuck wants to use the Spotify app for podcasts? Jesus I would never subject myself to that, they'll be better off for it in no time.

Really this just sounds like YT membership, allowing users to create subscriptions for premium/special content e.g. gambling picks, porn, etc.

If that's all it was intended to be, it could have been an actually useful and not intrusive monetization strategy....5 years ago.

Even if that's how the feature gets rolled out now, unless it's an unmitigated disaster, I don't see them being capable of not overplaying their hand.

They will assume that because some users are willing to pay for private porn content, or gambling pick subreddits, that of course most users must also be willing to pay for cat photos and memes.

Personally, I am all for it. I am for Reddit making the worst choices possible and speed running their decline. Mostly, I would like a user exodus that results in Lemmy finally getting growth in a lot of their more niche communities that still keep me using Reddit on occasion.

The mythical refugee GOP moderates do not exist in any real significant numbers, but even if that wasn't the case, they aren't the factor driving the Democratic Party to the right. That's a product of 50 years of neoliberalism and the DNC being owned by their donor class.

Once you understand that, you can fit all of the other contributing factors under those two umbrellas, such as how Democratic administrations have refused to provide any real legislative solutions to the judicial branch's removal of union's ability to accumulate and retain real political power.

I realize the article was written to make it sound like they lost money on this, but I would be shocked if they had.

To vastly oversimplify it, private equity does a few things to make money on the companies they acquire:

• Significantly reduce staff, and increasing workload
• Strip and sell off individual assets
• Load the company with debt

The last parts are where it goes from amoral to "HOW THE FUCK IS THAT LEGAL?"

The private equity firm will have its own separate entities that provide a variety of services, for example janitorial or administrative.

The new private equity owners will then replace all the current vendors, with their own entities at a expentionally hirer costs. All the while, paying themselves gigantic consulting fees.

Basically those are all just ways to legally embezzle money by extracting all the resources from the company. Once that's done, they'll sell the last thing of value: the brand name itself e.g. CNET, VICE, etc.

If there is no money in the brand itself, then they'll just dissolve the company.

Well, that wasn't included in the multiple insufferable Riyadh Season marketing and promo packages during last night's fights.

Hmmmm....you know, I'm starting to think that allowing Saudi Arabia to financially take over boxing and layer in their propaganda between every fucking fight on the card isn't such a good idea.