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Because Russia is hands down the best operator of these types of human intelligence networks.

Not because they're just smarter than everyone else, or have some genetic predisposition to being better, but because they've had to mass-produce people with this exact skill set to maintain their own empire for over a hundred years.

What we think of as Russia, is really mostly Slavic Muscovites who have stitched together the largest continuous empire on Earth and spanning many different ethnicities and races who didn't join by choice, but by being conquered.

It just so happens that the tradecraft and skills required for maintaining their large and diverse empire are pretty much the same ones necessary for this type of deep cover foreign espionage.

It's not a synthetic cannabinoid...Delta-8 is typically extracted from hemp plants.

There are also legitimate reasons to prefer D8, even in a legal state. For example, some people prefer it's much more mild effect relative to normal cannabis.

But I do agree with not consuming products that spray it on direct combustibles and the need to have proper government regulations for product safety and testing enforcement.

What I'm about to say is coming directly from my own asshole, so if someone actually knows what they're talking about cares to explain why I'm wrong, I'm open to hearing it.

This feels like an attempt to try extract as much capital as possible before other civil lawsuits and/or regulatory actions are able to do to the same.

AIPAC isn't a Jewish lobby, it's an Israeli lobby.

To that end, they would absolutely like Jewish caricatures to turn up in campaign ads and just in general. Anything that helps push Jewish migration to Israel.

Their biggest objective is securing migration to Israel to bolster it's population. Population transfers with Russia are one of the biggest reasons why Israel didn't go against them in regards to overtly supporting Ukraine.

So, rising ambient levels anti-semitism are actually good for AIPAC. They won't say that publicly, but it's not exactly a secret.

Piped apps have been broken at least 6 - 8 times in the past couple of weeks.

It's the biggest Google effort I've seen to crack down on 3rd party YT clients.

I actually used to pay for YT premium, then they removed my discount AND raised the price to over $12/mo.

Sometimes I do miss my algorithm feed, just not enough to watch YT ads, or pay $12 - 15/mo.

Instant Pot didn't simply go bankrupt. It was busted out by private equity.

$849 and $1,649? Those pricetags are so absurd that this post should be removed on principle alone, nevermind that it's stealth marketing masquerading as an article.

Ronnie the 2nd

You're putting your moderators hands on the scale and that far outweighs any community/user input into the validity of information discussed here.

On a completely unrelated note, did you know that Hamas went on a baby beheading spree on Oct. 7?

I know this because I read it on MSN.com, and your MediaBiasFactCheck said that MSN.com has a HIGH FACTUAL RATING

Anyone is free to rip apart my comment, and that source, but that task becomes more difficult when bots that have been anointed as bias and fact checkers, contradict them in any way, or are themselves biased.

Oh, lovely. Ministry of Truth Bots...

This is predicated on the assumption that those organizations are neutral arbitrators of facts, but they aren't.

They might have a better gauge on reality than OAN, or PatriotEagleNews.ru, but that doesn't mean platform moderators should present them as if they are a source of universal truth.

People can be critical of posts, comments, and their sources, without the heavy hand of moderators using a privatized Ministry of Truth.

We don't even have to look very far back to see how platform level "fact checking" systems are used and abused to silence and suppress information that goes against mainstream narratives or is viewed as politically damaging.

Because it often is. These types of immediate and chaotic power vacuums are generally only filled after an enormous and destructive blood letting, and there's no guarantees that the baseline level of violence will return to earlier levels after the dust settles.

Of course, if you don't consider, or care about, the violent struggles that will result, or it's collateral damage on civilian populations, then that value proposition may work out differently.

And here I thought my mama bird fetish was only good for sexual gratification.

Arizona is not a solidly blue state, and Mark Kelly is unusually popular for a senator.

Arizona Democrats also don't have that deep of a bench to pull out a candidate that's a lock for a statewide race.

I'm not saying it's impossible for any Democrat to win the election for Mark Kelly's seat, I am saying it's a significant risk that they probably won't want to take.

And that's before taking into account that Arizona Democrats already have a handful with the seat being left open by their current manic pixie dream senator.

That's impossible, which you would know if you had read the comment I was replying to.

If you had read it, you would have learned that in America the 2nd amendment has prevented if not all, then the overwhelming majority, of all sexual assaults and rapes.

Which means that both men are dead.

Absolutely. Spot on. Rape doesn't exist in America and no American organizations could ever have a culture of abuse as described in this story.

Out of curiosity , what did you wear to Bill Cosby's funeral? The same outfit you wore to Harvey Weinstein's funeral?

I actually heard that people really believe that Hollywood is a haven for sexual predators and sexual abuse, including rape, is rampant throughout the American entertainment industry. Can you believe that?

Don't they know the 2nd Amendment has eliminated both individual cases of rape and systemic sexual abuse?

Anywho, do you have any plans on watching USA Gymnastics this year?

Except the majority of the cutting edge R&D is done and/or funded via the public sector.

Their R&D budget priorities are more focused on things like reformulating existing drugs to extend the patents and prevent opening the market to generic manufacturers.

So yes, cheating patent laws and heavily spending on marketing and lobbying campaigns does eat into their profit margins a little bit.

But I'm not sure how that justifies their unparalleled track record of pathologically sadistic business practices, such as the one highlighted in this article.

Do you have a graph or chart for that?

Mexico is highly dysfunctional and suffering from extreme levels of political violence, but no, it's not a failed state.

Are you fucking stupid?

Do you seriously think that the DoD forgot to include the line item for radar absorbing hentai plane art?

JFC get with the times.

Zip drive.

But I'm getting ready for their NGD program (Next Gen Disk), and buying up all Jaz drives and disks left on eBay.

In 50 years when they release the next RFP, I'll be a lock.