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  • Fair point, but maybe he's another one of these people who will get special considerations for information about larger companies that a government needs for evidence.

    Who knows? I ought to stop cynically speculating, but the world is making it hard not to.

    I do hope he's another Shkreli though, who annoyed the old money boomers with his ostentatious nouveau riche antics enough to become their poster-manchild for their "See? Bad things do (sometimes) happen to bad rich people!" campaigns.

  • Watchdog in question is Reporters Without Borders.

    "The initial findings of the investigation show that the reporters were not collateral victims of the shooting," the media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said.

    "One of their vehicles, marked 'press', was targeted, and it was also clear that the group stationed next to it was journalists."

    Their full report incl. timeline: "RSF video investigation into the death of Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon: the journalists' vehicle was explicitly targeted"

  • And if the Vatican gets to spread its views, then I will continue to remind others in turn of its own contributions to anti-Semitism and atrocities.

    I call on the Pope to release internal Vatican documentation and hoarded gold/loot Catholic extremists / fascists stole during WW2. The leader of the fascist Ustaše was hidden by the Church in the Vatican after the war

    We can both make ineffective pleas. At least mine isn't hypocritical.

  • And I call on the Pope to release internal Vatican documentation and hoarded gold/loot Catholic extremists / fascists stole during WW2. The leader of which was hidden by the Church in the Vatican after the war

    We can both make ineffective pleas. At least mine isn't hypocritical.

  • Catholic extremists haven't stopped at non-Christians before. CW: extremely heavy including pictures Ethnic and religious persecution during WW2 by the Croatian Ustaše

    Large numbers of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, communists, and Croatians hostile to the regime were interned in concentration camps, while countless others were massacred in towns and villages. The Ustasha were directly involved in the administration and in the orchestration of the killings. In addition, some 200,000 Serbs were forcibly converted to Catholicism. According to the Ustasha blueprint, one-third of Serbs were to be killed, another third expelled, and a final third converted to Catholicism.
    "Genocides by the Oppressed: Subaltern Genocide in Theory and Practice" (2009) Ed. Nicholas A. Robins, Adam Jones

    For clarity, Serbs are historically usually Eastern Orthodox Christians.

  • Glad to have helped out!

    Everyone always assumes it's an old retired person problem too, but it isn't, even if being worked to the bone for decades means they're obviously the biggest group of people with arthritis and other disabilities. We don't hear about it because people try real hard not to hire people with disabilities, including but not limited to the media.

  • Not quite what I was taught. It is possible to self-plagiarise, plagiarism only needs to be reproduction of a work with the claim it is your own original work.

    I still think that's a ploy by journal publishers to prevent losing their exclusive extortion abilities, but that doesn't really make much difference to the end result.

  • He's been calling her that for years, and it's kind of wild nobody really mentions it. Michael Cohen tried to play it off as "oh its probably commentary on how she handles lawsuits" (paraphrased) but it's pretty clear from this list of nicknames that Trump just likes rhyming nicknames for bullying people about things he thinks makes others inferior, including but not limited to racism, ableism and sexism.

  • Yeah I buy them to reduce damage to my standing budget. Fuck standard kitchen and bathroom design for assuming you'll be standing for everything. I'm lucky I live somewhere where society decided it was good to sit while relieving yourself. I'm still not sure who decided bathing must be done standing or lying down only though.

  • small amount of the population though

    Oh no, it is a huge amount of people, and rapidly increasing, especially with the amount of wars breaking out, aging populations, etc. There are so many medical conditions that will make otherwise basic tasks unnecessarily hard.

    Nearly a quarter of Americans have officially diagnosed arthritis. Obviously not all of those are in the arm, but kitchens also require you to stand. Which is one of the reasons why I buy frozen prechopped vegetables.

    But that's before you get to people who have had strokes, which can frequently cause paralysis, usually on one side of the body - it affects 10-22% of stroke patients and someone has a stroke in the US every 40 seconds.

    And those are just 2 issues. Think of how complex your body is, there are so many things that can and will go wrong. If you live in rural USA, 1 in 3 people have a disability.

    and how are those people cooking also?

    When you are diagnosed with something long-term, you adapt or you get a carer or you die. Adapting is a hard, trial and error, expensive and time-consuming process filled with predators. But you would be surprised with the workarounds people find. I know a guy with no vision who cooks mostly by smell. He understandably hates the new trend of touch interface appliances.

    Take any basic item you own, and add the word 'adaptive' and you will find products which may or may not help an individual situation at all.

    Like this $78 adaptive chopping board. Look at the reviews too, they will tell you a lot about who this has helped and how. This one might be worth the money but there are also shitty bits of plastic sold to disabled people with 1000% mark-up because 'adaptive'. Like this scumlicker selling a mini folding table for $35

    But it is possible for some to adapt their situation. Michael Caines is a chef who won 2 Michelin stars after he lost his arm in a crash. He uses his prosthetic arm to hold food down to chop, but I don't know how he manages carrying a large full pot or other tasks.

    But you find ways. You have to. Chopped frozen veg is one of my many ways I work around some of my difficulties.