zabadoh @ zabadoh @ani.social

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"'Nothing can be done' say officials in the only country where this happens regularly"

Hahaha, you think precedent actually means anything to SCROTUS.

We'd all better march down to the DMV and update our genders then...

It's required by imperial edict now.

I did find an APK on some outfit called apkvision.org, installed it, but it had something something about Iran, so I probably now have Iranian malware on my phone. 😓

Predicting he'll call Mexico an "American protectorate" or some other bullshit before/during/after he invades.

Yes.

To be fair, $1.9 billion + $665 million in civil penalties is a good sized fine for laundering $881 million (that the Feds know of).

I'm sure HSBC won't make that mistake again, unless the profit motive overrides the risk again.

Flud looks proprietary and has ads.

Libretorrent works just as well and is open source.

Only if they follow up by shutting down gun stores because they're aiding and abetting terrorist organizations by knowingly selling ridiculous amounts of arms that ultimately wind up in terrorist cartel hands.

Waiting for the SCROTUS to declare that the Comstock Act trumps state constitutions because that's what the founding fathers intended /s.

That's currently true, but I was also referring to the universe of Starship Troopers (the movie, vs the Heinlein novel), where it appears that birthright citizenship is no more, and military service (to the crypto-fascist government) is the only realistic path to citizenship for most US residents in that universe.

“Quotations from Mao Zedong” the official name, and PRC nationals probably get deducted social points credits for calling it anything other than that.

But the fact that it's published as a "little red book" fails to escape the obvious reference, if you're familiar with Chinese history, and the Cultural Revolution.

One quotation from a French newspaper, even a respected one, doesn't change that.

In fact, given the Chinese Communist Party's control over education, I question what the "Mandarin speakers in Rednote" actually learned about the Cultural Revolution and its awfulness. Likely a similarly filtered version to what the Japanese today learn about what the Imperial Army did in WW2.

The picture of people across the globe doomscrolling religiously through the "little red book" on their phones without knowing where it came from is subversive(?), ironic(?). I can't think of a good word right now.

Would you like to know more?

The irony of the name which translates directly "little red book" is it's the indoctrination document for Mao's Communist China

Mao's "little red book" of his quotes and philosophy was especially visible during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, where Mao's followers became like a cult, reading the little red book every day, destroying historical artifacts and archaeological sites, property of alleged non-Maoists and non-conformists, and imprisoning the professional class in camps for "re-education" as farming peasants. Local massacres of "undesireables" as well as mass starvation from failed farming policies, led to millions of unnecessary deaths.

Think Communist Taliban taking over a country the size of China.

https://www.kinolibrary.com/clip/1960s-china-people-reading-the-little-red-book/555

Plague Inc. comes in at the top of a search in the Play Store for "pandemic" but I understand that it's kind of a reverse concept of the Pandemic boardgame: You try to wipe out those pesky humans by developing an incurable virus.

I might be inclined to give it a try if I can't find a decent implementation of Pandemic.

Arming oneself is a feel-good consumer product in an increasingly uncertain political environment in the US.

Effective? No, as you have already pointed out, the State is always armed better than you.

Counter-productive? Yes, by directly funding the all right-wing arms industry, their army of government lobbyists, and putting more guns on the streets that increases the already-high risk of random gun violence.

Having a firearm in your home increases the risk of it being used against your family.

Feel good? Yes. A consumerist instant gratification to the need for security. Consumers are what Americans are trained to be.

Apparently so. I hadn't heard about it before now.

MBFC says economictimes.com is right-center wing, with mixed factuality, low credibility. '

Owned by the Times Of India group.

Mel and Sly are no surprise.

John Voight is a surprise, considering how Angela Jolie runs. Must be a boomer thing

Kennedy was a lot younger at his inauguration (43) than Trump is now (78).