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  • What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

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  • No mention of rules for pesticide and manure?

    If I lived next to a farm, then I'd be worried about excessive spraying of pesticides (cancer) and manure (the whiff).

  • Actor Timothy Busfield indicted on 4 counts of sexual contact with a child

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  • Meet the parents: The filing states that Rodis (the father) “is a former attorney who was convicted of federal conspiracy and wire fraud and was later disbarred following that prosecution for a multi-million-dollar scheme in which he used his law license to deceive vulnerable victims for profit.”

    Rodis previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud after the scheme, which “defrauded more than 1,500 homeowners of approximately $6 million,” was brought to light, according to the filing.

    The filing also included testimony from a director of photography on The Cleaning Lady set, who described Rodis as “pushy and manipulative” and said that he would “frequently encourage and tell the children to hug people on set, including Mr. Busfield.”

    The accusers’ mother, LaSalle, has an “equally disturbing history,” the filing states, citing that she “has had multiple civil judgments entered against her for fraudulent and dishonest behavior.” She was sued for “various claims including fraud, conversion, and fraudulent transfer,” including allegedly unlawfully repossessing a Bentley car after selling it and writing bad checks to Las Vegas casinos, according to the filing.

    https://people.com/timothy-busfield-lawyers-claim-parents-of-alleged-sex-abuse-victims-have-history-of-fraud-11887859

  • Russia’s terror by family: father and son get huge sentences on fabricated ‘Ukrainian saboteur’ charges

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  • Russia is a kleptocracy, it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that they employ the same governance style in the occupied territories. From a 2012 article: "In the last 10 years Russia has imprisoned nearly three million entrepreneurs, many unjustly". https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18706597

    The modus operandi always seems to be the same: the local security apparatus strongmen (almost always chekists afaik) identify a successful company that they want to raid, they lock up the business owners with bogus charges, if the business owners don't manage to bribe their way out, they get prison sentences because 99%+ of those prosecuted will be convicted & then the chekists plunder the company + sell of what remains for a pittance to one of their friends/family.

    The writer tries to find reasons as to why this particular family was targeted, but it could have been something as simple as having a successful business & not having a government patron to protect them from the government. Odds wise, most entrepreneurs that are locked up, will be locked up on bogus charges, so I'd expect that to be the case here as well.

  • What’s a cat behavior you secretly find adorable even if it’s inconvenient?

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  • When sitting on the toilet with my pants on my ankles, my cat would crawl into my pants and start his pre sleep wash.

  • Why Civilization VII is the way it is, and how its devs plan to win critics back

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  • Why Civilization VII is the way it is, and how its devs plan to win critics back

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  • A lot of words from the devs, but imo not convincing at all. It looks like they're trying to put lipstick on a turd and hope that that's good enough for people to give kissing the turd another chance.

    Imo civ 5 is still the best hex civ game, especially with the Vox Populi mod. Civ 6 is interesting for puzzling, but the ai is handicapped because it's not good at the puzzles, leaving it unable to compete strategically.

  • Pick European Chocolate

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  • It's actually the reverse. A bit of history:Belgium used to have laws concerning the composition of both chocolate and mayonnaise. Afaik, they've both been abolished for about 2 decades now because it was deemed protectionism by the EU.

    The chocolate law was replaced by a regional protection for "Belgian chocolate". By law, chocolate can only be marketed as Belgian chocolate if it adheres to the rules of the old law and is produced in Belgium. Which has been a huge marketing win for Belgian chocolate producers.

    If I remember correct, the loss of the mayonnaise law lead to a massive sales boost for Devos Lemmens because buying that brand was the easiest way to make sure that you were buying real mayonnaise. Nowadays, most mayonnaise for sale in Belgium is clearly marked with things like "made according to traditional Belgian recipe", but there's no law anymore that is stopping Germans from trying to sell their mayonnaise as mayonnaise in Belgium. Aldi did try selling German mayonnaise for a while, but Belgians weren't buying it, so they've given up and they're now selling both Devos Lemmens and a store brand that is made according to the traditional recipe.

    Edit to add: So there is a law for Belgian chocolate, but afaik there's no anti milk provision for dark chocolate in that law.

  • Pick European Chocolate

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  • They do, but it's not because the cacao percentage is less than xx%, that there's milk in it. For my country (Belgium) dark chocolate typically has no milk in it, but I'm not going to claim that there doesn't exist Belgian dark chocolate with milk in it. There's no law against it afaik and there's so many different recipes, that it's bound to exist.

  • Eternity is shorter than I thought

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  • After the Ottomans conquered Constantinople, they started styling themselves as a continuation of the Roman Empire. The eternal state motto is a reference to that: same state, different rulers. That makes the eternal state a lot older than 600 years, and the motto a few centuries younger.

    I also wouldn't be surprised if that motto was something that was said about the byzantine empire prior to it's fall (as far as states go, that state was very, very old), similar to how "the eternal city" refers to Rome, but I can't find a good source atm. The best I could find: https://politurco.com/the-myth-of-the-eternal-state-from-the-ottomans-to-the-ak-party.html

  • US accuses EU of seeking cheese ‘monopoly’ in South America

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  • No. There's always going to be additional restrictions, but I don't know any country that has outright banned it (there might be, but I don't know any). And an eu wide ban is impossible because France is against it, some of their most snobby cheeses are made with unpasteurized milk.

  • They want you to "quit demonstrating"

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  • It looks like a reference to Elon Musk to me. Around the time of his take over of Twitter, Musk claimed that he was a "free speech absolutist". Once statistics came in, it turned out that Musk's twitter had a practically 100% compliance rate with censorship requests from authoritarian states, far higher than it was before the take over.

    USA conservatives also do frequent calls for violence and claim freedom of speech when called out + then turn around and try to censor other peoples free speech when they don't like the message. The last bit was especially noticable after Charlie Kirk's murder. People who quoted Kirk to show what a vile person he was, were harassed and some even lost their jobs.

    The slogan for conservative free speech absolutism might as well be "free speech for me, but my rules for thee".

  • Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone

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  • I expect the €799 to include vat, while the $699 will be without. $930 /1.25 = $744, which is a lot more reasonable. Sony using the same sale price for the whole eu when each country has different vat rates, is probably because of profit maximization. Too many people only look at the first digit in 799.99, so no matter if after currency conversion + vat the price is €720 (20%) or €762 (27% in Hungary), they'll just slap on the sale price of €799.99.

  • Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

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  • Public payphones in the streets and emergency phones alongside highways have also been removed (at least in my country). So yeah, our society expects us to have our own phones with us whenever we're away from home.

  • More Shocking Footage Shows Federal Agents Raiding Minneapolis High School, Handcuffing Staff

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  • The behaviour of ice and the dhs fits the definition of terrorism: "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims". State terrorism is still terrorism.

    Nazi Germany prior to the Reichstag fire was kinda like the usa now: thugs on the street harassing civilians of chosen outgroups without consequences, but the government was still ostensibly obeying laws and not yet mass disappearing people. I think usa republicans aren't ready yet to have their Reichstag fire moment, but it just seems like a matter of time. Their expansion of ice seems pretty much unopposed & their take over of government agencies + army/navy appears to be progressing steadily as well.

  • The U.S. Is Leaving Boat Strike Survivors to Drown

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  • That's not fair to pirates. Pirates generally try to capture ship and crew, they don't just sink ships in the open ocean and then leave the crews to die. What the USA is doing is worse than piracy, I think the most accurate word to describe it is murder.

  • Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment

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  • That article reads like they're trying to sell the bear's skin before they've caught it. They kidnapped the Venezuelan leader, but the rest of the old regime is still in power. The USA doesn't control anything on the ground, yet they're talking as if it's a done deal and that they can just walk in and take over.

    I also wouldn't want to be a us oil company employee that gets send over to Venezuela. Even if the USA somehow manages to take control of the oil fields, there's likely to be a lot of sabotage and guerilla attacks.

  • Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy

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  • Graduation inflation

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  • 25% of the population without a secondary education diploma looks pretty bad to me. To me it looks like a positive that that number has been increasing in the last 2 decades. For comparison: the EU target is 9% and the average across the EU countries is now 9.5%.

    I wouldn't try to link those SAT scores to graduation numbers. Graduation numbers will be for both vocational and academic schooling, while the SAT scores are only relevant for the academic route.

  • The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.

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  • Well, that's a bit of a relief.

    I still believe that my regular toilet has a plume because I can feel the moisture of the droplets, so I'll continue to keep the lid down, but still good to know that it isn't that spectacular.

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    Serbia limits academics’ research time to just one hour a day

    www.chemistryworld.com /news/serbia-limits-academics-research-time-to-just-one-hour-a-day/4021399.article