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skisnow

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  • gmail is the signal of the rich

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  • Oh wow you were almost interesting but then you decided to close by being a raging dickhead for absolutely no good reason. Touch grass.

  • Yet everyone swears they existed

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  • I think they're exactly what their username implies.

  • gmail is the signal of the rich

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  • The tech to monitor said emails wasn’t there yet.

    LOL wut. email has always been the least secure medium going. If anything email is probably more secure now than it was in 2006. The only reason anyone in 2006 would think it was guaranteed privacy is if they just didn't know anything about email.

  • 'The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel'

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  • That's my whole point, it wasn't Ballet Vision's option to exercise, it was Kibbutz Hanita's, but the opening summary erroneously describes it as the exact opposite. Here's from later on in the article:

    As part of the agreements, the Chinese fund granted the remaining minority shareholders an option to require it to purchase their remaining shares for about $9.5 million, now valued at roughly $11 million, by early December 2025.

    https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/putoption.asp

    (edit: I had a little search just now to see whether it was true that China have made it illegal to invest in Israeli companies. Half the results were literally reporting on this story, and the other half of results were about Chinese companies actively aiding illegal Israeli settlements, which makes me suspect that BV's claim that their hands are tied is bullshit.)

  • 'The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel'

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  • accusing it of refusing to exercise an option

    Was this written by an AI or by an illiterate? That's not what the rest of the article says happened. The Chinese fund didn't refuse to exercise the option, they refused to honour an option that they'd already signed. The opening sentence makes it look like Kibbutz Hanita are pulling a fast one, when it's the exact opposite.

  • gmail is the signal of the rich

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  • Ostensibly, yes. As far as I can tell from their entry in influencewatch they also do something called "pro-Israel legal advocacy", but I don't know what that is. Either way it's not a great look having Epstein's consigliere on board.

  • gmail is the signal of the rich

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  • Mitch Webber's original email to him was essentially "yeah you're golden, fuck as many minors as you like, just bring them to another state first". And he still seems to have kept his job at (checks notes) an antisemitism group.

    ...what would happen if one were to transport a minor for sex — or transport oneself with the intent to have sex with a minor — into a state in which the age of consent is below eighteen (assuming the minor is above the age of consent in the given state)? And your intuition was right. The answer is that there is no violation of law.”

    Let's be clear: everyone has a right to be represented by a lawyer in court, and we shouldn't judge lawyers for defending rapists because they're literally their job. But that's not what's happening here; this is him actively helping Epstein figure out the best way to rape children.

    https://jewishpostandnews.ca/uncategorized/antisemitism-group-keeps-board-member-who-emailed-epstein-on-the-legality-of-transporting-minors-for-sex/

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • It's sad how the internet has somehow made the quality of ostensibly professional journalism so much worse. It was supposed to make things better.

  • Danish shoppers 'vote with their wallets' as they boycott US products

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  • Every little helps. Perfect is the enemy of good and all.

    Also there's a lot of food that's not necessarily grown or manufactured in the US but still goes into the pockets of American companies such as Mondelez, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Mars, Heinz, Kellogg's etc.

  • Call of Duty microtransactions were pushed for by Jeffrey Epstein

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  • Even then...

    https://spaceinsider.tech/2023/08/16/how-much-does-it-cost-to-launch-a-rocket/

    Bezos and Musk can both go to space in their very own rockets just to have a massive wank, and it still wouldn't cost them the rounding error of their total wealth. It's functionally impossible for them to spend the amount of money they have, and yet for some fucking reason they still want more. They're sick in the head.

  • People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.

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  • It's more that context is important. The thread is about "Police Unions", so it's not surprising that people would read "Company Union" as meaning a union at a commercial enterprise by contrast, rather than the highly specific and obscure 100-year-old definition that you've used that distinguishes a company union from a trade union.

    You can either prance about in the thread about how dumb everyone else is, or you could edit your original statement to clarify what you meant rather than throwing up a load of links.

  • Call of Duty microtransactions were pushed for by Jeffrey Epstein

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  • $2,000,000 : I can live a great life, and if I'm frugal don't ever have to work again if I don't want to

    $1,000,000,000 : I literally could not spend all this money on physical possessions if I tried, so the only thing left I can spend it on is owning and controlling other people

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    The Filthy Rich

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  • Oh well if the jury failed to convict that must mean it didn't happen, along with the dozens of similar accusations made by other victims.

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  • They're not sound logical reasons, they're terrible bits of hand-wringing, armchair psychiatry, and lame excuse making that make a deliberate choice to ignore both the clear damage done to his victims and the massive pile of evidence of the things he did.

    Also, I didn't call him a pedophile, I said he abused children. Which he did.

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  • I don’t understand how this notion is so readily accepted.

    Tons of people have difficult childhoods where circumstances forced them to grow up quickly, without them developing weird childhood obsessions that involve them inviting other people’s kids to share a bed with them.

    (edit: mind blown at how many people are lining up to defend child abuse. He didn't have a childhood, which gave him the right to take other kids' childhoods from them? Y'all must really not want to give up that awesome record collection.)

  • Draw!

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  • You can take it literally at face value. They want to know about you, so they asked. The idea that an interviewer would conclude that "renovated my house" is a wrong answer that get you blacklisted, is something that person seems to have just decided for themselves.

    Too many people think of interviews like they're exams, where there's a set pass mark. There isn't. There's just, would I rather spend the next few years working with person A or person B, let's ask them some questions to find out.

  • Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?

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  • I'm still bitter at Steam for taking a bunch of my single-player games off me that I'd already paid for when I moved to another country, and refusing to refund me because I'd already played 10 hours. Also the support guy treated me like I was a criminal for even trying.

  • Draw!

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  • There isn't a single question you can possibly ask in an interview that doesn't have a million threads like this complaining about it and assuming the worst about its intentions or what the interviewer will conclude from its answer.

    The general rule seems to be that any kind of question that you might do badly on, is a bad question.

  • Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don’t Matter

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  • I've noticed they're ok with arresting celebrities for sex offenses, just not politicians or CEOs.