Land & Sea Journal
July 1, 2026
Chronicle of the month before July 1, 2026
Fender continuing its long fight to establish how lame it is.
It has long been established that Fender doesn't own the style of guitar.
After the lawsuit, 'People don't want to play Fender guitars. People don't want to be seen with Fender guitars.' I agree. Much more likely to wear a 'F*** Fender' sticker than play one, even if someone gave me one of the top of the line ones that cost a few thousand.
'It's amazing how toxic they are.'
"Viral extortion campaign" or legitimate viral fued over money owed?
There might be a bit of confusion about what police are supposed to do, what they can do, what they should do. Perhaps partially because there is disagreement between different locations and levels of government. And because of a changing set of laws, of which there are hundreds of thousands, and procedures, of which there are different sets of books.
Psychology, should it be barred from the legal system?
He notes that hundreds of people went to prison in the early 90s (did he mean in the 80s) for 'recovered memories', caused by therapists and psychologists who were interested in an idea (unproven, unscientific) that certain behaviours that they thought they saw in their patents were connected to childhood sexual abuse, so they somehow led their patients to 'remember' things that never happened and become convinced of them. He notes the current fad, 'trauma', which is not scientific and is wrong, because it applies to everything (everything can be trauma. If she responds by leaving, it can be trauma. If she responds by staying, it can be trauma. If she hates the man, it can be trauma. If she professes her love and admiration for him, it can be trauma) so you know immediately the theory is therefore false. But it is in the legal system and is the basis for convictions.
He considers how pernicious fads like 'trauma' are because it has reached the point that in court, police and lawyers don't even bother with facts anymore, since they don't matter, and focus on the perhaps-victim's subjective experience, her perhaps-fantasy, because if they challenge her, if they investigate, they can be seen as doing wrong, furthering harm to her, treating a victim wrongly. The police, the courts, the judge, the therapists, and even friends and associates. You can see how the contamination spreads and takes over. And because the status of being a 'victim' feels good and comes with power (no one challenges what you say or want to do), it wants to feed itself more victim status.
Now all these professionals are 'trauma-informed.' But this idea of 'trauma' is myth, not facts, he says.
It will also be very hard to reverse this, because if you try to explain this to people, good chance is they themselves are one of these 'victims' or have been at some point, or have taken advantage of the leverage of being one, or are a politician who has used 'victims' and the 'victim' dynamic to justify some policy or spending. You become less and less likely to be able to find people who are not already complicit, so who would work to reverse 'victimhood'? Even if you find one, you have to find enough for consensus or majority.
'In the lawsuit filed Saturday in Los Angeles federal court, the model who created and hosted "America's Next Top Model" said she was interviewed for 3 1/2 hours, during which she took responsibility for some of the show's controversial decisions. Those interviews were edited down to 16 minutes and manipulated "to support a false and defamatory narrative unrelated to what she actually expressed," the lawsuit said.' ... 'The lawsuit contends that the producers of the Netflix docuseries used "selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of continuous footage" to formulate a narrative that Banks allowed a contestant to be sexually assaulted on the show, used the contestant's trauma to drum up ratings and then couldn't remember it when asked during the interviews.'
'The secret backers of Africa's anti-LGBTQ laws'
The commenters define 'rabble'. They seem to celebrate this outburst from the judge.
Showing off? Isn't a judge's job to be control himself and be professional, not emotional, and leave the outbursts to the citizens? Otherwise the confidence of the citizens in the ability to be responsible of the judge has to come into question, doesn't it?
The prison doesn't separate types of inmates. Reportedly, they've had a few murders recently.
The tribal, ruling class and its agents versus the citizens who used to have a Constitution. People have noted that America is no longer the Democratic, people-owned State it once was (although criticized then too), evidenced by laws that create special, more stringent punishments for crimes against the State and its agents. Special crimes for harms (and lying?) to federal agents, showing that they are higher members of the State than regular citizens, and that the State protects them more than it protects regular citizens. These types of laws also become focal points and rallying points for anti-State movements.
Teens violating Detroit's curfew. So, there's no actual criminal activity? Just being outside?
They're fining parents a few hundred dollars because their children are 'walking outside of the presence' of their parents after 11pm (10pm for people under 16).
Could affect any business that uses an AI chatbot for customer service.
The customer asked if they shipped and if they shipped to Hawaii. Because the chatbot saved the chat on a server.
It's one lawfirm that has filed the 160 claims in the past year, some say they are 'strike suits' asking for $2000 from each defendant.
The lawyer said judges have found for the defendant in the past, and businesses need to warn people when they are recording them (using the chatbot).
'His accuser supported Thursday's decision, which puts an end to one piece of a landmark #MeToo-era prosecution.' 'He denies the allegation, and his lawyers said the encounter was part of a consensual, yearslong relationship. Mann testified that in the early months of that relationship, Weinstein raped her after cornering her in a Manhattan hotel room, grabbing her arms and ignoring her repeated pleas not to have sex.'
$40,000 per camera. It's for vehicles that make noise and play music loud. The city said that the only complaint they've gotten from citizens about the cameras is they want more of them. Noise complaints continue to rise from 300k to 700k reports in a couple years.
A new branch of news during the past year or two has been just reports on things Trump said and their veracity. It's like a whole news category.
Seems the company put a new leader in, who is not a journalist, and doesn't have qualifications and maybe not ethics, if the resignation letter is to be believed.
They note that a lot of this CBS mess has been since David Ellison took over Paramount (parent company of CBS) months ago.
Trump has made blunt, disparaging comments about Pelley in an interview.
Some commenters noted that Pelley gets to leave with his integrity.
"The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility due to speechwriters from the Office of the Secretary of War sharing the facility," Valdez wrote. "These speechwriters routinely handle classified material as a result, journalists will no longer be permitted to enter the office space. There's nothing controversial about that."
Commenter. 'There's no law stating that press are required at the Pentagon. They can be briefed by the Whitehouse.'
Another. 'We are at the point now where they aren't even trying to come up with good excuses anymore. Press is kicked out because they had to relocate three speech writers into that space? Really? There's no other spare rooms in the largest government facility in the country? Please'
Definitely a topic for journalism, because it touches every level. History, progress, technology, political interests, political dealings, government versus population, current population versus other/broader interests, culture and protest, culture and civil disobedience or actions, effect on general citizenry, laws, use of legal system.
'US 75-country ban'
Who might that include?
An EU with more friends and lower standards?
Fra24
Sometimes you have to beat your girlfriends before you give them money to do what you want.
EU's top diplomat.
Lol, that point has been made at least 5 years ago.
Issue in question is whether Belarus would allow its territory as a base for Russian drones in attacks on Ukraine.
Lukashenko said all this story was Western propaganda. Lukashenko has been a longterm ally of Putin and Russia, so it seems like it would be a sudden break and you might wonder what motivation he would have for changing course, if it is true.
The reason Lukashenko might really have rejected Russian drone base rights is that if Ukraine attacks Belarus, it would make Lukashenko unpopular.
Belarus and Russia have an EU style relationship, no international taxes probably, common labor market, no visa required.
Could Kazakhstan be next, as long as it sends Russia oil?
Canada.
BBC London
'Not conductive to the public good.'
'Judge halts Trump voter database over privacy, accuracy fears. A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from using a database of Americans' Social Security numbers and citizenship status.'
Direct protest?
Top comment. 'So Jan 6 defendants beat police and they get pardoned. Protesters with clean records get 100 years? Insane'
So the people have noticed. From the comments, it seems the government's persecution of these people is increasing support for them and their cause, and anti-fascism as an idea and movement.
One man got 30 years, who wasn't even at the protest, for conspiracy to conceal documents after he moved a box containing magazines and pamphlets considered to be Anti Fascist. A woman got 50 years for rioting, providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use and carry an explosive (which was fireworks).
Another comment. 'AntiFa is not an organization. It's not a club. It is not a foreign government. This is some Soviet BS. So, being against fascism is terrorism??!? wtf?'
Another. 'Can't get anymore Nazi than this when even protest is punished by extreme measures. What is even worse is how easy and quick it is for judges to undermine the Law.'
Another. 'If the government is not fascist, anti-fascist beliefs are not even remotely a threat. This is an admission that this government aspires to be fascist.'
It seems judges are being noticed by the public.
Any time a politician pronounces the word 'kid' or 'child' vote no.
Someone anonymously just called Child Protective Services and made a false report. The report was that someone heard he said he had done violent things, overheard him while he was in some random town which he'd never even been to.
It's like swatting, but has a child/abuse aspect.
He talked about the terror of CPS and the police coming to his house and telling him he could not even talk to his own children while they took them away, and that he could not stay with his children, and either he or they had to stay somewhere else that night, while the children and the man were questioned for serious crimes. Interrogation by CPS. Two 4-year-olds have to deal with the traumatic experience, the two men (they're gay) have to deal with it. Probably never forget it. Feel much less safe forever.
It's illegal to do this, but so what? How do you find an anonymous caller?
News agencies don't even care to report what the Iran or US governments say anymore. Just that they said some things and the actual actions.
After every attack, they note, the media gives a ton of reasons. Poverty, climate change, SM, lack of opportunity, video games, but never the reason the attacker himself gave. The attacker's own reason is ignored, basically. Often, government hides an attacker's manifesto, posts, comments. Gad Saad says the West has become increasingly afraid to confront uncomfortable truths.
He also argued that it's not a good idea to constantly create a false division between 'Islam' and 'islamism' and says they're basically the same thing, or are parts of each other, a political movement that says we will all be united once we all accept this same treatise or religion.
Kind of an old point, I remember trying to cover this like 15 years ago, but he gives a long list of countries where the bulk of the 44k terror attacks committed in the name of a religion happened, and shows 85% were Islam, 10% Jewish, 3% Christian, 3% Hindu.
The reasons for the attacks are given to the public as 'lone wolf', 'studying engineering', 'Western corruption,' 'Jewish conspiracy,' historical events like The Crusades. The attacker's posts or the people close to him aren't investigated for his motive.
Hot mics at diplomatic meetings? How about some professionals doing the media work there?
---
People saying 'fraud in America' (lots of activity in that topic) and 'polymarket' in the same sentence.
Kenya's high court then banned the site for now.
White House stated it 'cannot and will not' repatriate any Americans in Africa if infected.
Lol, America, 60% of homes cost less than $250k in Fla? 92% cost less than $500k. You can't buy a starter home for 500k in some parts of Canada. Most humble, old, family homes with little yards in a small city about an hour or two away from a bigger city are around $800k or $1m ($600-700k USD).
(Reason is mass immigration policy and very small new home construction numbers, partially because government policy doesn't encourage it), for decades.
Before, Musk and SpaceX were in satellites (Starlink) and rockets, but now they're in AI, which is very capital intensive, Eisman said. It's not like software where you just have some labor and servers and you make money. AI costs money.
Google spent $90b last year on AI, which it did from its cash pile, but this year it's doing $180b so it has to raise capital and stock. Rumors Meta and Microsoft are doing this, which means a tech shift from asset light to asset intensive.
Despite massive spend, the products aren't different from each other. And really, the chatbots ime are the same as GPT3.0 in December 2019. Cursor is better, so you can code things that way, but you have to be step-by-step with it and constantly check its work.
There are no moats. What's being created is a commodity, it seems to Eisman.
For these past few years, companies have charged for tokens way below the cost for the company of those tokens. Github is now starting to actually charge real prices. (Comparable with Uber?)
Everyone thinks Musk will buy Tesla (SpaceX will buy Tesla) with the money from the IPO, but Eisman notes Tesla customers have declined steadily, that EVs aren't a great business, that it's a capital intensive business also, competitive, have to compete with China.
He expects everything's baked in. TAM of $28.5t (almost same as US GDP). But there is momentum play.
OpenAI and Anthropic are also expected to IPO. $4t added to the stock market (the US stock market $70t), with these three IPOs. Fast tracked 'Giga-IPOs'. These firms all need a lot of capital to invest. Do their current stock owners want to sell stock to the public rn? Is it the best time to do so? The public is excited about AI companies.
Index funds (that automatically track them) might have to buy these while they're still very volatile. After the trillions from the indexes, will the shares fall because the natural buyers won't be there?
IPO companies tend to underperform the market by like 20% for the first 3 years, and even more so when revenues for the company are low compared to the value. (It is good for those who owned the shares before the IPO ie hedge funds.)
Is the US stock market at a peak rn?
Very successful companies tend to stay private. They go public after they achieve their outstanding success or growth.
How much bigger can SpaceX get than $1.75t? How can it create another trillion of value?
People haven't been interested in any crypto recently. Eisman said the people who were trading crypto have moved to the prediction markets (gambling/investing/skill-based). Also, it has been about 4 or 5 years since the big crypto trend, when governments were printing money, when Robinhood was new and not everyone had a trading account yet. It might have just become passe. Nothing has changed though about the need for crypto-blockchain to replace current (expensive) money transfers.
Looking at the Bitcoin to USD chart though, it's come down quite a bit, looking like the pattern of previous cycles in the currency, if it trends up in value again.
---
Anthropic is estimated value at $950b. OpenAI at $850. Not sure how that's possible.
Niles says Google wins in search and in consumer (Google has the complete stack), and in AI overall. Amazon wins in commerce. Anthropic can win in corporate.
---
SpaceX opened at $150 officially (the offer price had been $135) on NASDAQ, and it was bought up to $175. SpaceX's total valuation now put at $2t. SpaceX has a current estimated value of max $190 min $165, according to Wall Street.
I think the private market was buying shares for like $75 during the week. There's not the standard IPO 6-month lockup on selling stock (partially because it's a 24 year old company), but there are some limitations, reportedly.
---
Musk's holdings. Almost at the 'fourth comma'.
Tesla state and options $260b. SpaceX $690b. Neuralink, Boring, et al $20b.
$1t today. That's equivalent to $25b in the year 1900. It would be $41b in 1932, the year before the US went off the gold standard.
Rockefeller in 1913 had $900m to 1.4b at his peak (would be worth $30b today). But Rockefeller's worth was 2-3% (other estimates say 5%) of US GDP. $1t today is 3% of US GDP. The US national debt is currently $40t ($11t added over the recent 5 years).
'Wall Street has a printing press too, just like the Fed.'
'Is SpaceX worth $1.77t' asked the NYT, because xAI seems to be changing its business model from developing models like Grok to becoming a neocloud (a commodity business so less valuable).
Buying chips from Nvidia or someone, and leasing them to Anthropic or someone. A finance business. A rate of return business.
'Is it Elon premium x 2? or is it Elon premium / 2 ?'
'Starlink is a real business. It's worth a couple hundred billion.'
A very level take on it.
Is the answer that their product has been done for decades, and that sport itself is no longer cool?
In the early days of online books selling, bookstores would just put their books on sites and put whatever price they had been asking for in the store. This meant book collectors could get rare books for cheap, like paying under $15 for something that might be worth $1000. But from 2006/2007 things went worse for book buyers. Rather than using their own knowledge, built up over decades, sellers would just look for what other sellers were listing the price as, and modify their price based on book condition.
The peak of difficulty for buyers was 2012. Since then, there are 3 big online book sellers in the UK, and they have stock of 1-2m books each, they don't have staff to look at each book and appraise its value, and the staff they have don't usually know a book's true value. So he regularly now finds books for $10 which are worth $50.
Psychology of comparative economics.
Retrospective economics.
'Cosplay fairness, not real fairness.'
Around 1:10. A study of the economics of data centers, when we started planning them and a few years later. Much more expensive, and all kinds of dynamics.
These products are ones that please some people, their buyers, but enrage, discomfort, invade, abuse many other people. They're not products that have just one side to their use.
For cloud and AI contracts.
'If you have enough metadata, you don't even need content.' 'We kill people based on metadata'. (Drone strikes.) US authorities.
Anthropic and other AI LLM providers have censorship, so companies that need unrestricted AI are going to Chinese opensource LLMs. They'll start with the core model, use their own data, and then make their own model.
Anthropic in particular, because it is doing mandatory surveillance. They are retaining every prompt and output (and context) for 30 days. Anthropic's LLM does this to build a profile on each user and decide what kind of capabilities to lock or unlock for him. They were lowering people's access, after the people asked about chip design, LLMs, and also simple things like routine biology questions and cryptography, but they weren't even telling the user they were doing this. Sacks says this feels anticompetitive. They were even rewriting your prompt in the background and give you a 'nerfed' answer, and still charge you. 'They will start to pick which corporations they want to benefit,' added Chamath.
Meanwhile, Anthropic's leadership was making public statements that it wants the government to approve (by creating a new government agency for the purpose) or not all LLMs. Perhaps they want some way to stop opensource models.
A gigawatt now costs $100b, said Chamath, while commenting on the perhaps need to build datacenters just for opensource to have a place. When Chamath started his datacenter proposal, it cost $4 or 5b.
They seem very non-censorship, but they wouldn't be/won't be speaking the same after the first event no one wants to happen except some extremely stupid or malignant person or group, which there is. It's just too bad the government can't control itself, because if it could limit its higher abilities to just real terrorism and harm, it would be supportable, but it can't, it just goes further and further into anything at all, really, and just calls it 'terrorism' or sometimes doesn't even, and goes after non-harmful actions too.
AI censorship might be what unites the governments of the world, if some event causes people to ask for it.
Basically, he thinks that people shouldn't choose for themselves as they are, but should somehow have new social norms where everyone, literally, uses AI.
The typewriter and the filing cabinet are the safe data storage methods. After that, an airgapped system, but that is beyond the tech capacity of most companies, even if they set one up, they will soon connect it to the internet to make some task easier and compromise the entire system they made.
J Peterson
This is barely a tech story, though. Groups have always recruited people.
Sky mines? US saying Iran would've needed some kind of help from China/Russia to do this.
Drugs, weapons and tools. Sometimes to map out jailbreak routes.
They couldn't read the scrolls, so they scanned/photographed them and made them public (and offered prize money). Within months, students read some letters. 10% have now been read.
One of Thiel's points is that if you were to mention 'technology' in 1967, you would have been talking about rockets, nuclear, maybe underwater cities, and tons of other things. Physical tech. Everything that at the time seemed to be progressing. Today if you say 'technology' you usually just mean information technology. Everything else has basically slowed. People are also constantly distracted from the fact that things haven't changed in their surroundings in 100 years, distracted by their phones.
If things hadn't been limited, and all progress had green lights, supersonic and hypersonic vehicles, small nuclear reactors, maybe everything would already be blown up, Thiel noted.
In the 80s, computer science was inferior to other studies, lots of people went into engineering, but 40 years later all those fields have been regulated out of progress. Only Computer Science works.
So technology (information technology) could also just become regulated out of progress.
A drone contract with Flock.
Crime and justice are human considerations. Every part of them is based on its complex importance to people. Machines will never be capable of this role. Using them would create an environment where people are subject to robot law. England is a joke of a country though.
Rossman
Tucker Carlson comments on how Israel occupies a huge/disproportionate amount of space in discussions/resources of random people everywhere.
They say that lots of Christians are forced to support political Israel no matter what, because they pull out the OT card and use that to manipulate their conclusions.
The guest also talks about how the Israel State geofences (pings) churches in the US, gets the phones IP addresses and start sending them pro-Israel advertisements.
But you can do whatever you want to Windows users. They've proved they are the most docile, incompetent, useless and helpless device users. They can't and won't do anything no matter what you do to them.
One of the most trusted and beloved organizations there is.
Commenter noted, 'Stating that AI is both the threat and the cure.'
Another. 'They're only worried that their secrets will get released to the public, and the pitchforks will come out'
Romania.
8 Vulcan guns versus 50 drones. The barrage of lasers left only 6, which were taken out at close range by a portable laser and shotguns.
Invite them, then incarcerate them.
All they found was some houses (their cellars) and a couple pottery pieces.
It will be interesting to see if anyone leaves, and what people migrate to Alberta also, if they separate.
'300 year population drop'
This is just comments from the Ukrainian head of national police, reported by Reuters, and not confirmed. Ukraine arrested a young woman accused of something like this, but no case has gone before a court.
Telegram recruitment and offers of money. The girls given methadone and locations. Provided with apartments or rent. The girls use dating apps and 'lure' the Ukrainian soldiers to the apartments.
World governments should sign they'll pay wergeld.
These attacks are still always like one building using some drones. But a year ago it seemed almost unimaginable that Ukraine would strike a Russian city, but now it seems fairly regular.
You asked them to come, through your earlier politics. Isn't the least you can do to be kind in reversing policy?
Before, maybe only some countries did fake ceasefires while continuing their own plans to continue attacking, but now maybe all governments do it?
Am I the only one who thinks this means nothing? When the players use lies like any other move, isn't the only thing that means anything what they actually do?
1000 km2, from Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria. The expansion started after the October 2023 Hamas attacks, justified as a 'buffer zone.'
US just bombed a residence in Venezuela, if the footage is real, and says it killed a Tren de Aragua leader. Trump announced that he ordered the bombing, with the cooperation of Venezuelan government.
If the guy really was in that rural tin shack, why not arrest him?
There's no rule of law in America if the president flouts that he doesn't care about it.
It's shocking that Americans don't charge him with what is obviously murder (conspiracy to murder, tasking killers, not sure the exact charge). But many Americans support Trump, and some strongly support him, so what can really be said? There can be no call for justice if the population don't even understand crime, and have no interest in justice. It's like the nation has become childish. But that also means that the onus to respect any law in America is gone, because it seems proven that there is no justice in America. There are courts and there are punishments, but no justice, because justice has to be applied to the powerful to mean anything besides organized subjugation.
Pratt and Karen Bass both have like 30% of the primary vote, and another woman has 23%.
First president to attend an NBA game during the Finals. Knicks versus Spurs. Wembanyama, a French player and star for the Spurs, helped the Spurs win game 3, and commenters have talked about what a dirty player he is.
Regular attendees to the game waited hours in long lines because of the increased security. Hundreds of Secret Service agents and thousands of NYPD.
Years into his schtick, some leaders start to adapt.
Everyone talking about California elections. 'There is no election,' said Friedburg this week. 'Your rights to have an election are gone. You are a citizen of those who tell you who your overseers are. You are no longer allowed to vote. They are now appointed representatives.'
People voting in person in LA: Pratt 35%, Bass 29%, Raman 26%.
Mail in ballots received before election day: Pratt 28%, Bass 38%, Raman 28%.
Post-election ballots received: Pratt 19%, Bass 35%, Raman 37%.
So the runoff election will be Bass and Raman.
California in recent years approved bills to allow unlimited ballot harvesting in the state (2018). This allows anyone to go and collect ballots from anyone else, regardless of relationship, fill out the ballots and send them in. California also passed a bill to make it permanent that every Californian gets mailed a ballot (not just people who want one). They mail out 24m ballots (while only 9m vote). California also passed a bill that said anyone can register to vote and doesn't need to prove citizenship. You can use a gym membership card or something.
So there's nothing illegal or fraudulent happening in California. The California voting system is operating as designed.
Congress is to blame, said Friedburg.
---
You can see why people are tending towards militancy and extremism. People 'going rogue' and taking individual violent action. If the people in power don't respect the rules or the citizens, what demand can you really put on individuals? If the entire system is so corrupt that no legal means can modify it, and in fact only strengthens it, what demand can there be for respecting the rules? The civilization becomes the jungle. The original source of this all is the allowing of the interests of the powerful/government to become distinct from the interests of the citizens. The system must include a way to wed and constrain the interests of governors to the interests of the citizenry.
Yet, the federal government(s) keep pushing and pushing. Their response isn't to listen to or serve the citizens, but to clamp down on them, censor them, criminalize them.
The position of the Right.
Is creation of Leftist extremists just a way to pass more laws against citizens' rights? just like the Left likes to do?
All organizations, and all people, are becoming subject to these independent entities, which set themselves up under the banner of protecting people from various meannesses or cruelties, ostensibly and sometimes sincerely.
But the entities purpose and interaction is anti-civil rights. Not neutral. This one is anti-free speech. Its purpose is to censor speech. A little, new entity with who knows what random people running it, now holds 122-year-old cultural and sport organization FIFA sort of hostage (if FIFA bows to it). FIFA is forced to deal with this organization and sort of submit itself to it. It has to create and maintain good relationships with it. Which means FIFA has to enter the world of selecting 'victims' and working against civil rights. FIFA has to (if they bow).
The thing is normal people think in terms of good and bad. 'I did what was good, therefore it was right,' but doing good can be the way to destroy a society. They attack, using usually almost any means and considering it valid, those who they, their ideas, and the people around them, or the presentation of the public perception by the media or the politicians and interests behind the media, they attack those people they don't like or think are 'bad'. They are actively therefore destroying the system that protects everyone through civil rights guarantees that limit their 'good' acts. Then they say 'I was only doing what was good.'
'In 2019, the gesture - with thumb and forefinger touched in a circle and other fingers outstretched - was designated a hate symbol by the New York-based Anti-Defamation League'
But according to the racism group, "Clearly this official should have no further role to play in this World Cup." The group described the gesture as "neo-nazi."
Everyone must live in perpetual state of fear for any innocent gesture they say or sign being interpreted as offensive to a PC group and punished.
It's actually divided. Colombia has always been right-wing, electing its first leftist president a few years ago, and his term is up. The country is as divided as ever between left and right.
Friedburg continues to become more serious about the 'politburo', the governmental class in the States making it less free, an unfree society. Warren, Sanders, etc.
'If you take the knee, we will give you the education for free, the childcare for free, the food for free, the paycheck every week. We will give you.' A fake democratic system like this.
He talked about how getting stuff from the government takes away everyone's agency. And 'learned helplessness.'
'People will be a shell and a shadow of what they could be.' Chamath said, who grew up on welfare.
Pick the bigger group and offer to take something from the smaller group to give them if they vote for you?
NY socialist sweep. All Mandami's picks won, including a 32-year-old Democrat socialist woman who's never had a job, been in college 10 years, she has declared she wants to be among 'Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.'
Is this 'the left's version of the populist takeover that Trump did over the past 10 years'? Is USA going to be socialism/communism versus populism/nationalism?
The traditional Democrat party now will have to manage all these communist radicals who've been elected who are 'using the Democratic Party as a ballot-access vehicle, not because we share its goals.'
Sacks said to Democrats, 'Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. You supported this open border policy'... that is a huge part of the base of this new NY thing. Mandami would not have won without this wave of migrants. DNC base is the migrants plus the 'overeducated' whites, Sacks said, working in academia and NGOs. Recent college grads. Marxist leaders.
'Cracked the melting pot,' the idea in US of assimilating migrants. They're not just anti-American, they consider themselves post-American, they have no respect for the American system, Constitutional order, free enterprise system. They want something much different, which looks a lot like the countries these migrants come from.
The NY democrats want a total, radical overhaul of the entire US system.
Tucker Carlson being painted as an anti-semite by Republican politicians like Ted Cruz. Carlson is now at odds with the Republicans and Democrats.
Republicans aren't all pro-Israel anymore, and are positioning for after this White House.
Property might be one civil right Trump does understand and even defend maybe.
Fox
You sure about that?
Most anti-ICE sentiment I've heard for months has been because people want a country where rule of law is respected, and there aren't anonymous masked, untrained or barely-trained gangs of quasi-police carrying out things that the citizens don't even know what their real mandate is, sometimes arresting (abusing) and harming (sometimes killing) innocents.
Against the public statements of NY's governor and NYC's mayor.
What do you do when all the trafficked victims are the people who want to do it, and are making lots of money without hard work? Not sure if that's what's going on here, but it is cam work.
Is it journalistic to refer to them as 'trafficked' or 'victims'? It probably is political to do so. It probably isn't just.
The report says members have a wide array of motivations, including hatred, financial gain, sexual reasons. They use Discord and target minors, according to the FBI spokesman. Why does anyone allow Discord anyway?
It seems there is no actual violent terrorism component, although the glow companies like that word.
Commenters. 'I not sure I believe media sensationalism'
'Yeah, like... The description makes it seem like they're plotting another 9/11, but all the accusations are just about sexual media. It's just weird.'
Here's an actual serious criminal activity that can't be stopped by just parents and schools not letting kids use Discord and SM and requires actual enforcement professionals. Ie a proper use of legislators, laws, courts, and police's tax-funded salaries.
Regular guys. 'A wide scale of individuals.' 'Fathers, coaches, even a student.'
Again, there was no actual children involved, only law enforcement pretending to be youths. They give the language 'between the ages of 7 and 15' but all the people they arrested thought they were meeting 15- and 14-year-olds.
Why isn't this framed as a parenting issue?
The plan was to use drones with explosives on buildings nearby, causing the crowd to exit through certain areas, where snipers would be positioned.
FBI says they became aware of the potential attack June 10, and 'stopped it cold'. Reportedly a suspect told investigators they were targeting capitalist elites, billionaires or politicians who received donations from APAC (Israel related). No press conference from FBI or White House so far.
Details were uncovered on Signal, reported.
What is the percentage required for people in a society who believe in the society's system, in order for the sway-able commons to be held to it?
Any chance that's a two way?
NYT taking the establishment stance.
Why is there a trend towards men hating women in general (Western women)?
---
In the early Church, Christians were renowned for being like anyone else, not practicing any special customs, often not having a home city but living in and adapting to wherever they were, but their Church was open to all, and they wanted anyone and everyone to learn and believe in their new religion. Who wouldn't have talked about the Christians or their new religion and its ideas and principles, at that time? and some ask what the Church of today would be remembered for.
What today is worth talking about the way the Church was in those first couple hundred years? What do you tell people 'You just have to know about...' if you find out they haven't heard about it?
The only thing I can think of is investing, a trading account being so simple now, and investing so available and almost necessary as a way to manage savings.
Even travel, you don't 'just have to go see' anywhere now, since mass travel has bland-ized and homogenized locations.
Might argue that by the time you need to apply consequences, it's too late. Children need everything that happens before they commit violent crime. Youths need to be occupied. Adults need rehabilitation and new things.
'Strangers in their own land'
Maybe once people get off the short leash. People were afraid of poets.
Tried to force the players to wear rainbow outfits for a pride night game.
The spokesman for the baseball park said their primary priority was to be a 'welcoming' place, ie the priority is not baseball. They cancelled the game and held a pride night.
Another MLB team, the Giants, had special pride caps assigned them. Some refused to wear them, and some wore them but wrote bible verses on them. So now it's politicized.
MLB's Texas Rangers are the only team currently not holding a pride night.
The comments were overwhelmingly against MLB forcing this, or politicizing, or making it not about baseball, and in support of the players and their rights to not be forced.
Not as a hero, but as a reason for governments to change? ie fear.
What is unprecedented about this movie is that until now, whenever there was a criminal, they would swap his race to make him white (not always but sometimes), and in this film the criminals reflect stats.
Critics of the FSK, the German board that has effectively censored the film from being shown in theaters by refusing to give it any age rating, say it's because this film refused to lie that it was banned.
BP notes that among the slop produced by Hollywood, this film is refreshing, even if it doesn't aim to be anything great.
Isn't the problem simply that people aren't put together in community groups?
Each individual problem got solved and made sense. Automated effects changes. And the result was super boring shows 'as exciting as someone bagging groceries and cheering for them.' Choreographed. Consistency. 'Everybody is dressed tough but it feels like a soccer mom.' 'Trying to make sure that nobody gets hurt.'
Before, besides sex drugs and rock and roll, nobody knew what was going to happen.
Rock is supposed to 'rock you, shake you, move you.' Violence.
'You can't create the sense of danger for other people while eliminating every possible source of danger for yourself.'
Some commenters are saying that SEALS are so hated now because they destroyed their own reps by lying and being arrogant with other forces.
At universities, the number of students self-identifying as non-binary has dropped from like 5 or 7% to like 4%, reported VICE. We all saw that as a temporary trend, anyway, like hip hop clothes in the 90s or revolution in the 60s.
This is like what I wrote about women in the workplace and 'feminism' in society, and you could say about any group claiming minority status and special prerogatives. It takes a lot of bandwidth. If you are asking or demanding people's attention and resources, or are forcing yourself in front of them and trying to force them to modify their behaviour, you better have an overwhelming justification for this, which those people would recognize. Not just that you want to have special treatment for your group. Otherwise your group is a tax on society.
Ok, 30 years late?
Oh wait, there might be a good movie this year called The Weight. Hawke and Crowe. Directed by Padraic McKinley. This Padraic McKinley doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. He's from SF and was a film editor. This is his first film.
Is Napoleon 'a great man' in history? Maybe a greatly famous man, but historians have him as having harmed France and Europe as much or more than he benefitted it.
They have zine fairs. Each zine has its own different 'world view'. Book and magazine sales peaked in 1996.
Was going to be a $400 made entirely in USA phone, but turns out to be basically an 2-year-old HTC phone reskinned. It now reads 'Proudly assembled in the USA' because it's basically a Chinese phone, according to the inspection.
All messages are uniform, no device identifiers, no usernames. Has onion routing. You can run the server yourself. Funded by its users. AppImage for desktop, Android app. Servers are called 'routers' and are a chain for the packets. Traffic pattern analysis harder than with other communications apps.
Their login has a message that you, the user, commit to only legal content in public groups. In private groups who knows, but in public groups you respect the other users and their privacy.
Use of the app requires a second app, basically. Because to add someone privately you have to send them a QR or hyperlink they can click in their own Simplex app to link your two accounts. So he uses XMPP.
It does voice messages, voice calls. It also does voice to text.
No OS (they considered having no BIOS), pop up selfie camera (no front camera notch), SD card slot. Sub 6 inch phone. Thicker body (because decent cameras are thick anyway, and most makers have tried to have a 'thin body' but have bumps that stick out for the cameras, so instead NothingPhone just thickened the whole body to have it flat at the thickness required for the cameras). 3800mA Silicon Carbon SiC battery.
They CT scanned a larger phone that had all the stuff they wanted and then measured all the components and tried to plan a rearrangement of them into a smaller case and CADed it.
This is what happens when the product is open to the community and responsive to it.
Many commenters said that if it can do GrapheneOS they'd buy, and some wanted to install Linux as well. Many still wanted a removable battery.
Nice to see so many people using GrapheneOS now. For a while there, the government tried to convince everyone that anyone who used GrapheneOS was a criminal, and this was kinda partially successful. But if a percentage of the population uses it, and people have seen it before, they can't accuse you. I've actually been surprised by how often I'm starting to see people saying they've been using GrapheneOS for months or a couple years, in forums like Reddit and HN.