Land & Sea Journal
June 1, 2026
Chronicle of the month before June 1, 2026
Musk and Altman in court. ... Musks arguemtn so far is getting headlines for the language that Altman 'stole a charity'. Altman's team is arguing that Musk didn't sue soon enough after he knew Altman was taking OpenAI away from it's open organization and only sued once OpenAi had success and was a competitor to Grok.
When you accept the package, you become a verified buyer automatically, and the scammer can use your verified buyer status to create fake reports for products on websites. Ie they created a buyer account and put your address, and after receiving a package at your/their address they can review products.
If you receive one, it means likely your data is compromised, so do another check.
The scammer knows the name on the address is legit, so they may use it more.
Sometimes the envelopes/packages are empty, sometimes they have little objects in them like baseballs.
Why is it so easy and quick that governors etc can pass laws to stop data centers, but can't do anything, no matter how much time, with civil rights? or even protections against big tech?
After people (men) are exonerated of charges (found not guilty), they still have a record on Google and news sites that they were charged with this. And afterwards, there's nothing about the aquittal or withdrawal on the news articles afterwards. They, for their clients, are contacting the news agencies and having them edit these.
External influences on the jury. He's getting a retrial but will remain behind bars during the retrial.
The court clerk, while moving the jurors between places, was telling them not to believe the accused, he would probably lie. She pled guilty and was sentences to 1 year probation ('only' said Napolitano).
PragerU
'Can words be abuse?'
Is US P2P waning?
US wants Ghana to take over systems that had been run by US-contracted NGOs.
The deal breaker is the privacy concerns. Sharing control of data, resources, and health care decisions with US authorities, which directly violate the Data Protection Act and the Public Health Act of Ghana.
'What is making [the US] ask for health data? That is something we should look into.' Other Ghanians say that as long as they receive health aid they should share data.
Pretend for a moment the country is not an ally or cooperative state, come up with what would be a good economic/political move in that environment, make a show of considering doing it, and use that as your chip when you visit.
But the second or fouth one, I didn't even mind if they said yes or no.
'If someone rejects me, I decide how that makes me feel.'
The benefits of speaking to strangers.
Debate sobre nuevo modelo de pasaportes.
Will Brits, someday, stand up?
Far-right march, countermarch by Stand Up to Racism, Soccer final march. People watching to see how the authorities control these.
As if you needed yet more reasons not to get married. Most reasons provided by the state.
Is there a civil right to not be forced to use (non secure, btw) technology just to receive basic civil services?
Commenter. 'ct aim of the Online Safety Act ... keeping the government safe from competition'
'First they came for reform and I did nothing because I didn't like reform...'
Man thrown in jail for 37 days over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement (youtube.com)
Of the taxpayers' money. How about consequences for the people who violate the rights, not consequences for citizens.
Commenter. 'That is why Chump& Co. don't care if they ever get charge, prosecuted and convicted for all the illegal stuff they have done. We the people will pay for it.'
BC, Canada.
For all those who say governments should be allowed to pass laws to limit protesters, or to punish protesters for violent or unruly protests, notice that it is the only thing that works.
Someone in Malaysia cares about government privacy invasion that much?
Seems like probably hoax news?
Speedrunners on Hollywood Blvd, blitzing the scientology videos, making content for SM.
They're being criticized for not doing anything serious, not bringing any substantive info out. Just doing it for clicks. 'Turning something serious into content.'
Viral stunts.
LAPD investigating it as an 'alleged hate crime.'
Scientology can claim victimhood, basically correctly now.
That kids need recess breaks.
Ie Windows.
The way authorities have been accessing people's Windows computer without having to get login info.
Usually hackers keep the hack secret, but this hacker felt 'he'd been wronged by Microsoft' so he made it public, instead of telling Microsoft and getting money ('bug bounty') for finding one of their vulnerabilities. But it's only up to $60k it looks like, and then there's a problem of how to get paid.
In this case, the hacker said that Microsoft didn't hold up their end of the bargain for a bug bounty, so they published it, the hacker wrote.
Top comment. 'Its not a backdoor, its a window'
tldr? Don't use Windows, or any Microsoft product, ever. Not Discord, not Github, not Skype.
Where else but online do people communicate even?
When historians are unpopular...
She's from the east of Germany, where Germans are most disaffected, which she compares with Northern England, and people say well you report on the East Germany and that's not representative of how Germans feel and think, but after a few years it turns out they were just first or quickest to respond, because now all Germany feels that way. Eastern anomalies are now part of the national story.
People feel politicians should be doing political change on a level that's quite drastic, quite bold, and they're seeing tinkering from politicians and the people are angry.
Figures that would have been shocking in East Germany a few years ago, like 20% support for the far right parties, are now what's seen in western German elections.
Not disimilar to the 1920s.
How A Drug Cocktail Made of Paper Is Killing Inmates (youtube.com)
After family members were not permitted to retrieve a body of a relative who died from Ebola.
Lol, CBS's commentator prefers to immediately push the government line and try to tie this to people who didn't want to take Covid vaccines (now established scientifically and statistically to have been nothing like what the government pushed them as) and masks. Couldnt watch much of her.
The point is that Canada doesn't have wealth. It isn't wealthy. It doesn't have extra money
T Swift again making a possibly positive, successful move. Swift did this in 2018, actually, and will apply to all UMG musicians.
Piracy creates the demand, and tells film companies what shows to buy or to make. Almost no one does torrents now, because everyone has switched to Netflix.
For blockbuster movies, a pirated post-release increased box office earnings by 25% because it convinces people to go watch in theaters, he says. And 3% increase by word of mouth. When piracy disappears, buzz on movie review websites decreases and revenue goes down for the companies.
'The Buried Document: The European Commission's $400k Secret'. There isn't robust decrease in sales. Books, movies, video games, movies, people don't buy less when they pirate. Sometimes they buy more. Only one category saw decrease, which is new release movies. 85% of piraters are subscribed to streaming services also.
Piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem, a guy said. Because it works, it makes it available.
MPU
8% up but on a largely green day.
D'amaro's vision is theme park investment, grow streaming, focus on films. Operating income is up because of subs. Fewer internaional tourists at parks but spending up (nominal?). ESPN is down a bit. AI presents opportunities in D'amaro's opinion.
It's not out of the question that people form communities with borders (ie towns but purposeful, rule based) where they don't allow AI or big box stores, and bar even some chain stores. In that community, everyone has a job again.
Not privately. Basically as a subservient to the state government.
Decent economics metric, too.
Pressure to slow inflation?
In Khao San road. Garlic pork atop white rice, fried in oil. Costs 10 Baht, 20 baht with an egg. There are other options, like stir fry chilli pork, rice noodles, basil pork. A typical customer might order 2 plates or all 4 plates, because they're not big plates.
Raw ingredients for the plates take up 50-60% of the revenue. He buys ingredients always from wholesale markets, and never prepares more than required (once they run out of supplies they stop for the day). (No storage, no leftovers.) Gas to cook and daily expenses take up a bit also. There's no labor costs because he and his family work it, and no rent. After all costs, his profit margin is 10-15%. They rely on volume. 'It's not a lot, but it's enough.' They make about 800-1200 Baht profit per day.
Most food sellers in Bangkok have raised their prices during 2025/2026, due to inflation, especially pork. Some raised their prices during Songkran.
The man, already a mature age, said he won't raise prices as long as he's working. 'I think playing a part in helping low-income people is already enough. ... These days, when people go out, some people carry 100 Baht and it only feeds one person. But if they come here, it can feed the whole family.' He works almost every day.
It therefore is a way for some customers to stretch their budget.
The same plate might cost 50 Baht at other similar vendors.
Have they ever, absent actual production improvements?
Or they could just force citizens to pay for it through policy-directed inflation.
If I remember, this kind of thing was how Warren got famous in like the 80s or 90s. Private equity's plan, when it buys these stores or chains, is to run the company to bankrupcy, she theorizes.
She tells the story of Toys R' Us, the scheme, basically, used by the buyers to turn the company into profit and destroy the company.
While the company goes bankrupt, the CEOs etc and the private equity owner all do great. So is there a problem with this, from a polity level?
I wonder what her take on Amazon is?
Instead of expected 3% growth, there was 2%. Tariffs have contracted the economy, he said. Immigration limits and uncertainty also.
Large investment in a few big tech companies, capital equipment (imports), stock market.
Not shared wealth effect, backlash brewing against data centers, hatred of AI, etc.
'Printing money will do this.'
Pakistan Shi'ites deported from UAE return with frozen savings (youtube.com)
Last month was the month Chinese robots beat people at table tennis and at the half marathon.
When the AI encountered a credential mismatch it decided to delete a volume (to fix this).
Commenter. 'Sue them, there was a case in Spain where an ID verification company was fined for not complying with privacy directives and I highly doubt Persona is in the clear with EU privacy laws'
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'Trendslop'
Supermarkets/konbinis change 50 and vending machines 120.
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Can a person be 'under the influence of AI'?
For a couple years the quote on the front page of Land & Sea Journal was "Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."
Robots fighting, taken to one of its conclusions, is that the citizenry pay to the utmost for robots to break.
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Is YouTube constantly showing me videos by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs because I search 'maps' a lot?
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Check if your email address has been pwned Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email address has been exposed in a data breach (haveibeenpwned.com)
Most tech stories have an aspect of tech forced on people who don't want it.
Really?
'Why Beijing isn't "AGI pilled"'
Canada, National Post
Proton
'Artificial intelligence IS the next industrial revolution.' Boos from the crowd.
Another guy. 'Deal with it. Like I said, it's a tool.' Booed.
Half use AI weekly, but 30% say AI makes them angry, and half say the risks of AI in the workplace outweigh the benefits.
This is where it really starts?
Why does almost everyone hate AI already?
News publishers online 'concerned'.
'The trees aren't just a place to hide, but somewhere the drones cannot fly.'
'Nobody drives cars on this road.'
Ukraine had been perceived to be losing the war, but that sense isn't currently felt. The Russian advance has slowed to a crawl. (Trench warfare style?)
Mostly to reduce people working in logistics, it seems. Delivery of things.
Is there anything easier than getting a drone past a border?
On a more positive note, we might be closer to a blanket ban on drones in many countries.
People with signs that read 'I HATE A.I.'
Politicians and big tech unite!
People commented that reddit's biggest appeal is the info already on it (including much pre-AI info) and anonymity.
'I know this has been known for a while now. But I miss being a kid when I was excited about what tech the future may bring. Now it just makes me sick to think what the implications of the next thing will be.' ... 'I feel this too... I even work in tech, and I feel like my enthusiasm for it has taken a hit.'
'We've literally bought into a worse surveillance apparatus than the Nazis used. Our governments and law enforcement systems are not our allies. It's no longer enough to actively resist certain tech companies, we must find ways to actively combat these types of unlawful invasions of privacy.'
Man I was hoping to be dead before the authoritarian technological suppression state government took over. I've got so many years left to be alive. My age saw the boom of the internet, cell phone, smart phone, wifi, etc and my age will witness how those really cool technologies are used to suppress humanity. It's like raising a child only for your kid to grow up and be a murderer' The Dawn of AI Warfare: A Conversation with Katrina Manson (youtube.com)
Nvidia stock is up a lot in 12 months, and smaler hardware makers like WD and Sandisk are up hundreds of percent in 12 months.
It gave me a wrong answer just today, and I had to go to an original news article to get real info.
Only a few years after people wanted it.
A change in RF.
Bring on the non-phone comm devices.
Mother Jones
Brazil is a top soybean producer, and China it's biggest customer for that crop. Ukraine war has cut off the ability of Brazil to purchase the fertilizers it used, so it has found an alternative, a forumula that is not an imported petrol based nitrogen fertilizer (which the use of has dropped to basically zero).
$25b less was spent on imported fertilizers in 2025 (by Brazilian farmers). 230m tons of CO2.
Yields increased 15-20%, said an interviewee.
She won the World Food Prize. One of Time's 100 most influencial people. After 40 years of research. #Science
Her solution focuses on nitrogen, delivering it from the atmosphere to the plant. They find microorganisms and then improve the use of these to the crops.
Basically a brontosaurus though.Excavated between 2016 and 2024.
Aanceles del 100% a las importaciones colombianas, impuestos por el presidente ecuatoriano, Daniel Noboa.
If you make all fun illegal and assign severe punishment for intoxicated actions, you might find people don't want to do it much.
Did Russia call these 'terrorist' attacks?
Air space security questions. Kiev might have found some weak points in the Russian defense.
Russia is shutting down mobile internet to try to thwart the drones.
Putin's popularity is down to 60%, which is low for Putin (although obviously would be high for any European or North American leader).
Under current government. Rare access to journalists to go in and report freely. Want to join WTO.
Fourth largest natural gas reservers, most goes to China.
Has a very strict Visa regime since 1991 (Soviet Union). It is concerned about Islamists and drugs from Afghanistan.
Very little interent, lots of SM blocked, to stop militant Islamist ideas. But in the fancy hotels there is uncensored internet.
France24.
Imagine if Europeans made as much out of anti-Christian actions as Jews do?
Workers spend up to 1000 hours per year sitting in traffic making this 60km commute between their city (or 1m people) and Mexico City. What is the math for the total?
The 45 minute rail trip on the elevated passenger train built by Chinese engineers.
Mexico's older railways had a peak building period of 1880 to 1910, when the Mexican Revolution stopped a lot of development. In the 1990s rails were privatized (consessions to Canadian and US railway companies) but this didn't attract as much investment as planned.
In 2018 President Obrador fast tracked/ de beurocratized rail infrastructure. There is a loop train around Yucatan that connects with Central Mexico. Sheinbaum says she will continue the rail development, using public funds. Her 3 year project will connect Mexico City with a city 3 hours north, and after that, the idea is to continue building north, to connect Mexico's factories with buyers in Canada.
A railway option (taking 8 hours from Atlantic to Pacific) is to be a competitor to Panama for global freight.
Mexico is mountainous, and the country can't easily just build a straight line flat rail, like is possible in the US or China. Engineering and economic challenges. Land rights also complicate. Rural community ownership. Security issies. 'Different kinds of institutional arrangements have to be reached.' If just one of the thousands of land owners doesn't agree, how can the plan move through?
Obredor declared rail projects issues of 'national security' to get past the rights of property owners. This is the reason building happened fast during his reign.
Flushing out the development, even if the rails are built, will require industrial parks, repair, storage, energy, infrastructure. Secondary infrastructure is required to suppor the railways.
Mexico doesn't have the engineers, etc, and rely on third parties.
Wages. NZ also has high house prices.
Ezra's thumbnail read 'Another shooting.'
Seems that if you voilently, forcefully invade someone's land and take it, it's going to be difficult at any point to sue the displaced and abused for peace.
'Like what compromises?' is the question. No one has suggested what compromises Israel could make and what Palestinians could respond to. If it is two states, that means Palestinians accepting the taking of their land, and forgiving and forgetting all the sacrifice by other Palestinians.
'Compromises never work.' 'There are two parties, a weak one and a strong one. The strong one is Israel, and it's protected by international law. The world is not getting a clear picture of what is going on in Palestine.'
'The nature of the occupation is that is that it doesn't commit to the agreements and treaties. We know what happened in Oslo.'
'Getting paid to do a dare?'
The reason US stays constantly at war?
Lol 500k. Check Canada's numbers.
Youth aren't marrying.
Youth unemployment (rising), housing costs (rising), weddings still expensive, people living in the cities more, have pets and careers, choice not forced to marry.
China's government is offering marriage bonuses (cities offer cash or vouchers for furnture, paid work leave), offering marriage vows and drone shows on social media in nice looking locations. Basically everyone doubts this will have any effect, although even a small effect could be meaningful.
During the one child policy, Chinese citizens who had more children were publicly shamed as unpatriotic, punished, fines, sometimes jail. ... In the past, people married and had children partially to feel more secure.
If you want food in your country, you might find a way to deal with this.
Maybe if you're going to have massive tourism, you could give highschool/elementay school courses on how to behave in other countries. And you could make politicians accountable to their citizens for what they allow foreigners to do, such as drive up prices.
'I don't want to be judged for my body.'
While constantly wearing body-revealing clothing? 'I just want to be paid for it'?
'US overdoses drop"
Heat waves and talk of El Niño in many regions.
What might be most interesting is that any (quite a percentage of) Americans still believe any of that kind of statements, like that there's negotiations that are serious and they're making progress and they expect a peace soon. The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf would have to be rewritten for a modern audience. Citizens seem to have no limit to the amount of lies they will believe coming from their leaders, even if their leaders have lied to them countless times before and even if they know their leaders have no problem lying or even hold it to be a valid way of communicating.
Would like to see a study on what the actual limits are, if there actually even are any limits to it.
Napolean was known to be a liar, and was supported by the French and admired globally while he devastated 'his' country's finances, its empire, its civil rights, and killed so many French along with so many Europeans in what most understood to be heroism, ie patriotic war. A huge spectacle, much political bravery, and left France much weaker when he pushed till failure. Stalin was understood to be a liar, and Mao. Name a heroic war leader who wasn't?
US bombs Iranian military sites, then downs missiles Tehran fired at troops in Kuwait (apnews.com)
You would never ha guess'd! It's not like last week all talk was about coming to a peaceful conclusion.
This goes to show you, you still can bully a country into submission, if it's poor enough, and you're willing to harm its people.
What would have been the minimum threshold Cuba, for example, would have had to meet, to be an unconquerable weak country?
Opposites day politics?
'Who are they to judge?'
Let's see how deep we can get into this thing?
Peru.
Seems to be down to how hard/easy it is to qualify.
BPS.
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Is the trick to win LA/California just to say you're Democrat, say some Democrat-value statements, but actually have a lot of Republican style policies?
'asks Indians not to buy gold for a year.'
So everyone else can, then after the year is up, Indian buyers will increase the price of the gold everyone else bought?
Why do I have my doubts? Not that this is likely technically probable, but that it is a headline.
This is all over headlines, but there doesn't seem to be any story there, even though it is consequential what deals the two make.
DW
For not having anti-drone systems.
Tourists weren't loving America before Trump either, but it is noticeable that no one, even normies, wants to touch America after ICE etc.
This will probably be a topic in university courses on politicals ads and on US politics.
A lot of problems have built up in the city/state. No politicians have, but it's just been weaiting to be used in ads that show the issues in a resonant way. His ads have gone viral.
I've seen another of his ads which was pretty effective-seeming. The impression he makes on viewers is just as a common-sense person who's issues are serious issues.
He's receiving threats, calling him 'fascist.'
LA mayoral election in non-partisan, ie there is no affiliation next to candidates' names on the ballot. (Pratt has registered Republican before though.)
The ad in question shows Pratt 'living' in an Airstream trailer on his property. Opponents can critisize this ad, saying 'He doens't live there. He actually lives in a nice hotel, The Beverly Hills, but this creates a news story that causes Pratt to be interviewed and asked just that, to which his response gets to be (excatly his main mandate issue) that no, he doesn't live in the hotel, and he doesn't live in the airstream, he doens't live anywhere because of how non-functional the cities policies are that he can't even build a new home.
Pratt has a degree in political science, Karen Bass commented, but 'he does not have a background or knowledge in how our govenrment works.' Is that an advantage? If enough non-politicians are elected, does it become an advantage?
A politician, in a situtation where for decades all politicians have basically formed a class separate from the common citizens, have avoided even talking about real issues (in any way that isn't just a sort of veneer for their popularity purpose), could just do what journalists traditionally do, go and show the actual things that are issues and talk about how they will work on these.
Celebs might be the perfect type of candidate, because they have a following and recognition and their resume has been quite public, they often have experience being poor and being rich, and they've had a lot of free time and know other influential people (and generally a person is a decent representation of the people in his circle). Celeb candidates can be tested for fitness (basically things like intelligence, common sense, values) during the campaign process.
Does NYC recognize the state of Israel? USA does.
'We are going to fix the country.' We are going to see how long that promise lasts.
Comments are all for Rubio over Vance.
'Crazy people want power.' Subway Takes.
World police, much?
30 year old event.
The hypocrisy was noted by commenters.
Rhodi wrote 'From a strict standpoint of international law, the federal murder indictment against Raúl Castro for the 1996 civilian shootdowns exposes a sharp double standard, as the Trump administration is currently bypassing the exact same legal frameworks in its lethal maritime campaign. The Department of Justice is charging Castro with murder and destruction of aircraft because Cuba used military jets to summarily destroy unarmed civilian targets outside of a warzone, completely violating the Chicago Convention and the international mandate for standard law enforcement interdiction. Yet, by deploying military assets to launch lethal strikes against unproven, suspected drug vessels in international waters—resulting in nearly 200 civilian deaths without trial or evidence—the administration is executing the same extrajudicial use of force against non-combatants. Ultimately, both actions fundamentally violate the core international prohibition against using military weapons to summarily execute civilians on the high seas or in international airspace, rendering the U.S. actions legally indistinguishable from the exact crime it is prosecuting Castro for ordering.'
'President Clinton condemned the shootdown of "two American civilian airplanes" and said he ordered the U.S. military to protect search-and-rescue operations.' The president was aware and the justice department didn't act, so doesn't that mean the US either didn't have authority or interest in trying anything legal?
'The group's planes flew over Cuba in January and in July 1995, dropping anti-government and human rights pamphlets. The Cuban government warned that it would not tolerate such flights.' I wonder if the government called these acts 'terroritst'?
Why do you think it is that the country can't get a leader who's worth supporting?
They could be seen to be intimidating people at the ballot box.
Are they not openly a race apart? Different (chosen) among all people?
'Hawaii just made history, becoming the first state in the nation to effectively ban dark money in elections. The new law takes a novel approach: rather than trying to restrict corporate speech, it redefines the powers corporations have in the first place — and political spending is not among them. The strategy, known as the "Corporate Power Reset," was developed by Tom Moore of the Center for American Progress. And at least a dozen states are now working toward passing similar laws.'
Does the campaign include amending politics so Alberta doesn't have to be forced to bend to the will of the Federal government all the time?
White House still authorizing just shooting boats in the Caribbean and now, it seems, the 'Eastern Pacific', killing whoever happens to be on them. If this information is true (still haven't seen any videos about the families of any of these murdered individuals).
'U.S. Southern Command said Joint Task Force Southern Spear carried out a lethal strike on a vessel linked to designated terrorist organizations in the Eastern Pacific on May 26. Officials said intelligence showed the boat was operating along known drug-trafficking routes and engaged in narcotics smuggling activities. One suspected narco-terrorist was killed and two survivors were rescued after the U.S. Coast Guard was notified to begin search and rescue operations. No U.S. military personnel were injured in the operation.´
I don´t know if the commenters are just bots arranged by the US military (if so they would be a lot more severe in this practice than other things because usually there seems to be alot of real commenters on videos), but there don´t seem to be any worrying about civil rights, US justice system, or murder.
If SA was still White, what would this be called?
As it is, it's a 'constant xenophobic attack.'
'None of them, not even a single one of them, is thought to be a criminal.' Although some are, some aren't, there legally in terms of state permission.
There is an NGO that fights xenophobia in SA. So, good to know that when the NGOs that fight racism no longer are considered viable, they can just shift.
'Forever immunity'
Is there really such a thing as an 'ex' CIA?
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ICE might have to stop poaching migrants and exiles at courts.
Not sure who HIgbie is.
Let's embarass a few hundred citizens today. All the police did was set up fake dates and wait for people to come to meet someone (since it seems like they had no actual confirmed contract, not sure if there can actually be real charges there, although they charged 2 people with 'child neglect' because they brought their children with them (nearby, I guess). The police making a big deal about one of them being in Jan 6, for no real connected reason, the police cheif or whoever at the press conference made sure to print large photos of the man to show to cameras. ICE will take the girls.
When a headline (or an official statement) like this comes out, what percentage of people immediately dismiss it as fake news / overblown pretense to justify some other (would be unpopular thing) the agencies want to do? or how many assume half of the subject entity in question is just undercovers anyway?
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Is Fentanyl on purpose to justify the continued war on crime and the massive expense of the police/legal/encarceration complex that services drugs? All the other drugs society is almost fine with, legalized etc (except like crack and heroin).
What are the recent stats for percentage of (real) crimes being by females?
Could we get a journalistic rule on the use of that word?
Tampering with a witness is a felony.
How much time, energy, and other waste would be removed if we just held people (youths) responsible for their own actions? and people (youths) just had to make their own decisions again? Parents would then be responsible for teaching their kids about who they want to be again. And just in general stopped making a huge deal out of every action or statement that touches upon something to do with sex?
I hope there's more to this that reported, because 30 years for accepting a video some chick sent or asking for a video (the details were not given), without any harm done to anyone, is pretty ridiculous. More than for killing people? Sending videos is something a huge majority of people do.
A judge saying that all under 18 are victims full stop, always, is pretty hypocritical when one of the top ongoing stories is arrests of young women for luring, drugging (sometimes accidentally killing) men to rob them, in gangs or groups usually. Or just if you know any people it should be enough to view such statements from judges as ridiculous and socially harmful. ... Not sure if the judge's statements are more ridiculous, or that people anywhere can ignore the fact that the girls who are willing to continue conversations (or start them) about things like this, are generally always the one in control of the situation.
Also surprising the approach to age can exist even in a country with constant guerilla activity, where the line between men and 'women and children' is more realistic because participants remind you when they're old enough to be participants.
There should be a fund set up which pays victims of civil-rights abusing government actions, and the money should come from the salaries of politicians.
Federal prosecutors way out of line, doing things that authorities in the US should never do.
The Broadview Six said the Feds' case was about causing them 'psychological and financial torture.' (Does that meet the federal definition of terrorism btw?)
The six people were facing up to 10 years in prison, and they are now hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
Feds' mission accomplished. Scare people away from standing up for their constitutional rights.
How did the Feds get caught in this trial? The defense thought something was going wrong in the jury deliberations, and they asked the judge to give them the transcripts, which is something not usually done. 'But for that, we would not know about the misconduct here.'
Commenter. 'No errors, just corruption'
... which is probably accurate. Seems very unlikely federal prosecutors of a high politics case didn't know what they were doing every step. Calculated moves.
'Errors? They straight up tried rigging the grand jury against the defendants. The DOJ tried to FRAME Americans for crimes they didn't commit. If that isn't criminal, what is it? It's a good thing I'm not a judge. I'd dismiss every case Hump's DOJ brings as frivolous.'
It's rare you see stories that give citizens confidence in their government, and common you see the opposite. So are we at the point not just for new people in the roles, but new style of government?
A big chunk of that has to go down to just having so many laws that criminalize non-criminal (non-harmful) behaviour. You're just asking for abuse, corruption, and manipulation.
It had been up to schools, but now it's the district. They didn't need a board vote, a change in procedure not policy.
No phones even during breaks and lunch for elementary. High school will have limited access in breaks.
It's important that teachers can teach without distractions, said reps.
Everyone supports this, they said. Guess they'd just been waiting for a leader to make the decision.
There could also be an argument that society doesn't benefit if guys are all good looking. Traditionally, they've had limited options and get married.
Some places can have public property, and others can't. So don't try to force Japan to accept immigrants.
Bogota has bike/skate lanes, but people go in them with motor vehicles.
A couple years ago, videos started appearing where celebs read and respond to the most common Google prompts about them. They also 'read mean tweets'. Reaction YouTube videos have been a staple (which I never watched) of YouTube for several years. Recently, some shows have come up where the format is for famous people to give their 'unpopular' opinions, like that NY Subway one (Casablancas made headlines which I noted here last month for his opinion about Jews). ... Is this the product of feminization of Western Society, where hard, other-forcussed work/material is negated/criticized/sometimes attacked, and instead the focus is on subjective experience of the individual, how the individual feels about something, which in universities is 'soft' science, as we've seen in Cultural Anthropology trends and other humanities.
Is this the other side of the curve, where opinions seemed sort of unassailable, becaues unlike facts they can't be debated. But maybe they can, when the opinions become the matter to be argued over (their validity). Does the change in society happen when one opinion is just argued over by another opinion just because of preference of the majority (or politically powerful)? or do the opinion arguers resort to finding facts to support their argument (and thus bring facts back into vogue)?
Sort of celebrating / counter-celebrating the sluminess and mess of the once admired country.
Oh RN, it's the 'Canadian coffee shop' so they're just doing the Canadian thing, which is to treat Canadians less favorably than other peoples.
Not all of them.
A trans Achilles.
BP Speaks
Have most female icons been anti? Like famous for being against and talking against things?
Example of a person tried during a particular trend? People I know use 'mee-too-ed' as a verb.
Reading down is reported in some countries in headlines.
Maybe 'you will own nothing' wasn't correct. Maybe it's 'you will own more stuff only because you want to own it'.
Isn't Buddhism supposed to be about renouncing worldly things, especially like ostentation. This is quite the jem of architecture.
The power of the temple (it's leading monks) is the biggest threat to the military since the coup. There are a lot of followers. When the government sees that, they would like to control it. Also it is seen as a sign of the changed brought to Asia by the economic boom. The temple is designed (?) to connect with the middle class, unorthodox techniques and practices. The military says the temple has ties to ousted former PM Shinawat.
Emphasis on making large donations, which it says is a way to make merit. 'How much merit you want to accumulate is up to you.'
The government has tried to remove the abbott. They want to replace him. Reported.
Is this why people think women shouldn't be in any office? A man calls another man words much worse than that, and the recipient will say something back or maybe throw an insult back. This woman making a stink has cost how many hours of work for the board, the school board, courts, lawyers, news agencies, media platforms, and viewers? Thousands, right?
The man was calling out the woman (directly to her, though) for using her newsletter to call out other staff members.
He didn't even call her 'bimbo' publicly, it seems. He sent it privately in a text to someone else who sent it to her.
He issued a boilerplate 'apology' statement with legal language.
It would be different if he called her something, publicly, wihch if true would have serious consequences for her, and we would have some cause for her making a scene.
Maybe we need a public serious panel with public participation to designate words and their consequences, if we're going to have to be saddled with this work all time time.
'Bimbo' is probably not the word he wanted to use. It is about the nicest, least offensive term you can use for a woman when you're upset with her. Are we going to only be able to use the word 'idiot'?
Overall, the effect of all this (the whole thing, not just this waste of everyone's energy), might be just that men stop wanting to (or being even able to) treat women well, which was a big part of our Western culture, and set it apart from a most of other places. ... I've been voicing intentional moderation of the male backlash against feminist abuse of men, for years, but it starts to wear down the will for it, or it just stops making any sense to do.
Is this also why women often can't have friends. Like many women say its not possible to have woman friends. And some women just have guy friends. Is it only possible to have friends if you (like men traditionally are expected to) handle their own things, while many women constantly try to enlist any friend as a tool to use against other women (and other people who disagree with her or threaten her comfort)? I'm not sure I've met many manupulative men, or men who try to expect other people to do things for them.
'The lawsuits that seemingly never end but don't go anywhere.'
Been sorta wondering if this is where we'll be after this phase. Women have gone from moral/romantic to basically selling themselves everywhere, to strangers on apps. But many aren't happy, but they've material-ised so much the way men are forced to treat them now, and many aren't liking it. Will some decide to sell into a marriage instead? The man pays for the bride. If she leaves him, her family pays it back. That's the way it's always been in so many places. It can also go the other way around, too.
But they're chidren so they're innocent, always.
There's no point in arresting them, because the justice system treats them differently.
Yeah, they're mostly black youths, and yeah, they're mostly Democrat cities.
Because it's more trans than regular film?
But all she means is that there are less women than men in the industry (outside of actors, I'm guessing).
Not sure why she doesn't say 'women don't want to be in the industry that much' (outside of being actresses).
'We can't say what we think?'
Small cameras and cellphones are the two things that prevent people from having the kind of amazing times they had 15 years ago. I have journals from then. You think, if I go to this country again, maybe it'll still be there, but it's actually impossible, because of these two things.
Some people said, years ago, that while people (Brits in his case) were increasingly fearful of meeting their neighbors, clubs were 'the last bastion of an opportunity for people to go out on equal terms and meet people they've never met before, without any degree of fear, and that creates the warm environment of the dance culture.'
Caused a 'USA!' chant. Still can barely put a sentense together, but is still doing a great job of expressing publicly the real essense of the issues he's involved in, which very few other people are doing, almost no one.'
'Here in the UK, you guys had young women raped by gangs of men and your politicians allowed it because they're afraid of being called racist or islamophobic.
He was comparing this to entire US states committing billions of $ in fraud because US politicians were afraid of being called racist or islamophobic [as well as profiting from the fraud] for speaking out against the fraud.
There is a point here about if any leader should have any cause to fear speaking truth on any issue, there is something that needs to be addressed there, legally or in the public media.
Shirley was speaking at a rally for the rightest candidate who is among those favored to take over from the highly unpopular Kier (yet another unpopular UK leader, basically a long uninterrupted string of leaders no citizens wanted) We interviewed Nick Shirley at Tommy Robinson's rally (youtube.com) . Commenters have said that wihle Robinson doesn't have wide support, he has strong support from his fairly small consituency and this might be enough.
'A bunch of Somalians or Arminians'. Lol, which nationalities have made a criminal name for themselves in the States?
'A direct violation of the First Amendment,' the bill outlaws posting an image of a person who does immigration services, or something.
Nick Shirley's actually getting better at speaking.
Meshtastic. Currently kind of like SMSs. During protests, the government can shut down cell service.
915mHz commercial radio space band. Low power squwk of information. Can be encrypted native to the hardware up to 256 AES.
Meshtastic (the app that you can put on your phone, and your phone is the interface, but they have Blackberry-like all-in-one devices so you don't need a phone) has been going 5 years, based on LoRa.
$25 plus you need a batte ry, up to $300. Battery can last all weekend (just listening).
Communications might be private again (not on record always).
All of Hawaii is meshed. Repeater towers are placed at the mountain peaks by hobbyists.
Many have GPS enabled as part of a sensor package (optional), so you can use it in the woods.
Uses antennas, works as far as line of sight, add repeaters to extend.
Has a limit to how many hops (otherwise it would be unlimited clutter). People tune their distance of transmissions they want.
Good tech gives people access to information, publicly, without compromising the privacy/information of any individuals.
Basically the opposite of this Hidden cameras found in San Gabriel Valley yards during burglary investigations (youtube.com) which is what most tech companies basically also do.
People like style. In the USA, Retro-style Pizza Huts embrace nostalgia to draw diners back in (youtube.com)
Is this sort of the opposite of 80s/90s Japan, when new, which is valued in itself, was the thing to spend on, not maintaining older things? Also current, Forget fancy lunches: Japan's Plain Bento trend hits record high as food prices rise (youtube.com)
Is this just basically what Japan did for a few decades?
Similar to 2022 Moonwatch set (with Omega).
'In France, police used both tear gas grenades and tear gas spray to disperse crowds that gathered outside the country's Swatch boutiques, the national police service said.'
'The pocket watch launched only in retail stores and was not available online...'
Cocoa down 70% since 2024.
It seems no one knew Hersheys products were fake.
What's up with the sudden uptrend in opening public/museum spaces?
Well, it has a US flag on it.