Then you lack imagination. It’s actually happened and not that long ago that a pilot intentionally killed himself and took the entire plane with him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

Blatant and intentional violation of due process, this removes any expectation people have for a fair trial.

At its core, the Trump administration is tearing up the social contract that has existed since the founding of the USA and which is core to the Constitution: the state has legitimacy over the individual, and the individuals consent to this control given their rights are upheld and the state treats them with respect and in accordance with the law.

Tear up that social contract and the outcomes will be that people no longer consent to that control and the government loses legitimacy, people will fight back to protect themselves. Disproportionate violence will be the likely first response to anyone fighting back against unlawful authorities going by their prior record. It’s quite possibly what they are hoping for as it feeds their right wing accelerationist goals.

The massive jacaranda mimosifolia (native to Brazil) which is dominating my front garden, laughs at your suggestion that it does not leave much mess on the ground.

It regularly carpets the area below it in purple flowers, tens of thousands of small leaves, hundreds of twigs/seed pods and a few larger dried branches. Not just one season either - it flowers multiple times a year with how weird the weather is nowadays. The birds and bees like it though so we’re cool.

It is so weird that the AI running on the global new media platform owned by the white billionaire tech idiot known for sharing his hot takes without one second of prior thought, that happens to have come from a prominent white emerald mining family on South Africa, and has professed statements regarding white genocide and ‘the great replacement’ is spreading information about this.

So very, very unexpected.

Your customers have noticed the decline in quality, guarantee it.

I hated him. No character development, same asshole from start to finish. Whenever I had to do Trevor missions I often walked away from the game for the day, resulting in taking many months to actually finish the kind of game I usually enjoy.

Franklin was boring too, sterotype with no strong opinions on much - just went with the flow on everything. The only character I kind of enjoyed playing was Michael, and that’s because he was aware that he was a piece of shit and decided to try to change. His approach to mending his relationship with his family was terrible and often put them in riskier/worse situations, but hey it’s GTA it’s not meant to be entirely realistic.

I remember being a lot more invested in GTA4 and thoroughly enjoyed that narrative, but maybe it’s rose tinted glasses?

I tried to access the study but can’t find it at the usual mirrors (yet). They usually just have a line like ‘the study authors and funding partners do not have any conflict of interest in this area of study’ so it requires a journalist or some expert to dig into the funding sources. AFAIK.

I think you underestimate people’s drive for a bargain.

This was a decade back, but the satellite paytv system here was not cheap. $50/m for base, up to $150/m for full. A technical crew worked out how to pirate it by hooking the verification card up to a dongle on a PC and sending the verification requests from each set-top box over a VPN back to their master device. They sold access to the system for about $100 (for the dongle & setup) and then $10-20/month for full access to the Fox-based service. Went on for years before loose lips sunk the ship, and their were thousands of users when it got busted. No marketing, no Internet presense, just word of mouth “I know a guy”.

The modern Internet-based streaming pirate services that people can buy cheap devices for on ebay preconfigured, and pay $5-10/m for access to all movies and TV? Cheaper and faster access, all online, nobody has to visit your home. Everything is easier and the barrier of entry is lower.

If Netflix and others don’t stop being so greedy, they’ll be reminded that people only play by the rules when the terms are reasonable.

That’s a bad reason to make (or keep) something illegal. Having legal weed does nothing to stop enthusiasts breeding their own strains or propagating ‘heirloom’ varieties - because they were already doing that illegally since forever before it was legalized.

Put another way, swap weed for alcohol. Should alcohol be banned because Anheuser-Beusch ans InBev exist and lobbies the government for favourable legislation? No… Fighting against the crap legislation is a better idea, and who would be better positioned to do that than an industry growers union or an independent growers union or similar.

Making something legal or illegal doesn’t magically make it immune to capitalism, it just goes back to a black market where you have no protections as a buyer nor as a seller.

Many of them literally called it the German equivalent of ‘fake news’ after Hitler spent many years persecuting the independent press, which he and Himmler would smear with the derogative term ‘Lügenpresse’.

One of the many reasons that Eisenhower forced Germans from towns nearby to tour the camps, and had army documenters and media film the camps to later force adult German citizens to watch while under occupation. Many of them simply chose to believe the obvious lies, and ignore all the evidence they’d seen - it was easier than the awful truth.

https://archivesfoundation.org/newsletter/see-for-yourself/

And while their was some backlash from a few people, the majority of their fans shrugged and kept on watching them, judging by their subscriber and view counts.

Absolutely pathetic from the ‘facts don’t care about your feelings’ crowd that purports to bravely face uncomfortable truths.

Yeah the limit at my library is 14, which is more than generous even if you happen to be researching a topic for a report / thesis etc.

Show us where the government in Australia has banned music / artists? I cant find anything about this.

Yep, so in Australia NSW police have been contacting Spotify/YouTube/etc with requests to delist certain songs from Sydney drill rap bands that glorify and promote gang violence against Spotify’s/Youtube’s/etcs policies, the streamers have in some cases agreed and delisted the music, in other cases they have not and the music remains. This is after the groups theyve had issues with (eg One-Four) have caused multiple riots and had several charges and convictions, so it’s arisen from a desire to serve public good. Only certain tracks have been targeted from what I can see, not whole albums or artist catalogs.

That’s a far cry from the government deciding what art people can or cannot listen to in my opinion. They have only asked some streaming platforms to adhere to their own policies, and then tbe platforms have made their own decisions on case by case basis.

Is there other actions I’m not aware of? The govt hasn’t passed any laws to block the sale of drill rap nor banned its play on radio etc?

There’s chicken, and then there’s the weird, chlorine-cleaned, antibiotic-pumped meat that the US calls ‘chicken’.

The ones that are dumb enough to do this won’t be getting jobs to be replaced anyway.

Still blows my mind that there are vocal and active ‘gays for Trump’ and ‘gay and Republican’ groups that have somehow believe they’ve found a venn diagram overlap of GOP beliefs and theirs - despite all evidence to the contrary.

Ehh. The default setting of life is to be ignorant - not politically engaged. So when someone does something like this meme they generally just go back to (now willful) ignorance.

Essentially they’re Cypher from the Matrix, but instead of having their memories wiped with machine technology they use Ambien and Champagne.

Good. Temu is 99% trash.