…and all so they can steal our collective content, creativity, and every piece of individual thought or content we’ve ever communicated online.

…with the aim of exploiting it to make billionaires richer.

Then he’ll remain a danger to the world and probably do a lot of horrible things protecting himself, which will not be a good outcome for the west.

Negotiate the full deal to return Ukrainian, and exit peaceably. Run your stories in Russia “Ukraine successfully denazified, free and fair elections to be held” - “Ukrainian forces defeated at Russian border”…

…then go back to arresting democracy protestors, gay rights advocates, and your own alt-right talking heads… And try to keep your head on Vlad. Try to pick a successors, and a nice European country to retire to.

Like when Russia was trying to frame Ukrainians as running a Nazi network, and ordered a photo to include “three sim cards”… But agents interpreted it to me, three copies of the game, The Sims?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/russia-sims-3/

Sonic was really not the game I thought would come true.

Tell friends and family to get accounts on federated services you use. Word of mouth is how lots of websites get popular.

Recommend it when reddit comes up or gets mentioned.

Now we enter the food and water shortage stage of Capitalism.

…a “leveraged loan” usually means there’s a contract to sell a natural resource for a very cheap price (far below the market rate) if the loan isn’t paid back. That’s the “leverage” that makes the loan (usually to an otherwise poor country) “good” in the eyes of the world bank.

So that’s what happens. If they refuse to give up the goods, they’ll get down graded, possibly refused global banking services, or put on an embargo list… And they’ll probably arrange ownership of the mine/refinery/wells and have them secured with private security forces anyways.

When you’re too questionable for the world bank - who regularly offers leveraged loans to dictators they know are going to embezzle the cash and flee, leaving whole countries destitute.

…even those guys are like - “nah, Elon Musk clearly has a questionable character”.

Feels like it’s been speeding up the past few years. Barely had a winter season this year.

The Argentine Peso is pegged to the US dollar.

Yeah, they’re inconsistent from article to article, because it depends on how many editors show up.

The more editors generally means a more consistent result/accurate result.

I don’t know if you’ve ever read through a debate on a contentious and well attended topic on Wikipedia, but they tend to differ to experts, academics, and reliable sources, as it’s a Wikipedia policy (the easiest policy to appeal to in fact).

Sounds like this was more than one ‘point of fact’ or on lone editor at play. Perhaps we read to different things here:

The Los Angeles-based Jewish Journal, which followed the Wikipedia discussion and vote, wrote that the editors who voted on this change claimed to be relying on an academic consensus based on statements of experts on genocide, human rights, human rights law and Holocaust historians.

Sounds like they used high quality reliable sources to define the characterisation of the events. Which is a very Wikipedia approach to take.

There should be instructions that range from beginner, where every little step is included as well as major details as to why - all the way up to expert, which are just a few sentences.

It’s been an ethnic cleansing for a long time, and the US government and military industrial complex is complicit. They provide billions each month in exchange for commitments to use more and more US made weapons… What is it again, 3.8 billions per year for the next 10 years?… It was an Obama era deal that’s only recently been in effect.

Anyone remember how 911 was motivated in part by US involvement in Afghanistan?

This is how you get terror attacks down the line. For some reason people don’t like being ethnically cleansed. It’s a holocaust.

No doubt it’s now considered part of securing the India-Saudi-Israel-Europe trade route that’s been negotiated. So now it’s a measure of how willing America is to watch and fund a genocide in the name of securing trade loyalties and weapons contracts.

I think it’s obvious that Putin has to be killed in the name of global political stability.

Also that particular Senator is from a particularly stupid minority party owned by a billionaire.

He did pick up on the Putin gaffe and immediately corrected himself and explained that his enemies have been on his mind lately.

He didn’t correct calling Kamala Harris Trump.

He’s been known for making gaffes since he was Obama’s vice president. From his Wikipedia page:

The remark revived Biden’s reputation for gaffes.[227][221][228]

Those sources are from 2009.

Journalist and TV anchor Wolf Blitzer has called Biden loquacious;[692] journalist Mark Bowden has said that he is famous for “talking too much”, leaning in close “like an old pal with something urgent to tell you”.[298] He often deviates from prepared remarks[693] and sometimes “puts his foot in his mouth”.[169][694][695] Biden has a reputation for being prone to gaffes[696] and in 2018 called himself “a gaffe machine”.[697][698] The New York Times wrote that Biden’s “weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything.”[169]

He has struggled with a stutter most of his life, which he learned to cover up.

Biden’s reputation for gaffes is something you clearly weren’t aware of:

The remark revived Biden’s reputation for gaffes.[227][221][228]

Those sources are from 2009.

Journalist and TV anchor Wolf Blitzer has called Biden loquacious;[692] journalist Mark Bowden has said that he is famous for “talking too much”, leaning in close “like an old pal with something urgent to tell you”.[298] He often deviates from prepared remarks[693] and sometimes “puts his foot in his mouth”.[169][694][695] Biden has a reputation for being prone to gaffes[696] and in 2018 called himself “a gaffe machine”.[697][698] The New York Times wrote that Biden’s “weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything.”[169]

Now you do.

Apparently he’s always struggled with speech issues, and grew up being mocked for his stuttering, which he learned to cover with his own techniques/efforts.

Here’s a video of him discussing this in a TV interview from 15 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUFA6JUaAPY

So it doesn’t appear to be anything new for him.