In case people only saw the headline…

The sale is because a breach already happened: “hackers obtained personal data about seven million of its customers in October 2023”.

They cannot afford the lawsuits.

I will split hairs: Zionism is merely the belief that Jews are entitled to have their own state in the Levant.

A minority are also expansionists, parroting an equivalent of the Hamas “river to the sea” slogan.

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MP3’s sped up copying of music. As for games though, they increased in size because of CD’s so that countered any speed up.

In Australia the politicians get token board positions, upon retirement, at the corporations whom they legislate in favour of.

It requires trust: the corporation has to have a reputation in following through with these very indirect bribes years after the favor was done.

Even if Renewables corps wanted to play the same game, they could not compete with oil and coal corps because they don’t have the connections, the scale for lucrative board positions or the reputation as “honest” crooks.

I mistakenly thought you were the actual journalist. But I should always presume the journalist will see my comments and therefore not be so harsh, especially when freeloading.

FWIW I subscribe to an (Australian) online newspaper which is free just like you do. The difference being that I rarely read it since I am on top of those topics largely. Am just glad that it exists for others because it is well researched and presented.

I was saying that apart from rounding up there is also this convention. I agree it is not important - am just nerding.

BC means Before Christ. Since Jesus Christ obviously was not born 4 years before he was born, are you saying his real birthdate was found to be different from what it was initially thought to be but it was too late to change the numbering system?

EDIT: The date of the birth of Jesus is not stated in the gospels or in any historical sources and the evidence is too incomplete to allow for consistent dating. However, most biblical scholars and ancient historians believe that his birth date is around 6 to 4 BC.

Thanks. I did not know that until you had me look it up.

Justice Roberts from the Supreme Court has publicly scolded Trump over the deportation of Venezuelans and Trump’s nitpicking over the legality.

Paradoxically…

On July 1, 2024, Roberts wrote the majority opinion in Trump v. United States, writing that a president has absolute immunity for acts committed as president within their constitutional purview, presumptive immunity for official acts, and no immunity for unofficial acts.

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

I don’t understand the meaning of “within their constitutional purview” though.

He is also the same guy picked up on hot mic a few weeks ago when Trump thanked him for the above. Roberts responded “that’s OK”.

That he is pushing back is significant. Roberts and his SCOTUS buddies will become irrelevant if Trump ignores them.

It is really precarious and scary but it has not happened yet.

Not in a clear-cut way. It really isn’t that simple. In fact I am listening to this podcast right now.

I’m listening to The Daily | Trump’s Showdown With the Courts on Podbean, check it out! https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-z3qmw-2466f591

But eventually Trump is bound to push the envelope and disobey the courts in a clear-cut way. It is not looking hopeful for Democracy in USA.

Ars offers free articles while most publications have a paywall, so I imagine funding isn’t as generous as it would have been 30 years ago when such publications would have been in magazine format.

I removed the insult.

I don’t think they contacted the researchers and the linked study does not seem to give the answer (I spent a few minutes looking).

Strategies like catering to her Republican constituents.

Slotkin responded by saying she also serves Michigan residents who voted for Trump

3% success vs what? 6% sent over the edge? 10% 20% ?

If the journalist asked for a specific figure but was evaded then it should be stated in the article.

I heard from a Redditor that his tweets were luring US scientists to EU and his visit was a recruitment drive. One USAmerican already took up the offer.

I imagine US does not want to identify him because although we could verify the above in his tweets, it would be advertising the lure for US scientists to defect.

And the French guy probably does not want to identify himself because je wants to make the US government look as bad as possible.

Not random, not as bad as the headline sounds but not worthy of banning anyhow.

They are all synonyms for archive.today

whether it is .ph, .vn, .is, .md

Try any of their URL’s but just change the TLD and you will see that page is always archived on all of them.

Different cultures count differently. eg Jesus was not born in zero AD but in one AD. His whole first year of life he was considered to be in his first year.

I think some countries count age this way too (hopefully someone can confirm to satisfy my nerdy curiosity).

Technically it is only a “constitutional crisis” if a court makes a decision and it is disobeyed by the government, since that would be undermining the “separation of powers” specified in the Constitution.

Not necessarily. Now is a crossroads. Will there be a constitutional crisis or not?

Musk and co will probably drag it out by appealing to a higher court.