Watching this guy barreling down a waterslide while drinking whiskey with a pack of cigarettes at hand and a crystal ashtray while wearing a full suit with your family at your side is funny as fuck. Kim sure knows how to put on absurd state events.

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China is largely dominating the electric bus market too. I doubt Europe particularly wants to bootstrap a lithium mining and refining industry to compete though. The Chinese companies are that vertically integrated.

Saudi has been in a cold war with Iran for decades because it wants to be a regional hegemon and hasn’t been quiet about it. Turkey is more circumspect, giving everybody face while cutting them off at the knees in the shadows. Egypt, by comparison, would much prefer to stay out of everybody’s business and have them stay out of theirs. They’ve got more interests in Sudan and Ethiopia at this point.

What’re we suddenly considering the Saudis and the Turks the moderating influence in the middle east now and Israel and the US aren’t even in the equation? Jesus Christ.

I guess I’m a train now.

Hard to have standing over a third party not doing something to someone else that would hurt them to maybe(key point here) help you. It’s possible to argue yourself there but the bar is incredibly high. If you can’t assign direct provable causation and redress, you’re SOL.

It’s kind of like how nobody really could challenge DACA in the courts from the Republican side because all the harms they cited were hypothetical.

The legal basis is someone with standing would have to sue him over it. Tiktokm certainly isn’t going to and Congress… Well.

Anticompetitive structures in South Korea? I am shocked.

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Yeah, gotta export that freedom to them Maori and ignore the rule of law by treaty with them yeah? What’s that got to do with colonialism? Can’t even be related. Who would even think such a thing? I am truly shocked.

Because they wanted to get their minor coalition partners the colonialist vote. Which of course means they wanted the colonialist vote by proxy.

So who can regale us on why the current coalition is running cover for colonialists in New Zealand. I thought that was usually a losing move there.

I get what you’re saying, but giving yourself a fast lane in other business areas is an explicit choice to be anticompetitive. That decision on its own is inherently malicious. It doesn’t allow you to then say the consequences of that decision are neutral because you didn’t single out this specific competitor to block (or at least there’s no evidence you did). This is frankly a slam dunk case in the EU that will result in heavy fines for Google.

I’m actually certain that the issues facing Nextcloud are not some malicious anti-competitive effort, but yet more sheer and utter incompetence from every enterprise/business facing aspect of Google.

That both may be true and anticompetitive at the same time. Google cloud services apps certainly aren’t randomly getting blocked or going through the same system. Google has steadfastly refused to reply to them or consider their needs.

Let’s fight terrorism with terrorism. That’ll work.

They put the tardigrades onto surfaces cooled to below -226 degrees Fahrenheit (-143 degrees Celsius), and covered the tiny creatures in anisole, an anise-scented organic compound.

If it’s not enough that they froze them, then they covered them in licorice flavor and tattooed them with it. I literally didn’t realize you could torture something so.

The boon here isn’t that it’ll allow them to bring a shoddy product to market. The boon is they’ll be able to continue milking investors by hiding the fact that they have no marketable product in this space while they keep selling off their stock.

FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF REALITY Re: Non-Existent Business Entity Status: METAPHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE Cosmic Authority: LAWS OF PHYSICS

THE UNIVERSE DECLARES:

This business is now:

1. PHYSICALLY Non-existent
2. QUANTUM STATE: Collapsed […

That is much much funnier. It’s willing the entire simulation out of existence. It’s attempting magic. That’s existential dread.

I’ve made a lot of tough decisions since I took this position. But none of them harder than this one. You saved us, but you’ll kill us. I’m sorry. You’re a hero… and you have to leave

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