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Yeah, that’s the wrong word. “Extracted” or “looted” or “stole” are all more appropriate.
Yeah, that’s the wrong word. “Extracted” or “looted” or “stole” are all more appropriate.
The headline is missing “again.” Chiquita, AKA the United Fruit Company, has been abusing Latin American nations for the entire time it has existed.
If it’s “use my name a likeness, maybe my voice work,” I’m not mad, it’s people paying to do stuff the devs would need to pay someone else to do instead. If it’s “I have some ideas how this story should go” I’d be a bit more concerned.
If you’re referring to dollars given/promised to “charity,” a huge amount of that is done in a way that protects assets from taxes but primarily benefits the donor or the donor’s offspring.
Example: Warren Buffet has billions he has pledged to charity. However, when he dies it goes into a private charitable trust that conveniently employs his children and pays them millions a year for “administration” duties. The trust can donate stocks to charities, and there is a tax exemption for the “value” of the donation, reducing the tax burden of the trust further. Billionaire charity in the USA is a nearly-complete fiction which is actually more in line with the behavior discussed in this article.
Very cool that the Minneapolis PD I’d just outsourcing forensics to <checks notes> discount retailer Target?
What’s next, the state of Arkansas outsourcing public education to Walmart?
I love the “you’d have to plant trees everywhere therefore it’s not possible” logic. As if silviculture/silvipasture were not possible. As if we couldn’t take vacant properties and plant there.
Even better if you could build your own room in Roblox and arrange furniture until you figured out what pieces you wanted and where to put them.
Or, you know, a school. You know, where there are children? Maybe children who have physical limitations who have been called gimps?
Oh well, who cares about the educational environment and getting kids exposed to FOSS options instead of commercial software?
I 100% agree. I think it’s also good to remember that when people defend the death penalty, they’re thinking about people like this, or John Wayne Gacy, and not the thousands of people who are convicted with way more questionable evidence.
I’m a death penalty opponent but cases like this remind me why a lot of people aren’t.
Dammit, can we see criticism from someone who isn’t a monster and doesn’t refer to antisemitic tropes in their criticism?
I’ve known people who were vegetarian/vegan for a while and then ate meat and got sick from it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Jeez, reading how the people were killed makes me wonder what the motive was. I’m assuming that with a group doing the deed it’s not just a psychopath.
Is it because Zionists engaged in brutality and repression at every step of the project to create Israel?
I once had a friend turn down an invitation because he “had friends coming in from Cleveland.” I told him he could just say he didn’t want to go.
With that number of images he very likely paid for some and thereby directly contributed to abuse of children.
Considering the woman: A) is legally barred from discussing the other families, and B) denies having sent anything to anyone, I think you might be making some pretty broad assumptions. What we do know is that the videos and photos weren’t faked, and they were evidence of misconduct by the other girls, who as of yet have experienced zero consequences and in at least one case may have benefited from the case going viral.
Jesus, where do you live so I can never go there?
This is what keeps being ignored in these studies, and it seems like the only reason is that copping to the real reasons young people are showing higher rates of mental illness would require admitting that the status quo is unsustainable and frankly evil.
A report that said “gen z is profoundly distressed by the reality of global warming” means admitting we need to fix the climate or see our kids suffers deaths of despair in unprecedented numbers. The same is true if we admit that the economy won’t provide most of them a job that allows basic survival, much less a comfortable fulfilling life; or that these factors have combined to cause a turn to fascism.
The “THIS IS A DEEPFAKE VOICE” label really helps human brains tell that it’s a deepfake voice.