After a bit of searching, it's from Spider-Man Noir (2025) #2.

As I pointed out, they aren't the demands you make of a state or even a vassal, they're demands you make of a colony.

This is working less and less because there's also tools to un-poison that content before ingestion. Scrapers are also getting good at detecting poisoned content before ingestion as well.

Welcome to the arms race.

Nah, that list isn't what you give a state.

It's the list of demands you'd give a colony.

More importantly, they were mostly brown. We all know how Apartheid Musk feels about those people.

Yeah that sounds right. He did the same shit in 2016 and 2020, because he apparently can't stop shoving his entire fucking foot in his mouth the second he opens it on a hot mic.

Doesn't matter, because he's leasing it from a company he controls. Assuming he decides to forgive the loan (which he will), he's effectively just giving his company $700k in election funds scot-free.

I mean, technically they weren't wrong.

Definitely also watch the movie after you're done with the first series. Future is good, but not as good IMO.

Even in the US, a lot of TOS/T&Cs are unenforceable. It's harder to get a judge to say it, but there's case law holding a LOT of these as useless - and your point would also almost certainly come up even in a civil suit, let alone a criminal trial.

Because providing shit like sheltered shade, AC, water breaks and the like costs the company a small fraction of their profit and that's anathema to The Line, which must constantly Go Up.

See, that's the thing these guys don't want to understand. There could be a thousand generational talents like that "right fucking now*, who have these enormous gifts and won't ever be able to realize them because they gotta go to their third job so they don't fall behind on rent AGAIN.

Your Uber driver might be a virtuosic violin player who's never realized it because he's never had the opportunity to try. The cashier at Taco Bell might be an amazing painter, who can't afford to paint because every last cent has to go to one bill or another. That kid in Ghana you're watching on the TV charity commercial might be the next talent in rocketry or physics or poetry or any of a dozen other fields if they had a shot.

She definitely could also just be a power woman. Some people aren't attracted to the money or the person, they just want proximity to power - sometimes to skim that power for themselves, sometimes to hide behind the protection of that power, sometimes to simply affirm a belief that they're powerful.

Trump doesn't need a honey pot - remember, his handlers have to constantly keep reminding him of "hey that's a national secret you can't talk about that" or "maybe don't shout about it in front of an audience of thousands". Why bother with espionage, when you can simply rock up with a briefcase of cash and say "hey I want detailed plans of all your military bases in X region, here's several million dollars."

It's a way for them to semi-legally force you to not take your sick leave, because it's gonna always be a huge pain to get to your GP (or urgent care in the US, because your GP is booked solid for another two months) and get that doctor's note.

As long as you keep people fed, clothed and moderately comfortable, they'll fight anyone, anywhere for you.

Most of anyone who paid attention assumed he was a trafficker already. You don't passively participate in a ring like that - eventually, you will be forced to contribute, and Trump had means, motive (continued access to the people he felt he identified best with), and opportunity

Didn't they effectively un-person another ICC judge last year by doing this?

If you want slightly easier, you could always just make sure Thomas Midgley Jr never works in chemical engineering. Saves humanity from both leaded gasoline and CFCs, theoretically.

Capitalism teaches us to betray everything for that one glimmering chance to be considered, even partially, part of the aristocracy.