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One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion
Still seems way overpriced. Doesn't even have name recognition anymore.
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One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion
Still seems way overpriced. Doesn't even have name recognition anymore.
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Alex Jones spent over $93,000 in July. Sandy Hook families who sued him have yet to see a dime
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People are kept in prison without a conviction, for not affording bail. Owing a thousand times the lifetime earnings of other people should at the very least mean all your accounts and holdings are frozen, and you can't spend anything without getting independent approval every time.
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Wealthy residents raise $60,000 to stop homeless shelter being built in San Francisco
Pretty shitty of GoFundMe to allow that type of collection, too. "Please help us force people to sleep on the streets".
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Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle
They shouldn't. They're not apologizing for what they're doing, but are behaving like politicians, changing the rhetoric to try to get people to like what they're going to do anyway.
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Slightly different approaches
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I thought the idea was that Republicans are actively working on destroying what has been working fine and is benefitting lots of people, not just on preventing more progress.
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Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people's data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there
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Not doing business in a country that is not your own is the easiest thing anyone can do.
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Using underpaid prison labor to deny people access to well-paying jobs, forcing more people into difficult situations.
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Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection
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A monopoly trying to lock in browsers isn't going to last in the EU.
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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old
In 2003, the World Wide Web was still in its infancy. Dial-up connections were still the default and YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail had yet to be invented.
I'd argue it had reached its prime. Websites were just websites then, not data harvesting machines.
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Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including several Assassin's Creed games | Time to say goodbye
While it's sad to see all these games begin to die a slow death, in reality, many of these titles are incredibly old and on last-gen platforms such as Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.
Yet much older games are still playable without functionality loss.
You don't need upgrades to online services. You need to stop locking down games.
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"All you had to do was stick to oppressing your own people, and we would've kept looking the other way..."
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Barely. They were in the G8. Even after being kicked out trade kept going as normal, new pipelines were being built, nuclear power plants were being shut down because who needs a fallback?
Saudi Arabia gets full honors on the international stage, despite publicly executing people for criticizing the government or having independent thought, and cutting up a journalist in a consulate abroad.
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Female surgeons sexually assaulted while operating
Even if you had like no morals at all, that type of behavior has to disqualify someone from being a surgeon. They're sabotaging the work they're supposed to be doing.
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Robin Williams' Daughter Speaks Out Against AI Recreations Of Actors' Voices: "I Find It Personally Disturbing"
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For personal use, but corporations trying to profit off of it could be fined 100% of their assets if need be.
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Man says police officer had no right to pull him over because she’s on OnlyFans
If that's what makes you lose respect for police officers, you haven't been paying attention.
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Missouri man fatally shoots his mother at home after mistaking her for intruder
An armed society is a society where people are looking for someone to shoot.
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Rep. Pressley introduces legislation to guarantee right to vote for people with felonies on record
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They should all be able to vote. From prison, too. The punishment never needs to be to take their voting rights away. If they commit fraud, stop them from committing fraud again.
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America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion
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And every now and then they'd go on a rampage destroying other people's and eras' art.
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xkcd #2849: Under the Stars
Imagine growing up on a tidally locked world, living in the day, until you wander off for long enough to discover the night.
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Are you prepared to be judged? [Martin Rosner]
So presumably he hadn't, because all life in the sea pees there.
Or Poseidon just doesn't like pools, and it's a trick question.
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"Equalizer" by War and Peas
Death should be the equalizer, but then there's generational wealth. If people are born into wealth inequality, if wealth inequality can grow from one generation to the next, the system is broken.