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Wake me when a hemorrhagic fever crosses the Rockies.

Probably a lot less than even the last time they tried this, back in 2022. But if it lasts longer than a month, then they will have made progress.

I hope they call it CNN Plus Two

ISO certification does require a bit more effort than just the bare minimum necessary to legally advertise specific claims about a product.

That doesn’t mean all M-Disc manufacturing is immune to shitty business practices of a manufacturer, but they do have to meet certain manufacturing specifications.

Yes, they can choose to either NOT be a professional artist, or to work with Live Nation and Ticket Master.

It’s one, or the other.

Monopolies are the opposite of choice.

You aren’t thinking this through and all the wonderful possibilities.

Just imagine if we let private prisons “loan” out low risk prisoners to local businesses.

BAM! Now you get to spread the cost savings of prison labor to the wider economy.

And that’s just me spitballing. I got so many good ideas on what we can do with our newly enslaved poors, err… I mean criminally homeless deviants.

This is public record due to their financial reporting obligations as public company, but their password sharing crackdown resulted in not insignificant amounts of new subscribers.

Or at least, there was meaningful growth that occurred in time periods that aligned with those policies going into effect.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/business/netflix-password-sharing-results/index.html

I can’t believe you would blame the CIA for problems in Kenya.

I’m pretty sure notable CIA alumni even tried to promote Kenyan tourism.

The reason he fell from favor was a coordinated and relentless media attack and smear campaign because he was beholden to Old Labour values, and not New Labour’s brand of limp dick neoliberalism.

That may sound overly simplistic and vulgar, but it’s accurate, and if anything, less vulgar than the smear campaign that was used to gun down his political career as party leader.

Uh I’m pretty sure they offer trauma counseling to all those contractors.

I mean, sure, it’s from a sub-contracted provider, TraumaBots (powered by ChatGPT 3.5), but I’ve heard only 36% of TraumaBot’s patients end up killing themselves.

So… I’d call that a win/win.

A lot of human traffickers are Mexican, especially in the South West. Should probably ban Mexicans as well, just to be safe I guess.

Oh, and most mass shooters are white men, should probably ban them.

Gangbangers are another problem you mentioned, let’s just go ahead and ban every male 18-28.

Prostitutes also a problem? Let’s ban all females 18-32.

You’re working backwards from a terrible policy, banning people for having shitty political views, and then justifying it by saying, “Well, they probably committed sex crimes because they’re creepy”.

Ban them for bad actions, not bad thoughts.

I wasn’t aware that sex trafficking and gangbanging were just considered acts of political extremism.

Because that’s what I’m concerned about - banning people for the thought crimes of having shitty politics, which is something this team clearly engaged in.

I can’t speak to any other role they played in preventing actual criminal activity, like you described, but those would be perfect examples of the types of people that should be banned.

But if your argument is that actual crime and “pre-crime” or “thought crimes” are the same, well, that’s pretty Orwellian and something I strongly disagree with.

This sounds Orwellian.

I understand the justification for these teams on social media because of their role, and their desire to be advertising friendly.

But a public company like AirBnB should not be legally allowed to ban people solely based on their political views, even if they suck.

Ban them for their actions, but not for Minority Report Pre-Crime.

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These are squad level ground launched air to ground munitions i.e. they’re small enough to be carried by infantry units and have the explosive charge more akin to antitank munitions.

It has been black and white, since inception. Just on behalf of the federal government and those “complexities” you listed.

This is what nuance and the shading of gray looks like: science showing the other side of these projects, and the extreme costs which have primarily been borne by the indigenous tribes in the region.

…it’s a monarchy.

If anyone you read, or know, ever refers to a monarchy as progressive, you can immediately disregard everything they ever write, or say.

The only context where it’s at least explainable would be in a limited to direct comparison between Jordan and the other regional monarchs with large petroleum reserves.

Did you just blame Trump for a Biden appointment?

Because my comment was specifically about a Biden appointment to the FAA…But if you’re looking for who to blame for the FAA being shit, well that goes back a heck of a lot further, and it’s a bipartisan affair.

Yes, my open salvo was directed at the Whitaker.

Also, I’m pretty sure OP is an article bot, so don’t think they’d take notice, or offense, regardless lol.

Lemmy.world communities tend to be less tolerable of any direct Biden criticism, at least in my experience. Although maybe they thought I was directing that opener at OP.