Yeah everyone uses WhatsApp when I travel to other countries.

How did he know where the guy lived?

Never buy the first model year of any vehicle. And that includes new generations with the same model name. They always have the most problems the first year, so you’re just paying to be a beta tester.

Cuba might get the short end of this one. If it becomes too embarrassing for our military/government they might cut off relations. And Canadian tourism is a big sustainer of Cuban coffers. Canada could cut off that income by blocking travel there, or even just declaring it as an “avoid all travel” zone, effectively cutting off tourism.

The truth is, we don’t know what’s going on. Maybe this was a deliberate decision to get closer to the Russians without triggering an incident. Maybe the US knew about this and approved it. Maybe it was a blunder, but we can’t just assume it was.

I foresee the “ramen challenge spicy 3x” coming to your TikTok by the end of the day. (Someone will have to let me know if I’m right, i don’t have these new-fangled tikky tock things the kids are talking about.)

No sign-in/paywall: https://archive.is/VHSWM

Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/3kA9J

They did add audiobooks.

Though the interface for audiobooks sucks, so I hope they improve it.

Luckily, each one of his alleged shots missed and no one was killed or seriously injured as a result of the tirade.

They buried the lede that he’s a stormtrooper.

Maybe you’ll inspire those bad apples to be great.

I think saying things like that is also meant to be inspiring. Like when you tell all the kids on a hockey team that they’re great and they’re gonna kick ass out on the ice, but you know who they’re about to play and they don’t stand a chance. But who knows, maybe telling them they’re great will get one or two of them to dream about being a future hockey hero, and they’ll get out on the ice and really kick some ass for once - make that extra pass, hit the net for a shot, or hold off on that big, useless, cross-check to the head that would put them in the sin bin for 5 minutes.

If the kids can dream, so can you, right?

It may not be, but where did you get that number? The article (currently) says the data of 560 million ticket-purchasing customers was stolen. I don’t see anything about “venue rentals business” customers, nor about 1 billion customers of any kind.

I was letting you know. It’s all good dude, the world isn’t going to end if he doesn’t read the full discussion.

Yeah more just commenting on the moderation work :)

Looks like they might be removed (except one). Sorting by new and looking for downvoted posts I just see the one ad and an article about string theory + AI (double whammy).

You might get a number of “free” articles before you start seeing it.

Swamp creatures are scary and gross, but my real fear is paywalls: https://archive.is/uFqL7

Honestly, that’s where my comment started… But everything I found showed that studies had proven that it was safe. So I changed tack and started focusing on the Greenpeace side.

According to the Greenpeace website:

But behind the hype, GE ‘Golden’ rice is environmentally irresponsible, poses risks to human health and could compromise food, nutrition and financial security.

My take from this: It may be that they targeted more than the safety, but also the possibility of gene flow (to other rice crops including wild rice), possible effects on biodiversity, and the ever-present patent issues that come up with GMO’s.

Scanning down the page though, they don’t specifically say why it poses risks to human health other than some hand-wavey stuff about how it would make people rely on rice instead of providing other sources of vitamin A in their diets.

They also brought up that at least one experiment with the rice on children in China wasn’t done ethically, and also that this could be imposed against people’s religious beliefs.

It mentions the cross-contamination gene flow stuff, but I thought because rice was self pollinating that that wasnt as big an issue with GM rice. (I’m not an expert by any means.)

Their general argument seems to be “new way bad, old way good” without any scientic evidence. They didn’t have to convince scientists though.

The law firm would be putting themselves on the line for LTT if there was any further legal action, or if the subject of the investigation brought forth more evidence.

I doubt LTT is big enough to give them the incentive to do that.

Hiring a third party investigator is not the same as internal affairs. Internal affairs have only one client and little incentive to bite the hand that feeds them.

If LTT goes down after this and it comes out that the law firm missed something major or outright lied, it would call into question every investigation they’ve done (at least recently) and destroy their reputation.