This reads a lot like nuance trolling. The “mystery” seems extremely one-dimensional: most fans aren’t “pay a ridiculous amount to see a band from a half-mile away” fans.

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 suspected as much. This kind of thing doesn’t materialize from nowhere.

That was my exact thought. I wonder how long they’d been doing this prior to October 7.

I don’t like the headline. Musk is scum, but the Internet is responsible for this. If Google’s loony “internet on balloons” project had scaled up, it’s just as likely these Amazon tribes would be using that service to turn into porn-and-social-media addicts.

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?

It was always private equity. It’s amazing how effective owning the press is when you want to blame something nebulous like a generation of people rather than admitting to just squeezing every drop of money out of companies you took over.

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.

“Private Equity Firm [NAME] is Ruining [INDUSTRY]” is going to be an accurate headline every time we see it.

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.

The content creators should work together to make a single bland “it’s fun 😶” video that all of them post. It would technically comply with the restriction.

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.