Wouldn’t be the first time something like this has happened.

For instance, there are regulations in place that mandate that anything called “white chocolate” must contain at least a certain percentage of milk. Which, in my opinion, is ridiculous. If someone wanted to create “white chocolate” using cacao butter and a dairy free alternative, they should be able to call it white chocolate.

Worst case scenario here, we just adopt a name that’s ridiculously close to what it used to be, like “vedgurger” or “sausagies”.

You can take your pick here: https://ground.news/article/connecticut-police-find-decomposed-body-after-standoff-with-man-who-shot-at-officers_21cc82

Wait, why would they get in trouble? PepsiCo owns all of these companies (Frito Lays, Naked, Doritos/Cheetos, etc.).

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PepsiCo_brands

This is an important point. Simply giving a ton of rice to an area will put the rice farmers in that area out of business.

They’ll need to grow something else to make a living, but then when the next year comes around, no one is making rice anymore and they’ll be dependent on that external flow of rice.

Some other countries build up math skills a little differently. For instance, in Portugal, they teach a little bit of Algebra, a little bit of Geometry, and a little bit of Calculus every year.

In the U.S. the students focus on Algebra, one year, then Geometry the next, then Algebra again, and finally Calculus (if they did well in the previous math courses).

So, if a student transferred for their senior year of High School from the U.S. to Portugal, they would have a different experience compared to their peers. They would find all of the Algebra and Geometry sections very easy and be able to help tutor the other students, but then they would struggle with the Calculus portions and need help from the others.

I’m not sure how common this is among other european countries. I would be curious to know how math courses are taught in other countries.

Oh, oh, I know! How about they release an app, or a website, where we can take a picture of the face of any of these Agents, and it will confirm if they’re actually one or not.

On a serious note, it would be very useful to have a better system of confirming who is an actual agent or not. Something like plugging their badge number into a website and they have to confirm a daily code or similar.

I mean, votes are public in the fediverse. I wouldn’t try to read into the reasoning from a single downvoter too much though.

One downvote could be accidental. 2 downvotes in the same thread makes that seem less likely.

Downvoting/Upvoting doesn’t mean the same thing that it does for everyone. Some use it as an agree/disagree. Some use it for whether a comment is productive and adds to the conversation or not. Some use it as a visibility score whether they think a comment should be seen by others first or whether there are other comments that are better. Some may agree with most everything in a comment except for one part and then downvote because of that.

This isn’t a problem that’s unique to “capitalism”. It’s a monopoly problem. Even in other economy types this problem would exist. For example, with communism almost everything would be a monopoly.

A free market is supposed to provide us multiple options to take our business, but we need regulation to keep capitalism in check.

We do have laws against monopolies, and there is already a case against Live Nation/Ticketmaster:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Live_Nation_Entertainment

The way to really fix this is through our legal system and representatives. We need to pressure our representatives to pass better laws to prevent this from happening again as well as electing officials who actual care about issues like this.

Poe’s law strikes again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe’s_law

(Maybe use a ‘/s’ next time)

It might be better if you can link to the timestamp around where this takes place.

Especially considering that you just linked to a 7+ hour video. Edit: just realized that you do have the start time in there. Looks like GrayJay only handles &t=____s instead of &start=____s

Prove it!

His lawyers from the Institute for Justice are currently looking for any other U.S. Citizens who have been detained or questioned by ICE while working.

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Thanks! I definitely feel the same. I found it particularly wholesome to read through the comments of those that were donating here: https://www.givesendgo.com/helptheSanfordfamily

Yes, but this isn’t a fundraiser that was started by the church (or with church funding) but rather it was started and donated to by the members themselves.

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Anyone else see a video here? I just see a screenshot.

The entire line of “You can have a credit card” looks like it was edited in.

Ana Valens recently resigned from Vice following an article about the censorship of games. On social media, she shared communication between Mastercard and Riot Games.

Looks like Vice can’t be trusted as a reliable source of information if they’re willing to fire journalists after a little outside pressure is put on them.

The article addresses the topic of how quickly the banning of this kind of material can get out of hand:

These are, it seems, the same people going on book-banning crusades that ensare such smut as Calvin & Hobbes comics.

*Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist **Bill Watterson *have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.

The removals are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning. In 2024, the state legislature amended the “Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022” to specify that any materials that “in whole or in part” contain any “nudity, or descriptions or depictions of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sadomasochistic abuse” are inappropriate for all students and do not belong in a school library. This change means books are not evaluated as a whole, and excerpts can be considered without context, if they have any content that is deemed to cross these lines. This leaves no room for educators and librarians to curate collections that reflect the real world and serve the educational needs of today’s students.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/02/tn-govt-saves-school-children-from-smut-like-magic-tree-house-calvin-hobbes-a-light-in-the-attic/

All they really need to do is make self-driving cars safer than your average human driver.