It sets a precedent that a very scary

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You don’t think the billionaires will just do the same thing with the non US technology? Unfortunately it’s up to regulators to decide much of this issue, and when they’re in the pocket of the billionaires it’s not good.

As a conservative Christian, I can tell you that white Jesus hates immigrants and loves justice. 🔫🔫🔫✝️✝️✝️

but open source is always a spectrum

Is it? I’ve only ever heard “open source” to refer to the source code being released.

Maybe there’s a different term they meant to say other than “open source”

Not in my hemisphere!

Microsoft owns it now.

AI told them to do it.

The choice of words “bum rush” shows that they think these people are entering the country violently and causing chaos once they’re in. Which is just not the reality they live in.

Most of the people are entering peacefully and want to be productive when they get here.

Every elementary school class photo.

At no point in the first paragraph does it say it is intentionally supposed to be a recreation of his death scene. It is mentioned throughout the article that the author and MS Now reporter that that’s what it is.

Now, where I am most dumbfounded by your comment is the fact that THERE IS NO INTERVIEW WITH THE STAFF. Did you misinterpret a report by a MS Now reporter as an interview with event staff?

I can’t believe you’re the one giving me shit. You gotta do more than look at the words. Comprehension is important too.

I get it. I just think that if it happened to somebody I liked, I would want to preserve the positivity of their life. Treating the iconic scene as a permanent tragedy is letting the terrorists win.

Love the snark. The thing Lemmy needs the most is less engagement. So keep up your bullshit!

Second, I read the article, and nowhere did it mention if it was intentional. Which was the question. So maybe you need a lesson in reading comprehension.

OK, but if they considered his set up to be iconic during his life, then it’s not fair to say that they should never be able to reference it again just because some terrorist murdered him in it.

I certainly hate this dude, but I think there’s a big difference between saying “take your photo at a recreation of his assassination” and “we’re reclaiming this symbol as a celebration of his life”.

Is this meant to be a recreation of that specific scene? Or was it just meant to be a recreation of his normal setup when doing these?

I’m honestly fine with companies not paying taxes so long as their profits are being spent on people in lower tax brackets.

Current tax structure makes it easy for the company to just give all their profits to their executives.

70% tax on income over $1 million. Go back to a progressive tax structure for company profits. Not sure why my local donut shop is paying the same rate as Microsoft.

In all fairness, I don’t think any of this crazy is coming from Trump. It’s the perfectly sane fascists he has hired.

Yeah, that’s one half of both.

Why not both?

Chevron’s $220 million award against Ecuador is far below the more than $3 billion the company had sought, and represents legal fees the firm spent related to its Ecuadorian operations, including costs spent defending itself against a class-action-style lawsuit that resulted in a $9.5 billion judgment against the company, issued in 2011.

The validity of that Ecuadorian judgment, a ruling affirmed by the country’s highest court, was at the heart of the ISDS arbitration. In 2018, the arbitrators declared the $9.5 billion judgment fraudulent, finding that Ecuadorian courts had treated Chevron unfairly and that the government was wrong to let the ruling stand.

The 2018 ruling was based on evidence that the lawyers who had won the $9.5 billion judgment did so by forging an expert’s signature, blackmailing a judge, facilitating the ghostwriting of a key piece of evidence and bribing other Ecuadorian judges — acts the lawyers either denied or said weren’t illegal in Ecuador at the time.

Interesting.