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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Biden failed to get his $15 minimum wage promise but had no issues giving free cash to the rail industry to do nothing, free cash to GM to do nothing, free cash to TSMC & Intel to do nothing, and also free cash to Israel to continue a genocide.

    So excuse me when I say that this is a election year scam porkbarrel promise which will magically get stuck in congress or get conveniently halted by a random ass judge.

    The only one here I can see happening is the tax credit because it has been done before and because it doesn’t actually involve giving out money.


  • Fireship said this guy only costed Hollywood like 500m in “potential revenue” over the course of Megaupload’s existence which is pretty low compared to the accusations hurled at piratebay which is still active to this day.

    The rumor is the FBI only went after him when he tried to setup Mega for music (essentially what Spotify does right now) with a guaranteed 90% profit split for artists. So not even because Mega was popular for pirated content, but because he was super close to imploding the poor (and I think only 3) multibillion dollar record labels.


  • Aside from adblocking making youtube actually usable, there’s been such a notorious increase in enforcement of DRM.

    I couldn’t watch jack anything related to Olympics because NBC got youtube to spam remove practically any footage, as if I’m going to spend cash money on their shitty streaming platform to find a 30 second clip. Same thing for any ICC highlights. Only 360p widened 2 minute videos get past the filter.

    Almost no such thing as public replays, clips, montages, or highlights anymore. It all gets boxed up in some corporate ownership, never to be seen again aside from the live footage.


  • Not really. They no longer have an enemy to worry about, they’d have no need for any type of heavy armament beyond border defense. They already have more than enough small arms.

    Otherwise they would have properly repaired and reused the massive amount of vehicles left behind by the USA (they did a few to show off).

    They wanted to be left alone and they got their wish, which is why they don’t even bother to attempt with being recognized.

    I think there was even a rumor that Mullah Omar kept the nation’s finances under his bed instead of a bank because it was that trivial of an issue for him.