It would not surprise me a bit if the petition is ignored.

I don’t even expect there ever to be a full self-rule for that gaza-strip … Israel will keep a tight reign on it and never let that go.

I strongly suspect trump’s world liberty financial coin will be the one glued to this…

The $199 side omits that the poor ceo had to buy his 3rd luxury car in 2 years time because reasons.

It’s the now age old Trump-Tariff faux-paradox …

Country A has a package to ship to the US …

The US tells Country A: 'aha tariffs need to be paid"…

Country A says “okay, tell the recipient to pay the tariffs and give us the ok when they did so we can deliver it past your border”.

The US gets angry: “no no someone else pays tariffs not us! How dare you put the tariffs on us! Others are supposed to pay!”

Country A mumbles “ok, be that way”, returns the package to sender, sender might refund but keeps shipping costs… and the US customer loses out twice.

It’s not so much that they down- and upscale the video of shorts, their algorithm changes the look of people. It warps skin and does a strange sort of sharpening that makes things look quite unreal and almost plastic.

It is a filter that evens the look with images generated by, say, grok or one of the other AI filters.

In a year people will think that “AI-look” is a normal video look, and stuff generated with it is what humans can look like. We will see crazed AI-fashion looks popping up.

Bah, each time I want to do the manual upgrade from 23h2 I have to postpone it again due to some stupid bug or annoying feature that makes me reconsider doing it.

So, was the ‘bald eagle statue’ gift properly laced with listening devices? :-p

The great dealmaker says someone else should make the deal…

16th century? Huh I would have expected a far more accurate version would have been made and accepted long ago.

Especially since during all the centuries since then accurate navigation was needed, even around Afrika, and not make journeys last far longer by keeping an incorrect map.

It kind of sounds like the beginnings of star trek’s replicators…

But that aside, somehow I doubt those are the exact only “ingredients” they use.
And it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the end product contains all kinds of trace elements of various not so healthy chemicals used to get the parts to combine into the actual butter.
Like the process to get the glycerol or lecithin in a state they can use.

Ofcourse a lot of our dietary ingredients are contaminated in various levels anyway.

…temporary… peace.

If it’s not Israel first then trump will not get his Gaza bungalow park, so everyone must be forced to work towards that …

I still have a gut feeling that if they had given Tim Walz a timely nomination for president he would have fared a lot better…

Ofcourse there still would have been vote manipulation and fraud, somehow resulting in a reelection of orange trump, perhaps even a mysterious landslide victory in NY and California.

This was already known back then, but it is good to bring it to the front again.

I do kind of wonder if this is a “revenge” article against Musk for him firing up the epstein “debate” on his twitter posting spree.

The CCP is no longer what it was decades ago, it has morphed itself into a weird amalgamation between communism and capitalism… and seeing how it can change itself without great upheaval shows it has a lasting strength that should not be underestimated.

It’s current strategy is that of patience and time, slowly it will erode away resistant forces or laws in a territory it wants to incorporate.
For the ccp time is not a pressing factor in this period, nor are human lives and living years of their ruling populace.
They currently have what they need and what they covet is extra, there is nothing that they urgently require.

Likely the same strategy is playing out in Taiwan, already there is a big political party that wishes to tighten bonds with “the mainland”, in 5-10 years time there will be a loud voice, created through years long whispers and propaganda, to join China directly as a state-aparte … soon after, the merger will be completed and laws and freedoms will be eroded away until Taiwan is as much China as Hong Kong is now.

And, for now, it looks like the West will bow out, they will have build their own semiconductor facilities, both Europe and the US are already working on this.
Which causes Taiwan to have less value to keep under its wing at any cost.

Looking at Hong Kong, I don’t think the CCP would ever allow it to go its own way again, it is as it is with Tibet…

“Wearables” but they forget to mention it’s about government mandated trackers in a closed ecosystem.
They will track which bad (health or otherwise) groups of people one has come in contact with and make deductions based on that.

Ofcourse it’s also extra business for the ice teams. And the deluxe wearable also tracks payments.

The European Covid tracking app back then already was very scary in its early setup … and this mandated wearable idea will be far worse.

So, let me see if I get this straight:

Books are inherently an artificial construct. If I read the books I train the A(rtificially trained)Intelligence in my skull.
Therefore the concept of me getting them through “piracy” is null and void…

Interesting how you see this, I am not Jewish, nor have any ties with Israel, I even have serious doubt towards Israel as it is today compared what it was meant to be in spirit.

The greed has always been there, and will be there, look at Trump and his bungalow park … as has been the manipulation of the original tribes of the Palestinian lands, who went from small numbers to millions thanks to non indigenous people coming in, over just a few decades… None of whom came to settle there to live a happy life but had a different purpose.

But there needs to be a point where both sides’ leaders have said enough, we cannot let ourselves progress by throwing us endlessly in an ever consuming fire.
And if the leadership was not willing the population should have.
From the Palestinian side this realization never came, sacrifice has become the goal. Nor could they come to terms with the fact that Israel will never go away no more.

From Israel’s side there was still some minor terror and humans in general have an ugly spirit to attack “the other”. But inside Gaza the Palestinians could mostly fend for themselves, and were given a lot of funds from international sources, but whatever was done with it it was not used to enrich the Palestinians.
It was better for them to have build a shiny beacon that would outshine Israel …