I honestly didn’t think my opinion of him could get any lower but here he goes and surprises me. Incredible.

Not if there’s nothing to release anymore. They probably got rid of all the incriminating shit.

So it seems they are being charged for altering their own algorithm. According to this article: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-opens-criminal-probe-into-x-for-algorithm-manipulation/

Magistrate Laure Beccuau said in a statement Friday that prosecutors had launched the probe on Wednesday and were looking into whether the social media giant broke French law by altering its algorithms and fraudulently extracting data from users.

"X stands accused of the ‘alteration of the functioning of an automated data processing system by an organized group’

This would be the interference charge.

‘fraudulent extraction of data from an automated data processing system by an organized group.’

This would be the illegal gathering of user data charge.

Also a thing to remember is that while the US has Section 230 which protects sites like Twitter (never gonna call it X) from being responsible for what their user post, that is not the case in countries outside the US. Other countries can hold Twitter responsible for things their users post on the website.

As for my interpretations it seems the French government seems to think that Twitter has modified their algorithms to influence public opinion to affect elections or for other purposes.

I hope I’m wrong too. We’ll see.

The biggest fear I have about this is that even after this is all over there will be no justice for these people.

If Democrats win they will mumble something about “political unity” or how it’s “time to heal” or some equally vapid shit and move on. There will be no Nuremberg trials for these fascists and this will all be added to the list of American atrocities that conservatives like to rail against being taught such as the Trail of Tears, slavery, segregation, Gaza genocide, Japanese internment and so on. To quote the fascist in charge: “when you’re famous(powerful) they let you do it”.

I would love to be proven wrong but the historical track record is not making this look likely.

Hey man how is poor Elon going to make money if people don’t give him free shit? Just think of the billionaires.

I did it like 10 or so years back? It was pretty easy to be completely honest and didn’t require too many resources, at least not if you’re the only one using the server. You just run the server locally and then use the client to connect to that server. That’s basically it.

And no, the game comes with all the quests and everything, you don’t need to really do anything else. The downsides is that you’ll be locked out of a bunch of content like dungeons and raids since those require groups of 5 or more players.

Funny how God punishes little girls in Texas for the sins of gay people in California.

The North Sentinel people are not actually fully isolated. They had contact with colonial authorities in the past (the British went on the island and even kidnapped some of the locals they found, an elderly couple and 4 kids. The couple died not soon after and the kids were sent back) and there was some peaceful contact with Indian anthropologists up until 1997. The 2004 earthquake and tsunami affected the island pretty badly and disturbed their fishing grounds but aerial survey of the island confirmed they survived and adapted to their new conditions. Most contact after that has been met with aggression most theories I heard about why assume it’s because of contact people fishing illegally in the area or an epidemic on the island after one such contact.

The Indian government considers it illegal to contact them and will punish anyone who does it. That one American preacher that landed on the a while back was eventually killed by the locals and his death was ruled a murder but the Indian government didn’t push for anyone to be prosecuted. The US government also didn’t push for prosecution. So yea the Indian government wants them to be left alone.

My personal take on this is that if the North Sentinel Islanders wanted to be in contact with the rest of the world they could. They are not very far from other Andaman islands and they could build a raft or a canoe that could reach them. The fact they haven’t done so means they don’t wish to be in contact with other people. It’s their choice to be isolated and it should be respected.

It may be the Greatest Depression. People are saying they have never seen a bigger Depression.

Musk definitely depends on government contracts for his companies. If Trump cancels those all his companies will take a big hit which in turn will take a big chunk off his net worth which is propped by shares in those companies. If his net worth substantially goes down he may run into issues getting credit which will affect him directly. Elon Musk uses his stock to take loans to fund his personal expenses among other things.

Well now they know they won’t be safe unless they have an atomic bomb so of course they’re gunning for it.

Netanyahu has been saying that Iran is getting close to the bomb for like more than 10 years now. Iran was willing to negotiate on their nuclear armament but Mr. Deal maker fucked that up too and now they feel cornered. And you know what they say about cornered animals.

https://youtube.com/shorts/jlqXOwYfpdQ

They didn’t apologize to Dominion. They just paid them to go away.

After all this time he still has no idea how tariffs work.

If he wins I wonder how many of these settlements can Fox News keep paying?

This seems to be originating at the ISP level so it will only affect Russians. Should be fine for someone connecting from the outside.

If you say that you have no social media accounts they will probably assume you’re lying and deny you.

Yep, here’s a US government source.

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/06/announcement-of-expanded-screening-and-vetting-for-visa-applicants/

More Americans died of Covid than in any war the US was involved since it became a country, yes including the Civil War. The highest death estimate for the Civil War puts it around 750 000 deaths while around 1 200 000 died due to Covid. Most Americans don’t really care about the deaths of their fellow countrymen since, you know, they elected him again.

Fun Fact (I know it’s not that fun): The number of people that died of Covid approaches the total number of people that died in all conflicts the US was involved from 1775 to 2019: 1 300 000 war dead versus 1 200 000 Covid dead

Netanyahu has been insisting that Iran will have a nuclear weapon in months for a while now. Here’s a Jon Stewart clip talking about it: https://youtube.com/shorts/jlqXOwYfpdQ