They’re not but there’s no recourse for it.

These ads for VPNs are starting to get over the top.

What’s infuriating about this is there already exists forms of ID to verify your right to work in the UK and people employing people without the documentation to prove their right to work in the UK don’t give a shit whether they have the correct documentation.

This is a complete waste of time and money which can be better spent elsewhere.

The United States meddling in the affairs of South American countries? What an entirely precedented state of affairs.

Hang on, so I need to upload government ID and/or a selfie in order to access “adult material” in order to protect kids but Meta trying to bait men with pictures of girls under the age of consent is perfectly fine? What the fuck is happening?

Shocked that they haven’t already had ads.

Has anyone used a smart fridge? I’m struggling to think of what features I’d actually end up using.

Depends on where you live, I suppose. Where I am, you can’t have someone hook up their phone to a bluetooth speaking to play the world’s most tame Spotify playlist but they will absolutely have the radio on at all times.

“This is Lars Ulrich, the drummer of Metallica. This month he was planning to install a gold plated shark tank bar beside his pool, but thanks to people like you downloading his music, he must now wait a few months before he can afford it.”

But seriously, why do they even bother with labels then?

Labels provide the upfront capital for things like recording studios, distribution (traditionally, less so nowadays when there’s not a physical product to distribute), publicity, marketing, live shows, etc in exchange for a percentage and usually with a contract that the artist will make X many albums with them.

Although things are slowly changing, you are unlikely to be doing huge tours at sold out venues and getting your songs played on the radio unless you have the substantial money to do so in the first place.

On her most popular Telegram channel she has issued “decrees” to absolve her more than 36,000 followers from bills and debts.

That has resulted in followers losing their homes, cars and possessions, according to Christine Sarteschi, a professor at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and an expert on extremism and the sovereign citizen movement - a broad collection of anti-government groups who evade taxes and make up their own fake legal systems.

Does anyone have any news reports etc of those clowns getting sentenced or losing their possessions? I deal with them on the daily and being able to show them something which demonstrates that they’re being scammed would be a great help.

These men are more than powerful enough to go against Trump

They would lick Trump’s feet clean if it meant they could keep their billions.

Blackmail can be very lucrative.

Well done! I smoked for 16 years and vaped for 2 years. The last hurdle of going from barely any nicotine to zero nicotine was the hardest part.

It’s because the information is often presented as “Vaping isn’t harmful (when compared to smoking)” but the part in brackets is in tiny text.

Smoking is really bad for your health. Vaping isn’t good for you but it’s not as bad as smoking and it’s a great tool to get you away from cigarettes and off nicotine entirely. Quitting nicotine is really fucking hard which is why people end up stuck on vapes for so long.

During a press conference on Wednesday, Smith said Microsoft has launched a formal investigation into Israel’s reported use of Azure. “We are committed to ensuring that our human rights principles and our contractual terms of service are upheld in the Middle East,” he said.

What a load.

Who the fuck even wants this?

“Land of the free”

A future is coming where it can just be your job to let an LLM observe your life 24/7… And that might be the only job available.

Getting paid to play games, jack off, and shitpost but at what cost…

gently cooking the surrounding area.

As in it’s slightly but not perceptively warmer or more like “oh god, we’re all going to die”?

With it being Japan, I’m more surprised that it wasn’t a fax machine.