PlasticLove

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"We confirmed DeepSeek communicating with ByteDance," the South Korean data protection regulator told Yonhap News Agency.

 

BRUSSELS (AP) — In just one speech by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week, the most powerful member of NATO has thrown the world’s biggest military alliance into disarray, raising troubling questions about America’s commitment to European security.

Hegseth told almost 50 of Ukraine ’s Western backers on Wednesday that he had joined their meeting “to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States of America from being primarily focused on the security of Europe.”

 

Both Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Jordanian King Abdullah II dismissed Trump’s call to resettle 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza and for the U.S. to take ownership of the enclave, but Trump claims that they would eventually accept it.

 

The Left Party says "there shouldn't be any billionaires." With Germany gearing up for an election, the far-left force has launched a new tax plan — though it will most likely never get a chance to implement it.

 

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino said he had instructed diplomats at the Central American country’s embassy in Beijing to submit the required 90-day notice of withdrawal from the memorandum of understanding signed in 2017.

 

The announcement comes days after a massive mobilization of the LGBTQ+ collective in repudiation of President Javier Milei’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, during which he slammed “wokeism,” feminism and referred to homosexuals as “pedophiles.”

[–] PlasticLove 63 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Isn’t that the bare minimum anyone in government should be doing right now?

 

NEW DELHI, Feb 1 (Reuters) - India slashed personal tax rates in its annual budget on Saturday, as the world's fifth largest economy focuses on boosting domestic demand amid uncertainty over the global economic outlook due to potential new tariff barriers.

 

Nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta, were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software, the company alleged on Friday.

 

He is not alone. Musk is part of the “PayPal mafia” of libertarian billionaires with roots in South Africa under white rule now hugely influential in the US tech industry and politics.

They include Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder, who was educated in a southern African city in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated. Thiel, a major donor to Trump’s campaign, has been critical of welfare programs and women being permitted to vote as undermining capitalism. A 2021 biography of Thiel, called The Contrarian, alleged that as a student at Stanford he defended apartheid as “economically sound”.

David Sacks, formerly PayPal’s chief operating officer and now a leading fundraiser for Trump, was born in Cape Town and grew up within the South African diaspora after his family moved to the US when he was young. A fourth member of the mafia, Roelof Botha, the grandson of the apartheid regime’s last foreign minister, Pik Botha, and former PayPal CFO, has kept a lower political profile but remains close to Musk.

[–] PlasticLove 1 points 4 weeks ago

4,148 miles and running

[–] PlasticLove 3 points 4 weeks ago

Congrats Thailand! Hope your neighbors copy you.

 

Israeli forces have besieged a Palestinian government hospital in Jenin and a nearby refugee camp in the heart of the city, as the Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, said the assault marked “a shift in … security strategy” in the West Bank.

[–] PlasticLove 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Israel: Bombs West Bank in hatred after ceasefire

Houthis: Release prisoners in solidarity after ceasefire

The Houthi’s are without a doubt better than Israel. They only fought when genocide was happening and made moves towards peace when it was possible. Meanwhile Israel murdered babies up until the last minute and changed to the other side of Palestine to attack after

 

“The release of the Galaxy Leader crew comes within the framework of our solidarity with Gaza and in support of the ceasefire agreement,” it quoted the Houthi supreme political council as saying.

[–] PlasticLove 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah tell that to the people themselves who have spent so much of their life working hard to study at such prestigious institutions to not be able to find the employment they actually want.

They worked hard with the expectation of being rewarded by it with a larger payout later in life. Instead they’re stuck toiling as low wage workers, and have let their families down.

[–] PlasticLove 7 points 1 month ago

Take me to Zombocom.

[–] PlasticLove 3 points 1 month ago

These sanctions were a joke.

It was a handful of people targeted who were never going to leave Israel anyway and won’t be that bothered by not having access to American financial institutions.

[–] PlasticLove -3 points 1 month ago

The person you’re arguing with doesn’t. So apt statement.

[–] PlasticLove 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Well the last elections had Bernie, so effort was spent on that option for change instead.

Funny how a decent choice of candidate can be the difference between promoting said candidate and promoting not voting at all. Almost like representation matters.

It’s analogous to sanctioning Pvt. Ivan McBlyat but leaving Putin untouched.

[–] PlasticLove 7 points 1 month ago

May you live in less interesting times.

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