Which further proves that for all the shit that the US has claimed about Chinese tech, the US has always been the real threat. Just got to keep gaslighting the other Western powers into letting us into their systems to "protect against the CEECEEPEE." It has been sad (pathetic more specifically) to see how US "allies" have just hand over everything and proudly rally against China.
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Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
much less that Plaintiffs’ books were somehow distributed by Meta.
While I guess that Meta may have used settings to be leech only. Unless they show that they did that (which is of course poor practice if torrenting), the nature of torrenting by default means that even one piece of a file was seeded to another user is "distribution."
And they will still claim to not be state ran media.
It is almost like the whole point of "No Child Left Behind" was to make sure this would happen. Intentionally defund schools and make them just "pass" kids no matter what in order to hit numbers for any money. Then point to how fucking awful the rates of literacy and other skills are. Though funding was already pretty bad and got worse throughout the 90's and early 00's before NCLB was made policy.
With regards to chuds, I think they are more annoying because they tend to be sore winners. They huff and puff no matter if they win or lose. Which is exactly why it is beyond stupid that the libs in positions of power always try to work with them (while we repeatedly see how it is a one-way street when the right wins). Though I am starting to be more pissed off with the new phase of libs acting like they have been the ones doing and saying shit we have done and said no matter which fake party is in control. I dread the next election cycle because now the dems will try even less and triple down on expecting a blow-out win from the republicans actually doing shit they yell about scaring people. So much not looking forward to even more "nice words" and zero actions like the Obama years. Also not looking forward to the new excuses as to why they "can't just do shit because insert fake reasons that involve bipartisanship."
Now I just want to re-watch the first season of American Vandal. "no ball hairs"
I think that the pro-privatization of all gov ran departments have been making sure to defund and overwork the staff of those departments/services in order to have shit like this and the drops in literacy. That way they can get mass support for removing all services/departments to cheers. Just like how they have constantly been trying to ditch the USPS because it "isn't profitable" (even though it shouldn't be treated as a for-profit "business"). Or like how they make sure stuff like 9/11 or other "terrorist attacks" scare the masses to strip rights and over-fund the MIC.
Not shocking to hear that no matter how messed up it is of course. I am guessing they can ask whatever they want since they can claim "national security" and immigrants/tourists don't have the same rights.
Went off on a rant that isn't really fully relevant, but leaving it because I already typed it.
My generic Adderall was labeled as "amphetamine salts" when I was taking it a number of years ago. But I was on generic Adderall for like 5~6 years and can't recall if I ever saw "amphetamine-dextroamphetamine" on any of my bottles. I don't recall ever having it feel any different. But I changed over to Vyvanse because even the generic XR would just not last long enough. Which was also kind of a good switch in recent years as I have seen random folks talk about how their Adderall (name and generic) seemed "weaker" than before. And with shortages ramping up causing issues for people. Though there is a massive shortage of the new generic for Vyvanse ever since my doctor and insurance tried having it filled for me back in December of 2023.
I kept getting an automated message about my refill (or really first fill) being on back order and I wasn't even aware they had a generic yet. So I went to the pharmacy to find out and was told they had literally no idea when it would be available and I was already a week out of meds. Had to be like "well just fill the brand name if no pharmacies had stock please" and just have been paying more. Though it seems my insurance also must have seen how bad shit was. Because my cost the first time was over $250 (was paying only $60~$80 before due to both insurance and a coupon thing Vyvanse had for each year). But after two months, my cost went back down to around $90~$120 from insurance covering more again (just no longer have the coupon thing since Vyvanse stopped providing it).
Seed the means of pro-gaming.