HelixDab2

Particulates are bad, sure, but they're not what's causing climate collapse.

SCO crashed and burned in part because they tried to sue multiple Linux providers claiming that they owned all the rights to certain pieces of code that they'd contractually leased from IBM, and that IBM giving code to Linux distributors violated the terms of their agreement with IBM. It was a lawsuit that dragged on for over a decade and a half--I think that it's still going--and it's bled SCO of tens of millions of dollars ,esp. since they've lost nearly every single claim they've made.

I misspelled it; it should be galdrastafir. It literally translates as 'magic staves', but it's understood to mean symbols that are a part of a magical spell. ...Or 'magickal' if you want to draw a distinction between parlor tricks and 'real magick'. The books that contained them were sometimes called galdrabók, although that's also the name of a specific grimoire. It's complicated because, while galdrastafir are currently believed to be explicitly magical, in some cases they appear in books alongside herbology, which would seem to indicate that either they weren't contemporarily perceived as 'magic' per se, or that herbology was.

Anyway. It's a form of folk magic. The general idea is that you draw or scribe a specific symbol on a certain kind of object, perhaps with particular tool, and use the object in a specific way, and it will produce some kind of effect that would not otherwise happen. The most well known ones are ægishjálmur (the helm of terror; said to protect you in battle, make other people fear you), and vegvísir (a compass to help you find your way home in bad weather; supposedly used by sailors). But there are a lot of others as well. Draumstafir was a symbol scribed in silver on wood (linden, maybe?, I don't remember anymore) that was supposed to let you dream at night of what you most desired.

Supposedly--and there's not a ton of really solid, scholarly writing about this--the Catholics were pretty forgiving of the people practicing folk magic, as long as the people were still paying their tithes. Supposedly a Catholic bishop (?) in charge of the area was also a practitioner of black magic, and had a grimoire called the rauðskinna full of exceptionally powerful spells. When Denmark became Lutheran, they also supplanted the Catholic heirarchy in Iceland with Lutherans. The Lutherans were quite a bit less accepting of folk magic; they burned ever grimoire that they came across. So there are only a handful of examples that still survive, and they all date to late 1700s to late 1800s. Keep in mind that Iceland was very backwards relative to Europe until fairly recently, so it's entirely conceivable that there are people currently alive that had grandparents that were galdr practitioners.

/autistic monologue

Go ahead, don't follow laws.

Hope you have a good attorney already, and a few hundred thousand to fight the charges. If you're American, you might try seeing if you can get Ken White; he does a lot of 1A stuff, plus criminal defense. He's probably only about $500/billable hour.

Good luck, you'll need it.

I don't have that kind of cash, so I don't very, very publicly break laws and dare cops to come get me.

Every time I've had that happen, it's been the cable going bad, not the port.

So you are intentionally being obtuse.

Got it.

Could be. But it's not something I would put money on.

This is one of those things that angry people on the left want to be true, just like angry people on the right want all of the Q-anon trash to be true. This is one of those things that feeds directly into conspiratorial thinking. Anything that sounds too good to be true, isn't sourced, and isn't published in a reputable source should immediately make you suspicious. No one is immune to propaganda.

Also: which outlet was it that was publishing all of the claims that Putin had some kind of highly-aggressive, fatal cancer, that he was dying, that he was trying to complete the defeat of Ukraine prior to dying? That was, like, two years ago? That didn't pan out at all, and it was the same thing; none of the reputable news sources were picking that one up.

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They both obligate moderators and administrators to remove illegal content, and failure to do so can result in criminal penalties for the people running the site.

Are you intentionally pretending that you don't understand that both types of content--regardless of any morality--can land the admins in jail?

Trucking used to be a way a person could provide for their family, remain independent, and feel in control.

Still can. There are still owner-operators, and they have significant control over how they do their job, as long as they aren't caught cooking their books (...which is what most drivers used to do before there were crackdowns, because you got paid per mile). They usually get paid a lot more than fleet drivers, because fleet drivers aren't responsible for the maintenance of the truck.

Which "legal experts" are claiming Trump could be facing prison? If they actually have JDs, they should be disbarred for incompetence.

SCOTUS has already ruled on this; the president has very, very broad immunity from any criminal prosecution. The case was dropped in Florida because his stealing highly classified documents was an "official action"; if that can be handwaved away, then so can defrauding the country with a shitcoin pump-and-dump.

If both CSAM and criticism of the state of Israel are illegal in Germany, then the admins and mods are legally obligated to remove both. Their feelings and beliefs are not relevant to their legal obligation.

I don't see how you are incapable of understanding this.

Kyiv Insider is a very questionable source. ~~Not~~ Note that they don't even name the FBI agent, when his name would be a matter of public record if he was arrested and bonded out.