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Finland is extremely protective of their forests. This is basically the one thing they could do to anger the country enough to prevent their ability to built the datacenter at all, anywhere in the country.

They could always use more practice for a potential Russian invasion. Can never be too prepared.

The issue isn’t so much that the datacenter and forest changes were completely unexpected.

It’s more that Google didn’t even bother to submit for the required permits, almost surely because they didn’t want to do the environmental studies they require that would limit their build plans.

Coming from the UK and complaining about Global Arrogance… Oh boy. How quickly you have forgotten, or try to ignore, your imperial roots.

The difference is that the banks are actually necessary for the economy to function. And mitigations were put in place to limit that exposure in the future. Mitigations that have been stripped back again in recent years because of billionaire lobbying.

None of the AI companies are necessary for the economy. And the big players that stepped into the quagmire aren’t over leveraged enough to actually be in danger. Only the AI-only companies are in danger. The mega corps like Meta, Microsoft, Google, etc. would be hurt but would survive just fine.

I moved over to Tuta personally for email. And Tuta is EU-based if that matters to you. If you use other Proton features there are alternatives there as well.

For Proton Pass and Authenticator, there’s Bitwarden (and self-hosted Vaultwarden). Which supports password storage, 2FA codes, and Passkeys across basically all devices. Also supports SSH agent forwarding if you work with that a lot.

For Proton Drive, Koofr seems to be a good option for cloud storage, also EU-hosted. They also have an additional locally-encrypted Vault for files you want additional security on. Things like 2FA bypass codes you get when you set up your accounts but don’t want want hanging around in the open at all.

I mean, what are the odds that the same day that Binance gets $6B+ stolen, Polymarket loses $2.5B+ as well through a third-party? It’s not impossible, but very unlikely on the same day unless they’re related.

Inb4 it turns out Polymarket keeps their funds in Binance

There it is. Defending the Nazis, while trying to spin it as if you aren’t.

It has nothing to do with being scared of what people say. It has everything to do with cutting out the shit parts of humanity, getting rid of a cancer.

An overwhelming number of Cubans vote Republican every election. They eat up the anti-socialism/communism stuff out of the Republicans because Cuba’s authoritarian dictatorship makes that same claim.

And with the Mexicans, many that came legally through the fucked up and extremely expensive legal immigration system we have now, absolutely despise anyone coming through skipping that process.

They don’t think beyond that despite anyone not blatantly white being kidnapped off the street everywhere, regardless of citizenship.

Amazing what is possible when you’re not beholden to shareholders that only give a shit about quarterly profits at the expense of everything else, including the entire business.

Passport only matters if your nothing to go through customs on the way out of a country, and customs on the way in.

If they even managed to get it from him, doubtful. Even if they invalidated it, given that Trump granted him an emergency Visa, I doubt they care about whether his Passport is valid.

We’re discovering that A LOT of the “rules” that the government operates from were simply gentleman’s agreements. And when you no longer elect gentleman… here we are.

After the midterms, once we’re into the second half of the term. Then they can take out Trump and install Vance for a free two years with a competent fascist as the figurehead.

They could also put them further out away from existing homes. This doesn’t solve the noise issue in the environment, but it does solve the human neighbors complaining.

What heat? Justices are appointed for life and don’t have to answer to anyone anymore apparently.

Yeah, there is a crosspost function, separate posts clog everything up for no reason.

And as long as there is effort put in, like an actual explanation of the link or excerpt from an article it’s usually fine.

The report bot crap spamming 500 communities separately with just a random link… Those are the issue.

This is content. And someone putting the effort in to give content to the lurkers are what makes a site like this work.

It’s because they know they’re an authoritarian paramilitary group and they are doing things that they could personally be tried for treason if their side ends up losing, like they always do eventually.

They don’t want to be personally identifiable if possible, because at any point someone could decide to Kirk them when they’re not in their goon squad at work.

We’re clearly talking about two completely different things here. And you seem to be ignoring that, despite me very specifically talking about the last time she was (at least publicly) directly involved with Church events being over a decade ago, lyrics that seem to criticize the Church, and her public personal identity not matching Church beliefs.

You are talking about Scientology involvement with Masterson’s actions in general. I don’t give a shit about that. That’s obvious. Stevie Wonder could see that involvement. Why would I even mention all those other things if I was talking about the Church helping Masterson, covering it up, etc.?

I only care about whether Emily is actively involved with the Church still, and whether that is why she went to the first hearing. That is what the original comment we’re responding to was talking about. And there isn’t any evidence of that. Only that she went to support (at the time) a friend she believed.

Amazing how the low effort responses always say shit like “do more research” instead of actually contributing to the discussion in a meaningful way.

You’re clearly referencing the Church of Scientology part. Was there something in my comment that intimated that Scientology wasn’t a factor at all? No. While it very well could be a facto, likely even, simply supporting a friend they thought could be falsely accused is also likely.

Emily hasn’t talked about the Church at all, and was last seen at a Church gala way back in 2013. Then there are the song lyrics back from her time in Dead Sara that seem to reference criticism of the Church. And the fact she identifies as queer, something the Church is very outspoken against. But of course the Church must be the only explanation, simply because it’s tangentially involved. To the point that you feel the need to assume someone talking about this online and not mentioning Scientology clearly must have no idea what’s going on, and a low effort comment is necessary.