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Congress did improve the situation with the Corporate Transparency Act in 2020, but then Trump became president again and simply announced that the law will no longer be enforced, …

Russian Armed Forces have practically demonstrated a range of at least 1200 km, see this news report that was linked from Wikipedia. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defe…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novator_9M729

What happened in Spain is that they joined the Euro currency, and this caused a massive boom from 2001-2007 where GDP more than doubled in only 6 years. This was mostly fueled by c…

Did that article also mention how Nuland gave cookies to the riot police on Maidan square? https://archivist.substack.com/p/in-kyiv-nuland-handed-cooki...

> What public state speculation about Russian interference in anything ever was substantiated? Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Electi…

That's not even factually correct, systemd doesn't verify anybody's age, it just provides a DBus API to store any date the user enters, in case the OS provides some UI on top of it…

Because it saves the have-nots 300 dollars a year, it's a transfer from the poor? Thank you for explaining, that was not obvious to me.

Moving the goalposts.

Australian households will be able to access free electricity for three hours every day, in an effort to encourage energy use when excess solar power is being fed into the grid. Th…

The majority of the subsidies are implicit, in the form of negative externalities that are not priced in. But I really should locate a more recent version of this report... https:/…

Subsidies for fossil fuels in 2020 were $5 trillion according to IMF Working Paper: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23/Sti...

There are now "loyalty tests" for those who apply to positions at the FBI, to be hired you have to state that the "patriots" on Jan. 6 2021 were the rioters attempting a coup, not …

My bad, I posted below the wrong parent, now I can't delete it.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/07/hello-youve-been-referre...

Ms Wynn-Williams has also filed a whistleblower complaint with the US markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), alleging Meta misled investors - which Meta a…

Facebook has always moderated (in those languages where they do moderate at all) according to policies, and politicians are exempt. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/face…

If you look at Apple / Google mobile platforms, these are the requirements for modern desktop apps: 1. providing a build environment for app developers to build something that can …

Why would Ukraine mine their own cities? Unlike Russia, Ukraine signed the Ottawa Treaty that bans anti-personnel mines in 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty A more …

https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/dl https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

That can't be the first one. Colin Powell used a personal email account during the GWB administration. https://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/493133413/colin-powells-ways-... Of course tha…

A big chunk of the $5 trillion yearly subsidies for fossil fuels is for ICE car fuels. See IMF Working Paper for year 2020. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23…

arbitrary, adjective: 2 a: not restrained or limited in the exercise of power : ruling by absolute authority b: marked by or resulting from the unrestrained and often tyrannical ex…