I’m pretty sure it’s still a federal crime in the US.

Here in the True North Strong and Free, weed is legalized at all levels of government and I can confirm that I can indeed buy weed with a Visa card. I can even buy it online and have it delivered to my door by the postal service. That got me through the pandemic.

Sorry your country kinda sucks about this, but it’s not really a credit card thing. CC companies suck for many reasons, but this isn’t one of them.

So you don’t think that the intent of the original crime doesn’t apply to subsequent crimes committed during the same act?

Or do you know that you’re wrong and can’t admit it and still feel the need to say stuff anyway?

It doesn’t exactly help the argument that this wasn’t terrorism when you automatically relate every violent act to geopolitics.

If you ever do any violence, this kind of thing in your posting history would be pretty strong evidence of terrorist intent.

What are you talking about? They hit a police woman in the back multiple times with a god damn sledgehammer.

Do you think people that do that shouldn’t go to prison?

“They” didn’t hurt that policewoman. One of them did and he should should receive appropriate consequences.

“They” were more than four people. There were eight others involved that were acquitted. Again, read some more news sources.

The modus operandi of Palestine Action was property damage(*)

How do you know the mindset of these people better than a jury of their peers that saw all of the evidence?

Also in many places it is first degree murder (not manslaughter) if you accidentally kill someone while in the commission of another crime. Modus operandi kinda goes out the window when you’re already engaged in a crime and that results in other crimes.

The intent of the original crime (property destruction) was to influence the government. That intent can be transferred to other crimes they committed (the acts of violence) while doing the original crime. Their intent was to influence the government. They committed crimes and violence happened during the commission of those crimes. The original intent applies to the violent crimes they committed. The intent of the violence was to influence the government.

Anyway it obviously was enough to convince a jury of their peers.

Pro-tip: if you’re going out to do crimes to try to influence the government, maybe refrain from hitting a policewoman multiple times with a fucking sledgehammer. I’m not going to be crying over someone that does something like that going to prison for a long time.

Why would a cop be there?

Because they broke into a building and were destroying property. They were fighting with the building’s security and so the cops were called.

You really don’t know anything about the subject, do you? Really, you have to read news from more sources instead of just swallowing whatever propaganda that gets fed to you.

Having Alexa automatically order stuff is really insane. Like it’s just going to buy stuff without checking the prices and and comparing products.

But I suppose it makes sense to Jeff Bezos who doesn’t care about the price of anything and has a human assistant that checks product reviews and such to make sure their boss gets a good product. So of course everyone will want to have a crappier version of what billionaires have and no one cares about the price of the things they buy, right?

I buy weed with a Visa card all the time.

Do you mean you can’t buy weed in places where it’s been only decriminalized but not fully legalized? Decriminalized means it’s still illegal but the government just decided to stop enforcing the law. It’s not actually the same as legalization, and yeah it results in all kinds of stupid situations. And yeah, a big company isn’t going to engage in something that’s technically illegal even if the law won’t be enforced.

Didn’t they break a cop’s back? “Middle East Eye” isn’t mentioning that because it’s not exactly an unbiased source of information. They’re just innocent “protesters” LOL.

Using violence to achieve a political goal is pretty much the definition of terrorism. Using violence to influence a government is terrorism. It would be bias for the judge to grant some kind of exemption simply because the government involved is Israel.

They were doing violence (broke a person’s back) to influence the British government’s relationship with Israel. That’s terrorism.

Consider expanding your sources of information beyond sites that are giving incomplete information with the goal of making you feel angry.

Countries tend to become extreme when they’re in a state of war. Do you think Iran is currently not being extreme about it’s self interest?

What’s in it for the US to integrate in such a one sided relationship?

First of all the “US-Israeli Military merger” line is obvious hyperbole, because LOL come on. You can google the document they referenced, which you should always do when “alt-media” is saying crazy shit. The reality is the US is looking to get some drone and anti-drone tech from Israel and learn which tactics are effective.

What’s weird is the US isn’t entering into a similar arrangement with Ukraine, but Trump would veto that because he’s a Russian asset. So anyway the US wants to learn about drone warfare from a country with some experience with it, Ukraine has the most experience and Israel has the next most.

Oh, and allies spy on each other all the time. Angela Merkel’s phone was bugged by the US a ways back and Trump shared details about Macron’s sex life from the files he kept at Mar a Lago, which were in those files because the US spies on France. These are just intel that we’ve found out about, we can probably assume the US spies on all of it’s allies.

Besides, given how compromised US intelligence is now, spying on the US is just finding out what the adversaries of the US probably already know.

But wouldn’t that be velocity of money, not GDP? GDP is a measure of final goods and services, not money. Unless you have a poop fetish and consider the eating of poop to be a final service, then this wouldn’t impact GDP.

Here the point is that they’re passing the money back and forth. That’s like the AI companies right now - passing money round in a circle and that being presented as if it were the same thing as the industry as a whole making money

The stock market value isn’t the same thing as GDP though. The GDP measurement is never really a great measurement of economic well being because of inequality, but even then, we really don’t know what it is in the US because Trump fires anyone that gives out a bad report.

The people handing money back and forth quickly was actually what happened when the pandemic ended, the increase in the velocity of money resulted in inflation but people blamed it on Biden. Now Trump is President, the economists have been fired and fraud has been decriminalized.

It’s Shrodinger’s war. Both a war and not a war at the same time. Neither side wants the war to continue, but neither side wants to back down.

Isn’t this just the broken window fallacy but with a poop fetish?

Yeah, Nvidia invests in Open AI, Open AI uses that money to buy Nvidia chips. More people invest in Nvidia because it’s revenue keeps growing.

Charles Ponzi would be proud.

Odd, I’ve heard a lot of people say they don’t want to get an EV because they don’t have very good resale value. A quick search shows a bunch of used EVs for sale in my area, similarly priced to used ICE vehicles. Which given new EVs go for a lot more than new ICE cars, there seems to be some truth to that. But that’s to your advantage if you want to buy a used EV.

I can understand people sticking with horses more than I can understand sticking with ICE cars. A horse is an animal with a personality, you might feel like it’s like losing a friend.

But why do people have so much sentimentality over having cars that have tailpipes?

Don’t worry, they enshittify software in cars that have an ICE under the hood too.

I don’t think saying AI is being enshittified is too far from the orignal essay

This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they’re locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they’re locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.

The AI companies were definitely subsidizing usage of the tech in the hopes of getting people locked in. Don’t think people are all that locked in. Probably some people are, suppliers like NVIDIA seem pretty locked in. But I don’t think there’s all that much to direct to shareholders relative to what they put into it to try to get lock in.

So it’s kinda failed enshittification? Premature enshittification… preshittification?

Well given the number of developers they canned so they could dump more money into the AI money pit, they kinda were heading that direction. But I guess they clued in that there might be a small problem with that business model.

I can’t see the word electrolyte without thinking “it’s what plants crave”.