I asked how they verify that.

Oh, yeah. I didn’t even notice.

How does anyone verify how much coal (or anything) is produced and consumed by a country?

It’s 100% possible to put pirated games on the Switch Steam Deck - in fact, it’s as easy as it could reasonably be.

Hacking or cracking DRM takes time, but it doesn’t present a real obstacle for pirates to overcome.

Ben Nimmo, chief of global threat intelligence for Meta, said government officials stopped communicating foreign election interference threats to the company in July.

That month, a federal judge limited the Biden administration’s communications with tech platforms in response to a lawsuit alleging such coordination ran afoul of the First Amendment by encouraging companies to remove falsehoods about covid-19 and the 2020 election. The decision included a specific exemption to allow the government to continue to communicate with the companies about national security threats, specifically foreign interference in elections. The case, Missouri v. Biden, is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has paused lower court restrictions while it reviews the matter.
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The federal judge’s July 4 ruling prohibited key agencies — including the State Department, the FBI and DHS — from urging companies to remove “protected free speech” from the platforms. However, Trump-appointed Judge Terry A. Doughty appeared to acknowledge concerns the decision could dismantle election integrity initiatives, specifying the restrictions did not apply to warning companies of national security threats or foreign attempts to influence elections. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling removed some of the restrictions, including communication with the State Department.

I can appreciate the administration is “treading cautiously,” but the rulings specify that the restrictions don’t apply to foreign attempts to influence elections.

I’ve haven’t been following Russian related news, so I may be too late to suggest that Putin plans to cannibalize Belarus sometime soon.

Thanks for the clarification. Title is word salad.

I mean, most of New England was settled by English people who didn’t like the church of England. Maryland was settled by Catholics. Massachusetts by Puritans. Quakers in Pennsylvania.

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I doubt that.

You didn’t say “no state employee may wear religious symbols whatsoever.”

You said:

you can go down the route the EU court has just ruled alongside, which is “the state does not give a fuck about your religion”, thus not granting any exceptions from workplace rules for religions at all.

The tobacco plantations weren’t started by the earliest settlers.
Salem witch trials weren’t until ~1690s.
The Spaniards looking for the seven cities of gold landed down around Mexico, which was then called New Spain. I wouldn’t really consider them to be settlers of America the country. Maybe I should have made the distinction that I was not talking about the American continents.

OK, except for the group of people who accused people of being witches, many of the earliest settlers in America left Europe to escape religious persecution.

In botn cases, the state does not favour any religion or oppress anyone.

What do you think “oppress” means?

I mean, the earliest settlers of America left Europe because they were doing shit like this 500 years ago.

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Schisms in other churches have already occurred.

Too many idiots believe adulterers who tell them homosexuals are ruining the church.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to broadly regulate how recreational or intoxicating substances are marketed instead of playing whack-a-mole with piecemeal regulation every time a new problem pops up?

the companies that make vaping products have tricked teens into thinking that they’re safe

It seems to me that restrictions should be placed on marketing and violations of those restrictions should be punished accordingly. Cracking down on vaping won’t prevent something similar from happening in the future.

Australia will ban imports of disposable vapes in January, the Health Minister said on Tuesday, the first step in a crackdown aimed at curbing the growing popularity of these nicotine-filled devices with young people.

I don’t really understand why young people using tobacco is fine, but vaping is not.