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This is unlikely to be territory they hold for long as Ukraine’s military objectives do not include, nor are they helped by permanently occupying Russian territory.

This is a raiding force and while I’m sure they have specific objectives located within this territory e.g. critical infrastructure, just the act of this incursion creates a wide range of implications and problems for Russia.

I imagine we will see more of these types of cross border raids, at least until Russia is forced to redeploy its military assets to secure its borders that it previously did not have to defend. Which I suspect is the overarching objective of this strategy by Ukraine.

I don’t see the issue here.

I detest what Spotify has been, and is doing, to artists, but this isn’t that.

Spotify jump started a market by infusing it with cash, and then ran out of cash. It sounds similar to when a patron of the arts no longer has the funds available for patronage.

Yes, it sucks for those people who lost their funding, but podcasts are profitable all over without the infusion of cash from Spotify.

I realize that those with a large overhead, or those who are otherwise just unable to adapt, are in a shit situation, but I suspect the rest of them, and those that follow, will adopt the monetization strategies of other successful podcast markets.

Also, who the fuck wants to use the Spotify app for podcasts? Jesus I would never subject myself to that, they’ll be better off for it in no time.

If that was true, I wouldn’t have climaxed.

Really this just sounds like YT membership, allowing users to create subscriptions for premium/special content e.g. gambling picks, porn, etc.

If that’s all it was intended to be, it could have been an actually useful and not intrusive monetization strategy…5 years ago.

Even if that’s how the feature gets rolled out now, unless it’s an unmitigated disaster, I don’t see them being capable of not overplaying their hand.

They will assume that because some users are willing to pay for private porn content, or gambling pick subreddits, that of course most users must also be willing to pay for cat photos and memes.

Personally, I am all for it. I am for Reddit making the worst choices possible and speed running their decline. Mostly, I would like a user exodus that results in Lemmy finally getting growth in a lot of their more niche communities that still keep me using Reddit on occasion.

The mythical refugee GOP moderates do not exist in any real significant numbers, but even if that wasn’t the case, they aren’t the factor driving the Democratic Party to the right. That’s a product of 50 years of neoliberalism and the DNC being owned by their donor class.

Once you understand that, you can fit all of the other contributing factors under those two umbrellas, such as how Democratic administrations have refused to provide any real legislative solutions to the judicial branch’s removal of union’s ability to accumulate and retain real political power.

I realize the article was written to make it sound like they lost money on this, but I would be shocked if they had.

To vastly oversimplify it, private equity does a few things to make money on the companies they acquire:

• Significantly reduce staff, and increasing workload
• Strip and sell off individual assets
• Load the company with debt

The last parts are where it goes from amoral to “HOW THE FUCK IS THAT LEGAL?”

The private equity firm will have its own separate entities that provide a variety of services, for example janitorial or administrative.

The new private equity owners will then replace all the current vendors, with their own entities at a expentionally hirer costs. All the while, paying themselves gigantic consulting fees.

Basically those are all just ways to legally embezzle money by extracting all the resources from the company. Once that’s done, they’ll sell the last thing of value: the brand name itself e.g. CNET, VICE, etc.

If there is no money in the brand itself, then they’ll just dissolve the company.

It’s important to note the reason all this kicked off is a Russian boxing organization

That is what I was responding to. Your flippant dismissal of what the IBA actually is: a highly relevant intentional sporting organization for boxing, which is still true despite their current situation.

Shit on them for everything you laid out, their farsical antics this week, blatant corruption, or any other number of issues, but don’t intentionally mislead and mischaracterize them to an audience that most likely largely ignorant of amateur boxing or combat sports in general. Or at least, that is assuming as there are no active combat sports communities on Lemmy that I have seen, be it MMA, boxing, kick boxing, etc.

It’s not a Russian organization, it’s the IBA - which is the premier amateur boxing organization/confederation, which is currently headed by a Russian national.

And his time in office has been a smashing success, such as when the IOC withdrew their recognition of the IBA, which removed the IBA from any involvement/participation in Olympic Boxing.

Well, that wasn’t included in the multiple insufferable Riyadh Season marketing and promo packages during last night’s fights.

Hmmmm…you know, I’m starting to think that allowing Saudi Arabia to financially take over boxing and layer in their propaganda between every fucking fight on the card isn’t such a good idea.

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Because Russia is hands down the best operator of these types of human intelligence networks.

Not because they’re just smarter than everyone else, or have some genetic predisposition to being better, but because they’ve had to mass-produce people with this exact skill set to maintain their own empire for over a hundred years.

What we think of as Russia, is really mostly Slavic Muscovites who have stitched together the largest continuous empire on Earth and spanning many different ethnicities and races who didn’t join by choice, but by being conquered.

It just so happens that the tradecraft and skills required for maintaining their large and diverse empire are pretty much the same ones necessary for this type of deep cover foreign espionage.

It’s not a synthetic cannabinoid…Delta-8 is typically extracted from hemp plants.

There are also legitimate reasons to prefer D8, even in a legal state. For example, some people prefer it’s much more mild effect relative to normal cannabis.

But I do agree with not consuming products that spray it on direct combustibles and the need to have proper government regulations for product safety and testing enforcement.

What I’m about to say is coming directly from my own asshole, so if someone actually knows what they’re talking about cares to explain why I’m wrong, I’m open to hearing it.

This feels like an attempt to try extract as much capital as possible before other civil lawsuits and/or regulatory actions are able to do to the same.

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AIPAC isn’t a Jewish lobby, it’s an Israeli lobby.

To that end, they would absolutely like Jewish caricatures to turn up in campaign ads and just in general. Anything that helps push Jewish migration to Israel.

Their biggest objective is securing migration to Israel to bolster it’s population. Population transfers with Russia are one of the biggest reasons why Israel didn’t go against them in regards to overtly supporting Ukraine.

So, rising ambient levels anti-semitism are actually good for AIPAC. They won’t say that publicly, but it’s not exactly a secret.

Except you used quotation marks to intentionally mislead users.

Either the title should be edited, or this post this should be removed.

Edit: lol this guy is the sole mod for this /c/. Easiest unsubscribe and community block in a while.

Piped apps have been broken at least 6 - 8 times in the past couple of weeks.

It’s the biggest Google effort I’ve seen to crack down on 3rd party YT clients.

I actually used to pay for YT premium, then they removed my discount AND raised the price to over $12/mo.

Sometimes I do miss my algorithm feed, just not enough to watch YT ads, or pay $12 - 15/mo.

Instant Pot didn’t simply go bankrupt. It was busted out by private equity.

$849 and $1,649? Those pricetags are so absurd that this post should be removed on principle alone, nevermind that it’s stealth marketing masquerading as an article.

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