It directly led to a 12 year old watching his father shoot a cop in the head and then get shot multiple times himself and bleed out.

He was bringing a 12 year old with him to commit armed felonies…

I hope his supporters face lengthy ass prison sentences. This child just watched his father get shot to death because of them.

The point of a separate platform is that nobody is going to enforce these rules globally, so it would have to be a Nepal only branch of the site.

Multiple social media networks did comply.

It’s mind boggling that half the threads are bitching about Zuckerberg wasting billions, and everyone in here is whining that it would be too expensive for Facebook to pay someone in Nepal to be their representative.

And yes, do read Chapter 12 and notice that literally only a single regulation in there is remotely problematic, and it’s the broad national interest one. Literally all the rest are just ‘respect user privacy’, and ‘respond to court orders’, and the like.

And social media companies are still destroying the planet and avoiding regulation.

The document is right here, chapter 2 is like a page of bullet points:

https://www.law-democracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nepal.Social-Media-Bill_2025_Eng.pdf

All it requires is that they establish a single legal representative in the country. Nothing about spinning off separate companies.

Brazil requires the same. It is not a crazy regulation to require a company operating in your country to have a legal representative there.

Honestly don’t understand the protests. The government should ban social media sites that don’t comply with basic safety regulations.

Of course, regardless of the original cause, now that the government has executed 14 protesters, that will be the cause.

Their cars really aren’t. We rented one in Scotland and it was really nice and felt like any other car I’ve driven.

Yeah it’s just a dumbly high stakes game.

TSMC is literally the shield that keeps Taiwan alive. An attack on TSMC foundries is an attack on the most critical supply chains of every western military in the world.

There is no chance they would risk their entire nation and business by getting into that big a fight when there’s a potential alternative, even if that alternative is subsidizing Intel’s failures.

That really does not matter. Spend some time camping with no phones and notice how differently you feel and behave. Humans did not evolve to have smartphones and social media, it triggers numerous emotional responses without actually satisfying them, by its inherent nature.

Social media. You use it up spending time on Reddit and Lemmy etc.

A reminder that anger is addictive, and social media fuels it.

Engagement driven algorithms that are let to run wild inherently pick up on this, and start feeding you anger inducing content. Even non engagement driven algorithms often end up doing this by accident.

And when we’re angry, we think less clearly and empathetically, and we lash out and say more than we mean and make hurtful comments and generalizations.

That sparks anger in the person we’re conversing with, which tends to create a feedback loop, also known as a fight.

If you actually want to have fun, engaging, conversations with people different then you, and learn something from them, it’s a constant exercise in calmness, deescalation, and nuance, not things the internet trains us well for.

tl;dr: humans like to think we’re highly evolved beings, but at the end of the day we’re all basically these cats:

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I do wonder if Russia was planning on responding with these, and this is why they issued a ‘we’ll respond when we feel like it’ follow up.

It’s remarkably light on details about the coerced / forced labour.

It just mentions that they ship in thousands of workers from the western regions of China where there are forced / coerced labour issues.

I’m not one to trust or believe the Chinese government, but this article didn’t exactly convince me there was an issue in the first place.

Edit: never mind, I missed the link to this article which has a lot more detail: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-05-29/chinas-economy-runs-on-uyghur-forced-labour

I told my work that I will not be travelling to the US under any circumstances until there’s no risk of me being detained in an ICE prison.

Realistically I will not be travelling there for any reason for years to decades at this point. America as a country needs to go fuck itself for a while so it can really learn the lesson of how productive that is.

https://x.com/weethelawyer/status/1919848892843126979

Given that’s 1/9 of the strikes and they all hit civilian areas, it feels like a stretch to call that limited or deescalatory.

The Guardian has better coverage:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/pakistan-vows-to-retaliate-after-wave-of-indian-missiles-hit-country

Video of one of the strikes, feels harder to believe India’s “limited and deescalatory” claim after watching:

https://x.com/weethelawyer/status/1919848892843126979

This one.

I mean, in an overall sense yes, but that’s like saying climbing Everest is easy because on average the world has very little elevation change.