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Seems a bit of a go shite thing to do as that site is just an archive of radio and TV shows

The hacker now has 31 million email addresses for sale. He won't lose sleep over people calling him a gobshite.

Talks over £1bn UK port expansion ongoing after row

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9jp3ey0exo

Discussions about a London port expansion worth £1bn are ongoing as the government tries to resolve a row with the investor.

So if you are an evil employer we will ignore that if you have loads of cash to splash around?

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, the boss of DP World, is worth at least $7.5bn. When he sacked all the P&O staff and replaced them with agency workers he made a self-congratulatory video about it. I can't find it anywhere.

DP World is ultimately owned by the Dubai royal family. Ahmed's boss is the Emir, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, famous for kidnapping and imprisoning three of his daughters.

The actual story is horrible, of course, but the headline makes it sound like he's victim of a weird legal ruling.

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So Israel are attacking UN positions, while the US are sending US troops and armaments to help defend Israel. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/13/middle-east-live-gaza-israel-lebanon

Now shall we take bets how long till the UK /US et al will be attacked because of supporting/funding of a terrorist organisation? At what point do we accept that supporting these actions are not acceptable. Retaliation for the support is inevitable.

They are about to introduce legislation that will prevent companies like DP World from firing workers on the spot, like they did with P&O. It's ridiculous that the story has become about whether their CEO shows up at an investment event or not, when the government are taking concrete steps to stop rogue employers indiscriminately firing workers.

Labour's comms meetings:

Labour's comms director:

https://local12.com/news/offbeat/video-shows-ohio-police-battling-inflatable-jack-o-lantern-cincinnati-attack-violence-bay-village-department-dashcam-viral-videos-swallowing-officers-homeowner-seasonal-decorations-on-the-loose-human-interest-runaway-decoration?-fbpost

Where I live racism is embedded in the administrative state, which at least means it's something you can simply look up.

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Who’s gonna tell her?

Oh, the irony...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/16/blaze-destroys-german-fire-station-fitted-without-alarms

May-be, it's because, I am still, working my-way through, my first-coffee, but I can barely-read, what Tom-Vale has written.

Bloody hell, that's ridiculous.

Article in German:

https://www.hessenschau.de/panorama/brand-in-stadtallendorf-ausgerechnet-die-feuerwache-hat-keinen-brandmelder-v2,rauchmeldeanlage-feuerwehr-100.html

Around a dozen fire brigade vehicles were destroyed. The fire apparently started in one of them. Apparently, the fire was noticed by the firefighters within three minutes, but it was already too late to prevent the main garage burning out.

Same thing happened to Arundel fire station a few years ago.
Similarly, caused by a battery charger.

Sinwar might be dead https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/17/middle-east-crisis-live-updates-israel-iran-lebanon-gaza-war

Horrible pics of what may be his body https://x.com/clashreport/status/1846892232063824231

Extremely graphic! NSFL Not Safe For Life!

Good news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3wkzgpjxvo

Fucked around. Found out.

Chatted shit. Got banged.

She's clearly a racist loon, but I'm not sure sending twitter edgelords to prison for 2 and a half years is a particularly good move, however reprehensible the content. Surely there's a more reasonable sentence.

Can the murder of the three girls mentioned in the article be directly connected to her post, or were any of her followers engaged in violence? Seems like a bit of a reach to me.

What would you consider a suitable punishment?

Can the murder of the three girls mentioned in the article be directly connected to her post, or were any of her followers engaged in violence? Seems like a bit of a reach to me.

Following these murders, a bunch of racists went tonto on Twitter, and we had countrywide race riots. Is your view that they should not face any consequences unless it's demonstrable that their specific post led to Steve from [insert random northern shithole town] throwing a petrol bomb at a woman in a niqab?

To be totally honest, I'm not sure. Direct incitement of the form "kill these specific people" is pretty serious, don't get me wrong. If there's a direct causal link between her words and violence, maybe short jail time, but the burden of proof there is high.

What punishment do you think is appropriate for:

1. Saying 'Eat the rich' on a public forum
   
2. Saying 'Eat Jeff Bezos' on a public forum
   
3. Saying 'Eat Jeff Bezos' on a public forum on the same day Jeff Bezos was eaten
   
4. Saying 'Eat Jeff Bezos' on a public forum on the same day Jeff Bezos was eaten, with the cannibal-murderer being a dedicated fan
   
   

Edit: I'm not meaning to remove the racist parts of the original case here, just couldn't think of a better hypothetical as a comparison for incitement to violence