My favourite accusation of woke was people complaining about princes leia being old and unattractive now. Like no shit? It’s been 40ish years?

Got Therme we kinda do. Just not in the direction we want. I was kinda hoping he would flip once he got the obvious out that they got scammed. Guess not though.

There is another restaurant chain you have probably heard of that is that petty in a way.

Ruth’s Chris steak house was optionally a single franchise of Chris steak house owned by a woman named Ruth. The real issue was some legal problem with reopening after the origin back location burnt down so she added her name to it so it became her Chris steak house.

Huh? Why are you bringing up NDA’s?

To be clear, the acts committed by these people are heinous. They should and hopefully eventually will face jail time. I’d be happy for employees or executives of kick to face similar. They are complicit as well.

My argument was that execution of the law is hard and never as easy as we would like it to be.

execution of the law is always more complicated than we want it to be. They could have been let off as the investigation continued if the victim told the cops “i did everything with full consent and it was all an act for the entertainment of the stream.”. Cops/W/e the french version of DA is would possibly need to continue the investigation to show that either he was unable to consent to the actions or it was a lie that there was consent.

I’m just a layperson and maybe it was more cut and dry and the cops really dropped the ball. It just doesn’t seem so cut and dry legally to me. Will be interesting to see the outcome of the investigation from this.

My first reaction to this article was that the US will need UN Observers at the midterms.

America is cooked and the collective responce seems to be “well… Both sides…”. Infuriating to watch.

Must because something is hard doesn’t mean you shouldn’t demand better of your police/government. Don’t be so dismissive without even trying. Reach out to your representatives and demand Altman faces charges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Amanda_Todd sometimes punishments are possible even when it’s hard.

Altman should face jail for this. As the ceo he is directly responsible for this outcome. Hell id be down with the board facing charges as well.

They kinda did. The dudes were taken in as part of an ongoing investigation but were then released. I can see why it’s fared for the cops when even the victims are saying it’s by their own choice. But it’s no excuse for kick.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/outcry-over-french-streamers-death-on-air-as-authorities-probe-allegations-of-abuse/

The investigation, opened in December, is looking into “deliberate violence against vulnerable persons” and “spreading recordings of images related to offences involving deliberate violations of physical integrity,” Martinelli’s statement said. It did not specify why Pormanove could be considered vulnerable.

The statement said two co-streamers allegedly involved in the case were briefly taken into custody in January but were released pending further investigation.

In parallel, the Nice prosecutor said, investigators interviewed Pormanove and one of his co-streamers who both appeared to be victims of violence and humiliation. They “strongly denied being victims of violence, stating that the events were staged in order to `generate a buzz’ and make money.”

Ridiculous use of resources and time from the gov. Accomplish nothing but suburban brownie points at the cost of bikers lives.

Have no clue what it was called but I remember having to read a short story that included a guy who would take the family cat into a locked room and watch porn…

I think it’s probably older than some of the victims.

CEO of Spotify invested in an ai military company.

Are you thinking of the ai summaries wiki added to the articles? That had a big blowout and got removed. This seems to be a third party tool. Not sure it will have the same blowback.

What happens if he says yes? Then you are trapped alone with him. Seems worse lol

Got 248 hours on record. It’s probably my top city builder at this point.

apologies I actually meant to put the archive link in the post but seem to have forgotten.

As to why I would post a pay-walled article is simple; I believe if we want to continue having quality journalism in this country it is something we need to appropriately fund. We can’t rely on only the CBC (and not just because PP and the cpc want to destroy it). As far as I can tell this is original reporting from the Star so I do kinda feel it is morally correct to link to them first. (although I do not disagree with archive links for paywall bypass maybe that makes me a hypocrite… meh)

I feel its also especially important to fund the star right now as it is one of the last Canadian owned mainstream news outlets that isnt distinctly right wing (even if it is slowly drifting to the right imo) and isn’t ideologically driven (IE Press Progress, CanadaLand).

You can access locally when the internet is down. You just need to set the login bypass for the local network. IMO it’s kinda a stupid step needed in setup but it is available.