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Qatar has much better relations with Iran than most Arab states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Qatar_relations

Maybe they're betting that the telcos have more money for their legal departments than the FCC does. I wonder though if it's true that a jury can award damages in excess of the requested amount in the case of regulatory fines the same way juries can when deciding civil suits for damages. Maybe.

This is what the internet was made for

They promised to not attack them, not to defend them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

Clearly Russia broke that agreement, but the US, UK, France, and China haven't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

No love for radical skepticism round here I see.

I tend to think at some point that was true, that Tesla was about saving the planet and SpaceX was about making humanity multiplanetary.

It could be he was always a wretched creep and just really good at hiding it, but it seems to me that the wealth and power just ruined him. He wouldn't be the first person to fall in that trap.

I'll append my confession here.

I supported Ron Paul once upon a time. The non-interventionism appealed to me in the context of the Iraq war in particular, and the rights-based libertarian philosophy seemed sound. I was young.

Is anyone using Veilid for anything yet? Last I checked it was more an interesting experiment.

Problematic - it's just so lazy. Makes me doubt whether the speaker has any coherent reason for why they don't like the given thing. Might as well say 'yucky'. It's the kind of word one uses when assuming everyone already agrees with you, and if they don't, well then they're probably problematic too. /rant

I don't know much about Machado, but I do know that polls conducted under dictatorships are often not worth much.

Looks like Noam Chomsky embracing Steve Bannon