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per la maggior parte della gente SVU è sinonimo di bella auto. per me è sinonimo di auto che non frena, cappotta come niente, pessima visibilità del guidatore, spesso con sospensioni di un carro merci, e vai alla cieca senza vedere cosa hai davanti al cofano... è anche sinonimo di anti-ecologico, visto che se era già assurda un'auto che porta 1 persona pesando 1t, diventa peggio un'auto che porta 1 persona e pesa 3,5t.
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@RFanciola si usa il suv per il pericolo che qualcuno con il suv metta sotto i nostri bambini... si può essere più idioti di così?
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Davvero vette ineguagliabili. Ma va spiegarglielo 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️


Prosegue la sistematica violazione del Media Freedom Act


@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Come avevamo previsto le forze del centro destra all’Europarlamento hanno bloccato l’ispezione in Italia per verificare lo stato della libertà di informazione. Nulla accade per caso, di fronte alla



The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."

The government also said "we donx27;t have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."#ICE


ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued


The federal government claims that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.

People detained at ICE’s Broadview Detention Center in suburban Chicago sued the government on October 30; according to their lawyers and the government, nearly two weeks of footage that could show how they were treated was lost in a “system crash” that happened on October 31.

“The government has said that the data for that period was lost in a system crash apparently on the day after the lawsuit was filed,” Alec Solotorovsky, one of the lawyers representing people detained at the facility, said in a hearing about the footage on Thursday that 404 Media attended via phone. “That period we think is going to be critical […] because that’s the period right before the lawsuit was filed.”

Earlier this week, we reported on the fact that the footage, from October 20 to October 30, had been “irretrievably destroyed.” At a hearing Thursday, we learned more about what was lost and the apparent circumstances of the deletion. According to lawyers representing people detained at the facility, it is unclear whether the government is even trying to recover the footage; government lawyers, meanwhile, said “we don’t have the resources” to continue preserving surveillance footage from the facility and suggested that immigrants detained at the facility (or their lawyers) could provide “endless hard drives where we could save the information, that might be one solution.”

It should be noted that ICE and Border Patrol agents continued to be paid during the government shutdown, that Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” provided $170 billion in funding for immigration enforcement and border protection, which included tens of billions of dollars in funding for detention centers.

People detained at the facility are suing the government over alleged horrific treatment and living conditions at the detention center, which has become a site of mass protest against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.

Solotorovsky said that the footage the government has offered is from between September 28 and October 19, and from between October 31 and November 7. Government lawyers have said they are prepared to provide footage from five cameras from those time periods; Solotorovsky said the plaintiffs’ attorneys believe there are 63 surveillance cameras total at the facility. He added that over the last few weeks the plaintiffs’ legal team has been trying to work with the government to figure out if the footage can be recovered but that it is unclear who is doing this work on the government’s side. He said they were referred to a company called Five by Five Management, “that appears to be based out of a house,” has supposedly been retained by the government.

“We tried to engage with the government through our IT specialist, and we hired a video forensic specialist,” Solotorovsky said. He added that the government specialist they spoke to “didn’t really know anything beyond the basic specifications of the system. He wasn’t able to answer any questions about preservation or attempts to recover the data.” He said that the government eventually put him in touch with “a person who ostensibly was involved in those events [attempting to recover the data], and it was kind of a no-name LLC called Five by Five Management that appears to be based out of a house in Carol Stream. We were told they were on site and involved with the system when the October 20 to 30 data was lost, but nobody has told us that Five By Five Management or anyone else has been trying to recover the data, and also very importantly things like system logs, administrator logs, event logs, data in the system that may show changes to settings or configurations or deletion events or people accessing the system at important times.”

Five by Five Management could not be reached for comment.

Solotorovsky said those logs are going to be critical for “determining whether the loss was intentional. We’re deeply concerned that nobody is trying to recover the data, and nobody is trying to preserve the data that we’re going to need for this case going forward.”

Jana Brady, an assistant US attorney representing the Department of Homeland Security in the case, did not have much information about what had happened to the footage, and said she was trying to get in touch with contractors the government had hired. She also said the government should not be forced to retain surveillance footage from every camera at the facility and that the “we [the federal government] don’t have the resources to save all of the video footage.”

“We need to keep in mind proportionality. It took a huge effort to download and save and produce the video footage that we are producing and to say that we have to produce and preserve video footage indefinitely for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, indefinitely, which is what they’re asking, we don’t have the resources to do that,” Brady said. “we don't have the resources to save all of the video footage 24/7 for 65 cameras for basically the end of time.”

She added that the government would be amenable to saving all footage if the plaintiffs “have endless hard drives that we could save things to, because again we don’t have the resources to do what the court is ordering us to do. But if they have endless hard drives where we could save the information, that might be one solution.”

Magistrate Judge Laura McNally said they aren’t being “preserved from now until the end of time, they’re being preserved for now,” and said “I’m guessing the federal government has more resources than the plaintiffs here and, I’ll just leave it at that.”

When McNally asked if the footage was gone and not recoverable, Brady said “that’s what I’ve been told.”

“I’ve asked for the name and phone number for the person that is most knowledgeable from the vendor [attempting to recover] the footage, and if I need to depose them to confirm this, I can do this,” she said. “But I have been told that it’s not recoverable, that the system crashed.”

Plaintiffs in the case say they are being held in “inhumane” conditions. The complaint describes a facility where detainees are “confined at Broadview inside overcrowded holding cells containing dozens of people at a time. People are forced to attempt to sleep for days or sometimes weeks on plastic chairs or on the filthy concrete floor. They are denied sufficient food and water […] the temperatures are extreme and uncomfortable […] the physical conditions are filthy, with poor sanitation, clogged toilets, and blood, human fluids, and insects in the sinks and the floor […] federal officers who patrol Broadview under Defendants’ authority are abusive and cruel. Putative class members are routinely degraded, mistreated, and humiliated by these officers.”


#ice #x27


Fixing a Milltronics ML15 CNC Lathe Despite the Manufacturer’s Best Efforts


When you’re like [Wes] from Watch Wes Work fame, you don’t have a CNC machine hoarding issue, you just have a healthy interest in going down CNC machine repair rabbit holes. Such too was the case with a recently acquired 2001 Milltronics ML15 lathe, that at first glance appeared to be in pristine condition. Yet despite – or because of – living a cushy life at a college’s workshop, it had a number of serious issues, with a busted Z-axis drive board being the first to be tackled.
The Glentek servo board that caused so much grief. (Credit: Watch Wes Work, YouTube)The Glentek servo board that caused so much grief. (Credit: Watch Wes Work, YouTube)
The identical servo control board next to it worked fine, so it had to be an issue on the board itself. A quick test showed that the H-bridge IGBTs had suffered the typical fate that IGBTs suffer, violently taking out another IC along with them. Enjoyably, this board by one Glentek Inc. did the rebranding thing of components like said IGBTs, which made tracking down suitable replacements an utter pain that was eased only by the desperate communications on forums which provided some clues. Of course, desoldering and testing one of the good IGBTs on the second board showed the exact type of IGBT to get.

After replacing said IGBTs, as well as an optocoupler and other bits and pieces, the servo board was good as new. Next, the CNC lathe also had a busted optical encoder, an unusable tool post and a number of other smaller and larger issues that required addressing. Along the way the term ‘pin-to-pin compatible’ for a replacement driver IC was also found to mean that you still have to read the full datasheet.

Of the whole ordeal, the Glentek servo board definitely caused the most trouble, with the manufacturer providing incomplete schematics, rebranding parts to make generic replacements very hard to find and overall just going for a design that’s interesting but hard to diagnose and fix. To help out anyone else who got cursed with a Glentek servo board like this, [Wes] has made the board files and related info available in a GitHub repository.

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#Zelensky e l'incubo della pace


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So Long, Firefox, Part One


It’s likely that Hackaday readers have among them a greater than average number of people who can name one special thing they did on September 23rd, 2002. On that day a new web browser was released, Phoenix version 0.1, and it was a lightweight browser-only derivative of the hugely bloated Mozilla suite. Renamed a few times to become Firefox, it rose to challenge the once-mighty Microsoft Internet Explorer, only to in turn be overtaken by Google’s Chrome.

Now in 2025 it’s a minority browser with an estimated market share just over 2%, and it’s safe to say that Mozilla’s take on AI and the use of advertising data has put them at odds with many of us who’ve kept the faith since that September day 23 years ago. Over the last few months I’ve been actively chasing alternatives, and it’s with sadness that in November 2025, I can finally say I’m Firefox-free.

Just What Went Wrong?

A graph of market share. On the left in 2009 MSIE has over 50% and Firefox around 30%, while today on the right, Chrome has nearly 70% with everything else in the weeds.Browser market share, 2009 to 2025. Statcounter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
It was perhaps inevitable that Firefox would lose market share when faced with a challenger from a player with the economic muscle of Google. Chrome is everywhere, it’s the default browser in Android and ChromeOS, and when stacked up against the Internet Explorer of fifteen years or so ago it’s not difficult to see why it made for an easy switch. Chrome is good, it’s fast and responsive, it’s friendly, and the majority of end users either don’t care or don’t know enough to care that it’s Google’s way in to your data. When it first appeared, they still had the “Don’t be evil” aura to them, even if perhaps behind the warm and fuzzy feeling it had already worn away in the company itself.

If Firefox were destined to become a minority player then it could still be a successful one; after all, 2% of the global browser market still represents a huge number of users whose referrals to search engines return a decent income. But the key to being a success in any business is to know your customers, and sitting in front of this particular screen it’s difficult to escape the conclusion that Mozilla have lost touch with theirs. To understand this it’s necessary for all of us to look in the mirror and think for a moment about who uses Firefox.

Somewhere, A Group Of Users Are Being Ignored

A screenshot of the first Phoenix browser in Windows XP.Blink, and its name will change: Phoenix version 0.1. Mozilla Foundation; Microsoft, Inc., CC BY-SA 4.0.
A quick straw poll in my hackerspace revealed a majority of Firefox users, while the same straw poll among another group of my non-hackerspace friends revealed none. The former used Firefox because of open-source vibes, while the latter used Edge or Safari because it came with their computer, or Chrome on their phone and on their desktop because of Google services. Hackaday is not a global polling organisation, but we think it’s likely that the same trend would reveal itself more widely. If you’re in the technology space you might use Firefox, but if you aren’t you may not even have heard of it in 2025. It’s difficult to see that changing any time soon, to imagine some killer feature that would make those Chrome, Safari, and Edge users care enough to switch to Firefox.

To service and retain this loyal userbase then, you might imagine that Mozilla would address their needs and concerns with what made Phoenix a great first version back in 2002. A lightweight and versatile standards-compliant and open-source web browser with acceptable privacy standards, and without any other non-browser features attached to it. Just a browser, only a browser, and above all, a fast browser.

Instead, Mozilla appear to be following a course calculated to alarm rather than retain these users. Making themselves an AI-focused organisation, neglecting their once-unbeatable developer network, and trying to sneak data gathering into their products. They appear now to think of themselves as a fad-driven Valley startup rather than the custodians of a valuable open-source package, and unsurprisingly this is concerning to those of us who know something about what a browser does behind the scenes.

Why Is This Important?

A nasty piece of code to open different incompatible AJAX requests in different 2000s-era browsers.If you have ever had to write code like this, you will know. Bret Taylor, CC-BY 2.5.
It is likely that I am preaching to the choir here, but it’s important that there be a plurality of browsers in the world. And by that I mean not just a plurality of front-ends, but a plurality of browser engines. One of the reasons Phoenix appeared all those years ago was to challenge the dominance of Microsoft Internet Explorer, the tool by which the Redmond software company were trying to shape the online world to their tune. If you remember the browser wars of that era, you’ll have tales of incompatibilities seemingly baked in on purpose to break the chances of an open Web, and we were all poorer for it. Writing Javascript with a range of sections to deal with the quirks of different browser families is now largely a thing of the past, and for that you have the people who stuck with Firefox in the 2000s to thank.

The fear is that here in 2025 we are in an analogous situation to the early 2000s, with Google replacing Microsoft. Such is the dominance of Google Chrome and the WebKit-derived Blink engine which powers it, that in effect, Google have immense power to shape the Web just as Microsoft did back in the day. Do you trust them to live up to their now-retired mission statement and not be evil? We can’t say we do. Thus Firefox’s Gecko browser engine is of crucial importance, representing as it does the only any-way serious challenger to Blink and WebKit’s near-monopoly. That it is now tied to a Mozilla leadership treating it in so cavalier a manner does not bode well for the future of the Web.

So I’ve set out my stand here, that after twenty-three years, I’m ready to abandon Firefox. It’s not a decision that has been easy, because it’s important for all of us that there be a plurality of browsers, but such is the direction being taken by Mozilla that I am not anxious to sit idly by and constantly keep an eye out for new hidden privacy and AI features to turn off with obscure checkboxes. In the following piece I’ll take a look at my hunt for alternatives, and you may be surprised by the one I eventually picked.


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“Vogliamo aiutare tutti a vivere una relazione personale con Cristo”. Con queste parole il card. Matteo Zuppi, arcivescovo di Bologna e presidente della Cei, ha rivolto il suo saluto a Papa Leone XIV al termine dell’Assemblea generale dei vescovi ad …


“Le nostre parrocchie e comunità siano case di pace e di non violenza”. Con questo richiamo il card. Matteo Zuppi, arcivescovo di Bologna e presidente della Cei, si è rivolto a Papa Leone XIV durante il saluto pronunciato all’Assemblea generale dei v…


In arrivo via Cherry Red il box CBGB – A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986
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“Il CBGB era un posto per gente sporca.” – Jimmy Destri dei Blondie “Dopo, sono partita e ho attraversato la città per andare al CBGB, la roccaforte dell’ignoto, per stare con la mia gente.” – Patti Smith Nel dicembre 1973 Hilly Kristal cambiò il nome del suo bar di musica roots da Hilly’s on the […]


In una società segnata da profonde trasformazioni, gli adolescenti rappresentano meno del dieci per cento della popolazione italiana, una minoranza chiamata a crescere in un contesto dominato da adulti e anziani mai così numerosi nella storia.


Incontro "Violenza di genere", 26 novembre Sesto Fiorentino (FI)


Con l'RSU FIOM-CGIL della mia azienda abbiamo organizzato un evento che esce un po' dalle tematiche "classiche" di cui si occupa una RSU.

L'incontro in questione si terrà mercoledì 26 novembre, alle 9:00 (mattina), alla Casa del Popolo di Querceto (Sesto Fiorentino, FI) e si intitola "Violenza di genere - Ragioni culturali e psicologiche, effetti sulle vittime, il supporto offerto dai servizi territoriali".

E' stato organizzato in collaborazione con il Centro Antiviolenza Artemisia di Firenze e vedrà la partecipazione di una delle loro psicologhe, la dott.ssa Eleonora Bartoli.

L’associazione Artemisia illustrerà le ragioni socio-culturali della violenza di genere, gli effetti sulle vittime, cercherà di fornire degli strumenti per riconoscere questo tipo di violenza e i servizi presenti sul territorio per il sostegno delle donne in quanto vittime e per gli uomini in quanto attori di tale violenza.

Se condividete magari riusciamo a raggiungere qualche persona in più.

#ViolenzaDiGenere
#GiornataInternazionaleControlaViolenzasulleDonne
#25novembre #25novembre2025
#FIOM
#CGIL

@Firenze





Rare Filament Makes Weird Benchies


[Zack], in addition to being a snappy dresser, has a thing for strange 3D printing filament. How strange? Well, in a recent video, he looks at filaments that require 445 C. Even the build plate has to be super hot. He also looks at filament that seems like iron, one that makes you think it is rubber, and a bunch of others.

As you might expect, he’s not using a conventional 3D printer. Although you might be able to get your more conventional printer to handle some of these, especially with some hacking. There is filament with carbon fiber, glass fiber, and more exotic add-ons.

Most of the filaments need special code to get everything working. While you might think you can’t print these engineering filaments, it stands to reason that hobby-grade printers are going to get better over time (as they already have). If the day is coming when folks will be able to print any of these on their out-of-the-box printer, we might as well start researching them now.

If you fancy a drinking game, have a shot every time he changes shots and a double when the Hackaday Prize T-shirt shows up.

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C’era una volta la scuola di partito, ora la politica diventa casting

Lontana dalle sezioni e dai congressi di un tempo, una rivoluzione silenziosa attraversa la politica italiana del futuro. A decidere il destino dei giovani militanti non sono più le classiche…
L'articolo C’era una volta la scuola di partito, ora la politica diventa casting su Lumsanews.



Attacco ransomware a Poltronesofà: il rischio è l’esposizione di dati personali


@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Al momento non c'è alcuna rivendicazione, ma l'attacco ransomware subito da Poltronesofà rappresenta un caso emblematico della minaccia persistente che colpisce il tessuto imprenditoriale italiano. Ecco cosa rischiano le persone coinvolte
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È uscito il nuovo numero di The Post Internazionale. Da oggi potete acquistare la copia digitale


@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
È uscito il nuovo numero di The Post Internazionale. Il magazine, disponibile già da ora nella versione digitale sulla nostra App, e da domani, venerdì 21 novembre, in tutte le edicole, propone ogni due settimane inchieste e approfondimenti sugli affari e il potere in



Il Consiglio Supremo di Difesa Italiano discute sulla minacce ibride e digitali in Italia e Europa


Il Consiglio Supremo di Difesa, si è riunito recentemente al Quirinale sotto la guida del Presidente Sergio Mattarella, ha posto al centro della discussione l’evoluzione delle minacce ibride e digitali che investono l’Italia e l’Europa.

La guerra in Ucraina resta lo scenario da cui originano molte delle tensioni che ricadono anche sul dominio cyber, con Mosca che continua a utilizzare strumenti tecnologici e informativi come leve strategiche per destabilizzare i Paesi occidentali.

Una parte rilevante della riunione è stata dedicata all’impiego sempre più aggressivo dei droni da parte della Russia, non solo in Ucraina ma anche con violazioni dello spazio aereo di Paesi NATO. Sebbene si tratti di operazioni prettamente militari, il Consiglio ha sottolineato come tali tecniche riflettano un salto di qualità nell’integrazione tra mezzi fisici e digitali, confermando la necessità di potenziare le capacità europee di innovazione e difesa tecnologica, in linea con quanto previsto dal Libro Bianco per la Difesa 2030.

Il tema centrale sul fronte cyber è stato però l’aumento della minaccia ibrida. Il Consiglio ha riconosciuto che la Russia insieme ad altri attori ostili – sta intensificando attività che spaziano dalla disinformazione alle interferenze nei processi democratici, sfruttando la velocità e l’ubiquità delle tecnologie digitali, oltre alle potenzialità dell’intelligenza artificiale per manipolare lo spazio cognitivo e costruire narrazioni polarizzanti.

Sempre più frequenti sono anche le operazioni cyber dirette contro infrastrutture critiche italiane ed europee. Ospedali, reti energetiche, sistemi finanziari e piattaforme logistiche rientrano tra gli obiettivi più vulnerabili.

L’obiettivo di questi attacchi è creare interruzioni, generare sfiducia nelle istituzioni e colpire la stabilità economica e sociale. Per questo, il Consiglio ha ribadito l’urgenza di rafforzare i meccanismi di difesa e coordinamento nazionale, in continuità con le iniziative già intraprese a livello UE e NATO.

Accanto alle minacce digitali, il Consiglio ha evidenziato come nuovi domini – lo spazio e il sottosuolo marinostiano rapidamente diventando aree chiave di competizione strategica. La protezione dei cavi sottomarini, dei satelliti e delle infrastrutture spaziali è ormai parte integrante della sicurezza cyber nazionale, poiché un attacco in questi ambiti avrebbe ricadute dirette sulle comunicazioni digitali e sui servizi essenziali.

In chiusura, oltre ai rischi cyber e ibridi, il Consiglio ha espresso forte preoccupazione per le tensioni nei principali scenari di crisi globali – Ucraina, Medio Oriente, Libano, Sahel e Balcani – ricordando che ogni instabilità regionale si ripercuote anche sulla sicurezza informatica europea.

Il messaggio finale è stato chiaro: l’Italia deve continuare a investire nella resilienza digitale e nella cooperazione internazionale, mantenendo alta la vigilanza su tutte le dimensioni della sicurezza contemporanea.

L'articolo Il Consiglio Supremo di Difesa Italiano discute sulla minacce ibride e digitali in Italia e Europa proviene da Red Hot Cyber.



Today, 6pm: The Criminalization of Self-Defense Talk


The Black Response and Impact Boston will present The Criminalization of Self-Defense, a community education event on Thursday, November 20, from 6:00 to 8:30 PM at The Community Art Center in Cambridge, MA. We are proud to be one of the sponsors of it. Please register in advance.

It is a free and public gathering that will explore how self-defense is criminalized, particularly for Black, Brown, and marginalized survivors, and how communities can reclaim safety through resistance, advocacy, and care.

Featured Speakers will be:

The Community Art Center is at 119 Windsor Street, Cambridge. It is a nine minute walk from Central Square and the MBTA Red Line stop there.

FREE food and childcare will be provided. TBR will collect food donations for the network of free CommunityFridges. Please bring nonperishable food items to contribute. More details are available.


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OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair announced on LinkedIn that the platform partnered with Checkr to "prevent people who have a criminal conviction which may impact on our community's safety from signing up as a Creator on OnlyFans."

OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair announced on LinkedIn that the platform partnered with Checkr to "prevent people who have a criminal conviction which may impact on our communityx27;s safety from signing up as a Creator on OnlyFans."#onlyfans #porn #backgroundchecks


OnlyFans Will Start Checking Criminal Records. Creators Say That's a Terrible Idea


OnlyFans will start running background checks on people signing up as content creators, the platform’s CEO recently announced.

As reported by adult industry news outlet XBIZ, OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair announced the partnership in a LinkedIn post. Blair doesn’t say in the post when the checks will be implemented, whether all types of criminal convictions will bar creators from signing up, if existing creators will be checked as well, or what countries’ criminal records will be checked.

OnlyFans did not respond to 404 Media's request for comment.

“I am very proud to add our partnership with Checkr Trust to our onboarding process in the US,” Blair wrote. “Checkr, Inc. helps OnlyFans to prevent people who have a criminal conviction which may impact on our community's safety from signing up as a Creator on OnlyFans. It’s collaborations like this that make the real difference behind the scenes and keep OnlyFans a space where creators and fans feel secure and empowered.”

Many OnlyFans creators turned to the platform, and to online sex work more generally, when they’re not able to obtain employment at traditional workplaces. Some sex workers doing in-person work turned to online sex work as a way to make ends meet—especially after the passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act in 2018 made it much more difficult to screen clients for escorting. And in-person sex work is still criminalized in the U.S. and many other countries.

“Criminal background checks will not stop potential predators from using the platform (OF), it will only harm individuals who are already at higher risk. Sex work has always had a low barrier to entry, making it the most accessible career for people from all walks of life,” performer GoAskAlex, who’s on OnlyFans and other platforms, told me in an email. “Removing creators with criminal/arrest records will only push more vulnerable people (overwhelmingly, women) to street based/survival sex work. Adding more barriers to what is arguably the safest form of sex work (online sex work) will push sex industry workers to less and less safe options.”

Jessica Starling, who also creates adult content on OnlyFans, told me in a call that their first thought was that if someone using OnlyFans has a prostitution charge, they might not be able to use the platform. “If they're trying to transition to online work, they won’t be able to do that anymore,” they said. “And the second thing I thought was that it's just invasive and overreaching... And then I looked up the company, and I'm like, ‘Oh, wow, this is really bad.’”

Checkr is reportedly used by Uber, Instacart, Shipt, Postmates, and Lyft, and lists many more companies like Dominos and Doordash on its site as clients. The company has been sued hundreds of times for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act or other consumer credit complaints. The Fair Credit Reporting Act says that companies providing information to consumer reporting agencies are legally obligated to investigate disputed information. And a lot of people dispute the information Checkr and Inflection provide on them, claiming mixed-up names, acquittals, and decades-old misdemeanors or traffic tickets prevented them from accessing platforms that use background checking services.

Checkr regularly acquires other background checking and age verification companies, and acquired a background check company called Inflection in 2022. At the time, I found more than a dozen lawsuits against Inflection alone in a three year span, many of them from people who found out about the allegedly inaccurate reports Inflection kept about them after being banned from Airbnb after the company claimed they failed checks.

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“Sex workers face discrimination when leaving the sex trade, especially those who have been face-out and are identifiable in the online world. Facial recognition technology has advanced to a point where just about anyone can ascertain your identity from a single picture,” Alex said. “Leaving the online sex trade is not as easy as it once was, and anything you've done online will follow you for a lifetime. Creators who are forced to leave the platform will find that safe and stable alternatives are far and few between.”

Last month, Pornhub announced that it would start performing background checks on existing content partners—which primarily include studios—next year. "To further protect our creators and users, all new applicants must now complete a criminal background check during onboarding," the platform announced in a newsletter to partners, as reported by AVN.

Alex said she believes background checks in the porn industry could be beneficial, under very specific circumstances. “I do not think that someone with egregious history of sexual violence should be allowed to work in the sex trade in any capacity—similarly, a person convicted of hurting children should be not able to work with children—so if the criminal record checks were searching specifically for sex based offences I could see the benefit, but that doesn't appear to be the case (to my knowledge). What's to stop OnlyFans from deactivating someone's account due to a shoplifting offense?” she said. “I'd like to know more about what they're searching for with these background checks.”

Even with third-party companies like Checkr doing the work, as is the case with third-party age verification that’s swept the U.S. and targeted the porn industry, increased data means increased risk of it being leaked or hacked. Last year, a background check company called National Public Data claimed it was breached by hackers who got the confidential data of 2.9 billion people. The unencrypted data was then sold on the dark web.

Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South
As of today, three more states join the list of 17 that can’t access Pornhub because of age verification laws.
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“It’s dangerous for anyone, but it's especially dangerous for us [adult creators] because we're more vulnerable anyway. Especially when you're online, you're hypervisible,” Starling said. “It doesn't protect anyone except OnlyFans themselves, the company.”

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A few years ago, Putin hyped the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Now electronic warfare is knocking it out of the sky with music and some bad directions.#News #war


Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song


The Ukrainian Army is knocking a once-hyped Russian superweapon out of the sky by jamming it with a song and tricking it into thinking it’s in Lima, Peru. The Kremlin once called its Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ballistic missiles “invincible.” Joe Biden said the missile was “almost impossible to stop.” Now Ukrainian electronic warfare experts say they can counter the Kinzhal with some music and a re-direction order.

As winter begins in Ukraine, Russia has ramped up attacks on power and water infrastructure using the hypersonic Kinzhal missile. Russia has come to rely on massive long-range barrages that include drones and missiles. An overnight attack in early October included 496 drones and 53 missiles, including the Kinzhal. Another attack at the end of October involved more than 700 mixed missiles and drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
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“Only one type of system in Ukraine was able to intercept those kinds of missiles. It was the Patriot system, which the United States provided to Ukraine. But, because of the limits of those systems and the shortage of ammunition, Ukraine defense are unable to intercept most of those Kijnhals,” a member of Night Watch—a Ukrainian electronic warfare team—told 404 Media. The representative from Night Watch spoke to me on the condition of anonymity to discuss war tactics.

Kinzhals and other guided munitions navigate by communicating with Russian satellites that are part of the GLONASS system, a GPS-style navigation network. Night Watch uses a jamming system called Lima EW to generate a disruption field that prevents anything in the area from communicating with a satellite. Many traditional jamming systems work by blasting receivers on munitions and aircraft with radio noise. Lima does that, but also sends along a digital signal and spoofs navigation signals. It “hacks” the receiver it's communicating with to throw it off course.

Night Watch shared pictures of the downed Kinzhals with 404 Media that showed a missile with a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), an active antenna that’s meant to resist jamming and spoofing. “We discovered that this missile had pretty old type of technology,” Night Watch said. “They had the same type of receivers as old Soviet missiles used to have. So there is nothing special, there is nothing new in those types of missiles.”

Night Watch told 404 Media that it used this Lima to take down 19 Kinzhals in the past two weeks. First, it replaces the missile’s satellite navigation signals with the Ukrainian song “Our Father Is Bandera.”
A downed Kinzhal. Night Watch photo.
Any digital noise or random signal would work to jam the navigation system, but Night Watch wanted to use the song because they think it’s funny. “We just send a song…we just make it into binary code, you know, like 010101, and just send it to the Russian navigation system,” Night Watch said. “It’s just kind of a joke. [Bandera] is a Ukrainian nationalist and Russia tries to use this person in their propaganda to say all Ukrainians are Nazis. They always try to scare the Russian people that Ukrainians are, culturally, all the same as Bandera.”

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Once the song hits, Night Watch uses Lima to spoof a navigation signal to the missiles and make them think they’re in Lima, Peru. Once the missile’s confused about its location, it attempts to change direction. These missiles are fast—launched from a MiG-31 they can hit speeds of up to Mach 5.7 or more than 4,000 miles per hour—and an object moving that fast doesn’t fare well with sudden changes of direction.

“The airframe cannot withstand the excessive stress and the missile naturally fails,” Night Watch said. “When the Kinzhal missile tried to quickly change navigation, the fuselage of this missile was unable to handle the speed…and, yeah., it was just cut into two parts…the biggest advantage of those missiles, speed, was used against them. So that’s why we have intercepted 19 missiles for the last two weeks.”
Electronics in a downed Kinzhal. Night Watch photo.
Night Watch told 404 Media that Russia is attempting to defeat the Lima system by loading the missiles with more of the old tech. The goal seems to be to use the different receivers to hop frequencies and avoid Lima’s signal.

“What is Russia trying to do? Increase the amount of receivers on those missiles. They used to have eight receivers and right now they increase it up to 12, but it will not help,” Night Watch said. “The last one we intercepted, they already used 16 receivers. It’s pretty useless, that type of modification.”

According to Night Watch, countering Lima by increasing the number of receivers on the missile is a profound misunderstanding of its tech. “They think we make the attack on each receiver and as soon as one receiver attacks, they try to swap in another receiver and get a signal from another satellite. But when the missile enters the range of our system, we cover all types of receivers,” they said. “It’s physically impossible to connect with another satellite, but they think that it’s possible. That’s why they started with four receivers and right now it’s 16. I guess in the future we’ll see 24, but it’s pretty useless.”


#News #war

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e pensare che non si è fatto prima per il timore della reazione fascista che li avrebbe potuto portare al governo!


VIDEO. Israele confisca Sebastia, il più importante sito archeologico palestinese


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Il pretesto dell'espropriazione: "La conservazione e lo sviluppo del sito come sito accessibile ai visitatori e al grande pubblico", naturalmente israeliano.
L'articolo VIDEO. Israele confisca Sebastia, il più importante sito archeologico






Siang Lu – Le città impossibili
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Ore dopo la scorgiamo, un luccichio in lontananza. Port Man Tou. La città fantasma. Non so cosa mi aspettavo. Sembra vera. Sembra una città vera. Solo a osservarne le vie non si capisce che è un falso. Ha la stessa planimetria e gli stessi schemi di qualunque agglomerato urbano, lo stesso DNA di cemento. La differenza è che non […]
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Safari Sarajevo
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Il sassolino che cade e diventa valanga. Pare questo il destino dell‘inchiesta aperta dalla Procura di Milano e denominata “Safari Sarajevo“. Sui giornali italiani si continuano a ripetere le stesse notizie: le dichiarazioni del giornalista e scrittore milanese Ezio Gavazzeni che ha coraggiosamente scoperchiato una pentola che bolliva da troppi anni, la denuncia presentata dalla […]
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Più capitali (privati) per una Difesa d’avanguardia. Il caso Keen venture raccontato da Lacerenza

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La Difesa europea è fatta di tante anime. Non bastano volontà politica e buona intenzioni, servono capitali da veicolare su investimenti mirati, a cominciare dalla tecnologia. Il tandem pubblico-privato, come sempre, può fornire un contributo decisamente poco



Cos’è (e chi aiuta) la finanza climatica


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I Paesi ricchi si sono impegnati a stanziare fino a 300 miliardi di dollari annui ai Paesi poveri per sostenerli nella transizione climatica, ma buona parte di questi fondi arrivano in India, in Cina e alle petromonarchie del Golfo. Secondo un’inchiesta del Guardian, appena un quinto degli aiuti raggiungono i Paesi in via



Trump vende gli F35 all’Arabia Saudita, Israele vuole un “risarcimento”


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Usa e Arabia Saudita siglano nuovi accordi e Trump dice sì alla vendita dei caccia F35 a Riad. Israele formalmente non si oppone ma teme la fine della sua superiorità aerea in Medio Oriente
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per la maggior parte della gente SVU è sinonimo di bella auto. per me è sinonimo di auto che non frena, cappotta come niente, pessima visibilità del guidatore, spesso con sospensioni di un carro merci, e vai alla cieca senza vedere cosa hai davanti al cofano... è anche sinonimo di anti-ecologico, visto che se era già assurda un'auto che porta 1 persona pesando 1t, diventa peggio un'auto che porta 1 persona e pesa 3,5t.. eh no... non è colpa dell'europa se alla gente piace il suono della parola suv, un'auto che larga quanto 2 auto normali.
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la bolla speculativa edilizia cinese non la considererei un qualcosa da imitare o considerare positivo... la cina poi è una dittatura... quindi qualsiasi sia il sistema non ha funzionato molto bene. un tempo il partito unico cinese aveva correnti che erano l'equivalente dai partiti occidentali. ma non è più così. la cina, la russia, la corea del nord, sono tutti sistemi dove non c'è controllo sul potere centrale che può fare tutto quello che vuole e che per stare in piedi ha bisogno co conquiste e guerre o perlomeno di cattivi. le dittature finiscono sempre per portare le guerre. e chi è dall'altra parte non può fare che cercare di difendersi. fra l'altro la ghestapo cinese opera illegalmente pure in italia... (vai a vedere a prato...) quindi non si può dire che sia un problema locale cinese. diciamo che per la cina tutto il mondo è casa propria. e non solo in senso lavorativo o turistico. quindi no... non sostengo la cina, sia chiaro. e chi lo fa sostiene una delle dittature aggressive verso l'estero a giro per il mondo. pure sulla giustizia non sono in disaccordo con te... ma di più... diciamo che la nostra distanza è praticamenrte totale. e in comune non c'è neppure il rispetto per la vita umana, visto il sostegno alla giustizia cinese. come dire... c'è chi merita di vivere e chi no. e a stabilire è arbitrariamente un burocrate magari troppo zelante. il cosiddetto "stato di polizia", di chiara impronta fascista. ssia chiaro, pur nella libertà di idee, che se tu pensi qualcosa io probabilmente penso il contrario. seguendo certa logica, siccome la chiesa vicino accanto a me accende un macchinario che fa un casino infernale, dovrei andare li con un fucile ed ammazzare tutti e giustizia sarebbe fatta. e pure gli scienziati o sono conformi al regime o non sono scienziati... qundi no.. neppure la scienza è inviata ad essere librera da pregiudizi. la cina bnon è un luogo pragmatico dove si pensa solo ai problemi pratici. se così non fosse non ci sarebbe la fissazione di rendere schiava taiwan. e più o meno tutto il mondo. pure l'elettrico in cina è solo una seconda bolla speculativa e un altro modo per invadere il mondo. la cina non è il luohgo meno inquinato del mondo... dove tutti vivono felici in pace.




A quanto pare circa una pecora maschio su 12 è omosessuale, quindi non si accoppia con le femmine, quindi è inservibile a livello commerciale e dunque viene mandata al macello, ma in Germania esiste un allevamento che salva le pecore omosessuali e ne raccoglie, fila e tesse la lana per produrre abbigliamento gay-friendly con l’etichetta “I Wool Survive”. 🏳️‍🌈

Non si finisce mai d’imparare.

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Trump vende gli F35 all’Arabia Saudita, i timori di Israele


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Usa e Arabia Saudita siglano nuovi accordi e Trump dice sì alla vendita dei caccia F35 a Riad. Israele formalmente non si oppone ma teme la fine della sua superiorità aerea in Medio Oriente
L'articolo Trump vende gli F35 all’Arabia Saudita, i timori di Israele proviene da Pagine Esteri.



Partito Dem: il caso della strage in carcere non può concludersi impunito


La Commissione legale e per i diritti umani del partito DEM ha condannato la gestione del caso del massacro in carcere del 19 dicembre e ha affermato che l’impunità è un risultato inaccettabile. L’operazione condotta il 19 dicembre 2000, pubblicizzata come operazione “Ritorno alla Vita”, ebbe un esito grave e devastante. Persone che lo Stato era tenuto a proteggere furono uccise e ferite. Trentadue persone persero la vita, tra cui due membri delle forze di sicurezza che avevano preso parte all’operazione, e centinaia rimasero gravemente ferite.

Successivi esami forensi hanno stabilito che tutti i decessi causati da ferite da arma da fuoco, compresi quelli degli agenti di sicurezza, erano dovuti ad armi utilizzate dal personale statale. I rapporti hanno confermato che non sono stati sparati colpi dall’interno verso l’esterno. Le armi che hanno causato le morti erano armi da fuoco militari ad alta energia cinetica, armi estremamente potenti e a canna lunga.

I metodi utilizzati nel reparto femminile erano pura barbarie. Vennero aperti dei buchi nel tetto e materiale incendiario fu lanciato nei dormitori. Agenti incendiari a base chimica, proibiti all’uso in spazi chiusi, furono rilasciati in grandi quantità provocando l’incendio dei reparti e rendendo impossibile respirare alle prigioniere. Quando le detenute, rendendosi conto che sarebbero state uccise, tentarono di raggiungere il cortile, furono colpite anche lì. Sei persone persero la vita in questo attacco.

Nonostante le istanze e le denunce presentate, furono avviati procedimenti contro le vittime, mentre non fu concessa alcuna autorizzazione a procedere contro gli agenti coinvolti nell’operazione. L’indagine fu deliberatamente protratta fino al 2010.

Quell’anno furono infine presentate accuse contro 37 coscritti, ma non contro alcun ufficiale di grado superiore. L’avvio tardivo del procedimento contro coloro che avevano comandato l’operazione non ne alterò l’esito. Il tribunale respinse le richieste di audizione personale degli imputati e di deposizione di persona di vittime e testimoni. Le dichiarazioni sono rimaste incomplete per anni. La mancata presentazione dei documenti e delle informazioni richiesti dal tribunale ha intenzionalmente prolungato il processo per molti anni. Alla fine il caso è stato archiviato per prescrizione.

Tuttavia, secondo la giurisprudenza consolidata della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo (CEDU), la prescrizione non può essere invocata quando i ritardi sono causati dalle autorità giudiziarie o dai funzionari statali. I crimini che possono essere considerati crimini contro l’umanità non possono essere conclusi impunemente, poiché ciò viola sia la legge sia i principi normativi fondamentali che sostengono i diritti umani.

Per queste ragioni, la CEDU ha stabilito il 15 novembre 2016,nel caso Hamdemir e altri contro la Turchia, che la forza e i metodi utilizzati nel carcere di Bayrampaşa erano sproporzionati e che il diritto alla vita era stato violato. Inoltre, lo Stato non aveva rispettato le Regole minime standard delle Nazioni Unite per il trattamento dei detenuti, di cui è parte.

La perdita di diritti causata dalle politiche carcerarie dello Stato e il fatto che un altro massacro abbia portato all’impunità sono inaccettabili. Respingiamo l’archiviazione dell’ultimo caso riguardante le operazioni simultanee condotte in 20 carceri, il caso del raid nel carcere di Bayrampaşa, attraverso l’applicazione della prescrizione e il conseguente esito di impunità.”

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Oggi vi presento la sister!


Piccolo spazio promozionale pre-natalizio per un'artista indipendente e attivista LGBTQ+ (ma per niente "social"... anche se le dico sempre che sul Fediverso si troverebbe bene...)

Cinzia è attrice e speaker/voiceover artist e ha uno shop di prodotti parlanti!

Su PrintedVOICE trovate magliette, felpe, shopper, tazze, borracce... su ognuna delle quali c'è un QR che rimanda a una clip con la sua voce.

I design sono ispirati al contenuto delle clip: le frasi più emozionanti della letteratura italiana, inglese (in inglese) e non solo (ci sono anche il francese e il latino!).

Nelle foto potete vedere qualche esempio interessante... ma vi consiglio di esplorare il sito e provare le combinazioni di colori che preferite!

Qui invece trovate un esempio delle clip che si apriranno inquadrando il QR!

E... vi consiglio di approfittare degli sconti di novembre / black friday: fino a domenica c'è il 20% di sconto, mentre il 28-29 ci sarà uno sconto speciale del 25% su ordini a partire da 70 €

Ricondivisioni molto gradite... Grazie!

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Lo so che i post promozionali non sono graditi qui (su Poliverso sono ammessi), ma questo è un piccolo aiuto a mia sorella che in questo periodo è in seria difficoltà. Se l'idea vi sembra interessante, vi prego di rebloggare (also, dimostratemi che il Fediverso può battere Facebook, dove più di 1000 € di campagna mirata hanno dato 0 click...) 🙏 Grazie!



Regno Unito, Laburisti a tutta destra


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Rogan's conspiracy-minded audience blame mods of covering up for Rogan's guests, including Trump, who are named in the Epstein files.

Roganx27;s conspiracy-minded audience blame mods of covering up for Roganx27;s guests, including Trump, who are named in the Epstein files.#News


Joe Rogan Subreddit Bans 'Political Posts' But Still Wants 'Free Speech'


In a move that has confused and angered its users, the r/JoeRogan subreddit has banned all posts about politics. Adding to the confusion, the subreddit’s mods have said that political comments are still allowed, just not posts. “After careful consideration, internal discussion and tons of external feedback we have collectively decided that r/JoeRogan is not the place for politics anymore,” moderator OutdoorRink said in a post announcing the change today.

The new policy has not gone over well. For the last 10 years, the Joe Rogan Experience has been a central part of American political life. He interviews entertainers, yes, but also politicians and powerful businessmen. He had Donald Trump on the show and endorsed his bid for President. During the COVID and lockdown era, Rogan cast himself as an opposition figure to the heavy regulatory hand of the state. In a recent episode, Rogan’s guest was another podcaster, Adam Carolla, and the two spent hours talking about Covid lockdowns, Gavin Newsom, and specific environmental laws and building codes they argue is preventing Los Angeles from rebuilding after the Palisades fire.
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To hear the mods tell it, the subreddit is banning politics out of concern for Rogan’s listeners. “For too long this subreddit has been overrun by users who are pushing a political agenda, both left and right, and that stops today,” the post announcing the ban said. “It is not lost on us that Joe has become increasingly political in recent years and that his endorsement of Trump may have helped get him elected. That said, we are not equipped to properly moderate, arbitrate and curate political posts…while also promoting free speech.”

To be fair, as Rogan’s popularity exploded over the years, and as his politics have shifted to the right, many Reddit users have turned to the r/JoeRogan to complain about the direction Rogan and his podcast have taken. These posts are often antagonistic to Rogan and his fans, but are still “on-topic.”

Over the past few months, the moderator who announced the ban has posted several times about politics on r/JoeRogan. On November 3, they said that changes were coming to the moderation philosophy of the sub. “In the past few years, a significant group of users have been taking advantage of our ‘anything goes’ free speech policy,” they said. “This is not a political subreddit. Obviously Joe has dipped his toes in the political arena so we have allowed politics to become a component of the daily content here. That said, I think most of you will agree that it has gone too far and has attracted people who come here solely to push their political agenda with little interest in Rogan or his show.” A few days later the mod posted a link to a CBC investigation into MMA gym owners with neo-Nazi ties, a story only connected to Rogan by his interested in MMA and work as a UFC commentator.

r/JoeRogan’s users see the new “no political posts” policy as hypocrisy. And a lot of them think it has everything to do with recent revelations about Jeffrey Epstein. The connections between Epstein, Trump, and various other Rogan guests have been building for years. A recent, poorly formatted, dump of 200,000 Epstein files contained multiple references to Trump and Congress is set to release more.

“Random new mod appears and want to ruin this sub on a pathetic power trip. Transparently an attempt to cover for the pedophiles in power that Joe endorsed and supports. Not going to work,” one commenter said under the original post announcing the new ban.

“Perfectly timed around the Epstein files due to be released as well. So much for being free speech warriors eh space chimps?,” said one.

“Talking politics was great when it was all dunking on trans people and brown people but now that people have to defend pedophiles that banned hemp it's not so fun anymore,” said another.

You can see the remnants of pre-politics bans discussions lingering on r/JoeRogan. There are, of course, clips from the show and discussions of its guests but there’s also a lot of Epstein memes, posts about Epstein news, and fans questioning why Rogan hasn’t spoken out about Epstein recently after talking about it on the podcast for years.

Multiple guests Rogan has hosted on the show have turned up in the Epstein files, chief among them Donald Trump. The House GOP slipped a ban on hemp into the bill to re-open the government, a move that will close a loophole that’s allowed people to legally smoke weed in states like Texas. These are not the kinds of things the chill apes of Rogan’s fandom wanted.

“I think we all know what eventually happened to Joe and his podcast. The slow infiltration of right wing grifters coupled with Covid, it very much did change him. And I saw firsthand how that trickled down into the comedy community, especially one where he was instrumental in helping to rebuild. Instead of it being a platform to share his interests and eccentricities, it became a place to share his grievances and fears….how can we not expect to be allowed to talk about this?” user GreppMichaels said. “Do people really think this sub can go back to silly light chatter about aliens or conspiracies? Joe did this, how do the mods think we can pretend otherwise?”


#News #x27