As others mentioned, it seems like the clipboard monitor for phone numbers has crashed. I can’t speak to Vivo as a brand but usually this is not nefarious just a QoL feature to allow pasting into a dialer or dial directly from clipboard pop-up when it is copied.
Good luck with your struggles.
That is probably a slam dunk (minor) discrimination lawsuit. Your circumstances of birth, including the date, are not something you can be judged for.
Follow up with your ID or Birth certificate and ask “Excuse me?”
I mean, they are literally mounting campaigns targeting gays now. Maybe it sucks for both but it sucks especially hard for gay people in Russia at the moment.
E.g. Maybe it sucks to live in Mordor. But as a Goblin instead of as an Orc, maybe it sucks especially hard when Sauron starts the “let’s purge the Goblins” campaign led by the Orcs.
To everyone cracking jokes about a gay uprising, it’s a lot simpler than any of that.
They just want to exterminate the gays. Like literally. They want to find that portion of the population and destroy it, because they think it’s disgusting and evil.
That’s it. Putin and the Russian conservatives are going after gays because it’s an easy win with their conservative base, and they can claim moral superiority. Also distracts from Ukraine.
If you are gay in Russia… Its a very bad time to be gay in Russia.
If there is ever a next successor to Blurays, for VR film or something, their DRM could be linked to a validation server. Once it’s always online what you describe becomes possible.
Currently Blurays and dvds are designed for offline playback, and are read only, so their licenses are always valid and perform no verification.
Legally, you own a disc, and a limited license to view the contents of the disc.
It’s effectively full ownership, but this same “limited license” model is how they fuck you over digitally, because without the disc, they can, at any time, revoke that limited license legally, because it was limited and they never granted full ownership. This is why the legality of pirating a movie you already own on Blu-ray is morally correct but legally wrong, because your license only grants you that one disc, in that one format.
I fucking hate it. The fact we dont have better property laws for media and IP is insane.
Buddhist monks in Tibet have been martyred as China murders them systemically and tries to insist Tibet doesn’t exist, only west China.
Sihks in Punjab have many recorded martyrs and the Sihks killed in the Hindu-led ethnic cleansings in the 1984 Sihk massacre are considered martyrs of the faith.
It’s common, just not as common in Judeo-Christian based faiths.
I mean, I’m not religious or Muslim. I don’t believe in Martyrs really. But there aren’t really Atheist martyrs. I mean, I guess you could die for the cause of Abolition or something and rhetorically be a “martyr” in the anti-slavery cause, but it’s borrowing religious terminology.
That’s all I’m getting at. It’s a religious term.
It is a matter of faith, quite literally. But it’s just good to be aware that many other cultures don’t require a papal seal to acknowledge martyrdom. It’s been somewhat co-opted by the Taliban in headlines, but there are tons of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and other martyrs over time.
Tl;dr: these victims were innocent, and died because of their homeland and their faith. That’s why they are being called martyrs. It’s an apt descriptor.
This story is so sad it reads like a copypasta and I kinda of am hoping it is and is fake, because that is better than it being real.
Martyred also means died righteously in most faiths. As in, innocents who were murdered in the crusades were Martyred. This is less the case is Christianity (which names few martyrs) and more with other faiths.
So yes, many see the civilians who just wanted to live on their homeland and were bombed into kingdom come for existing just because of their faith, as martyrs.
Blu-ray is yes.
A rip implies higher compression /changes.
A movie like Independence Day? Easy to do 7gb with good quality. Blurays is H264, We have x265 now. 4gb size? Those explosions gonna be chunky, but film is watchable.
What does “the politically correct line” mean to you though? That’s a very loaded phrase and you seem to be indicating that you want to say stuff that is “controversial” without expressing any of it.
Like, Gender Dysphoria is a nuanced topic and can be felt in cis people, but there is a strong, STRONG anti-Trans effort to point at that and say “ah hah! See!” as if it somehow invalidates trans experiences.
That’s why moderation is so harsh, because often the nuance becomes a tiny crack that actual bigots will pounce on, and argue in bad faith. I mean this sincerely, I’m an audience of one but if you are sincerely just having questions I’d be happy to speak via DM.
But if the “politically incorrect” feeling is “I don’t think my kid is really dysphoric just confused”, that is a large part why spaces stop such discussion. Note i am not saying this is you, but as an example. This example focuses on invalidating how the child feels and dismissing it as something else. Which can be very dangerous.
Anyways, my offer to talk stands.
I would love to go back to an artist release model and purchase model where non superstars (with big label circulation) can be successful again.
As is, the same corps own the radio and the venues and the ads. Spotify harms Mariah Carey for example by undervaluing her songs on streaming, but at a fraction of the harm it inflicts to smaller artists.
This is an absurdly oversimplified version of events. The Taliban waged a successful insurgency effort for nearly 2 decades, and remained armed and organized the entire time. The reason they took over after US withdrawl was in no way because they were “what people wanted”. They killed those who opposed them swiftly, and have continued to do so. They took power through swift application of force.
They will never “change their government from within”. The Taliban is not a democracy where you vote on policy. It’s is a religious group and opposition to their policies is handled as opposition to God. You will die.
I understand the tact you were attempting to take here, but the Taliban is not a populist force in the region, at all. There was fairly widespread support (not unanimous) for the changes the US brought, but rebuilding a nation is not simple. Corruption can take decades to expunged. Unfortunately the Taliban returned first and the sitting leadership just rolled over and hoped not to die.
Mali. The country of Mali.
I believe the top level domain, the .ML was reclaimed by the country of Mali recently, who own it. It was just bad luck.
There is no concept of karma, or karma whoring here. And no reward system or reason to farm karma to pretend to be a RealLiveHumanPerson with feelings.
not yet anyways.
Tiktok.
You said product, and I mean this legitimately. Not because of meme hate or hating on what is trendy, but because it is and has been a tool of the CCP. This isn’t really in question, and it was one of the first large platforms to entirely erase the idea of a timeline and fully devote itself only to a algorithm feed. One that bytedance has put their finger on the scales of many times.
The effect this has is hard to quantify, but the postmortem on it is going to be incredible as we unpack exactly how much this influenced the trends and politics among zoomers, and to what extent.
The average Israeli citizen has been fed propaganda that rivals Russia since day one framing all their nations actions as defensive and necessary. And (broadly speaking) until this war only a few states would argue against this.
It also goes deeper than I initially knew, and Israeli schools and Israeli media fully include Gaza and the west bank wholly as part of Israeli, leading to a belief it is “occupied” by Palestinians, as well as teaching and reporting on Palestine only as terrorists, while enforcing this apartheid state.
So you have now generations of Israelis raised on this, gleefully committing war crimes because they believe it is rightful and just because the Palestinians are all Hamas. Yes even the children.
The level of Propaganda and how successful it has been is horrifying. This was the deliberate goal of the extreme Zionists in Israel, and their success means horrifying things for the world.