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[Faisal Iqbal]

Vertigo is one of the most painful experience that one can ever suffer, story of former CIA intelligence officer telling his side of story of suffering the infamous Havana Syndrome.

 

[plawolf]

He did not delete that tweet, Japanese mass reported It and Japanese moderators deleted It. Don't concede to Wanwanese/Japanese winology.

Additionally, he did not literally call for her beheading like how it’s being widely misreported by the west. Just another case of deliberately applying a literal translation to a common turn of phrase to produce an absurd meaning.

 

[Faisal Iqbal]

Kevin on corporate greed,

@7:27 the average starting pay for Lockheed Martin employee in 2022 was 15:45 USD per hour, compared to Buc-ee's gas station offer of 20 USD per hour to its toilet cleaners and carwash employees 21 USD per hour...

 

[tokenanalyst]

Well, you can only die once you know...

Furthermore, why is it always males with this type of chin that throws these self destructive rages?

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I'm not surprised at all, a clown stooge. Probably his entire life nobody taught him about consequences or thinking before acting or pragmatism. Nobody ever told the stooge "no" "you are a clown"

 

[FriedButter]

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Nigel Farage: Young people on £10 an hour (minimum wage) are ‘overpaid’, insists man paid £3,000 an hour​

Nigel Farage has today bravely taken a stand against the true parasites of Britain: nineteen-year-olds being paid the outrageous sum of ten pounds an hour to work in shops and cafés.

Farage, who is paid a humble £97,000 a month by GB News for around 32 hours of presenting, earning him roughly £3,000 an hour, explained that young people simply have it too easy. He delivered this message while sitting in a leather chair that smelled faintly of both old money and new hypocrisy.

“These kids are raking it in,” he announced. “Ten pounds an hour? At that age, I was working incredibly hard at absolutely nothing because the school holidays at Dulwich do not pay a stipend.”

He insisted that cutting the minimum wage for 18-to 20-year-olds would build character.

“Struggle builds resilience,” he explained. “Struggle is good. In my youth, I read a book about this one guy’s struggle, and it changed my life. There is no greater inspiration in life than wondering which meal of the day you will not be able to afford.”

When asked whether it might be slightly inconsistent for a man earning more per hour than some full-time young workers earn in two months to complain that they are overpaid, Farage responded that it was simply “basic economics”.

He then left in a hurry, possibly because hypocrisy becomes slippery when exposed to direct sunlight.

Supporters of Reform claimed the move is not cruel but “financially sensible.” They suggested that if young people want more money, they should just stop being young, gain decades of political connections and immediately sign a lucrative media contract after being elected to Parliament.

Meanwhile, a 19-year-old shop worker looked at her payslip and sighed. “I have just enough after rent for a sandwich from the yellow sticker section. But if Nigel says I am earning too much, I guess I had better update my lifestyle.”

Reform remains committed to hardworking people everywhere. Specifically, those who work on television.

“These kids are raking it in,” he announced.

“Struggle builds resilience, Struggle is good.” He explained

There is no greater inspiration in life than wondering which meal of the day you will not be able to afford.”

 

[FriedButter]

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Labubu Movie in Development as Sony Pictures Acquires Rights​

Labubu cinema is real. Sony Pictures has acquired screen rights to the Chinese brand and has set its sights on developing a feature film, and potentially a franchise, based on the ubiquitous and very trendy dolls that became a pop culture fixation over the past year.

The project remains in an extremely nascent stage, with no talent or producers attached. Sony Pictures had no comment.

Though Labubu first hit the market in 2015, the line of collectible fanged figurines only exploded in popularity over recent months — first among a cultish niche, then hitting a mainstream gotta-have-it mania. The toys, from Chinese toymaker Pop Mart, are available in a “blind-box” format, meaning the exact character one is buying is a mystery until opened — a packaging strategy that has contributed to the product’s fiendish and occasionally intensely upcharged secondary market.

A series of celebrity endorsements, particularly in the K-pop space, skyrocketed the brand and made it into a household name.

“Labubu is my baby,” Blackpink’s Lisa said in a Teen Vogue interview earlier this year.

NBA player Dillon Brooks was seen wearing a Labubu on a chain while arriving to a playoff game in May.

“I like the Labubus. I got like four of them,” Brooks said in an interview in October. “I like the trend. It’s cool and… Um… It’s cute.”

Feature development is a years-long process, so acquiring screen rights to Labubu is a bet on the brand remaining relevant enough down the line to draw a filmgoing audience.

The Hollywood Reporter was first to report on Sony acquiring screen rights to Labubu.

 

[HighGround]

From the AI thread.

Anthropic making antiCN allegations?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1989033793190277618

Okay, but didn't they get away with the data? Soo what did they "stop"?

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As many as four of the suspected Chinese attacks successfully breached organizations, Jacob Klein, Anthropic's head of threat intelligence,

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the Wall Street Journal.

This reminds me of that scene from The Social Network, where Harvard caught Zuckerberg hacking the school network while creating FaceMash.

Anthropic: China, you are being accused of violating Anthropic's AI services to harvest usernames and passwords, accessing sensitive data, and exfiltrating it via maliciouis backdoors.

China: Okay but I think I deserve some recognition.

Anthropic: Recognition?

China: I believe I pointed out some pretty gaping holes in your system.

Anthropic: China we can assure you of our system's sophistication. In fact it was that level of sophistication that led us to detect you in September and investigate you in a mere 10 days.

China: 10 days?

Anthropic: Yes sir.

China: That would be impressive except I already fully breached at least four organizations using your code.

 

[Thecore]

Yin Kavat, our favourite hostess having discussion (with two minions) on the issue of Chinese Consul General in Osaka posting — and later deleteing — a message on X calling for the beheading of Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Takaichi Sanae...

Such a creepy looking being. Her mouth area literally looks exactly like the Grinch and her face looks some villain from a horror movie who is wearing someone else's skin on their face.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Such a creepy looking being. Her mouth area literally looks exactly like the Grinch and her face looks some villain from a horror movie who is wearing someone else's skin on their face.

She is a J-Horror villain. You know what that means. It’s conversion therapy time!

【贞子来抗日，直接把敌人连窝端了-哔哩哔哩】

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[Temstar]

In a year or two the Japanese themselves are gonna be the ones calling for her execution after she runs the economy into the ground with her plans. Or it just continues to tumble as she does nothing as a lame duck.
Anyways I remember people saying Kishida resigned because he didn’t want to be the one blamed for the coming and continuing issues in Japan and that she was gonna be the fall girl. This is basically a confirmation because saber rattling irrelevant foreign policy like this is solely a domestic distraction but will only work so long as the actual parts that affect people worsen.

Don't know about Kishida but Shigeru Ishiba is definitely like that. If you watch any interview with Shigeru Ishiba these days he's basically repeating over and over "that looks like a you problem not a my problem" while vaguely hinting that once LDP come to their senses after enough fuck up he's willing to come back and be the PM again if they beg hard enough.