NoneOfUrBusiness

It’s a half-pun about actual piracy. Not sure if illegal fishing is actually considered piracy, but that’s the idea.

Why did they even do that?

Apparently it’s the former. Their prosecution rate is 8% apparently according to Wikipedia, because they’re too understaffed to deal with cases that can go either way. They also have a false confession problem, but that’s not what’s getting them to that rate.

Amazing. Depressing, but amazing.

Holy fuck that link. I guess Israel learned that Europeans (generally) won’t bend over backwards for their Apartheid (stares at USS Liberty).

I’ve never used a Mac but my experience with iPhones and iPads (not mine) has convinced me to never touch anything Apple makes. The requirement of iTunes to send files between an iPhone and a PC is, for example, just ridiculous.

car makers just jack up their prices so they make more off the subsidy

Exactly.

Really we should be subsidizing EVs from our own manufacturers.

You are. Still not doing much to corporate greed.

I mean yes but at least in the US the latter two are overwhelmingly more common.

I mean they do need to be more discriminate about their targets, but if it works it ain’t stupid.

I mean this is just Vietnam lite. We can see what happened then, but yes I do think they’ll be unsuspended. That’s why it’s a suspension.

I mean I like the sentiment but aren’t they only suspended? I don’t think anyone will be expelled.

Okay maybe we experienced different places but at least in Osaka this has not been my experience. The most xenophobia I’ve experienced ever since I came (a year+ ago) is random restrictions on foreigners at JP Bank (which should honestly rot in hell), but I’ve definitely not seen anything close to your experience. I’m a young Middle Eastern guy for refence.

Okay as an expat who’s had to deal with this shit firsthand I’m not one to defend Japanese nonsense but I think people are entitled to do whatever they want with their homes. Again, very much not a fan of Japanese xenophobia (Japan Post Bank should rot in hell) but the onus is on the tourists to not enter random people’s homes here.

Uh… There’s a reason Israel hates BDS’s guts and that’s not because it doesn’t work.

Holy fuck. Holy fuck^2 at the friend’s dad one what the shit.

I mean yes but as a random clueless guy I was like what? Like my image of sexual assault is forced sexual actions up to and including straight up rape and if that’s happening to so many women in the US then holy fuck. I’m doing the internet equivalent of rubbing your eyes because you can’t believe what you’re seeing.

Wait, are we talking assaulted or harassed? I mean it’s bad either way but isn’t sexual assault like a really big deal?

So, hot take here: preface this with saying I absolutely condone the surveillance by Israel here.

I think you mean condemn.

It is not reasonable to keep pointing at the holocaust and nazi germany as a stick of " look, you became the thing you suffered under", unless in a context of learning from history.

I mean when a country does Nazi things usually other countries point out that that’s Nazism. It’s not something unique to Israel (see: Trump’s rhetoric being compared to Hitler’s); it’s just that Israel’s philosophy shares a lot with Nazism so the similarity is pointed out a lot.

Molasses holocaust

This way of putting it is actually genius.