Texas Muslim community's proposed new development prompts investigations https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/nx-s1-5393917/proposed-muslim-development-in-texas-epic-city
> iHeartMedia (850-plus AM and FM stations) had to pay $1.8 billion in interest expenses last year, after paying more than $1.5 billion in each of the past 5 years. That’s because when the company was acquired by private equity firms Bain Capital Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners in 2008, just as the financial crisis was in full swing, it was loaded up with more than $20 billion in debt that it hasn’t been able to grow its way out of
Anyone that sold access to Joe Biden's AutoPen needs to go to prison for a very long time.
Haha that used to be the MO of shitty malware that was sold to badguys who wanted to track a politically exposed person.
RT: https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195979581006290947/entities/urn:activity:1772268612624343040
Recall the DuPont involvement in criminalizing marijuana as they had just at that time patented nylon.
I suppose this was an inevitable development….
As the North Sea fills with offshore renewable energy farms, Belgians have been accused of stealing wind from Dutch turbines.
A huge expansion of wind power in the region is having an impact on atmospheric stability and affecting the wind in the wake of wind farms, snatching power from neighbouring turbines. Some wind farms in Belgium are taking up to 3 per cent of generating power from Dutch installations, posing the risk of future conflicts over air currents.
I think it's the lack of trying to NOT use CGI wherever possible (e.g. building an actual model of Minas Tirith) and supplementing it with intentional CGI that's the difference.
Every movie now is just "Fuck it, you two get up there in front of a green screen and we'll CGI everything else in the scene.
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