It also depends how long they have to pay. The recent $18B settlement must be paid over 10 years. So that basically doesn’t matter to a company like Meta.

Interestingly enough, even when these nations differ in terms of their dominant religions, cultural factors, and histories, they unite in their mission to undermine democracy around the world.

This is captured perfectly in Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy Inc

From one of ABC’s blogs: “Toronto can become a leader in urban problem-solving by adopting a comprehensive regulatory sandbox system that allows the City of Toronto to temporarily suspend or relax specific bylaws and regulations within a defined geographic area to test new ideas. This approach creates a “safe space” for innovation, enabling the city to gather real-world data on new technologies without the immediate need for permanent legislative changes.”

Regulation and bylaws bad. This is really original, fascinating stuff. Big brains hard at work.

Unprecedented!

“U.S. President Donald Trump had said in a social media post Sunday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to what he described as an “energy ceasefire” without offering specifics on terms.

In an interview with Axios, Zelenskyy said Trump’s post was the first he had heard of the deal“

🤦‍♂️

Seems like someone is desperate for good news to report.

Maybe a hotel development deal would change their minds.

I heard they were just a money grab and that there are actually certain times of day and streets where speed limits and other traffic laws should not apply.

/s

“I love the Canadian people, but the leaders have taken advantage of our stupid leadership for many, many years. They felt emboldened. … They act like they’re totally innocent. They’re not. They were very bad. But now they’re being taught a little lesson.”

That’s rich coming from a frequent visitor of Epstein Island (though I suppose no lessons have been learned in his case).

“Canada has taken advantage of us for so many years. The worst of any country,” Trump said.

Someone should tell this moron that repeating something excessively does not make it true.

“I think I’m seeing tremendous self-policing.“ - Donald Trump

🤦‍♂️

Edit: added quote attribution in case it wasn’t obvious

Oh, you mean the Peter Navarro who invented a trade expert named Ron Vara in his books to add credibility to his own views on China?

“In six of his books about China, Navarro quotes a purported trade expert named “Ron Vara”, whom he describes as a China hawk and former Harvard PhD doctoral student in economics. Vara makes Sinophobic remarks about China and the Chinese, such as “you’ve got to be nuts to eat Chinese food” and “only the Chinese can turn a leather sofa into an acid bath, a baby crib into a lethal weapon, and a cellphone battery into heart-piercing shrapnel”.[227] However, a 2019 investigation by the Chronicle of Higher Education found that no such person existed, and that “Ron Vara” (an anagram of Navarro) appeared to represent views that Navarro himself held.[227][228] When he was asked about Vara by The Chronicle, Navarro admitted to making up the character, an author surrogate, and quoting him in his books.[228]” Source

Yeah I guess it’s simply too cognitively taxing to vote based on more than a single issue.

Same here. I wish Canada had a company making something similar since I’d rather not support the US economy. Choose your poison, I guess.

#facepalm #disappointing

Hopefully they aren’t given 10 years to pay it off like the recent $18B fine for harming children.

FYI, OP.

“During his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump threatened Iran with annihilation, laid claim to Venezuela’s oil as the spoils of victory, and justified U.S. strikes on alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean.“

The FIFA Peace Prize recipient, ladies and gentlemen.

He’s desperate to have some wins to sell to the populace so he’s massively overselling everything. Based on his social media post, the US now basically owns Greenland (which really doesn’t seem to be the case).

Yeah but if you have a world renowned deal maker at the table… 😂