Average citizens banding together into interest groups is a pretty common way to get things passed, and this chart agrees.

If a buyer opens with a suggestion on a place to meet and another opens with ‘is it available’, who is going to get messaged back? I can tell you who I would message.

Offer a price, or agree to the price and suggest where to meet. 1-2 sentences.

Your first link doesn’t separate correlation and causation. Is a high murder rate area more likely to cause people to buy a gun, or the inverse? I can tell you for sure people who are in a bad situation generally don’t just sit on their asses and do nothing.

When the intruder alarm goes off, police are minutes away, the intruder is only seconds from you. You are the only person who can reliably protect you. Buy a gun, learn how to use it, and keep it in an accessible place.

Unfortunately it is true, South Africa discriminates based on race.

Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Musk’s SpaceX, has been unable to enter the South African market due to the country’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) regulations. These laws require that companies providing communication services be at least 30% owned by historically disadvantaged groups to receive an operating license.

Unfortunately it is true. South Africa discriminates based on race.

Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Musk’s SpaceX, has been unable to enter the South African market due to the country’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) regulations. These laws require that companies providing communication services be at least 30% owned by historically disadvantaged groups to receive an operating license.

No hallucinogens required, South Africa discriminates based on race.

Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Musk’s SpaceX, has been unable to enter the South African market due to the country’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) regulations. These laws require that companies providing communication services be at least 30% owned by historically disadvantaged groups to receive an operating license.

or if he’s just playing up the shock value like an edgelord

Nothing shocking about it, South Africa discriminates based on race.

Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Musk’s SpaceX, has been unable to enter the South African market due to the country’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) regulations. These laws require that companies providing communication services be at least 30% owned by historically disadvantaged groups to receive an operating license.

We can also change a single variable and have him sell 30% of it.

And if he sells 30% of it to people of ‘the wrong race’, South Africa still won’t allow in the company. The critical variable is the race of the owner(s); South Africa is demonstrably discriminating based on race.

While that is shit, if I call a restaurant to make a reservation and they just tell me to go to their website, I’m probably going elsewhere anyway.

Why even have a phone number if it is useless?

Under current conditions Starlink cannot exist in South Africa. If we change a single variable, Musk’s race to black, then Starlink can exist in South Africa (it would be >30% owned by a black person).

South Africa is discriminating based on race.

That’s terrifying. Means those users are significantly more likely to believe what it says.

Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.

Nearly half of LLM users, which is only about half of the population. Still, that leaves about a quarter of US adults who believe LLMs are smarter than they are!

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/starlink-is-not-allowed-to-operate-in-south-africa-because-im-not-black-elon-musk/wrz3chh?op=1

The article literally says South Africa bans Starlink due to the race of the owner. As his race does not meet South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) regulations:

Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Musk’s SpaceX, has been unable to enter the South African market due to the country’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) regulations. These laws require that companies providing communication services be at least 30% owned by historically disadvantaged groups to receive an operating license.

Yeah, these are absurd prices for cards. Seems we can’t get new silicon fabs online fast enough to cover ever-increasing demand.

I was planning on upgrading this generation, but I’ll hold off at least another generation given availability and pricing what it is. At least CPUs are easy to buy, no shortages there.

Heavily suggests they have no spare capacity in the system. All the redundancies are gone, everything is now a single-point failure. Anytime something breaks or needs to go offline for maintenance, there will simply be an outage instead of rerouting through the backup system.

Pretty expected when they continue to attack merchant shipping.

The stats are casualties, but either way, the number of dead and wounded Russians is crazy. Reminds me how, in the US, a few dozen Americans dying at once in Iraq would make national news. Meanwhile in Russia, that’s just another assault on just another field.

You can buy an egg timer for a few bucks. They say the perfect number of words; zero.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Post some original content, comment on posts, add value.