But at least the American oligarchs will get to pocket all that sweet sweet tariff money. Don’t forget the stocks they shorted right before they tanked Wall Street. A government by billionaires, of billionaires and for the billionaires.

Money laundering.

If the email did indeed originate from the company you work for, they owe you a gas card. Employers can’t offer you money or benefits as a practical joke and then just say “April Fools!” There are laws regarding offers from your employer for compensation and benefits.

How else was I going to play pirated music in my car?

Gotta catchem all!

I can’t shell out the money for another phone but I deleted my google account and replaced all the Google apps on my phone with FOSS apps. I don’t have root access on my phone so I can’t actually get rid of all of the Google apps. Best I can do until I need to replace my phone. Fortunately I never purchased anything from Google.

Thermite is cheap and easy to make. Melt a gun with half a pound of thermite and no one will know what it was before it was vaporized. Besides, if the gun was indeed 3D printed and had no finger prints or DNA on it, you could just drop it on top of the body and let the police have it. Better than getting caught with it a block away from the crime scene.

The accused have a right under the Constitution to review and challenge the evidence against them. In the modern world that evidence is in a digital format. It’s completely reasonable that Luigi should have access to a computer to review the evidence against him. It doesn’t need to have internet access and he doesn’t necessarily need to have it in his cell. He can review the evidence in the prison library while supervised buy prison staff.

I can’t say if he was involved or not but I fully agree that the shooter’s eyes look nothing like Luigi, the jackets and backpacks don’t match and the image they showed the public of Luigi smiling at the counter of some shop was 3 miles away from the shooting. He isn’t the guy who pulled the trigger.

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School is mandatory. If you don’t send your children to school, the state will kidnap them from you and put you in jail. Oh, your kid is hungry, well if you want him to eat while we force him to be on our property all day, you have to pay us. WTF?

I think people tend to see what benefits their desires. Domestic dogs kill far more humans and pets per year than boars, yet no one is advocating going out and shooting dogs on sight. We aren’t interested in their meat. Cats are an invasive species in many places where humans have introduced them and cats have hunted many native bird species to extinction, yet no one is saying we should kill all the kitties. Boars are very intelligent, smarter than dogs and wolves. They can smell yams, potatoes and truffles three feet under the ground. They can also smell gun oil, gun powder, and dogs. They know when you’re in the woods to hunt them. Here in Japan, the absence of boars kills forests. Many tubers here are also climbing vines that choke and kill trees. When humans stop living in the forest and there are no boars, the vines take over and the trees die. Humans living in harmony with nature will cut vines away from food producing trees. Boars dig up tubers and sometimes the tree roots get damaged, but if the boar did nothing, the tree would be killed in a few years anyway. I cut vines off of trees when I walk the forests near me. I prioritize saving cherry, plum and walnut trees but I rescue as many trees as I have time for. The boars are a big help.

I’m sure they do. I bet domestic dogs kill a lot more people and pets per year though.

I don’t feed them specifically or directly. I have trail cameras in the forest and I leave my kitchen scraps in front of the cameras. The boars get it sometimes but usually the tanuki (Nyctereutes viverrinus) get to it first. The two times I got close enough to touch boars were both surprise encounters. First time I was cleaning up trash under a bridge and the boar was eating mulberries off the ground. The noise from the cars on the bridge kept him from hearing me and he must have been upwind because he didn’t smell me either. I was looking down to pick up trash while walking. Something big jumped up and ran away from me. I jumped too. I looked and saw a boar’s ass running. He turned around and came back toward me. I showed him my palms, talked calmly and backed away slowly as he got too close. I figured out that I meant him no harm and then moved about 100 feet away and went back to eating. I kept picking up garbage. We could see each other but respected each others space. The second time I was feeding bread to ducks with my daughter and she had her shoes off to soak her feet in the river. She was sitting on a rock. A boar burst out of the underbrush next to her and came up and stole her shoe. He ran upriver with it, dropped it and came back to us. He started eating the bread I was trying to feed to the ducks. I just dropped all the bread on the ground and my daughter and I backed away from him. He seemed like he wanted to play, but I wasn’t going to risk him getting aggressive or over-familiarizing him with humans and putting him in danger. I’m not sure if it was the same boar both times or two different boars.

I concede that feral pigs and feral dogs can be much more dangerous than their unaltered natural counterparts boars and wolves. Here is a video from one of my trail cameras of a Japanese boar mama and her babies. I have never met any females with babies in the woods. I have only met male boars that were by themselves. I always announce my presence by repeating a little chant while I walk. It lets the animals know I’m coming and that I’m not trying to hunt them. If they don’t want me to see them, they have plenty of time to get away. If an animal runs into me, I don’t want the animal to be surprised. That’s the worst possible meeting. https://spectra.video/w/n8XJxxYPK9pJqBcjAuQxQV

You would be vicious too if someone was hunting you with dogs and a rifle. I have encountered several wild boars in Japan and gotten close enough to touch them. Try giving them snacks like you would a cute kitty and see if they don’t respond just like a cute kitty does. They mirror our behavior.

Leave the poor piggies alone. I have wild boars near me in Japan and twice in the past year I’ve been close enough to touch them. They are highly intelligent social animals. If you demonstrate that you aren’t a threat, they are indifferent to your presence and if you offer them an apple, potato, corn, bread or peanuts they will warm up to you like a cat when you give it food. The problem isn’t the boars, it’s that people act aggressively toward them and they respond with aggression.

“To fool a person is easy; you just need to overcome their intelligence. To convince a person they have been fooled is difficult; you have to overcome their pride.” I forget where I read that.

Someone should tell The Guardian that their participle is dangling.