They might let you place a bet that a meteor will strike before a certain date lol.
But that's kinda like taking the bet that the atom bomb would ignite the atmosphere & exterminate all life on earth (that was A Thing among Manhattan Project scientists); if you "won" you'd be too dead to collect.

This is for "Small Business Owners", whom they constantly hold up as exemplars of Capitalism, proof that "anybody can rise up" ➡️ everybody who fails can only blame themselves for not pulling hard enough on those bootstraps.
The Chapter 13 they reference is personal bankruptcy, & that one is ⬆️ too.

...likely various outcomes are.
A billionaire with a botnet could manipulate the results pretty easily & get multiple news outlets reporting on it.
And like every casino, the House always wins.
Oh, also, there's a Trump failson in their executive suite to push buttons & get a cut of the action.

...the stock market, so those with inside information can take sure bets, or you can bet on stuff & act to make it more likely, including on "more human suffering" type outcomes.
And they have deals with news organizations to report on these bets (advertising/endorsement) as indicators of how...

Stochastic terrorism. Social Murder.

It makes their job harder, but not impossible. To be truly secure, you'd need to never connect the phone to the network at home or from the same location as another phone that can be tied to you.
Soon having paper maps may be grounds for suspicion 🤨.

Article without a paywall:
www.morningstar.com/news/busines...

Sounds like a document that ought to be public; a phone-focused Know Your Rights (or lack thereof).
How about it, @eff.org?

I assume that like many things in China It Depends but broadly speaking life for children who legally do not exist and are borderline stateless is Not Great, esp if they get to adulthood and cannot support themselves off of familial resources.

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Sorry, what's bamboo aside from the plant?

Because that means a lot of residents are healthcare workers who haven't been wearing N95s despite spending 40+ hours/week in the place those who are the most ill are supposed to concentrate themselves, during an airborne pandemic that never ended.

After looking up that term, I'd love to see a Tarantino style film where all billionaires are declared homo sacer. We follow a Inglourious Basterds type party hunting the last billionaires alive.

Unfortunately, my experience with DSA is they don't give a Trump about the praxis of anti-ableism; their meetings are a hostile organizing environment for the COVID Competent.
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(1/2) Whatever the eunuchs and pharisees of morality may say, the feeling of revenge has its rights. It does the working class the greatest moral credit that it does not look with vacant indifference upon what is going on in this best of all possible worlds.

Don't they have a whole generation of population with far fewer women than men, so the next generation is undersized as well vs those getting old enough to retire soon/now?

If they're not "registered," does that mean these girls never got to go to school or get professional medical care, unless the parents had the 💰 to bribe doctors to keep quiet?