anything it recommends suffers from being sourced in a void, devoid of true meaning.

You just described most of reddit, anything Meta, and what most reviews are like.

I rarely see the word Unilever and it registers, both companies are behemoths and evil.

The report revealed that Mayawana is using complex corporate structures involving offshore secrecy jurisdictions to continue clearing tropical forests. Mayawana is owned by a chain of holding companies that leads to the offshore tax havens of the British Virgin Islands and Samoa. Neither country requires companies to disclose the names of shareholders to the public.

RGE is a global producer of pulp, paper, packaging, tissue, viscose, and palm oil. Moreover, it is the parent conglomerate of APRIL, Asia Symbol, Sateri, Apical and Asian Agri. In 2015, RGE – and several of its subsidiaries including APRIL – initiated a policy of “zero deforestation” in its supply chain.

Naturally, some of the world’s largest fashion brands, consumer goods manufacturers, and mass retailers, purchase products from RGE. These include major brands like Colgate-Palmolive, Kao, Mondelēz, Nestlé, Nissin Foods, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever. Banks like Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) also finance RGE’s operations.

It’s hard to tell with Russia and I’m no expert either, but Africa may have been stirring that they’ll support Ukraine or something. You’re right though, it’s only speculation.

Yeah, IDK if it’s incompetence or sabotage, but Russia has been threatening to do it for awhile. They threaten a lot too, so who knows. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-says-moscow-now-has-free-hand-destroy-enemies-undersea-2023-06-14/

So they are biased? Lmao, you guys are changing your tune pretty quickly.

That’s kind of what I gathered from it, but it was hard to confirm. The closest was the Media Bias Check that no one here seems to like. Honestly, if people like them, believe everything they say and ignore/downvote as what seems to be happening, lol. I don’t really have skin in the game, but I could see why it looked that way.

Doesn’t change the fact that Al Jazeera is biased in my opinion, I just couldn’t find anyone else that felt the same. I looked at their wiki and it says they’re under Time Warner for their TV stations, but I couldn’t tell who owns them now.

Just look at my history, you can easily see what I’m all about. I look for non-conjecture, fact-based headlines and content. Their headlines are biased. I used them as a serious source at first, but then it became where I don’t even look at them, same with Huffpost. Huffpost looks like the National Enquirer for the last few months I’ve been gathering content. I usually won’t go past the headline if I feel it doesn’t match the content or it’s shitty in some way. AP is barely in the running as well. I did post the “Florida Man with 91 indictments goes to trial” or something like that because I thought it was funny, but I’m usually pretty good.

Media bias says they’re good, lol. Read the headlines every day and you’ll see what I mean. I just started skipping them, they definitely have bias.

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I don’t care if they make a profit from the work? They are using these products in their products, they have an ethical responsibility to choose companies that treat their employees well or find another company to purchase from. Companies that make that much money from companies that use slave labor should be not normal or accepted. The end.

Apple does not own the Chinese, Malaysian, and other production facilities that manufacture and assemble its products. In contrast to the in-house, foreign direct-investment relationship that used to typify transnational corporations, no annual flow of repatriated profits is generated by Apple’s “arm’s length” suppliers. Standard interpretation of economic statistics, all of which record the results of transactions in the market place, assumes that the slice of the iPhone’s final selling price captured by each U.S. or Chinese firm is identical to the value added each supposedly contributed. They reveal no sign of any cross-border profit flows or value transfers affecting the distribution of profits to Apple and its various suppliers. The only part of Apple’s profits that appear to originate in China are those resulting from the sale of its products in that country.

“Purchasing an unspecified amount of cobalt through the global supply chain is not ‘participation in a venture’ within the meaning of the TVPRA [Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008],” the ruling said.

Nah, those companies knew and deliberately tried to hide that they knew. The global supply chain is a cover your ass way of saying it. Just like with coffee, cocoa and other fair trade items, they could set up a system to cover it. They certainly have enough money to do that.

You’re probably right. Some things I would think that would need to be worked out:

• Could a drone or lasers take them out?
• Could this open up the skies to private cars and where could they travel?
• Would there be a sky way? I would think that these would (maybe should) be restricted to over highways.

China might be the best way to test all of this out since they have such control over their citizens, we’ll have to wait and see how it plays out.

At least at first, people have to trust that there is a human that wants to stay alive as well, piloting the thing. Even if they’ve worked out the weather issues, not having a human at all would be pretty unsettling for most people.

I missed this the first time through, they’ll be manned:

Once the conditions are ripe, East General Aviation hopes to operate manned eVTOL commercial routes between Shenzhen and Zhuhai in southern China and launch more routes in the future, said Chairman Zhao Qi.

I guess we’ll find out soon. I wouldn’t want to be the testers though.

It’s my understanding that take offs and landings aren’t great to be automated due to weather conditions.

That’s pretty cool and probably the only way to have air traffic like that. I couldn’t imagine having street drivers up in the air with no laws or ways to guide them. In Seattleland in the summer, there’s probably 3 or 4 odd landings or crashes with small planes. I just hope they hire real pilots and it’s not automated.

They don’t want their daughters being treated like that.

This is the closest I’ve seen:

Among the potential witnesses who were listed: former president Bill Clinton; Clinton advisor Doug Band; lawyer Alan Dershowitz; Britain’s Prince Andrew; insurance mogul Robert Meister; former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; hedge fund investor Glen Dubin and his wife, Eva; and millionaire businessman Ron Burkle, as well as about a dozen others, primarily former Epstein housekeepers, pilots, assistants and other staff. More than 20 of the 87 potential witnesses were listed as having knowledge of Maxwell and Epstein’s “sexual trafficking conduct,” with the names of four of those potential witnesses still redacted.

Documents released earlier this week included names of others in Epstein’s social circle, including Donald Trump, David Copperfield and Michael Jackson. None of the three appeared on the witness list.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article283859108.html