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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The story is not about 1 submarine, it's about an escalation in 50 years of provocative military drills, such as Ulchi Freedom Guardian. KCNA posted another similar article 2 days ago, where they talk about Japan/US/ROK having done war games in the vicinity of DPRK, in January of this year.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/bd2f81647a7cf455b16cbab1ba8f2f82.kcmsf

The reason that I posted this particular article today is that it is interesting for 2 reasons. Around 4 days ago, Trump promised that he would begin peaceful relations with DPRK. This announcement from DPRK Ministry of Defense contradicts what Trump had promised. The second interesting thing about the press statement is that it is ominous. "We will make clearer our choice of action". I'm thinking that we'll see another DPRK missile test soon.

 

Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Ministry of National Defence

Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) – A spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK issued the following press statement titled “We will make clearer our choice of action and mode of counteraction against the U.S.” on Feb.11:

The Los Angeles class nuclear-powered submarine Alexandria of the U.S. Navy entered the Pusan operation base of the ROK on February 10 under the pretext of the rest of the crew and replenishment of munitions.

The first overt emergence of a U.S. nuclear submarine in the Korean peninsula this year is a clear expression of the U.S. invariable hysteria for confrontation with the DPRK, and it is an undeniable threat to the security environment of the DPRK and an instable factor further escalating the military tension in the region.

The U.S. is openly ignoring the security concern of the DPRK.

We express grave concern over the U.S. dangerous hostile military act that can lead the acute military confrontation in the region around the Korean peninsula to an actual armed force conflict and strongly warn that the U.S. should stop provocations stirring up the instability any longer.

The practical reality clearly indicates why a new step for strengthening the nuclear capability and self-defensive power clarified by our head of state recently is just and which way we inevitably advance.

We will not flinch even an inch from the conflicting structure of the outrageous rival state.

To thoroughly contain only with corresponding strength the U.S., the hegemonic entity believing blindly in domination by strength, is the answer the reality is giving and the responding principle we have already maintained.

Our armed forces are strictly watching the frequent appearance of the U.S. strategic means on the Korean peninsula and are ready for using any means to defend the security and interests of the state and the regional peace.

We will make clearer our choice of action and mode of counteraction against our rivals.

The armed forces of the Republic always faithful to the constitutional duty to defend the security of the state will do acts of deterring the factors threatening the regional security environment and unhesitatingly exercise the legitimate right to punish the provokers. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2025.02.11.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/1a31a07aef88435df10af276b03bc09b.kcmsf

https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1739225484-664777781/press-statement-of-spokesperson-for-dprk-ministry-of-national-defence/

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-says-us-nuclear-submarine-south-korea-port-posing-grave-threat-kcna-2025-02-10/

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

100 gecs hasn't released music since March 2023 (2 years ago). I liked the 10000 gecs album

Kendrick released the GNX album at the end of November (3 months ago). 5 of the songs in the performance were from the GNX album, 2 songs were from the Drake beef.

The new hip experimental artist is OsamaSon.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is the song list from the performance. Also Kendrick is performing "clean" versions of the songs in the half time show. He pauses instead of saying the swear words.

  1. "GNX"
  2. "Squabble Up"
  3. "Humble"
  4. "DNA"
  5. "Euphoria"
  6. "Man at the Garden"
  7. "Peekaboo"
  8. "Luther" feat. SZA
  9. "All the Stars" feat. SZA
  10. "Not Like Us"
  11. "TV Off"

e/ Oh here's the full transcript of the show. https://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-lix-halftime-show-lyrics

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

NFL took down the video in the US for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can't believe this is an actual wikipedia page but here we are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Kanye_West

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

The conspiracy theory is that Trump's administration is "leaking" their own raid plans intentionally to cover the fact that the people being deported haven't committed crimes.

Step 1) Claim that undocumented migrants need to be deported because they're dangerous criminals.

Step 2) Offer local news agencies the opportunity to ride along with the ICE raids.

Step 3) Wait for the local news to "leak" the raid information to the public.

Step 4) Do the ICE raids. Over 50% of the undocumented immigrants arrested have no criminal record.

Step 5) Say that the dangerous criminals got away because the "woke media" leaked the raid plans.

The article mentions this happening previously. "Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, this week blamed the leak of an immigration operation in Aurora, Colo., as having reduced the number of arrests of Tren de Aragua gang members and other criminals."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Using AI to make your 3 best friends hang out together again

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

David Cameron had sex with a pig.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm predicting that Democrats respond by drawing homophobic fan art of Trump and Kim Jong Un together. They'll also say Trump is a Communist again.

Last time this happened, Trump paused the Ulchi Freedom Guardian war games in 2019 and every liberal insisted that the war games continue. It was good that the war games were paused but short lived.

I'm doubting Trump will actually stop the war games permanently. Liberals claim that DPRK loves Trump, but I've only ever seen KCNA publish articles saying that US foreign policy doesn't change based on the president elected. I've seen 2 KCNA articles critical of Trump's administration since he was inaugurated.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not a real tweet obviously. If I had to guess it was probably made by a Hillary lib or a parody of that. In 2016 when Chapo first became popular they supported Bernie and the DNC ran propaganda that anyone who was pro-Bernie is a misogynist for not supporting Hillary or Warren. Democrats called Chapo misogynistic for supporting Bernie, both in 2016 and 2020.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The article that you posted does not even align with what you are saying. The article that you posted aligns with what I am saying. The article also says in the headline that the RIAA has realize that suing individual downloaders is an ineffective legal strategy.

That article does not say that people are being fined by the government because copyright infringement in most cases is not a criminal case, it's a civil case. The article itself says that the state isn't pursuing it. That article says that copyright trolls harassed 18000 people, 7000 people didn't even respond and 11000 settled out of court or "were not prosecuted". Weird that it doesn't even say how many people even settled of court.

Why are you posting like you work at the RIAA? "Under the law, people can actually be charged up to $150,000 per infringement" Under what law? Why don't you know the difference between a civil case and a criminal case? I already told you that criminal copyright infringement is different from civil copyright infringement. The woman in the article you posted was not being fined by the government. She was being sued in a civil case for uploading music on Kazaa, not even for downloading.

On top of that, the woman who was being sued in the article that you posted never even payed the damages. She declared bankruptcy to avoid paying the damages. "In March 2013, Thomas-Rasset announced she would declare bankruptcy to avoid paying the RIAA the $222,000."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records%2C_Inc._v._Thomas-Rasset#Aftermath

Repeating what I said in my previous posts. "In most cases copyright infringement is a civil case, not a criminal case. That means that you are prosecuted by the copyright holder and not the state. The copyright holder has to take you to civil court to sue you." "For it to become a criminal case, you basically have to be charging money for pirated content." "the copyright holder has to actually take you to court and prove that you infringed the copyright, which is very difficult to prove."

Criminal copyright infringement requires that the infringer acted "for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain." 17 U.S.C. § 506(a).[9] To establish criminal liability, the prosecutor must first show the basic elements of copyright infringement: ownership of a valid copyright, and the violation of one or more of the copyright holder's exclusive rights. The government must then establish that defendant willfully infringed or, in other words, possessed the necessary mens rea. Misdemeanor infringement has a very low threshold in terms of number of copies and the value of the infringed works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_copyright_law_in_the_United_States#Legal_definition

In order to be fined by the government for piracy, the government would have to prove that you infringed copyright for "financial gain", ie you made money, harmed your financial competitor, etc. If you were charging money for distributing pirated content, it would be criminal. If you financially gain from operating a website which distributes pirated content, it could be criminal.

Pirating books (without charging money) would be a civil case, if even prosecuted, and the copyright holder would have to track you down and then file a court case against you and then make a case against you in court. That is very difficult and costly. This is something that is very unlikely to happen, especially if you use a VPN to mask your internet connection or avoid using peer to peer transfers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's just not true. You made that up. If people were getting fined $20k per infringement, piracy would be much less common and you'd see it on the news all the time. Piracy laws in the US are very loose. Most people have pirated books or music or movies or games. Most people have not been fined for it.

Here's how piracy is "prosecuted" in the US in most cases. Copyright holders hire a "troll agency" to monitor public peer-to-peer filesharing of their content. The troll agency records IP addresses of the file sharers. The troll agency then sends threatening emails to the ISPs of the file sharers. In many circumstances, the ISP just deletes the threatening email without even telling you. Sometimes the ISP forwards the email to you. You are not obligated to respond to the email. In order to be "fined" for infringement, the copyright holder has to actually take you to court and prove that you infringed the copyright, which is very difficult to prove.

And if you use a VPN, they would never even find your ISP.

Here's an article from last month describing how RIAA and MPAA uses troll agencies to threaten ISPs.

https://torrentfreak.com/eff-sides-with-cox-to-protect-piracy-accused-internet-users-from-copyright-trolls-250109/

 

KCNA Commentary on Coexistence of Truce and Murder in Middle East

Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- Killing and destruction goes on in the Middle East where the truce was declared.

Days ago, the Israeli military conducted a large-scale military operation in Jenin, a northern city of the West Bank of the Jordan River, under the pretext of "anti-terrorism", killing a large number of Palestinian refugees and destroying dwelling houses and infrastructure.

In the border area south of Lebanon, the murderers attacked villages with tanks and bulldozers, causing a hundred and tens of civilian casualties.

Under international arbitration, Israel and Hezbollah, in November last year reached a ceasefire agreement and in January this year, truce between Israel and Hamas took effect, but as seen above, Israel's massacre has not stopped.

The reckless military action which is being conducted almost daily behind the curtain of the ceasefire is making everyone doubt whether Israel has a will to restore stability and peace in the region and is escalating the concern of the international community about the fragile ceasefire.

It is also necessary to pay attention to the backstage forces that tolerate and instigate the violent breach of the truce by the Jewish state and the present situation which is neither war nor ceasefire.

The prime minister of Israel in his video statement on the cease-fire agreement with Hamas said that if they were forced to resume war, they would conduct it with powerful strength and new methods. He said that even the U.S. fully supports the possible resumption of war by Israel if the negotiations are "futile".

His remarks reminded everyone of the dark shadow of the U.S., which has repeatedly vetoed the resolutions of the UNSC demanding immediate cease-fire and shielded and encouraged the bloody massacre by arming the Israeli military with huge amount of lethal weapons.

In its statements on the cease-fire in Gaza, the U.S. has taken double-dealing attitude by positively welcoming the release of Israeli hostages while remaining silent as regards the release of Palestinian prisoners. It is still keeping silence about the wanton violation of cease-fire agreement by the Jewish state.

Some days ago, the U.S. went the length of making an unjust proposal for moving the Palestinians in Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan. And it is unhesitatingly blocking the fair settlement of dispute and inciting the aggravation of the situation by allowing continued offer of large bombs to Israel which had been withheld for fear of the international community's criticism.

The coexistence of cease-fire and killing can never be tolerated.

All facts clearly prove that the U.S. strategy for dominating Middle East to fish in troubled waters in the aggravated situation is unchanged just as Israel's ambition for territorial seizure to forcibly displace Palestinians and expand Jewish settlements remains unchanged.

Unless the root cause of dispute is removed, there can be no durable peace.

It is still uncertain whether the fragile cease-fire in the region would lead to permanent and durable peace.

The prospect of the implementation of the cease-fire agreement in Gaza Strip will highlight once again the true colors of the world's peace and anti-peace forces. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2025.02.04.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/ad3032d84940778e1ec1c8496780173b.kcmsf

https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1738642447-639461267/kcna-commentary-on-coexistence-of-truce-and-murder-in-middle-east/

 

Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry Issues Press Statement

Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK released the following press statement titled "The most depraved country in the world is not entitled to take issue with other countries" on Feb. 2:

Recently, U.S. Secretary of State Rubio, in an interview with media, talked nonsense by terming the DPRK a "rogue state" while enumerating the foreign policy of the new U.S. administration.

The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK deems the U.S. State Secretary's hostile remarks to thoughtlessly tarnish the image of a sovereign state as a grave political provocation totally contrary to the principle of international law which regards respect for sovereignty and non-interference in other's internal affairs as its core and strongly denounces and rejects it.

In view of Rubio's political inclination and the U.S. inveterate repugnancy towards the DPRK, his speech is nothing new, and it would be more surprising if he had said good word about the DPRK.

But it is necessary to mention how absurd and illogical it is that the most depraved state in the world brands another country a rogue state.

The hostile words and deeds of the person who is in charge of the U.S. foreign policy served as an occasion of confirming once again the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK which remains unchanged.

Rubio's coarse and nonsensical remarks only show directly the incorrect view of the new U.S. administration on the DPRK and will never help promote the U.S. interests as he wishes.

We will never tolerate any provocation of the U.S., which has been always hostile to the DPRK and will be hostile to it in the future, too, but will take tough counteraction corresponding to it as usual. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2025.02.03.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/a47207041a1b4fcfe0cbec25b4449cf1.kcmsf

https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1738534497-3889752/spokesman-for-dprk-foreign-ministry-issues-press-statement/

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A private league in POE 1 is a sandboxed version of the game where you can only interact with players who are in the same private league. The means a fresh game economy, every players starts a new character from scratch. This private league was launch a little over 2 hours ago by Pohx, a youtuber who is known for making videos for new players.

Almost 20,000 players have registered so far. This is a pretty substantial number for a private league.

With Jonathan announcing that POE 1 development has been indefinitely delayed, this may be your last time to experience Path of Exile with other active players and fresh economy. The game is free to play.

If you don't know what to build to play, go to youtube and search "poe 3.25 lightning strike", "poe 3.25 righteous fire", "poe 3.25 archmage ice nova", "poe 3.25 hexblast mines", "poe 3.25 power siphon mines", "poe 3.25 holy relic", or "poe 3.25 bama". It is important that the video says 3.25 because builds from previous patches will not work.

https://www.pathofexile.com/private-leagues/league/Settlers+Restart+xdd+Thanks+GGG

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