To be even more fair it was Nitro (a villain) that blew up the school, not the teenagers.

Only character I liked in that plotline was Wolverine because he didn't bother with any of the bullshit and was just trying to track down Nitro and kill him.

Sure it seems draconian, but how else are we going to get the kids to stop vaping and start smoking cigarettes like we did when we were in high school?

Won't someone please think of Phillip Morris' profit margins?

Then King Taejong said "I see you writing something down... are you writing down that I fell off the horse? Why are you still writing? Are you writing this down too? STOP WRITING! Ok fine. Write this down then..." after which he gave many compliments about my thoroughness which I'm too humble to recount.

Yup and the reason why he had to tweet about it is because HR wouldn't reply to him about his job status. And that was because HR's records were flagged "DO NOT EVER FIRE THIS GUY." Genius boy was probably too busy tweeting to bother replying to all the messages from HR who were probably desperately trying to explain the situation to him.

So genius boy publicly suggested this guy was probably faking his medical condition to get out of doing work. Got the attention of employment lawyers everywhere, because that's a huge no-no.

As it turns out, the guy did indeed have a serious medical condition, and like you say if Musk fired him he'd have to pay him a couple of hundred million. Dude was basically a saint in Iceland, chose to get payment from Twitter (when they bought his company) in the form of income so he could pay more in taxes because he appreciated what the Icelandic government did for people with medical conditions like his.

There were so many levels of stupid to this it was mind boggling.

He's such a genius businessman he thought it was a good idea to publicly cast doubts on an employee's medical condition.

My car's initials as H.A. and the colour is between #00f and #eef.

And what's the point of bringing up that some of them may have done compulsory service at some point in their life under a story about Hamas killing six hostages?

There is a context to this, and there is a narrative being promoted that justifies Hamas taking hostages (which is a war crime) and justifies the killing of these unarmed hastages (which is also war crime) because they were at one time IDF (aeven if that were the case, it would also be a war crime to summary execution prisoners of war).

It's all about building a permission structure to make the war crimes of Hamas acceptable by attempting to classify the hostages as IDF.

Twitter did have an office in Brazil (with legal representation) but after refusing to implement court ordered bans, the court fined them. Elon Musk threw a temper tantrum and shut down the Brazil office and eliminated his legal representation in Brazil.

Note that Musk will implement bans when requested by authoritarians, just for some reason he draws the line when it's a court order in a democratic country.

Anyway the situation where Twitter doesn't have legal representation is a situation Elon Musk created. Basically "I fired my lawyers so there's nothing you can do against me now! Checkmate!" So Brazil says "fine, I guess we're banning Twitter then..."

So Space Karen thinks the the law doesn't apply to him and it's going to cost him a lot of money. Again.

To be more fair, Brazil is a sovereign country, Starlink is not.

I see you there making an effort to dehumanize the hostages. Shame on you.

"I have a hard time believing it. Could it have happened? Sure. Did it? Since the IDF says it did, it’s much more likely that it didn’t."

You're saying you have a hard time believing that a terrorist organization that murdered 1200 people in a day in the most brutal ways imaginable would kill hostages.

I think you have your default mode set to "blame Israel for everything". You might want to turn that dial back a little, you're getting a bit disconnected from reality.

A reminder:

Palestinians are awesome!

The genocidal regime that rules over Gaza who murder innocent people while blocking Palestinian democracy is NOT AWESOME!