!music

It's where I keep old tires, car batteries, and motor oil.

!alligatorfrickhouse

We could def get some sneeding

The reported settlement talks come after both ABC News and Meta settled cases with Trump before going to trial. In the latter case, Meta on Thursday decided to pay the president $25 million in order to drop a case he filed over being banned from Facebook following the January 6th Capitol riots. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been full-throated in his endorsement of President Trump since his election victory following an acrimonious relationship in his first term. Meta, coincidentally, is facing an antitrust trial in April seeking to unwind its acquisition of Instagram, a case that was filed by the Biden administration.

The lawsuit that President Trump filed against Paramount relies on an untested legal theory that CBS violated Texas law which prohibits deceptive trade practices in marketing to consumers. CBS promoted its interview with Harris on "Face the Nation" where she was shown giving a different answer from the one she gave in the full "60 Minutes" interview. CBS has said it aired a different portion of her answer during the promotional segment due to time constraints.

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Paramount is trying to complete a merger with film studio Skydance, which would produce billions of dollars in proceeds for Paramount's controlling shareholder Shari Redstone. The Times reports she is supportive of reaching a settlement with President Trump, whose new FCC chairman has control over TV broadcast licenses and has requested an unedited transcript of the Harris interview, potentially setting up Trump's administration to block the merger.

None of this should be surprising at this point. Major corporations are lining up to kiss the ring of President Trump in hopes that he will give them free reign to do whatever they would like without guardrails, or gain access to public funds and contracts, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been able to quickly collect after giving President Trump the opportunity to take credit for major deals that would have likely happened anyway. In the case of Paramount, it will certainly cause a lot of reputational damage to the news outlets being thrown under the bus. But Trump gets to claim victory against "woke media" and his supporters will eat it up. Redstone probably does not care very much about the reporters at CBS anyway. It is all just business, as they would say.

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ieon8j/paramount_reportedly_ready_to_pay_off_trump/

Public corruption, in full view of everyone

and nobody cares, or even reports on it. good luck everybody

It gets reported, but MAGA thinks it's hilarious and thrives on liberal tears regardless of how corrupt and bad for America it is

What the fricking shit? This isn't how the US government is supposed to work. Pay to play at the highest level. Project 2025 apparently learned from video game companies. tight

The old U.S. is dead.

Its what Americans voted for. To legalize and legitimize corruption

Its what 77 million out of an eligible 165 million voters, voted for.

Unfortunately 90 million didn't vote

Those 90 million deserve their suffering

Those 90 million fricked the world.

cancel your paramount plus if you have it - shitty Taylor Sheridan shows anyway

Remember a few years back when Blizzard caved and brought back WoW "Classic" after years of relentless begging by the fanbase? I remember playing the original back in 2005 as a teenager, and thought "Who would want to go back and waste their childhood again, but this time in their 30s?"

Anyways, I just thought about it again and I'm wondering if it died or they kept on re-releasing the expansions.

!kino !historychads first one is the rebels taking Freetown

Second one is the Saffer mercs gunning down the rebels

!cuteandinvalid !lgbt @H

The Ukrainians are again attempting offensive operations in the Kursk region utilizing around 350 personnel and upwards of 50 armored vehicles including mine clearing equipment.

The result are exactly what we’d expect. pic.twitter.com/6qqyJ91cyP

— ayden (@squatsons) February 6, 2025

This should be a prioritised for Ukraine since they again got them selves in another pocket