A real financial product would be something like a mutual fund. These things are regulated and are typically fairly transparent in terms of how they work.

No, he supported democrats too hard and he robbed rich people.

Should the DOJ get involved in your unregulated financial market? Is anyone buying crypto thinking they are getting a real financial product?

Do you think a non-executive hire has that ability? That’s a stretch IMO

You should be able to get hired by someone without defense contracts if that is what bothers you

Yes because their military work has been public for decades and it isn’t as if the IDF just started becoming problematic in 2023.

Exactly, I would get if you work for a company that just got involved in the military fields but this is microsoft.

If you are in tech getting hired by microsoft you should have options

They had IDF contracts for decades as well. Seriously if they had a problem with this and this is not a PR stunt by this person they are choosing an odd time to make this statement.

Are the empty barrels even affected by tariffs on bourbon? Are you just worrying there may not be enough barrels overall because bourbon demand dries up?

both

Is the barrel question time-sensitive? Or could they just wait until EU & US have finished coming to terms with each other?

They could wait but it would impact production overall spiking the prices even more including outside the ISA for sherry and Scotch.

Would people even notice if their spirits were aged in neutral barrels but with wood chips thrown in for flavor?

Most would as you would get more of he overt wood flavor and less of things like butter, cream, cocoa, nutty flavors that barrels impart.

Would that produce a naming issue (i.e. the EU forbidding these products from being sold as sherry or scotch?

Neither require bourbon barrels they just use them because they are less expensive than other oak barrels.

What message was that? They work for Microsoft a company that has had DOD contracts for at least the last 25-30 years.

They were a war profiteer when this worker got their gig. Why is it a problem now?

Sherry makers in Jerez need US oak barrels for sherry as others are pricier and not the same in terms of flavor.

Scotch producers use both bourbon and sherry barrels so they especially dont want these tarriffs

There are a bunch of conservatives that want a police state. Is this a surprise?

What if it features real kid’s faces?

Between all of them? I mean it supposedly takes a village to raise a child but I don’t think it takes several nations.

Do you have any argument as to why this matters, in any way, at all?

the majority of the population doesn’t identify this as being nazism. If you are looking to get more people backing your cause you cannot alienate them by appearing to be reactionary or uneducated.

From my reply to another

"Ok? How does that change my statement that they are a different kind of fascist? Keep in mind my point is entirely focused on the ideology part of the political ideology whereas you are talking about a salute. How does an arm motion change the policy goals which aren’t the same as what Nazis support? What policy goal can you derive from an arm motion to begin with?

They are still evil they are just a different kind of evil. Not all fascists are nazis. The fact that one guy did a nazi salute twice doesn’t change project 2025 into something that Nazis would support."

Ok? How does that change my statement that they are a different kind of fascist? Keep in mind my point is entirely focused on the ideology part of the political ideology whereas you are talking about a salute. How does an arm motion change the policy goals which aren’t the same as what Nazis support? What policy goal can you derive from an arm motion to begin with?

They are still evil they are just a different kind of evil. Not all fascists are nazis. The fact that one guy did a nazi salute twice doesn’t change project 2025,

The Nazis were fascists that looked to create a 1000 year reich and believed the destiny was to birth the master race. Trump et al are not doing this which means they are a different kind of fascist than Nazis. That doesn’t make it better much like being shot with a .308 instead of a .44 caliber round isn’t “better” it just makes it a different kind of harm.

Yes this was worse in my mind than getting the sane for reporting a sub that sold CSAM because at least that involved research and critical thinking (why would a post be a scan of a print photograph taken with an analogue camera of a handwritten list of porn mags? answer: they were all legally produced at the time CSAM)