SulaymanF

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[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If only he did it properly. The better way to do it would have been via Congress.

Canada has a law that allows cashiers to round up or down. Without this, the US is only making a penny shortage, and you better believe customers will be screaming at cashiers for “stealing their money” if they don’t get their cent back, or shrieking “it’s legal tender!” if cashiers don’t accept their Pennies.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Sounds like a cult member volunteering for suicide.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Much easier to pull out after, and I can leave quicker despite taking slightly longer to pull in.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Settlers backed by the Israeli government created the violence that led to the current war.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Mockery doesn’t win over any new people to your cause and makes even more people dig their heels in even deeper.

It feels great but it’s counterproductive.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Trump is breaking all alliances. He wants Europe’s help on Iran and Israel and against China, but they won’t want to help if he’s attacking them. This is backfiring spectacularly.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

That’s just the loudest voices, not the majority.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Haiti has a lot of lynchings of suspected gay people. Grenada and Barbados and Dominica still jail people for gay sex with long prison terms.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Waze was sold to Google though.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Instapaper is still going strong.

Apple also has Reading List built into safari and iPhone.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

So does the Caribbean and much of the developing world, but like UAE these old laws are still on the books but not enforced. Can you show me an example of death penalty being carried out in UAE for homosexuality in the last few decades?

 

Senator Schumer made a deal that puts MAGA judges on New Jersey courts and blocks a Muslim-American judge nomination.

 

When former president Donald Trump’s media start-up announced in October 2021 that it planned to merge with a Miami-based company called Digital World Acquisition, the deal was an instant stock-market hit.


With the $300 million Digital World had already raised from investors, Trump Media & Technology Group, creator of the pro-Trump social network Truth Social, pledged then that the merger would create a tech titan worth $875 million at the start and, depending on the stock’s performance, up to $1.7 billion later.


All they needed was for the merger to close — a process that Digital World, in a July 2021 preliminary prospectus, estimated would happen within 12 to 18 months.

“Everyone asks me why doesn’t someone stand up to Big Tech? Well, we will be soon!” Trump said in a Trump Media statement that month.


Now, almost two years later, the deal faces what could be a catastrophic threat. With the merger stalled for months, Digital World is fast approaching a Sept. 8 deadline for the merger to close and has scheduled a shareholder meeting for Tuesday in hopes of getting enough votes to extend the deadline another year.


If the vote fails, Digital World will be required by law to liquidate and return $300 million to its shareholders, leaving Trump’s company with nothing from the transaction.


For Digital World, it would signal the ultimate financial fall from grace for a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, that turned its proximity to the former president into what was once one of the stock market’s hottest trades. Its share price, which peaked in its first hours at $175, has since fallen to about $14.



Digital World’s efforts to merge with Trump Media have been troubled almost from the start, beset by allegations that it began its conversations with the former president’s company before they were permitted under SPAC rules.


Then, in the past year, its issues became more pronounced: Its chief executive was terminated by the board, a former board member was arrested on charges of insider trading, and the company agreed to pay an $18 million settlement to resolve charges that it had misled investors and given false information to the Securities and Exchange Commission.


The merger has “been pretty much unprecedented in terms of all of the glitches,” said Jay Ritter, a University of Florida finance professor who studies stock markets. “The deal does seem to be running out of time. You can’t just keep getting extensions forever.”


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