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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • Well, we can dig deep enough for the context at least. For anyone interested in the facts:

    Sir, that’s NOT true & you know it! It’s got nothing to do with your skin colour. Starlink is welcome to operate in South Africa provided there’s compliance with local laws," [Clayson] Monyela [Senior official of foreign affairs] wrote. “This is a global international trade & investment principle.” And later on in the article, “[There are] local Black Economic Empowerment rules that foreign-owned telecommunications licensees sell 30% of the equity in their local subsidiaries to historically disadvantaged groups.”

    And just to be clear it’s local subsidiaries not the entire Starlink business. He’s just upset that he’s being required to follow local laws, and hasn’t been able to find anyone to bribe into rewriting them for him.




  • My employer uses Cigna and with them it’s $1,300. They keep asking what my pain level is and I keep telling them none. When I explain to them why I’m not getting the surgery yet they seemed absolutely baffled for some reason. They tried to get me to sign up for a medical credit card offering zero APR. I told them does zero APR mean also $0 a month, because that’s about how much I can afford. And again they acted like not moving mountains and stirring the oceans was a me thing. Absolutely fucking wild.