My phone's keyboard lets me compose multiple dashes into an emdash. I believe I can also bind a compose key on my desktop, though I haven't needed it there yet.

This (the audio, which is from Portal 2) is what I'm referencing by the way. I like that one too though!

The Hill is reporting that Iran is saying the Strait "will close again".

Edit: other sources are saying essentially "... if the US blockade continues".

Edit 2: And now it's closed again.

Before the crisis, more than 130 ships a day travelled through the strait, but this has reduced to a trickle under threats from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Feels like one other party might also be responsible for blockading the Strait. I can't quite put my finger on which, though.

The benchmark European gas contract fell by about fell by about...

Lol.

We're only seeing the start of this transition, and so far it seems to be going in a good direction. Here's hoping his government does what he's saying and actually builds a media to serve the country rather than just himself. It seems like that is most likely the case, which is awesome!

Life gave him lemons. Seems like he's ready to make life take the lemons back.

This wouldn't be "illigal", but if that's the case Annas Archive should be "fine"... (I know that they are distributing, and this is the fight)

I don't know much about European law, but redistribution changes things a lot here in the US. At least here, it then gets into copyright law, and you'd be reproducing copyrighted works without authorization (the Internet Archive attempted to get around this with books by getting legitimate copies of the books, digitizing them, then "lending" the digital copies of those books).

So if I prefer to download the Anna's dataset instead of scrape myself, would this be illigal?

No idea in Europe. In the US, it might be, depending on what the contents of the work are. I believe Anna's Archive would count as piracy in this case, though scraping directly from Spotify might not be because they are redistributing the music with authorization from the copyright holder. It gets pretty confusing, honestly.

Regardless, if you aren't doing things at large scale, even if you are breaking a law by downloading pirated content, it's unlikely anyone will care. People usually only really start caring if you start redistributing stuff, so as long as you aren't hosting what you're scraping, you're unlikely to run into any trouble.

There's no obvious answer to your question without more information (for example, where are you?) but I'm not aware of scraping being illegal anywhere, with some exceptions. For example, in the US (where I am), as long as you're not doing "illegal hacking" to scrape your data, you're probably fine.

There are TOSs that websites like to impose as well. If you have to agree to one to access any data, you should follow it. Breaking the TOS isn't really "illegal" in a criminal sense (in the US), but you may expose yourself to anything from being blocked from the site to a lawsuit. Bypassing blocks might also be illegal, though you'd have to speak to a lawyer to know more about that.

It's illegal

Sauce? Also, where?

They're able to hit the ground running.

It's wild to me how normalized the name Hot Wheels is there despite the fact that would never fly anywhere else. What a state.

Their hard-earned tax money is being spent to fix potholes on streets they don't drive on. Of course they're upset!

They'll find anything to be upset about. I'm sure there's something. If nothing else, they'll just use his skin color or something.