This is fake news. It cites a New York Post article from 2 days ago as the source of the information. The New York post article cites anonymous sources. That is not a reliable source. The trade talks between China and US only started today.

The article is even published before Trump said that 80% tariff statement on truth social.

https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/business/us-weighs-plan-to-slash-china-tariffs-to-as-low-as-50-as-soon-as-next-week-sources/

The 2% GDP number includes all trade with the USA. Is around 2.8%. So you are wrong. I am including that.

What does GDP stand for? Gross Domestic Product. Domestic Product. Domestic. Product. Domestic. Imports are not "Domestic Product". GDP is a measure of the monetary value of goods and services produced domestically by the country. The 2.8% number that you have cited is a percentage of total goods that China has produced which were EXPORTED to the US. It does not include the imported products that it receives from the US. 7% of all imports that China receives are from the US.

That is a cloth draped over the side of the boat. The shadow is created by the sun. Have you ever seen a shadow under a tree?

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                                                      banner hangs off the boat.
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https://hexbear.net/post/4474879

The article that you posted does not even align with what you are saying. The article that you posted aligns with what I am saying. The article also says in the headline that the RIAA has realize that suing individual downloaders is an ineffective legal strategy.

That article does not say that people are being fined by the government because copyright infringement in most cases is not a criminal case, it's a civil case. The article itself says that the state isn't pursuing it. That article says that copyright trolls harassed 18000 people, 7000 people didn't even respond and 11000 settled out of court or "were not prosecuted". Weird that it doesn't even say how many people even settled of court.

Why are you posting like you work at the RIAA? "Under the law, people can actually be charged up to $150,000 per infringement" Under what law? Why don't you know the difference between a civil case and a criminal case? I already told you that criminal copyright infringement is different from civil copyright infringement. The woman in the article you posted was not being fined by the government. She was being sued in a civil case for uploading music on Kazaa, not even for downloading.

On top of that, the woman who was being sued in the article that you posted never even payed the damages. She declared bankruptcy to avoid paying the damages. "In March 2013, Thomas-Rasset announced she would declare bankruptcy to avoid paying the RIAA the $222,000."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records%2C_Inc._v._Thomas-Rasset#Aftermath

Repeating what I said in my previous posts. "In most cases copyright infringement is a civil case, not a criminal case. That means that you are prosecuted by the copyright holder and not the state. The copyright holder has to take you to civil court to sue you." "For it to become a criminal case, you basically have to be charging money for pirated content." "the copyright holder has to actually take you to court and prove that you infringed the copyright, which is very difficult to prove."

Criminal copyright infringement requires that the infringer acted "for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain." 17 U.S.C. § 506(a).[9] To establish criminal liability, the prosecutor must first show the basic elements of copyright infringement: ownership of a valid copyright, and the violation of one or more of the copyright holder's exclusive rights. The government must then establish that defendant willfully infringed or, in other words, possessed the necessary mens rea. Misdemeanor infringement has a very low threshold in terms of number of copies and the value of the infringed works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_copyright_law_in_the_United_States#Legal_definition

In order to be fined by the government for piracy, the government would have to prove that you infringed copyright for "financial gain", ie you made money, harmed your financial competitor, etc. If you were charging money for distributing pirated content, it would be criminal. If you financially gain from operating a website which distributes pirated content, it could be criminal.

Pirating books (without charging money) would be a civil case, if even prosecuted, and the copyright holder would have to track you down and then file a court case against you and then make a case against you in court. That is very difficult and costly. This is something that is very unlikely to happen, especially if you use a VPN to mask your internet connection or avoid using peer to peer transfers.

I have over 10,000 hours in POE1 and reached almost level 98 in POE2, reaching 97 in poe 2 is like reaching 100 in poe 1. The endgame in POE 2 is barren.

The only good juicing strategy is running breach on delirious maps and they reduce the rewards further with every patch. I think they may even be silently reducing the rewards of breach juicing between patches without saying it.

To set up the strategy, you have to clear 10-20 junk maps to scout out a zone with 5-7 overlapping towers. Then you have to run another 20+ junk maps to set up the towers.

Once you have all the towers cleared, you put in breach tablets which have the mod which says 18-20% increased quantity of items dropped. This adds breaches to remaining maps within the radius and adds quantity of items to the map, overlapping towers stack. This is the only way to get reasonable way to get increased quantity of items on a map. You can get 20% increased quantity of items dropped on a map item as a prefix or you can get 100-400% increased quantity by stacking quant towers. I suspect this will nerfed in the future.

Map item crafting in POE 1 is logical. Every prefix and suffix in POE 1 both increases the amount of loot dropped and makes the map more difficult. The more mods a map item has, the more difficult and rewarding it is. It is a simple rule, more difficult = more rewarding.

In POE 2, map item crafting is dogwater. In POE 2, rewards and difficulty are separated into prefix and suffix. Prefixes are rewards and suffixes a difficulty. Suffixes also increase quantity of more map items dropping but it doesn't matter because I still get like 5+ t15 waystones every juiced map, even with 0 suffixes on the map. This means that prefixes matter and suffixes do not matter. There are only 2 good prefix map modifiers, "increased number of rare monsters" and "increased rarity of dropped items". Rare monsters are the only monster that drops good loot, magic monsters are mid. Increased rarity of items on the map mod is multiplicative with rarity mod on your gear, not additive. (This was proven to be true by reducing character item rarity to 0 with ventor's ring and then running a rarity map, you get 0 currency because multiply by 0). It is important to have high item rarity in POE 2 because item rarity affects the tier currency orb drops, unlike in POE 1 where it only affects gear rarity. High rarity means more exalted orb and divine orb drops.

Here is how I craft my waystones in POE 2. I start with a quad tab full of t15 waystones (map item in POE 2), that is 576 x t15 waystone. I alchemy orb all the normal waystones and augment/regal all the magic waystones, so that all of the waystones are rare. Then I regex search for map mods which I can not run such as burning ground and I vendor those, which is about 5% of the waystones. Then I regex search for waystones which have either of the 2 good prefix (rarity, rare monsters). I exalted orb those waystones until they have 3 prefixes. If a waystone has both good prefixes then I use it for a delirium anointed breach map. If a waystone has 3 prefixes and increased rarity, I set it aside to run on junk zones. If a waystone has 3 prefixes and none of the prefix is item rarity, then I vendor it. If a waystone has 1 prefix, then I exalted orb it to have a second prefix. If a waystone has 2 prefixes and neither prefix is rarity or rare monsters, then I vendor it. Around 70-80% of t15 waystones I sell to the vendor because they're worthless and not worth the time running them.

So you do all that and you open your juiced breach map and there's a 78% the map will only have 1 breach, 15% chance for 2 breaches, 5% chance for 4 breaches, and 2% chance for 11 breaches. In POE 1, you could force spawn multiple breaches in every map. 1 breach per map feels pretty bad.

There is an auction house for currency-like items only. You get gold coins from killing monsters. Gold coins are not tradeable with other players. The auction house allows you to exchange orbs for other orbs, fragments, or other currency-like items. The auction house charges gold coins per transaction. So your auction house usage is limited by how many monsters you kill. You still have to trade other players for wearable gear items.

The boss fights are now intended to be longer but more rewarding.

I also heard that they are now limiting players to 1 death per map. If you die to a boss, you lose the instance.

I don't think the post title is inaccurate. He did say that Biden gave him Covid. He just was just lying.

The exact quote from the video at 50 seconds was "Has anyone ever got clapped up from POTUS? Maybe I'm the first." He doesn't say "Maybe I will be the first" or "Maybe I would be the first". He says "I'm" which means I am. "Maybe I'm the first" means that it happened and maybe it hasn't happened before.

About 3 hours after I made my post, he tweets that it was a joke. I don't believe that. I think he was lying for popularity. I think he meant to deceive people.

Or it could have been that he was telling the truth before and now he's lying to say that it was a joke because he realized it makes Biden look bad. Either way, he did say it in the video.

I am thinking the video is age restricted because it shows lots of fist fighting scenes. Also there is a story about a waffle house worker being shot and killed, no footage of the shooting.

It looks like it's going to be an item crafting focused league. In the new league mechanic, every player has a graveyard, you can put corpses in the graves. Each corpse has different abilities. Once you place the corpses, you can do an exorcism on the graves which crafts different items.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pls7lt9Fz-E