Recap: Squirrel Maze 2.0, Belarus Forces Down Plane & More

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• Did not expect to read here news about my homeland, Belarus.

  • That was an informative article. I am glad it was included. I am sorry for the state of affairs of your homeland!

• I just tried booking a one-night stay in Manhattan in mid-August, and the 5.875% hotel room occupancy tax is still there along with state tax and the Javits tax.

  • Maybe the hotel didn't update their booking system yet. Or maybe they want to scam you, although I think Hanlon's razor applies.

• Along with the rest of the international community, I am outraged that old-timey dictators are still arresting journalists.

  Backyard squirrels need more natural predators. They're adorable until they start digging up your lawn and burrowing into your attic.

  • Julian Assange would say something but he’s being tortured and held in captivity by those benevolent Western governments who praise freedom and “support journalists”

  • Cats.

  • Really sucks that this still goes on today but its not uncommon nor are 'old timey dictators' the only ones that do these things, as the media would have you think
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/bolivian-presidents-plane-forced-to-land-in-austria-in-hunt-for-snowden/2013/07/03/c281c2f4-e3eb-11e2-a11e-c2ea876a8f30_story.html

• Damn, I should have done that promo! Could have been halfway around the world by now...

• BlockFI can't tell $250 apart from 250 BTC and that poor journalist should never have flown over Belarus.