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Veggeta_MAX posted...

Who is actually offended by this?

Who said anything about being offended?

Yakuza 4 Tactics

Yeah I could fuck with this

https://twitter.com/Inanity101/status/1493081473615867910

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_commercials_during_Super_Bowl_XXXIV

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-02-09/culture-wars-take-toll-on-the-nfl-as-republicans-sour-on-league-new-poll-finds

The nations relentless culture wars appear to have taken a toll even on the NFL, with a large number of Republicans saying they have soured on the league and expressing disapproval of its efforts to improve the treatment of Black players, a new Los Angeles Times/SurveyMonkey poll shows.

Professional football remains extremely popular. The poll found just more than half of American adults say they regard themselves as fans and an additional 15% say theyre not fans but plan to watch the Super Bowl, which will be played Sunday at Inglewoods SoFi Stadium between the Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals.

But the leagues popularity has eroded somewhat in recent years, the poll found.
About one-third of those surveyed nationwide said they are less of a fan now than they were five years ago, compared with about 1 in 8 who said they are bigger fans now.

The poll cant conclusively say why that decline has occurred, but two questions about the NFLs handling of issues involving race provide some strong hints:

People who say they are less of a fan now than they were five years ago are more than twice as likely as everyone else to say the NFL is doing too much to show respect for its Black players.

Theyre also significantly less likely to approve of the leagues Rooney rule, which for the last two decades has required NFL teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching positions and certain other high-level jobs.

By contrast, another controversy involving the NFL its response to the risk of long-term brain injuries among players shows no such pattern. Overall, 62% of Americans say the league has not done enough to respond to that risk, compared with 27% who say it has done enough and 5% who say it has done too much. Those numbers dont vary significantly between those who say they are lesser fans now and those who do not.

The group who say they are now lesser fans is disproportionately Republican, the poll found. Nearly half of those who identified themselves as Republicans or independents who lean to the GOP said their interest as fans had declined over the last five years. By comparison, only one-quarter of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic said that.

Republicans were also significantly more likely to express disapproval of the leagues efforts to show respect to Black players and to promote Black and other minority candidates for coaching jobs.

Among adults nationwide, 22% said they thought the NFL was doing too much to show respect for Black players. Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, that number shot up to 45%. Only 5% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents took that view.

Among the Democrats, 57% said the league was still not doing enough to show respect for Black players, a view expressed by just 9% of Republicans.

The partisan divide was far larger than the racial gap on that question. Among white adults, 26% said the NFL was doing too much, compared with 7% among Black adults, 19% among Latinos and 11% among Asian Americans.

A similarly large racial gap showed up when the poll asked people about the leagues Rooney rule, named after former Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney.

The rule does not appear to have achieved its goal. The NFL currently has one Black head coach, Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh, which is two fewer than in 2003, when the rule took effect. The Houston Texans fired David Culley, who is Black, as their head coach at the end of the regular season.

Antifar's note: regular season TV ratings this year were the highest since 2015

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/0/1/AAWHm8AAC69p.jpg

The shooting of a Huntington Station cabdriver by an off-duty Nassau County police officer in a fit of alcohol-fueled road rage has been dogged for more than a decade by evidence of cover-ups and the wrongful arrest of an innocent man.

Former Nassau Officer Anthony DiLeonardo opened fire on cabbie Thomas Moroughan after a night of dinner and drinking in 2011. He wounded Moroughan twice, pummeled him with a pistol, breaking his nose, and faced possible arrest on a first-degree assault charge.

Instead, Suffolk County Police Department investigators initially accepted DiLeonardos account that he had shot Moroughan in self-defense. They charged Moroughan with assault after detectives took a hospital-bed statement in which Moroughan purportedly exonerated DiLeonardo and incriminated himself. At the time, doctors had administered narcotic medications to dull Moroughans pain.

The shooting entangled the internal affairs bureaus of Long Islands neighboring county forces in separate investigations. After more than three years, the Nassau department dismissed DiLeonardo. Separately, it punished fellow Officer Edward Bienz, who was at the scene of the shooting after drinking with DiLeonardo, with the loss of 20 days pay.

Because Suffolk was the site of the shooting, Suffolk police were responsible first for determining whether a crime had been committed and, if so, by whom. After the district attorneys office dropped all charges against Moroughan, Suffolk internal affairs examined the circumstances surrounding the cabdrivers arrest.

Newsdays look into how Long Islands two county police forces have policed themselves uncovered the outcome of Suffolks internal investigation, including how ranking members of the department brought the case to a close under the near total secrecy that was imposed by law on police discipline.

Newsday found that:
The Suffolk County Police Department ruled there was no misconduct by any member of the force and ordered no discipline.
In finding no fault, then-Commissioner Edward Webber overruled the departments internal affairs chief, who had called for filing misconduct charges against a sergeant and a detective sergeant.
Former Chief of Detectives William Madigan pressed internal affairs commanding officer Michael Caldarelli to delete evidence from a report that Caldarelli considered crucial to supporting the charges, including accounts that DiLeonardo smelled of alcohol and that Moroughan had been given morphine, according to notes handwritten by Madigan.
Madigan pushed Caldarelli to change his report at a meeting also attended by police Capt. Alexander Crawford, an attorney who is the departments chief legal officer, who also had served as a trustee of the Superior Officers Association, the union representing the sergeant and detective sergeant.
Caldarelli rebuffed Madigan and Crawford, notifying Webber in a memo that he refused to make the deletions they requested.
The department permitted a second trustee of the Superior Officers Association, a sergeant, to play a key role in recommending whether or not to file charges against any officers involved in investigating the shooting at a time when the sergeant was both a union member and a union trustee.
Moroughan, then 26, had been shot twice and had his nose broken as DiLeonardo tried to rip him from the cab. Moroughan had spent the night at the hospital calling out repeatedly for his lawyer, he said, before Suffolk police arrested him. He faced seven years in prison on the charges that included assaulting an officer, which were later dropped.

At Newsdays request, five experts in criminal law or police misconduct reviewed a detailed account of the case. Newsday based the account on internal affairs documents obtained from court files and confidential sources, official public statements and Caldarellis recollections of an internal affairs tenure that he described as Kafkaesque. The Suffolk police department denied a Newsday Freedom of Information Law request for internal affairs documents related to the case.
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Unanimously, the five experts concluded that based on the evidence provided by Newsday Moroughan had not committed a crime; that Suffolk police had wrongfully arrested him; that DiLeonardo had shot Moroughan without legal justification; and that Suffolk police could have arrested DiLeonardo.

Some also concluded that Suffolk police used Moroughans arrest to cover up DiLeonardos crime; that former Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota reinforced the apparent cover-up by declining to conduct a grand jury investigation; and that Suffolk police leadership completed the cover-up by overruling its internal affairs chief and taking no action against detectives and supervisors who participated in Moroughans arrest.

Its a cover-up of a cover-up, said Bennett Gershman, the Pace University law professor, adding:

They dont want the truth to come out, because if the truth comes out, its very embarrassing. And maybe even worse, its criminal.

https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk-police-nassau-cover-up/

In the US, black people disproportionately live in the south, too.

That's just Game Pass Ultimate; regular GP is $10

What a game

There is no real reason to care that a guy who is only known for having bad opinions had a bad opinion, much less one that he spouted off three years ago: https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1128735398157594626

Even in the world of right wing shitheads, he isn't a particularly influential one. He doesn't have an audience the size of Joe Rogan or even Dan Bongino. He does not hold elected office. Close the Twitter tab and Matt Walsh does not exist.

Only in the summer is it even an issue.

Pump more carbon into the atmosphere

More is expected of ostensibly democratic countries, in terms of responding to public and international pressure, than of China.

Here's a 2005 article from American Republicans complaining that Episode III is anti-Bush:
https://www.aim.org/media-monitor/another-billionaire-against-bush/

And a less-biased outlet on the comparisons being made at the time:

https://goodfaithmedia.org/politics-in-star-wars-draw-bush-administration-comparisons-cms-5774/

It is clear that theres a parallel between the Bush administration and the rise to power of the Empire, the Evil Empire, said Newsweek movie critic David Ansen in a Today show segment Monday morning.
Ansen is just one of several voices asserting similarities between the politics of Star Wars and those of the current White House.
Lucas dares, for the first time, to address how the hollow political conflict in his franchise correlates with the reality outside its panels, wrote Ed Gonzales, movie critic for Slant magazine, in his recent review.
The Today shows Michael Okwu summarized one of the new movies storylines as: a warmongering chancellor of an intergalactic republic asks the senate to give up their liberties and to give him more powerunder the guise of being under attack.
Ansen said, It appeared to be a reference to the Patriot Act and to our sort of giving up our civil liberties in the name of national security.
In the movie, Anakin Skywalker, played by Hayden Christensen, completes his descent to the Dark Side of the Force and transformation to Darth Vader. In doing so, Anakin tells his former friend and mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), If youre not with me, then youre my enemy.
The Today show balanced that movie line with a clip of President Bush saying in November 2001, Youre either with us, or youre against us in the fight against terror.

Hitman 2

Granted, I haven't played a Tales game since Symphonia, but I had a really good time with it, though I do recognize your criticisms, especially about the lack of side quests and characters.

Hitman 2
Civilization V
Ocarina of Time
XCOM 2
Tales of Symphonia
Advance Wars: Dual Strike
Yakuza 0
Super Mario 3D World+Bowser's Fury
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
Mario Kart DS

LostForest posted...

14,000 of those retweets are probably Russian bots.

X doubt

Update:
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1492555081509703681

https://www.inafarawaygalaxy.com/2018/10/george-lucas-star-wars-scripts-were.html?m=1

Indeed Lucas is on record having said that the original Star Wars was in part a commentary on the Vietnam War:"

"It was really about the Vietnam War, and that was the period where Nixon was trying to run for a [second] term, which got me to thinking historically about how do democracies get turned into dictatorships?"

Apparently, he wrote a note in 1973 that said Star Wars was about: "A large technological empire going after a small group of freedom fighters.

No politics here

The empire are an extremely thinly veiled allegory for the Nazis.

It's funny to see this topic, and some of the comments in it, in the wake of a Sims 4 expansion not being sold in Russia because it features gay marriage.
https://www.ign.com/articles/ea-wont-release-sims-4-my-wedding-stories-russia?amp=1

I'd be curious to know how you folks envision devs being prevented from using video games as a platform for politics.

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David1988 posted...

How about just using the whole $7 billion to help Afghanis and 9/11 victims getting aid from different compensation funds?

That's a good question!

What_ posted...

Your post reminds me of the heady days of Tony Hawk Pro skater

Mechanically, it's more like skate in that tricks are all done via analog sticks. It just puts that into a 2D platformer instead of an open world.

The mechanics are great and lend themselves well to replaying levels for a higher score or the optional challenges. It's just so easy to spend 20 minutes trying to get a run just right. And when I finally get it, oh man that feels good.

Thought this would garner more discussion, tbh

In Act 4 now:

• Fuck Saito, once again
• This is right up there with my favorite Yakuza plots, the way it tells the story through four seemingly unrelated perspectives, the central conspiracy being uncovered. There are some big dumb reveals, like always, but this is really working for me.
• Who is watching the orphanage?

Bump

They've said they're withholding the title this long because it'll spoil something about the game's mechanics they aren't willing to reveal yet, so no, I don't think so.

Raikuro posted...

Wait, being against the Iraq war a minority opinion at some point?

Polls at the time showed significant public support:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/8038/seventytwo-percent-americans-support-war-against-iraq.aspx

I slept on a bus to DC in high school just to hear Stewart say we just need to meet in the middle with the Tea Party and get along.

darkprince45 posted...

Crazy how quickly you guys turn on people lmao

There are downsides to not pushing back against bullshit just because you like who's saying it. And I don't particularly like Jon Stewart in the first place.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

$300 gift card to where?

It's one of those pre-paid Visa cards

I don't know, I'm frugal about shit. What should I use it for?

ellis123 posted...

I was referring to the act of who was paying Fox. China versus Russia is mostly splitting hairs.

Rupert Murdoch, an American citizen, signs the checks there.

I'd say it's that the administration caved to a manufactured racist panic at the expense of people's lives, personally.

It's not Russia either, man. It's just a natural end result of Republican elected officials' ad hoc decision not to treat Covid seriously. The right wing media lined up behind the party, which lined up behind Trump, and it turns out millions of people believe them.

It'd be awful convenient if we could just pin the blame on someone else for our problems, but China isn't paying the salaries of Fox News hosts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/us/politics/taliban-afghanistan-911-families-frozen-funds.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

President Biden is starting to clear a legal path for relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to pursue $3.5 billion that Afghanistans central bank had deposited in New York before the Taliban takeover, while also seeking to steer a roughly equal amount toward spending to aid the Afghan people.

Beginning that process, Mr. Biden issued an executive order Friday morning invoking emergency powers to consolidate and freeze all $7 billion of the total assets the Afghan central bank kept in New York. The administration said it would ask a judge for permission to move $3.5 billion to a trust fund it would set up to support the needs of the Afghan people, like for humanitarian relief.

The highly unusual set of moves, which The New York Times had first reported was expected, is meant to address a tangled knot of legal, political, foreign policy and humanitarian problems stemming from the attacks and the end of the 20-year war in Afghanistan.

When the Afghan government dissolved in August with top officials, including its president and the acting governor of its central bank, fleeing the country it left behind slightly more than $7 billion in central bank assets on deposit at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Because it was no longer clear who if anyone had legal authority to gain access to that account, the Fed made the funds unavailable for withdrawal.

The Taliban, now in control of Afghanistan, immediately claimed a right to the money. But a group of relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, one of several sets who had won default judgments against the group in once seemingly quixotic lawsuits years ago, sought to seize it to pay off that debt.

Meanwhile, the economy in Afghanistan has been collapsing, leading to a mass starvation that is in turn creating an enormous and destabilizing new wave of refugees and raising a clear need for extensive spending on humanitarian relief.

Against that backdrop, the White Houses National Security Council led months of deliberations on the central bank funds involving top officials from departments including Justice, State and Treasury, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter that had not yet been made public.

The money belonging to the Afghan central bank known as Da Afghanistan Bank includes assets like currency, bonds and gold.

Much of it came from foreign exchange funds that accumulated over the past 20 years a time when the United States and other Western countries were donating large sums to Afghanistan, helping generate that activity. Alex Zerden, a former top U.S. Treasury Department official in Afghanistan, characterized the central bank reserves as a kind of rainy day fund for the Afghan people.

In addition, about half a billion dollars of the banks assets correspond to the reserves of commercial banks in Afghanistan, which by law must keep a certain amount of their deposits including the savings of ordinary Afghan people at the central bank. Those assets are owned by Da Afghanistan Bank, but it owes the same amount to the commercial banks.

After the Taliban took over Afghanistan, they appointed their own official to lead the central bank and demanded the immediate release of the money held in New York. But under longstanding counterterrorism sanctions imposed by the United States, it is illegal to engage in financial transactions with them.

Another option has been to let the assets sit untouched, gathering interest for what is likely to be years before the Taliban perhaps again lose power and a more normal government arises.

But in September, a group of about 150 relatives of Sept. 11 victims, who years ago won a default judgment after suing targets like Al Qaeda and the Taliban in a case known as Havlish, persuaded a judge to dispatch a United States Marshal to serve the legal department of the Federal Reserve of New York with a writ of execution to seize the money.

After The Times reported on the matter in November, a number of other Sept. 11 groups who filed similar lawsuits after the attacks stepped forward to ask for a share of the Afghan bank assets.

By then, the Biden administration had intervened in the Havlish litigation, invoking a law that permits it to step into lawsuits to inform the court what is in the national interest. The deadline for it to file that statement had been postponed until Friday.

Mr. Biden has now decided that the government will not object to any court decision to devote half of the money for the Sept. 11 claims. The Justice Department is instead expected to tell the court later Friday that victims of the attacks should have a full opportunity to have their claims heard, according to people familiar with the matter.

But if the judge agrees to partly lift the writ of execution, Mr. Biden will seek to direct the remainder toward a trust fund to be spent on assistance in Afghanistan while keeping it out of the hands of the Taliban, according to people briefed on the decision. Setting up that fund and working out the details is expected to take several months, the people said.

It is highly unusual for the United States government to commandeer a foreign countrys assets on domestic soil. Officials are said to have discussed a two-part legal process for Mr. Biden to engineer that outcome.

First, in his executive order on Friday morning, he used emergency powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to consolidate all Da Afghanistan Bank assets in the United States in a segregated account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That has blocked them, but the Afghanistan central bank still owns them.

Second, officials have discussed then using a provision of the Federal Reserve Act that permits disposing of property belonging to the central bank of a foreign nation so long as it has the blessing of someone the secretary of state has recognized as being the accredited representative of that foreign country.

But deciding who qualifies as such a person, at a time when Afghanistans former government no longer exists, has raised significant complications. It remained unclear what solution Biden administration officials had settled on and whether the name of any person or people they deem as such would be disclosed for security reasons, like possibly endangering family members still in Afghanistan.

Do you think those people would take money from China?

People are allowed to root for whoever, but my theory is:
Grew up in Baltimore before the Ravens existed, so he became a Pats fan, went to college in Florida, and never having had a local hockey team, adopted the Kraken because their name is cool.

I read it back in high school, really enjoyed it.

Machete posted...

your grasp of English gets a 3/6

For him it's more like a 1/6

I worked in the kitchen of a nursing home, so I had the worst of both worlds.

Flauros posted...

Im shocked new york doesnt just turn a blind eye and let them do as they please.

Why would that shock you

https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/2/9/22926241/when-visitors-were-banned-from-rikers-island-even-more-drugs-showed-up

Last April, Thomas Earl Braunson III was found dead in his cell on Rikers Island. The 35-year-old had struggled with addiction throughout his life, family said, and in the end that battle proved fatal.

Braunson, who had become a father just three months earlier, succumbed to a deadly dose of fentanyl, heroin, and PCP, according to the city Medical Examiner.

Department of Correction investigators are still trying to determine how that contraband got to Braunson behind bars. But his access to drugs was hardly an outlier during the height of New York Citys pandemic when social programs were shut down and visitors were not allowed on the island.
In fact, internal jails numbers suggest that in that period when only corrections officers, staff, and eventually certain contractors and service providers could enter detainees may have had even greater access to drugs.

Between April of 2020 and May of 2021, correction department authorities seized banned drugs inside city jails more than 2,600 times, according to data obtained by THE CITY.

Thats more than double the number of such seizures made during the same time period from 2018 to 2019 when the jail population was larger and there were more people coming and going, Correction department records show.

For criminal justice reform advocates, the statistics point to a longstanding accusation.

This data confirms what weve known all along it is corrupt DOC staff who keep drugs flowing into Rikers, said Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda, a jail reform organization. But instead of swift action to root out this corruption, weve seen investigators fired, and discipline that is either absent or takes years to enact.

The Department of Correction disputed those allegations, with a spokesperson arguing that the agency takes contraband smuggling extremely seriously. The DOC rather blames the spike on a dangerous increase in attempts to get drugs through the mail during that period of the pandemic.

The data does show an increase in drug mail seizures during that period, but they account for less than a third of total drug recoveries between April 2020 and May 2021.

In response to a follow-up inquiry noting that mail recoveries could not account for a majority of the surge, the department pointed out there will always be some contraband that slips through.
Jail officials throughout the country have for years struggled to block the smuggling of books and magazine paper soaked in suboxone, K2 and meth.
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The troubling numbers come as early moves by the Adams administration signal a more hands-off approach to staff misconduct in city jails.

He replaced reform-minded Correction Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi with Louis Molina, a former NYPD detective who had been serving as chief of the Las Vegas Department of Public Safety.

As one of his first big moves, Molina replaced Sarena Townsend, the departments acclaimed top investigator. Townsend, a former Brooklyn prosecutor, told the Daily News Molina had asked her to clear 1,000 disciplinary cases against officers over the next 100 days before she was ordered to resign.

The city jail system has been roiled by what a federal monitor calls disorder and chaos, with inmate deaths and self-harm incidents up, rampant absenteeism and low vaccination rates among officers, and bleak conditions at intake centers.

Some elected officials have called for the National Guard and President Joe Biden to step in.
Braunson and 15 other city jails detainees died behind bars in 2021, the highest total in years.
At least one other case was tied to a drug overdose, according to the medical examiners office.
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The Department of Correction data shows that drug seizures remained relatively stable between 2018 and early 2020, averaging about 77 a month, excluding those recovered through searches of visitors and mail.

In April of 2020, the first full month of the pandemic lockdown, such seizures dropped dramatically. But as jail programming and visits ceased, fueling despair and violence, drug recoveries reached new heights with 334 in October of 2020 and 570 in February of 2021.

Brian Carmichael, an incarceration reform activist who spent time on Rikers Island last spring for a narcotics charge, said it is an open secret that some corrections officers sell drugs to detainees, but the pandemic presented a special opportunity.

There are only a few ways that drugs can get into a jail, so when visits were canceled for COVID, that effectively eliminated any competition there was for those guards bringing in the drugs, he said. And they had a monopoly.

Drugs were in high demand when he arrived, Carmichael said. In those months, corrections administrators were struggling to get hundreds of corrections officers to show up to work, stranding detainees who were unable to get escorts for medical visits.

If people cant get psych meds and pain meds, then theyre going to turn to whatever meds they can find, he said. Whether its pot or K2, heroin, meth, anything you can get.

Nearly half of all incarcerated people in New York City are deemed as having some symptoms of mental illness, according to DOC data compiled by the Vera Institute of Justice.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/elon-musks-neuralink-allegedly-subjected-monkeys-to-extreme-suffering/

Elon Musks brain-chip company Neuralink is facing a legal challenge from an animal rights group that has accused the company of subjecting monkeys to extreme suffering during years of gruesome experiments.

Neuralinks brain chips which Musk claims will one day make humans hyper-intelligent and let paralyzed people walk again were implanted in monkeys brains during a series of tests at the University of California, Davis from 2017 to 2020, according to a compliant from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine filed with the the US Department of Agriculture on Thursday.

In one example, a monkey was allegedly found missing some of its fingers and toes possibly from self-mutilation or some other unspecified trauma. The monkey was later killed during a terminal procedure, the group said in a copy of the complaint shared with The Post.

In another case, a monkey had holes drilled in its skull and electrodes implanted into its brain, then allegedly developed a bloody skin infection and had to be euthanized, according to the complaint.

In a third instance, a female macaque monkey had electrodes implanted into its brain, then was overcome with vomiting, retching and gasping. Days later, researchers wrote that the animal appeared to collapse from exhaustion/fatigue and was subsequently euthanized. An autopsy then showed the monkey had suffered from a brain hemorrhage, according to the report.

The experiments involved 23 monkeys in all. At least 15 of them died or were euthanized by 2020, according to the group, which based the report on records released through Californias open records law.

Pretty much every single monkey that had had implants put in their head suffered from pretty debilitating health effects, Jeremy Beckham, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicines research advocacy director, told The Post. They were, frankly, maiming and killing the animals.

The macabre report comes as Neuralink plans to begin its first human tests. Musk said in December that he wants to start human trials for the devices in 2022 and the company posted a job listing for a clinical trial director this January.

The group behind the report, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, advocates for veganism and alternatives to animal testing positions that have sometimes put the group at odds with the American Medical Association. It has also previously received funding from controversial animal rights group PETA, The Guardian reported.

The group doesnt currently have any relationship with PETA but sometimes works on overlapping issues, Beckham said.
The organization is accusing Neuralink and UC Davis of nine violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act a federal measure designed to reduce suffering during animal experiments.

Many, if not all, of the monkeys experienced extreme suffering as a result of inadequate animal care and the highly invasive experimental head implants during the experiments, which were performed in pursuit of developing what Neuralink and Elon Musk have publicly described as a brain-machine interface, the group wrote in its complaint to the USDA.

These highly invasive implants and their associated hardware, which are inserted in the brain after drilling holes in the animals skulls, have produced recurring infections in the animals, significantly compromising their health, as well as the integrity of the research.

The group is also suing UC Davis in an attempt to make them release more photos, videos and information about the monkeys under Californias public records laws.

The alleged abuses come in stark contrast to publicly shared materials from Neuralink. In a video posted on YouTube last April, the company showed a healthy and happy-seeming monkey playing the video game Pong with its brain.

A UC Davis spokesperson told The Post that its work with Neuralink ended in 2020 and that the universitys Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee had thoroughly reviewed and approved its project with Neuralink.

Previously: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043336212/tesla-racial-discrimination-lawsuit