I don't understand this answer. By the same token couldn't you say that at the federal level, murder is legal in every state (except in the special territorial jurisdiction of the United States)? Are there states that have no laws against bribery?

This would be an important point if "fair use" in U.S. law meant "Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it" as Suleyman claimed, but it doesn't. It's vaguely defined, but much more limited than that, and I think it's not much different from what's permitted elsewhere in the world – e.g. the law states that it's "for purposes such as criticism [...] or research".

@PaulJohnson My comment was based on the later passage "Phillips [...] declined their cake request, informing the couple that he did not create wedding cakes for marriages of gay couples [...]. Craig and Mullins promptly left Masterpiece without discussing with Phillips any of the details of their wedding cake." I didn't mean to imply that the Supreme Court decision set a precedent that that is legal. I deleted my comment in any case since there are plenty of comments by people who know the case better than me.

The scenario followed by "(this is the zipper merge)" is not a zipper merge, and doesn't match the linked Wiktionary definition of a zipper merge. This question doesn't seem to be about (actual) zipper merging at all. In a zipper merge the lanes move at equal speed, so "A common mistake is to approach the merge point at too high a speed" and "Obey the 'Do Not Pass' sign" don't imply zipper merging is illegal. They're most likely meant to imply that it's expected.

I deleted my earlier comment because it turned out to be not so obvious whether the title card is in the public domain. The other question that I suggested as a duplicate is mentioned in my answer.

I'm not sure your description is accurate. The way the exchange was supposed to work is customer A deposits cash and customer B deposits MemeCoin and then they agree to swap them and then customer A withdraws the MemeCoin and customer B withdraws the cash. The exchange doesn't buy anything, it's just an escrow agent. One complication (among many) is that one customer could secretly be FTX and the cash/MemeCoin could just be a number on the screen and never actually deposited in their vault, but presumably that didn't always happen, there must have been some legitimate trades.

"given that the only U.S. citizen to enter North Korea without a special U.S. visa [...] was arrested immediately [...] it would appear that this is illegal under North Korean law as well" - That's not my reading of the BBC story. It looks to me like he ran into NK from the DMZ without going through border control at all (and saying "ha ha ha"), so of course they would arrest him.

@nvoigt See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar's_feast. It's a Biblical prophecy of doom, the original "writing on the wall".

The "hostage justice" Wikipedia page that you linked has no Japanese sources, and oddly says that it should be expanded with material from the French page, though a Japanese page exists. The Japanese page, like the English one, mentions only one specific case, Carlos Ghosn, and the reporting on it in the French and American press. It has some Japanese sources but they're all newspapers.

Could you link any sources other than a couple of little-edited (so probably little-scrutinized) articles in the English-language Wikipedia and ohwilleke's decades-old hearsay – such as scholarly articles by people with direct experience with the system? The silly final paragraph about Confucianism and the Japanese compulsion to apologize especially makes me wonder about the accuracy of the rest of this.

This seems to be more op-ed than answer. If any of it is actually true, you should be able to find a more scholarly source for it than "bowlingoverhaul.com".