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I do sympathize with the idea that internet access shouldn't have to be an all-or-nothing proposition—like I actually think it could turn out to be beneficial for kids to be exposed to explicit sex-ed materials long before puberty but I still wouldn't want seven year olds stumbling onto...

He's literally responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands already, thanks to his mishandling of COVID. Let's not forget that. And that was just due to the laziness that, prior to that point, had been his best quality because it was stopping him from following through with the much worse...

If there's any silver lining to Trump being projected to win, it's that we probably won't have Biden voters refuse to show up because they assume they've got it in the bag. I still think that was enough to tip the scale back in 2016.

The real question is, do any of the sane countries actually allow the kind of invasive data collection and exploitation that TikTok relies on for its revenue in the first place?

I mean, failing to assume everyone is awful seems to be a good way to get taken advantage of. Some would argue that our current problems are the result of our institutions putting too much trust in everyone to voluntarily do the right thing.

Depends, are we going on the tradition definition of "capitalist" that includes countries with robust infrastructure, sane regulations, and financial safety nets as long as the majority of what gets done is handled by private industries, or the modern definition that singles out countries that...

I could legitimately see a scenario where Trump wins the presidency but he can't actually do jive because the Democrats managed to retake the House at the same time. Well, can't do jive legally anyway; he's already announced his intention to declare himself dictator the second he's sworn in, but...

Depends on who else is interested in outbidding him. Bluesky is too new to afford it either, Google and Meta are both out of the question because they already own competing platforms... Microsoft maybe? They've been big on growth by accretion lately. Hypothetically a bunch of investors could...

I'm surprised he was able to cobble something together in the first place with the skeleton crew they have left. It's also a testament to his stupidity that he bothered in the first place. He could have just waited for Biden to sign the bill forcing China to sell TikTok to an American company...

The anti-seatbelt crowd would too.

No I mean they shouldn't have sold their studio to a megacorporation in the first place. Stay indie, my friends.

Never sell out to the corpos. That was rule #1. I have no sympathy for the creators who let greed get the better of them.

No, they're right about it not being the states' job; but by judicial review it's the Supreme Court's own job to determine what is and isn't constitutional. And if it's not constitutional for Trump to run, they have a duty to say so, right here, right now, BEFORE the election is held. "But...

For those wondering, all nine justices agreed to overturn Colorado's decision to remove Trump from the ballot, saying only Congress has that power. The correct answer, of course, was that they should be the ones saying it's unconstitutional for any state to allow him to run in the first place...

Will we? The forums that there are maybe ten of left on the entire internet, with a combined userbase of maybe a couple hundred people, and which keep getting hacked and wiped with no backups because even the few people who still have the time, patience and money to keep one running don't...

I was reminded again today of a comment I saw on Reddit last year about how AI might be on track to turn the internet into the digital equivalent of a grey goo scenario. The OP was a link to a news article about how a bunch of websites are getting effectively DDOS'd by AI scraper tools, leading...

Fear of being sued by homeless people who have no money to hire a lawyer is pants-on-head insane. The possibility of local governments hating homeless people so much that they'll make up excuses to go after anyone who helps them, sadly, is not.

There's an old joke that starts "In Heaven, all the policemen are English..." I assume there was once a good reason for that.

Well that's the great thing about being a Republican. You can abuse your powers all you want and be confident that the opposing party are too nice to abuse theirs back, even if you get the Supreme Court to say it's totally fine.

I should probably wait to see if Legal Eagle puts out of a video on this, but what exactly is happening here? Trump hasn't been convicted of any criminal acts yet, right? I didn't sleep through that and miss it? Why is it even possible to ask the Supreme Court for a ruling on this already, let...