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• On the post: Developer Promises To Keep Failed Online Game Servers Up: Art Deserves To Be Preserved

  

  Trails ( profile ), 17 May, 2026 @ 11:50am

  lolwut

  I would also like to take this opportunity to blame Tim. Where were you when all this was going down? When WoW released those shite expansions and the classic experience was lost, never to be seen again until WoW Classic? When games were abandoned and left to rot? When the Westfold fell? Wait, I think I got of track there with that last one...

• On the post: Kansas County Pays $3 Million Settlement For Illegal Raid Of Local Newspaper’s Office

  

  Trails ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2025 @ 06:52am

  oops 1 day after, not 2 days.

  apologies

• On the post: Kansas County Pays $3 Million Settlement For Illegal Raid Of Local Newspaper’s Office

  

  Trails ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2025 @ 06:51am

  Sincere regret

  The Sheriff’s Office wishes to express its sincere regrets to ... Joan Meyer ... for its participation in the drafting and execution of the Marion Police Department’s search warrants on their homes and the Marion County Record.

  Sincere regret, cause she died two days after the raid. Lame.

• On the post: The Washington Post Fires Its Last Black Opinion Columnist For Directly Quoting A Bigot

  

  Trails ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2025 @ 09:51am

  our mad, idiot king.

  ...Azathrump?

• On the post: DOJ Discovers It CAN Actually Bring Abrego Garcia Back… To Face Sketchy, Trumped Up Criminal Charges

  

  Trails ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2025 @ 04:02am

  Woosh?

• On the post: DOJ Discovers It CAN Actually Bring Abrego Garcia Back… To Face Sketchy, Trumped Up Criminal Charges

  

  Trails ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2025 @ 06:42am

  Fear will keep the [darkies] in line. Fear of this [prison].

  \- Grand Moff Tarkin

• On the post: Prisons Pout, Cancel Inmate Calls After Biden FCC Caps Precatory Inmate Phone Rates

  

  Trails ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2025 @ 06:23am

  Precatory?

  prec·a·to·ry relating to or expressing a wish or request.

  Intentional?

• On the post: Bezos’ Endorsement Gambit Backfires: Trump Files FEC Complaint Against WaPo

  

  Trails ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2024 @ 08:18am

  Leopards eat faces?

  Why is the leopard eating my face? Why didn't anyone warn me that this starving predator would look at me as food and not a friend?

• On the post: Court: No Immunity For ‘So Anyway, I Started Blasting’ Cop Who Killed Someone For The Crime Of Being At Home

  

  Trails ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2024 @ 07:04am

  Maybe?

  Here's the thing. If he had yelled police, from what I read (have not watched the video), still nothing those folk did justified deadly force. "Black while standing up" is not a crime. Maybe people would have acted differently, but their actions did not justify this even if this idiot cop had identified himself as law enforcement.

• On the post: Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Very Mad At Disney For Its Speech, Funds At Least One SLAPP Suit

  

  Trails ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2024 @ 06:59am

  Oh no

  Agreed. Now I have to go watch... the Marvels...

• On the post: FTC Moves For A Restraining Order Stop Microsoft, Activision Blizzard Merger From Consummating

  

  Trails ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2023 @ 07:57am

  Title missing a word?

  FTC Moves For A Restraining Order To Stop Microsoft, Activision Blizzard Merger From Consummating

  FYI

• On the post: Ted Cruz Goes After ‘Woke’ Microsoft Over Xbox Power Saving Settings Update

  

  Trails ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2023 @ 09:34am

  It's funny to see these guy rally to the defence of the "simple childlike joy of gaming" one second then flip to manufactured hysteria about gaming turning kids into monsters or corrupting them the next.

• On the post: Ted Cruz Goes After ‘Woke’ Microsoft Over Xbox Power Saving Settings Update

  

  Trails ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2023 @ 09:31am

  Maybe getting upset about xbox sleep cycles is a little dumb (increased boot times suck tho)

  Backhanded justification

  Well yes, it was, actually.

  Unsupported claim

  CSPC is a (too) powerful agency

  Overbearing gov't boogey man

  Talking about the possibility and “a need to study” is how that process starts.

  Slippery slope pearl clutching.

  it’s at the direction of administration higher-ups who really are doing it cuz they hate fossil fuels

  Biden's fault.

  There aren’t tho. That simply isn’t true at all.

  Unsupported claim.

  activist enviro group

  Ad homs when party line isn't toed. Surprised you didn't add socialist here.

  I hate your ideas, you’re a fucking idiot

  Ad homs on article author. I think I won conservative troll bingo. What's my prize?

• On the post: Trump’s Truth Social Big Payday May Be Falling Apart

  

  Trails ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2022 @ 09:21am

  Techdirt, for all your German plumbing needs.

• On the post: How Would Senator James Lankford React If A Democratic Senator Demanded Fox News Explain Its Editorial Policies?

  

  Trails ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2022 @ 07:02am

  Aim Higher

  For example, big-tech pushes its liberal ideology in America while submitting to authoritarian regimes and censoring that same ideology in other countries. Further, those same regimes are provided a platform and rarely face the same censorship shown toward conservatives in the United States.

  Pretty black and white: "We aspire to be like those regimes!"

• On the post: Exec That Tried To Send Critical Reporters A Dead Pig Blames 'The Drinking Culture At eBay'

  

  Trails ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2021 @ 08:57am

  What did the Steiners write?

  So, I'm just curious what the Steiners actually wrote that provoked this.

  To be clear, I'm not suggesting it's their fault or they deserved this, I would just love to see what must be the most brilliant pieces of biting sarcasm ever produced.

  Ebay's behaviour in this, as an org, is fucking disgusting and their claims of "this isn't our corporate culture" ring pretty flat given the sanctioning of this on record.

• On the post: Naturopath Sues Twitter After It Bans Her Account For Spreading Medical Misinformation

  

  Trails ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2021 @ 09:47pm

  Typo 7th paragraph

  Not sure what that has to do with suing Twitter on behalf of someone helping spread disinformation about COIVD

  COVID spelt "COIVD" in this case. Appreciate the article as always :).

• On the post: Milwaukee Sewerage District Threatens Menards Over Fertilizer Sales

  

  Trails ( profile ), 25 May, 2021 @ 06:40am

  Anti competitive?

  So the trademark thing is patently ridiculous. The Menards brand communicates "We're like Milorganite", not "We are Milorganite".

  I'm sorta surprised they didn't take a more anti-competitive slant to their claim. Menards is obviously leveraging its position as a distributor of fertilizers to encourage users to buy their product. I'm not close enough to anti-competition nuances to know if it's over the line, but it certainly seems closer to it here than the trademark claim of "their lawn fertilizer shows a lawn, just like ours".

• On the post: Devin Nunes' Favorite Lawyer On The Hook For Over $20k In Sanctions

  

  Trails ( profile ), 07 May, 2021 @ 09:20am

  Moooooo

  I bet they make Devin Nunes' Cow pay for this.

• On the post: Tennessee Lawmakers Decide Chris Sevier Has Good Ideas, Push His Bill To Compel Speech From Media Outlets

  

  Trails ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2021 @ 11:30am

  Re: Walk it Back

  So apparently, you need two line breaks after a blockquote....

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