Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the so-they-say dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment about one detail in Google’s push for anti-open-internet regulation:
Goody. Mandating porn ID and, by association, tying porn use with that ID.
Sounds like Google is advocating for, among other things, government mandated collection of adults’ fetishes tied to their names.
In second place, it’s James Burkhardt with a piece-by-piece reply in an argument about crime rates with a Techdirt… regular:
6%, you say? But maybe it’s 12% (you of course are just hoping)? Declined almost every year for 30 years?
The article you didn’t read links to the source on the 12% claim.
The FBI’s annual report on the nation’s crime statistics showed a 6% decline in homicides in 2022. The drop exceeded what most crime experts expected, said Jeff Asher, a crime data analyst and consultant whose AH Datalytics’ site is a widely cited source of information.
The FBI data, which the bureau compiled from reports filed by 18,888 local police departments, lags nearly a year behind reality. Asher, who puts together data from departments that cover a large majority of the nation’s population, says that so far this year, homicides nationwide have declined 11% to 12%.6% was 2022. This year is 2023, not 2022 (i know you have difficulty with the concept of linear time). Current trends in reports suggest a 11-12% drop for 2023.
Violent crime is really fricken high, higher than most people have known in their adult lives
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-usa-since-1990/
Unless most people are younger than 13, Most people in the US have experienced worse violent crime rates.
This also supports the claim that the crime rate has been shrinking almost every year for the last 30. And violent crime rates in this nation did not double.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Stephen T. Stone about Nintendo’s latest edicts to esports leagues:
Nintendo loves the people who buy its products, but hates the fans of its products. The distinction is razor thin, but it’s there.
Next, it’s cassandra with a comment about techno-optimism:
re: techno-optimism: I’m plenty optimistic about technology. It’s neat. The problem is people using it for unethical, short-sighted, and selfish purposes, from planned obsolescence to mass surveillance. I’m all for advancing science and technology but there’s no single magical panacea that enough VC money will uncover and thereby fix the human condition.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is JMT with a simple rebuke in the thread about crime rates:
Well if the NY Post says so it must be true!
In second place, it’s a bit of comedic typo pedantry from an anonymous commenter in response to a comment about a “cat liter box”:
A liter isn’t big enough to fit a cat. Kitten, maybe.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment about qualified immunity:
“None of the cited precedents address a 31-year-old male passenger wearing glasses and a blue and white checkered shirt. Qualified immunity granted.”
Next, it’s David with a comment about us criticizing the LAPD cops who played Pokemon on the job:
You think you are so smart
Let’s see where your smugness gets you when Snorlax holds up your bank and there’s no cop around with presence of mind and capability of throwing ultra-balls.
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
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Death penalty sentences should be carried out immediately, with no chance for appeal.
And they should be applied excessively to members of the Black community (since they do most of the violent criming per capita).
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…hallucinated no real human being, ever.
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Wrong century. Darn those Internet wormholes.
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Of all the things you could do with your life, you chose to be stupid and inflammatory for the half-second of dopamine you get for every reaction.
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penis
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It may exhibit a lack of solidarity with my chromosomatic siblings, but I suspect your diagnosis may be accurate. Not in a big way but still.
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what the fuck are you saying
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He’s calling the OP a dick, by way of agreeing with the reply “penis” as a diagnosis.
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Hey Hamilton – maybe we should start your suggestion with Shiva Ayyadurai, since it wasn’t proven whether he invented email or not.
Not so fun when the boot’s on the other foot now is it?
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https://www.npr.org/2023/10/29/1209340362/mass-shootings-halloween-tampa-chicago-atlanta
It’s not necessary to impose the death penalty on members of the Black community, because they are unfortunately very good at imposing it on themselves. These Black-on-Black shootings barely make a ripple in the news, first because they are so common, and second because woke race ideologues have dictated that murders of Black people may be seen only when carried out by law enforcement or white people.
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Fuck off Hyman, you aren’t welcome here.
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I busted your mom’s hymen.
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Regrettably very true. But at least the thugs are taking each other out – even if the police take a lot of unjustified heat. Thank you for your insightful comment.
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No, but this is definitely how a racist would see it. Citizens killing citizens doesn’t hit the news as often or as loudly. People break the law and murder people. Tale as old as time. Concerning, but not surprising. And more a statement about the availability of firearms than it is about intraracial murder.
When cops kill people, especially people of a particular, historically targeted ethnicity or identity, as a result of systemic racism (which you’re encouraging) and homicidal training, it’s an abuse of official authority and should warrant significant outcry and systemic change necessary to curb it. When people who are sworn to uphold the law, who are expected to protect society, are committing murder, abusing their authority, and being at best indifferent, but often actively antagonistic, to the well-being of underprivileged people, it should hit the news harder.
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Except this doesn’t happen. The vast majority of officer-involved shootings (literally almost all of them) are clearly justified and righteous.
How many law enforcement officers have been convicted for an on-duty killing that took place this year? In fact, how many then-serving and employed law enforcement officers have ever even been charged for such a vanishingly-rare crime?
You’re a retarded communist.
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Part of asserting that “[blacks] do most of the violent criming per capita).” is because of them and not because of corrupt, racist policing is the lack of any ability to grasp grade-schoo mathl on the part of the one making that assertion.
But nobody said racists were intelligent.
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Yeah, any time that a group of Black people get together, it’s the police who make them shoot each other.
Wokeness is poison. Wokeness is death.
Do you think Black people like being infantilized like this? I suppose the CRT and BLM grifters do, because it’s a way of fleecing the suckers, but I would hope that normal Black people want something better for themselves. And it’s not something that wokeness can ever give them, because wokeness is literally telling them that they must blame whitey rather than try to bring their own communities back to civilization.
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Wokeness is a buzzword conservatives and racists use for anything they don’t like. They conflate different concepts into one giant blob of terminology because, like you, they don’t understand the disparate parts. Black people are some of the academics that are analyzing systemic issues, so pretending it’s just “woke” white people infantilizing black people is silly. Nobody said that the police are forcing black people to shoot each other. Your inability to understand the issue doesn’t mean it must be as simple as you like to pretend. Also, you don’t get to say others are infantilizing black people when you’re depicting them as uncivilized savages. But you won’t understand what I’m saying either, so I suppose there isn’t much point.
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https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/blm-chicago-under-fire-for-pro-palestine-post-featuring-paragliding-terrorist/
BLM Chicago, the city with massive numbers of Black people who murder each other, responded to the Palestinian terrorism by creating a poster celebrating the paragliders that the terrorists used. The reason to conflate the many evil things that the left believes under the single term “wokeness” is that they share the common feature of being ideologies of fantasy rather than reality, whether it’s believing that men can be women, that the United States was founded in order to perpetuate slavery, that the failures of Black society are solely due to the actions of white people, that dividing people into oppressors and oppressed is a rational way to structure society, that riots, looting, and arson are reparations, that Jews deserve to be murdered, and on and on.
Wokeness is poison. Wokeness is death. Nothing the woke left believes is true. Nothing the woke left does is useful, least of all for their favored victim groups.
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It’s telling you didn’t have a factual source to link to that agrees with your delusions.
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Like I said, conflating all those myths and mischaracterizations just shows you don’t actually understand anything you’re talking about. You’re just repeating talking points from a Truth Social post. Such a good little foot soldier!
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You keep telling yourself that. We’ll be here, inventing one gender after another, submitting pronoun after pronoun for Newsom to make into LAW, just to fuck with your silly little straight white male head.
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You will refer to me as themwolf and themwolves and no amount of praying to whatever silly ass imaginary friend will be able to stop me.
It’s not a phase, Dad!
GETTING TO OLD FOR THIS
As a reminder to those in this nation that keep complaining.
YOU let them do it.
They are called CIVIL SERVANTS FOR A REASON.
Mislabeled the editor’s choice for funny comments as insightful, might want to fix that.
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Ah, but the comments are funnier when marked as insightful.
You do know that cats are liquid, right?
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Only when they want to be, and I can’t think of a time they would less want to be than “is being shoved into a one-liter bottle”. 😉
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But sometimes they want to climb into that small of a container.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FjGP4t2zKY
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Well there’s your problem, you wouldn’t need to shove them into anything, simply leave the container anywhere they can get to it and very sternly and clearly tell them they are not allowed to get into it. Guaranteed after doing that it’ll be a matter of seconds before they’re in it.