Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the that-was-that dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about Trump announcing all the things he’s going to spend his tariff tax revenue on:
Behold, the Party of Fiscal
ResponsibilityCorruptibility!
In second place, it’s Thad with a comment about what’s going on with AI:
Also, the problem isn’t that AI costs too much, it’s that people fucking don’t want it.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with one more comment from Thad, this time about the media’s reporting on Trump’s unhinged rant about Rob Reiner:
I used to say the news media were stenographers.
Now I wish they were stenographers. At least stenographers would accurately report Trump’s words.
Our news media are reputation managers: they sanewash Trump’s incoherence and cruelty to make them sound rational and respectable.
Next, it’s Kinetic Gothic with another comment on said rant:
Trump is proving my first rule of TDS.
People who accuse someone of suffering from TDS will invariably be more unhinged than the person they’re accusing.
Over on the funny side, it’s another slow week for comments (actually pretty slow on both sides, which I chock up to the holiday season!) so once again we’ll forego the editor’s choice and just highlight the two comments that barely cracked the threshold for a funny badge. In first place, it’s zerosignal with a comment about the rhetoric around ICE ramping up activity in Minneapolis:
I went downtown to a Timberwolves game recently, and was murdered TWICE! Once on my way to dinner before the game, and once after the game walking to Ramp B.
In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about the role of an ad agency that makes gambling ads in Australia’s social media ban, in response to a comment about “playing with loaded dice”:
You can still load those dice over a VPN.
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
Only problem with Political commentary
Is the idiocy and Lies.
And after a while there arnt any Laughs.
Who here will admit to watching Cspan for more then 30 min?
They dont do much in the day time, its After hours and OUTSIDE they do most of it.
Both of those posts attracted reply-guys eager to assure me that because my statements aren’t true in 100% of all cases therefore I’m wrong. Like they can’t tell the difference between conversational English and a mathematical proof or something.
Re: 100%
For Any of human kind or Nature, there has Never been a 100%, Which is Proof of how nature works. Adjustuing and changing All the time.
Its called Adaption. But in Politics? There is no truth.
Re:
It’s almost like legalistic cargo cult-ism.
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Some people have trouble detecting tone and subtext in verbal conversation. Text-based communication with strangers makes it much harder.
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If you’ve argued with a flat earther, creationist or germ denialist, you’d know it’s not a matter of being unable to read tone…
They want absolute, incontravertable proof.
Unless they get that, then it’s an “unproven theory” that might as well be treated as a fantasy or fraud.
s/chock/chalk
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Chalk full o’ nuts.