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• On the post: The $1M Question: Is Elon Musk’s ‘Petition’ Drive Actually Legal?

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2024 @ 03:31pm

  Again, this is refuted by the anecdote presented. They are given training in the relevant portion of campaign finance law.

• On the post: Supreme Court Reverses 8th Circuit’s Blessing Of BS Retaliatory Arrest For ‘Mouthing Off’ To Missouri Cop

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2024 @ 03:27pm

  No idea where you got that idea, but it’s completely false.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2024 @ 04:42pm

  Wow, surprise. You don’t know what “hate speech” is. 🙄

• On the post: ‘To Keep It Simple… It’s the First Amendment, Stupid’: Judge Slams Florida’s Attempt To Censor Abortion Initiative Ads

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2024 @ 02:05pm

  Given a number of them have stated that they are voting for Harris, is that sufficient for you?

• On the post: ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Director Appears To Be Very Confused About The Secondary Market & Who Created It

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2024 @ 12:49am

  Scalpers only affect collectors editions.

  That’s not entirely true. They also affect any product that is no longer being actively produced or which are extremely popular. Remember the Wii? When people couldn’t get hold of one because they kept selling out? While not the sole reason, a contributing factor was scalpers buying a bunch of them to sell them at high prices.

• On the post: ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Director Appears To Be Very Confused About The Secondary Market & Who Created It

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2024 @ 12:45am

  False equivalence. Scalpers form only a portion of the secondary market. Scalpers are those who purchase goods—usually in high quantities—for the sole purpose of reselling them at astronomical prices. Besides scalpers, the secondary market also includes the likes of GameStop that sell used products, those that rent out products, and people who used the product and have decided to sell it as they no longer need it. “Scalper” is not some sort of weasel word for “the secondary market”, and it is patently dishonest for you to claim that it is.

• On the post: Trump Campaign Actually Does With ExTwitter What It Falsely Accused The Biden Campaign Of Doing Four Years Ago

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2024 @ 03:29pm

  Just asserting a claim over and over again doesn’t make it any more true.

• On the post: Trump Campaign Actually Does With ExTwitter What It Falsely Accused The Biden Campaign Of Doing Four Years Ago

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2024 @ 03:28pm

  The subject line is accurate, as the contents are, in fact, partisan disinformation.

• On the post: Civil Rights Lawyer Sues Court That Blocked Him From Talking About Private Prison Company

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2024 @ 03:16pm

  I agree that the judge was completely wrong here, legally and morally, and I think the lawyer ought to be able to prevail here. My issue is that I don’t think this lawsuit can get over the absolute immunity that protects judges. I may not like the concept of absolute immunity, but it does exist, so I don’t think the lawyer here has any chance of winning.

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  bhull242 ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2024 @ 12:55am

  I’m not even angered or upset about this because of how…cartoonish it sounds. Like, it reads like someone whose trying to convince everyone they’re this cool jock who get all the ladies when they’re actually a geek themself and are actually kinda clumsy. Or the middle-aged man who goes to a school in disguise and is all “sup, fellow cool kids!” It’s like a bad parody of a bad parody. And if it sounds like that to me, it must be pretty bad because I suck at noticing tone and stuff like that.

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  bhull242 ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2024 @ 12:47am

  I’ve never heard anyone (gay or straight, male or female, cis or trans, etc.) ever declare that they can’t wait to get home to engage in any specific sort of sexual activity. At most, a guy might imply that they’re eager to get home to engage in some sort of sexual activity with whoever their SO is (male or female, man or woman), but not all that explicitly, and certainly not any specific kind of sexual activity. Moreover, trans people are a minority, and not all trans women are attracted to men (nor are all trans men attracted to women), so few people would even be in a position where they might say that at all and have it make any sense. Given all that, there is zero reason to expect that you would have ever heard someone say such a thing. That means nothing. Why would you expect that?

• On the post: Oklahoma Opens Bids For Bibles In Every School With Curiously Specific Requirements

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2024 @ 05:28pm

  For the record, I’m Hebrew culture, emotions were thought to come from the bowels rather than the heart. That should at least clarify the “my bowels moved for him” part. But yeah, that book is a real trip.

• On the post: Oklahoma Opens Bids For Bibles In Every School With Curiously Specific Requirements

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2024 @ 05:23pm

  The bible claims to be the literal word of god

  That’s not entirely accurate. The Bible claims the Torah is the word of God, perhaps, but the Bible doesn’t claim that it is the Word of God necessarily. Regardless, my only point was to clarify the point being made.

• On the post: Oklahoma Opens Bids For Bibles In Every School With Curiously Specific Requirements

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2024 @ 09:46am

  What bible is used to swear in the new President?

  Depends on the President. Several Presidents (Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump) swore on two Bibles. Biden swore on a large, leather-bound Bible that his family had been using since 1859. Some Presidents (Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt (in his 1901 inauguration), and Calvin Coolidge) didn’t swear on any Bible at all. (JQ Adams swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the Constitution.) Also, in the case of Kennedy and Biden, their Bibles were likely some Catholic version, while the others who swore on a Bible likely used a Protestant one.

  Or used to swear that you are telling the truth in court?

  Depends on the person. Many people don’t swear on the Bible. They might swear on some other religious text, the Constitution, the American flag, their ancestors, a family member, or any other number of things. Some don’t swear on anything at all, or take an affirmation instead of swearing. You don’t seem to understand that, in both of these cases, swearing on a Bible, specifically, is merely customary, not required, and only for Christians whose beliefs do not prohibit swearing oaths. And even those Christians often don’t follow that particular custom. Then, even with Christians who do will vary on which Bible they use.

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  bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2024 @ 09:27am

  No, they were saying it is possible to remain a theist even after having read the Bible thoroughly. The point isn’t that such a position is inconsistent with atheism but that it’s not inconsistent with being a Christian.

• On the post: Oklahoma Opens Bids For Bibles In Every School With Curiously Specific Requirements

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2024 @ 09:25am

  As a Christian, I’m inclined to agree. Including secular or national documents or documents originally written later than the 2nd century AD (unless it’s, like, a foreword or something describing/clarifying/annotating the Bible) in a copy of the Bible without an explicit and direct order from God Himself to do so is fairly sacrilegious. (That would be true even if they were written by Christians and mentioned God.) I might be inclined to allow for additional religious texts that date to the time the other books were written as not necessarily sacrilegious under certain circumstances, but definitely not anything else. Both the Declaration of Independence and the original (unamended) Constitution are secular, national documents written in the late 18th century, with the Constitution including amendments from as recent as the late 20th century, none of which change the secular and national nature of the Constitution. They derive not from inherently Christian or Judaic values but from Enlightenment and (in the case of the Declaration) possibly deistic values. The Constitution even explicitly prohibits establishment of any state religion. They have no business being in the Bible. They are perfectly fine documents that deserve respect, but they simply aren’t biblical texts and so shouldn’t be shoved in Bibles as though they are. But then so is profiteering off of selling special copies of the Bible, which Trump apparently has no problem doing and MAGAts have no problem with. And I suppose there are a number of MAGAts who think that Trump is literally the Second Coming of Christ, so I suppose it at least makes some sense from that perspective.

• On the post: UK Study Suggests Legal System Needs To Account For ‘Sexual Privacy’ In Copyright Cases

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2024 @ 08:04am

  This is actually a fair point. I’m normally all for openness in the courts, but we’ve seen how people have been pressured into settling rather than fighting claims of piracy because the material at issue was pornographic in nature. And since the pornographic nature of the material is entirely irrelevant to any accusations of or defenses against copyright infringement, this wouldn’t prejudice either side, nor would it deprive the public of anything material to the case that we would have a legitimate interest in.

• On the post: Elon Musk Is Now Seizing Other People’s Twitter Accounts To Promote Donald Trump

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2024 @ 05:25pm

  He didn’t. Why would he?

• On the post: Researchers Confirm: Content Moderation Appears To Target Dangerous Nonsense, Not Political Ideology

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2024 @ 05:17pm

  According to that rationale, Liz Cheney’s endorsement of Kamala Harris as presidential candidate is politically neutral.

  I would argue that it is.

  Can we drop the pretense that catering to truth and reality is somehow apolitical?

  Having disparate outcomes on a certain political party doesn’t mean it’s political. Something is political or not based on the intent behind it.

  I would argue that it concerns core values for the foundation of any political discourse.

  Plenty of political discourse is on stuff that reasonable people can disagree. Just because one of the two major political parties in one large country has chosen to make lies and falsehoods a major part of their discourse doesn’t make calling out lies and falsehoods political, nor does it mean that political discourse that isn’t based on a false foundation is completely impossible.

• On the post: Researchers Confirm: Content Moderation Appears To Target Dangerous Nonsense, Not Political Ideology

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2024 @ 05:10pm

  I just read an article by Nate Silver, where he discusses this exact subject, and he litterally calls the JD ‘couch fucker’ meme disinformation to push the narrative that fact checkers give Democrats a pass.

  Uhhhh… That meme is disinformation. I dunno if Nate Silvers is trying to push that narrative, but if he was, he chose a bad example since fact-checkers didn’t give it a pass; many of them looked at it, and all of the ones who did said it was untrue. If he wasn’t trying to push that narrative, though, and wasn’t claiming that fact-checkers gave it a pass, then he was completely right on this specific issue. Still, whatever Nate was trying to say on the subject, you are at least as wrong as him—if not more wrong—to suggest that he was incorrect to call it disinformation. It is false.

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