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• On the post: You Can’t Wish Away The 1st Amendment To Mandate Age Verification

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 08:01am

  Teens

  Those functions exist. Using them on an adolescent seems like a surefire way to make them hate you.

  They're teens. Every parenting decision makes them hate you, that's what being a teenager is about: rebellion against authority. That's not an excuse to throw up your hands and say you'll stop parenting.

• On the post: You Can’t Wish Away The 1st Amendment To Mandate Age Verification

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 07:59am

  As expected

  women (who should instead be honoured and treasured as mothers and homemakers)

  Aaaaaand there's the blatant misogyny. You only care about women if they're obedient little housewives baking bread and popping out children.

• On the post: Florida’s Governor Continues To Abuse His Executive Power To Eject His Political Opponents

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2023 @ 04:58am

  And the Confederates made it very clear they were in rebellion. In this case, though it pains me to say, it's not as clear-cut that this was legally binding insurrection. Thus the need for actual jury trial before we can bar him.

• On the post: Emmett Till All Over Again: Six White Mississippi Cops Plead Guilty To Beating, Torturing Two Black Men

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2023 @ 04:56am

  Those useful functions can be replaced by a state police post, answerable to people outside the county. The problem with sheriff's offices is that they're custom-made for corruption at the local level, so removing that influence would go a long way.

• On the post: Elon Musk, Once Again, Tries To Throttle Links To Sites He Dislikes

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2023 @ 07:00am

  No such thing

  There are no actual free speech warriors. Every one of them has things they will ban or try to silence. Even the ones saying "as long as it's legal it's okay" will push for laws against the things they hate, and are quiet about the laws that target people they don't like. It's never about unrestricted speech, it's about speech they like being unrestricted & turning a blind eye when speech they dislike is being restricted. They just like to pretend they're righteous defenders of freedom, but it never works out that way.

• On the post: Florida’s Governor Continues To Abuse His Executive Power To Eject His Political Opponents

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2023 @ 06:45am

  What conviction?

  Trump has not been convicted of anything that would bar him under that clause, yet. So yes, he can currently run for office until such a conviction is secured.

• On the post: Emmett Till All Over Again: Six White Mississippi Cops Plead Guilty To Beating, Torturing Two Black Men

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2023 @ 06:25am

  Aboloish Sheriff's offices

  County Sheriff's offices need to be abolished. They're all full of this shit, across the country. They know who they can abuse without repercussion, and who is above the law (or will cover for their own violations). The duties of county law enforcement should be handled by a branch of the state police, who at least (ostensibly) are subject to more training & scrutiny than these gangs.

• On the post: The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2023 @ 01:22pm

  "Helping" is carrying a lot of weight here

  Nothing about this tool "helped" anyone be a more successful author.

• On the post: After Bodycam Footage Undoes Its Narrative, NYPD Agrees To Pay $13 Million To Anti-Police Violence Protesters

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2023 @ 05:46am

  Who watches the watchers?

  The problem is that law enforcement is the problem. We can't enforce the existing Consitution properly, because the people responsible for enforcing it are their own form of organized crime. How are you supposed to fix that without a complete systemic overhaul of the entire system? Yes, it'll be chaotic and dangerous. But the existing system is also chaotic and dangerous. No, we'll never fully get rid of corruption. But right now, our law enforcement systems are rotten to the core.

• On the post: Witcher Producer: Show’s Shit Viewership Is Because Of Dumb Americans And Social Media

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2023 @ 04:44am

  Starting from the conclusion

  It really sounds like Baginski believes young Americans cannot follow long, complicated plots, so he just tried to write for what he assumed they would want to see... and royally screwed up, because he doesn't actually understand his actual target audience. He's just mired in the idea that young Americans cannot pay attention to long content or understand complicated plots, which absolves him from blame when he fails to actually understand what his audience wants from the show.

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

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2023 @ 04:32am

  Ratings

  Star Trek got cancelled because its ratings dropped. It always struggled to get enough viewers and couldn't keep up by season 3. The idea it was "pulled off the air" because of its political stance just doesn't pass muster.

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

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2023 @ 04:05am

  Not exactly

  The trick is, you cannot see NSFW on Reddit without going into your account and enabling it. So anyone seeing porn they don't want basically self-inflicted that wound.

• On the post: 5th Circuit Puts A Hold On Louisiana Court’s Injunction Barring Gov’t From Talking To Companies, After District Court Refuses To

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2023 @ 04:02am

  ... wtf

  Nothing in that post was coherent.

• On the post: 5th Circuit Puts A Hold On Louisiana Court’s Injunction Barring Gov’t From Talking To Companies, After District Court Refuses To

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2023 @ 04:00am

  Nutshell

  That's literally the problem in a nutshell: according to conservatives, any statement by a government employee towards these companies is somehow censorship in their capacity as a government employee. They want to frame it so that things like Joe Biden's staff asking Twitter to take down Hunter's dick pics is "overreach" by the government... even though they were not reaching out as government employees, but as representatives of Biden as a private citizen. The conservative assumption is that, because Biden is President, any request by him (or his staff) to a social media company carries the weight of his office. And it's precisely that bias that carried the judge's ruling.

• On the post: It Turns Out Elon Is Speedrunning The Enshittification Learning Curve, Not The Content Moderation One

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2023 @ 12:28pm

  Still broke

  Site's still broken, too. Try to report someone for breaking any rule, click through until you get to the "Add Other Tweets" button. No matter who you're reporting, the system claims it can't find any other tweets by that person! So their own system still can't see the other tweets.

• On the post: Apparently Elon Doesn’t Think He Needs To Pay Rent Because SF Is A ‘Shithole’; So Why Should We Pay For Twitter?

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 23 May, 2023 @ 06:15am

  Relevance?

  Because it has no bearing on whether or not Elon should pay his bills. That's an obligation, not a "Oh, i don't like this place so I should get to work/live here for free."

• On the post: Apparently Elon Doesn’t Think He Needs To Pay Rent Because SF Is A ‘Shithole’; So Why Should We Pay For Twitter?

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 23 May, 2023 @ 06:14am

  Useful for artists

  Nah, Twitter was actually really good for following artists and indie musicians, or other interesting people. It's a great way to get notified of new works, announcements for streams, or just general fun stuff they post. But the algorithm was always hostile to those kinds of posts, because they don't provide the instant gratification that a celebrity fight or racist rant does. Further, posts mentioning Patreon got downranked, making it harder for artists to support themselves. Musk just made it far, far worse by down-ranking anyone who didn't buy Twitter Blue.

• On the post: Taco Bell Seeks To Liberate ‘Taco Tuesday’ For Itself, The Masses

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 17 May, 2023 @ 10:17am

  Time for a montage!

  If this makes it to discovery, all the Taco Bell folks need to do is play a montage of all the times cartoons and sitcoms use the term "taco Tuesday" to demonstrate it's ubiquitous, and has nothing to do with Taco John's.

• On the post: Twitter ‘Shadowbans’ Bellingcat After Musk Attacks Them, Then Tries To Retcon A Nonsense Explanation

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 17 May, 2023 @ 10:05am

  If she's smart...

  She hopefully manages to insert a clause into her contract that includes a huge payoff if she's fired within the first year, because I can guarantee Musk is looking to do just that. He wants her on board to distract from his own mistakes, then he can pin the blame on her and give her the boot. If she's smart at all, she's factored that into the hiring terms, so she can exit a lot richer than she came in.

• On the post: The Writers’ Strike Makes Sense; Their Demands About AI, However, Do Not

  

  bluegrassgeek ( profile ), 12 May, 2023 @ 07:13am

  No. Just no.

  That is laughably ignorant. Writing a prompt is not "the creative part of writing." Whether it's for an AI or just scribbled on the back of a napkin, that prompt is nothing without the actual work & earned talent that goes into producing a script or prose.

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