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• On the post: Is Gavin Newsom Attacking Walgreens For Its Choices Different From DeSantis Attacking Disney?

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2023 @ 10:21am

  Re: One difference..

  That is a good point. As much as it is the company's right to sell or not sell what it wants, it is also the purchasers right to do so, or not, from any company for any reason. I don't think that being a government and announcing the policy publicly changes that. They are letting the public know how the public's money is being spent. With a little grandstanding for sure. My other quibble with the article is "medical decisions should not be political at all, and such decisions should be left up to the patient and doctor and no one else". The pharmacist may be a doctor but they are not the ones making this decision, it is the corporate managers. And they aren't anybody's doctor.

• On the post: Facial Recognition Pitches In To Help Cops Arrest A Maryland Man For A Crime He Didn’t Commit

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2023 @ 03:01pm

  Re: Hype and fear

  Exactly, and the media doesn't help. I can't watch 'FBI' (CBS on Tuesday night) because, well one reason why, they use facial recognition at least once an episode. And its never wrong! Even worse, on the 'International' version they had a program that would construct a face from a voice recording and then used facial reconstruction to match that face. Even the Europol cop they work with didn't believe it. When the easily bamboozeled public sees this they don't want to listen to stories like this one where the tech didn't perform miracles.

• On the post: Appeals Court Dumps Another Coal Company CEO’s Defamation Suit, Says Mislabeling Convicted CEO Not Actually Libelous

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2023 @ 02:49pm

  Misdemeanor?!?!

  I think the problem here is that killing 29 people can EVER be categorized as a misdemeanor.

• On the post: Supreme Court Passes On Important Parody Case, Allows Cops To Treat Satire As A Criminal Act In The Sixth Circuit

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 01:04pm

  Term Limits!

  Another case that brings the need for term limits at SCOTUS into focus.

• On the post: A Couple Of Fifth Circuit Appeals Court Judges Look Like They Believe Performing Journalism Is A Criminal Act

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2023 @ 12:26pm

  Re: Judge Edith Jones is a racist turd.

  That review of her conduct was 10 years ago. Guess they didn't slap her too hard.

• On the post: Trump Lawyers Sanctioned Again For Stupid Lawsuit Claiming Clinton Rigged The Election She Lost

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2023 @ 11:20am

  AND require that he pay past judgements, fees and fines before filing a new lawsuit. ANYWHERE.

• On the post: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Has Really Bad Ideas About Section 230

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2022 @ 12:17pm

  Abolish the Senate!

  Hyperbole to be sure but it is infuriating when a single individual representing a tiny portion of the country wants to push their insanity on the other 98% of the population. And we can't do anything about it because that small group he/she represents thinks he/she is just peachy! You can insert McConnell, Blackburn, McCarthy, Greene, Gaetz and many others into this same diatribe. I know somebody is going to say that I'm only talking about republicans here and I'm biased against conservatives. I'm know there are democrats that have a lot of wacked out opinions and can be lumped in with this list, I just can't think of those names right now. Besides the republicans just give us so much reason for wanting them to go away.

• On the post: Lazy-Ass House GOP Uses Foreign Stock Photos In Video About America

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2022 @ 10:29am

  Could this be trolling?

  I wonder if there could be an intern responsible for putting this together, and after seeing the inner workings of the hellpit, decided to 'mistakenly' use foreign pictures and hoping it would get noticed? Maybe even 'anonymously' give a heads up to some blog?

• On the post: The FCC Finally Starts Taking Space Junk Seriously

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2022 @ 03:59pm

  At least SOMEBODY is paying attention

  I'm glad that somebody is finally looking at this. I read that another company was planning a satellite for broadband that would be so large that it would be visible from the ground in daylight. Ridiculous! But does the FCC really have the authority? Serious question, I don't know who has that authority if anybody does.

• On the post: Cable Giant Charter Will Pay $1.1 Billion After Tech Murders Elderly Customer

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2022 @ 01:42pm

  F*** Spectrum/Charter

  Reason #1,254,758 that I won't live in area that is only served by these scumbags.

• On the post: California Legislators Seek To Burn Down The Internet — For The Children

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2022 @ 01:27pm

  The other side of the same shitty coin.

  Nothing that I can add to the previous comments. Just wanted to acknowledge that this is the kind of crap that the rest of the country shits on California for. The government wants to control everything/everybody. The republicans for profit, the democrats because they think they know better, both for control/power. Going to turn me into an Anarchist!

• On the post: Academic Paper Shows How Badly The Mainstream Media Misled You About Section 230

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2022 @ 07:38pm

  The way the chart is organized it looks like it is supposed to be calculated for each paper with a total calculation at the end. It looks sloppy, and again, I hope that doesn't open the paper up to undue criticism.

• On the post: Academic Paper Shows How Badly The Mainstream Media Misled You About Section 230

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2022 @ 11:09am

  Pedantic comment

  Wonderful article and I hope the paper gets a lot of attention. But I couldn't help but notice the percentages in the charts didn't add up. 107 out of 116 is 92.2%, not 52.5% in the first chart. They were correct for the total but not for each of the sources. Minor quibble with a great paper. I hope this error isn't used to discredit it.

• On the post: Hertz Still Refuses To Drop Prosecutions Despite Being Sued For Bogus Theft Reports

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 25 May, 2022 @ 03:38pm

  The new get rich quick scheme!

  If I had the time and wasn't concerned about being beaten up and thrown in jail, I might rent a car from Hertz and HOPE that I would be on this list. Probably my only real hope of a big payday.

• On the post: Fan’s Rare Recordings Of Lost Beatles’ Performances Can’t Be Heard, Because Copyright Ruins Everything

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 25 May, 2022 @ 03:31pm

  Naive?

  I'm probably naive about this, not the first time, but if the BBC doesn't have the recordings, AND they aren't the original creators; how do they have a say about copyright?

• On the post: Report Shows ICE’s Massive Surveillance Apparatus Is All Up In Americans’ Everything

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 20 May, 2022 @ 11:36am

  OVERSIGHT?

  At the top of the list is the request that Congress actually get back into the oversight business Oversight 'should' be if not the top responsibility, then very close to, of Congress. They pass all the laws they want to crow about the 'good' they're doing, but do nothing in regards to follow up on how those laws actually work IRL. Look at the unintended consequences of FOSTA, the embezzlement on PPP loans, and any number of other acts of theft, graft, abuse, etc. that occur. All of that is what has led to the huge level of distrust of the government that Trumpists have capitalized on. Even when they were/are some of the biggest purveyors of said theft, graft, abuse, etc. Or is all of that a feature, not a bug?

• On the post: Alt Right ‘Journalist’ Who’s Lost Every Lawsuit Over Banned Accounts Files Another Lawsuit Over Banned Accounts

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 10 May, 2022 @ 06:21pm

  Oh the Irony

  If they could see it that is. Defendant Facebook allows instructions on how to perform back-alley abortions on its platform. Never mind that any such instructions are protected by 1A, the irony, I'm sorry utter hypocrisy, of this ass-hat making that statement when the Alt Right stance against legal abortion is why there is a need for those instructions in the first place.

• On the post: Netflix Pivots From Innovator To Turf Protector As Executives Whine About Password Sharing

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2022 @ 10:04am

  The irony seems to be lost on them

  Seeing lots of simultaneous stories about loss of customers, price hikes, banning password sharing. As if it is all just a coincidence. SMFH.

• On the post: How The SMART Copyright Act Will Help Cops Avoid Accountability

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2022 @ 02:01pm

  Not a bug, but a feature.

• On the post: Ted Cruz, Mike Lee Join Dumb, Baseless GOP Quest To Pretend OAN Was Unfairly Censored

  

  danderbandit ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2022 @ 06:26am

  Is 1A still part of the Constitution?

  Ted Cruz Ranking Member Subcommittee on the Constitution This is clear evidence that this dipshit is a fraud and should be prosecuted as one as he either doesn't understand the Constitution or doesn't care.

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