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• On the post: Warner Bros Discovery Eyes Paramount Merger, Because Its Last Two Disastrous Mergers Apparently Weren’t Disastrous Enough

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2023 @ 04:39am

  I’ll assume that Bill Bagel is using sarcasm and failed to comply with Poe’s law. Or he could just have insane opinions. Either/Or.

• On the post: Warner Bros Discovery Eyes Paramount Merger, Because Its Last Two Disastrous Mergers Apparently Weren’t Disastrous Enough

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2023 @ 04:36am

  Comcast is a terrible company but that’s internet service, not content.

  Considering that they also own NBC and Universal, Comcast also owns content.

• On the post: Warner Bros Discovery Eyes Paramount Merger, Because Its Last Two Disastrous Mergers Apparently Weren’t Disastrous Enough

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2023 @ 05:59am

  Just a note:

  Just out of curiosity, if you're going to pirate my work, how dare you! I won't put up with this petty theft! You should obey the law! (In all seriousness, I license all my original songs and public domain covers (and Jonathan Coulton covers) with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, so feel free to share to your heart's content!)

• On the post: Justice O’Connor’s Important Contribution To Copyright Law: Copyright Must Serve The Public First

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2023 @ 04:27am

  Outside of the US, you mean. In the US, there's something called "First Sale".

• On the post: Self-Proclaimed 9/11 Hero Rudy Giuliani Now Owes Election Workers He Defamed $148 Million

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2023 @ 03:31am

  I am sick and tired of how “poor mental health” is constantly used as a “get out of consequences” free card when it’s used by the rich and powerful to explain away shitty behavior, while simultaneously used as a justification for “this person needs to be fucking nailed to the wall and socially humiliated” when used by the average citizen.

  THANK YOU!!! I'm on the the Autistic Disorder Spectrum and am sick and tired of "mental health" being an excuse for shitty behavior from neurotypical people who are mentally stable but morally unstable.

• On the post: Wait, Grimes Also Has An AI Toy Called Grok?

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2023 @ 03:23am

  That'll never be not-funny to me!

• On the post: Ex-Marine Sues Gov’t Over Its Demand He Take Down His ‘Fuck The Government’ Sign

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2023 @ 03:15am

  Veteran: "FUCK THE GOVERNMENT!!!" Government: \proves Veteran's point\

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 374: Content Moderation Games

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2023 @ 02:40am

  Oops, you were the interviewer, not the interviewee. So much for me not listening to things.

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 374: Content Moderation Games

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2023 @ 01:46am

  I'm happy to see you get interviewed! See you when Mickey Mouse is public domain! 😁

• On the post: GOP Wants To Prevent The FCC From Protecting Broadband Consumer Privacy

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2023 @ 10:00am

  While I do agree with you about Israel and Palestine, I flagged your comment because it was extremely irrelevant to the discussion. Stay on target…

• On the post: In A Couple Of Weeks Mickey Will Be Free*; And Our Public Domain Game Jam Will Be Open

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2023 @ 09:20am

  I, for one, would actually like to see Mickey transition into Minnie (Minnie's earliest form is from 1928 as well). That's the kind of thing I'd love to see!

• On the post: Media Matters Sues Texas AG Ken Paxton To Stop His Bogus, Censorial ‘Investigation’

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2023 @ 01:18pm

  see men taking away trophies from women in women’s sports

  Riley Gaines tied for fifth place with Lia Thomas, a trans women. Thomas did not win first place in any swimming competition, and Gaines later found a career as a transphobic bigot pretending first place was snatched away from her by a trans woman.

• On the post: The Day Ted Cruz Stopped A Bad Internet Bill

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2023 @ 01:09pm

  So weird…

  It feels weird to see those quotes and listening to reason come out of Senator Ted Cruz's mouth (albeit only for a little while before unreason prevailed). Too bad this Ted Cruz couldn't exist more often…

• On the post: 1 Week After ‘The Day Before’ Launches, Fntastic Closes Its Doors For Business

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2023 @ 02:32am

  Depends on the studio. Some have a good track record. I preorder Nintendo games and I don't think I've ever been burnt on their games. Baldur's Gate 3 has been put through early access and Larian had a track record through the Divinity: Original Sin, so it was pretty much a safe bet that they would do justice to the Dungeons & Dragons license.

• On the post: 1 Week After ‘The Day Before’ Launches, Fntastic Closes Its Doors For Business

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2023 @ 06:16pm

  Russian devs and publishers are gonna have even more of a struggle in the future because of this.

  Which is sad because arguably the greatest game of all time was developed in Soviet Russia (Tetris).

• On the post: Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2023 @ 04:16pm

  Every single thing they’ve done outside of search, has been canceled, or just failed. If it hasn’t, then we haven’t waited long enough.

  Gmail?

• On the post: 1 Week After ‘The Day Before’ Launches, Fntastic Closes Its Doors For Business

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2023 @ 04:11pm

  Didn't fyre fest get (at least) two documentaries? I can imagine how many documentaries The Day Before will get, if not a "based on a true story" movie like GameStop Stonks…

• On the post: For Some Reason, LA Drug Cops Received Intelligence, Training On ‘Muslim Extremists’ From The Israeli Military

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2023 @ 04:07pm

  Well, I'm not an atheist, but I still see problems with theocracies: Whose religion? Whose interpretation of that religion? This is why a separation of church and state is the best choice. Because religion is–and should be–a private matter. In theocracies, where the church is the state, only one interpretation of the religion is paramount, and uses the state's authority to enforce it, and you better be lucky the state's religion is your religion, because if that interpretation is not yours, then fuck you! THAT'S why a separation of church and state is the best route to go, and why christian fascists down here are wrong to dismantle it!

• On the post: For Some Reason, LA Drug Cops Received Intelligence, Training On ‘Muslim Extremists’ From The Israeli Military

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2023 @ 04:01pm

  As a country, the US focuses so much on the (barely existent) threat of Islamic terrorism that it ignores the real terror, which is overwhelmingly committed by Christian extremists.

  2021/01/06 comes to mind.

• On the post: For Some Reason, LA Drug Cops Received Intelligence, Training On ‘Muslim Extremists’ From The Israeli Military

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2023 @ 03:57pm

  Not to mention that there are diaspora Jews outside of Israel, like me and Mike Masnick. Conflating the Israel population with Diaspora Jews, IMHO, is far more anti-Semitic than criticizing the Israeli government, who (in, once again, my own opinion) deserves mountains upon mountains of criticism, not to mention accountability.

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