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  • On the post: Disney, ESPN Sue Sling TV For The Crime Of Streaming TV Pricing Innovation

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2025 @ 10:43pm

    How dare you compete with us, do you think this is a free market?!

  • On the post: Kristi Noem Lies, Says National Guard Deployments To ‘Blue’ Cities Aren’t Politically Motivated

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2025 @ 10:41pm

    No idea why any media would put known liars on the air who will turn around accuse them of editing their comments nefariously... But then I'm not trying to suck off trump

  • On the post: OK Anti-Woke Teachers Test From Prager U Is Impossible To Fail

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2025 @ 10:39pm

    If this is the idea of a test from Prager U, I fear them getting their "educational" content into schools. Just keep clicking till you get the "right" answer.

  • On the post: OpenAI’s Answer To ChatGPT-Related Suicide Lawsuit: Spy On Users, Report To Cops

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2025 @ 10:37pm

    Occasionally I make sense despite my best efforts. Humans aren't good at multitasking problems. AI had a part of this but everyone wants to focus on that rather than the much bigger problem of mental health is still treated like taboo that must never be mentioned least the evil demons will take hold of you. Parents just care how things look, which is why their kids who are struggling who can put on a happy face when they need to get past them asking if everything is okay. My kid said they were okay, I never saw this coming, I need to blame something. We don't dare mention suicide in the news or media because millions of kids will suddenly decide they have to kill themselves. No one ever asks when was the last time you pushed your kid to have the difficult conversations? That being a parent means you might have to do more than ask how they are & accept okay, then move on. They are worried about cell phones, the internet, cyber this cyber that, but they hand them these very dangerous things with no guidelines, instruction, or skills. They expect somehow that the dangerous scary internet will magically adapt to protect their kid. They might be insane. I don't think we need spying and cops rolled everytime a child asks something from a magical list of bad things, but perhaps we need to look at how this AI responded to things & figure out why it decided to be a willing instructor. The don't leave your noose out to try to cause your parents to talk to you is insane. The fact there was no adult who interacted with him that he felt he could trust enough to talk to makes one question do we really care about kids as much as we claim, because we pay teachers like shit, we make classes huge, & only care about the grade on the page not about the student themselves.

  • On the post: OpenAI’s Answer To ChatGPT-Related Suicide Lawsuit: Spy On Users, Report To Cops

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2025 @ 03:14pm

    Maybe with a different administration. The current one has a track record of cutting any regulations that upset corporations by making them not pollute, or use chemicals that kill children.

  • On the post: Federal Officers Arrest Two People Fighting A Wildfire In Washington Because Why Not

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2025 @ 03:12pm

    They have the national guard picking up trash & spreading mulch... why not fighting fires?

  • On the post: OpenAI’s Answer To ChatGPT-Related Suicide Lawsuit: Spy On Users, Report To Cops

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2025 @ 11:50am

    I think OpenAI sucks for it offering support on how to end ones life & that shouldn't be possible. Another part of me looks at the parents & wonders how is it your child tried to kill himself several times & you missed every single one of the attempts? Again we expect tech to have more responsibility for someones child than the parents are willing to take. A lot of this is the black & white thinking that is so popular these days, when the real story is shades of grey & messy. Mental health is ignored. People having struggles are demonized & mistreated, finding help is nigh impossible. Insurance companies have been sued because they have ghost directories of providers who don't exist, don't take the insurance, or no longer practice. The "warning signs" have been replaced with SSRI's will make your kid a school shooter or transgender!! The optics of how people look at your family are more important than making sure your kids are actually happy with their lives & not just going through the motions to keep their parents happy & stop the fighting over the fact they don't like this sport their parents always wanted to win at. We have boys killing themselves because they were catfished into sending a nude to a scammer who then demands payments or they will reveal the photo to their family. They are so terrified that once they can no longer pay they kill themselves rather than tell anyone they got scammed & the picture will get released. You say your kids can tell you anything, but how many of you have told your kid that people online can and will lie to them? That a picture is forever. That no matter what it is you can tell your parents with no judgement & they will help you no matter what. OpenAI offering assistance is a huge problem, but not the only problem. Its just easier to put the blame all on one thing rather than accept what we are doing as a society is killing kids b/c we refuse to have the tough conversations or accept that 'not my kid' is a stupid cop out from parents who aren't living in reality. Yes your kid can smile & act the right way, but you should still check on them & make sure they aren't hiding things from you out of fear of disappointing you or not being accepted. But hey we've got SCOTUS willing to decide if a law blocking children from being tortured to change who they are for to get the parents approval is legal or not. Lots of things failed here at various levels, but the first thing that needs to change is to stop thinking that there is 1 solution that could have stopped all of this & that is holding OpenAI completely responsible. Society failed him. He felt a LLM was the only one who could understand him, & everyone acts like AI is so much more than it actually is that he bought into the illusion that it could care about him, that it could help him, rather than just output what it thought he wanted to hear.

  • On the post: Federal Prosecutors: Thrown Sandwiches Are A Felony But Openly Carrying Rifles Isn’t A Problem

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2025 @ 07:27am

    National Guard member issued the weapon they KNOW has a history of discharging without the trigger being pulled. One is going to panic, pull his weapon, its going to discharge & the rest will be all of the other agents opening fire like they heard an acorn hit the top of a car. Friendly fire will give them the corpses to put on tv about how it is totally unsafe because of the DEMs and unleash a wave of MAGA asshats signing up to be trump shock troops in their home town who will hand out "justice" as they see fit as they empty multiple clips into a Amazon delivery driver bringing them their latest waifu pillow who was secretly an illegal who had a bomb strapped to him.

  • On the post: RFK Jr. Vowed To Find The Environmental Causes Of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying To Do Just That.

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2025 @ 07:22am

    Its rather sad that even if he remembers to have the presser in September, no one will take him seriously. Everything out of his mouth has been shown to be a lie or crazed misunderstanding of concepts like water is wet. At this point I fully expect to hear that windmills cause autism.

  • On the post: Senator Wyden Slams U.S. Judiciary For Incompetent, Nontransparent Cybersecurity Practices

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2025 @ 07:20am

    But then they can't get a new 90 inch lcd tv for their offices...

  • On the post: Leaking By Leaving: Guest Finds Trump-Putin Summit Docs In Alaskan Hotel Room

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2025 @ 12:21pm

    I was enjoying the WH talking head going on and on about how it was just a menu & nothing else, and it was shitty reporting like this is why they defunded NPR. Its that thing where its sad the media refuses to ask a tough question or push back on lies, but wouldn't publish (leak) the personal numbers of the advance staff they were in possession of now. I mean nothing says opsec fail like calling the advance staff for comment about the entire packet for this turd & dictator show being left on a printer at a hotel.

  • On the post: Another Look At The STOP CSAM Act

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2025 @ 12:13pm

    waves hi So what underlies all of this is the long running belief, that politicians can't seem to shake, that tech can just tech harder to solve all of societies problems. We just told them to tech harder & we declared mission accomplished! Now we can focus on important things like passing laws that use your skin color to decide how much of a vote you have in trumps 'merica. CSAM is horrific but what is more horrific is the willful ignorance about it. They believe some people are to good to look at it, my long running thread of busted conservative pedos / pulpit pedos blows that out of the water. A politician recently managed to get a law changed so that a family member of his wouldn't be charged with molesting a child. No thought about how horrible that change will end up being as now 13 yr olds can be 'asking for it'. In that state are graphic images of 13 yr olds now legal to possess? AI can't manage to not tell an addict to not do a little meth as a treat for trying to stay sober, but somehow it is capable of identifying new CSAM AI or not now? The people who have to look at these things are not paid enough & definitely not given enough mental health care to deal with it, but politicians don't care about that. They care about getting a 6 second soundbite for Faux or Newsmax where they can claim they solved the problem... again. Because the public have really horrible memories & they've declared they solved this so many time with so many similar we passed a law its up to someone else to make it happen that have failed. Eventually it would be nice if we all lived in 1 reality, where we don't have AI's on the verge of going HAL 9000 who can instantly know everything about an image in a nanosecond and decide if its CSAM that is real or generated & flag it. Y'all live in a nation where people can't handle seeing the tit of a statue or a marble penis without 17 trigger warnings... and somehow we can leap to perfect AI CSAM backed by humans who will have to look at the absolute dregs of human suffering & cruelty for a paycheck that ignores the dangers. This battle has been going on for a VERY long time (trust the immortal on this one), there isn't a solution beyond removing humans from the planet, then there would never be CSAM made ever again. This law just makes everything shittier, will make sure there are penalties for not being able to do the impossible, and still kids are going to be molested, filmed, pimped out while politicians are patting themselves on the back.

  • On the post: Oh My God, TAKE IT DOWN Kills Parody

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2025 @ 02:11pm

    But as with all laws they can only function to protect conservatives but everything is fair game for those evil baby raping democrats!!! It is really unfair of us to expect media personalities to take the hit for us. Every minute he spends fuming & screaming at how he is portrayed is a minute PeeWee German can't keep prompting him to unleash more horrors for the new white reich to rule the world forever under their highly polished boots.

  • On the post: Don’t Worry About That Pesky Law Congress Passed, And SCOTUS Upheld, Banning TikTok; Trump And Bondi Have Spoken

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2025 @ 02:06pm

    That in which trump is trying to perfect stealing someone else's company & selling it off to the bidder who pays him the most.

  • On the post: Tulsi Gabbard Uses The Twitter Files Playbook To Mislead Gullible MAGA Fools

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2025 @ 09:59am

    Sadly no one has learned that Charlie Brown & the football was based on reality.

  • On the post: Trump Threatens, Then Sues Murdoch Over Epstein Story Using Tactics His Supporters Used To Call A ‘Massive Attack on Free Speech’

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2025 @ 12:33pm

    He extorted all of those 'Big Law' firms and instead goes with the guy who shared his ketchup bottle with trump at mar-a-lago when trumps ran dry.

  • On the post: DOJ Drops Charges Against Plastic Surgeon, Friend of RFK JR., For COVID Vaccine Fraud

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2025 @ 12:31pm

    Oh look my shocked face. He only set people up to get sick, while they thought they were protected. Destroyed needed vaccines we paid for. So being conservative perks are touching kids, defrauding the government, & causing the spread of illness... because someone on FB told you the aliens made it.

  • On the post: RFK Jr. Promotes Meal Delivery Company That Serves Ultra-Processed Food

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2025 @ 05:20am

    What is the over under on him thinking because it's called Mom's Meals he thinks a mom is making each meal and its not just mass produced crap? I mean he is dumber than a box of rocks.

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

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2025 @ 07:06pm

    That in which sometimes I can babble really well still.

  • On the post: Grok Becomes ‘MechaHitler,’ Twitter Becomes X: How Centralized Tech Is Prone To Fascist Manipulation

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2025 @ 05:26pm

    That was one the other was 'well substantiated' If it could find 10,000 articles blaming all of the misery in the world on the Jews, did that meet the requirement? Also it looks like it can just search all of the web for stuff, I wonder if it would have happened if they had embargoed white supremacist sites, but elmos freeze peach absolution would never allow them to block low quality crap that he believes himself.

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