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  • On the post: Omnipresent Fentanyl Copaganda Is Turning Normal Citizens Into Fainting Goats

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2022 @ 12:43am

    So its like excited delirium, except they aren't actually on drugs. Funny how they can see some white grains and near die, but never do.

  • On the post: One Way To Lose Judicial Immunity: Perform Impromptu Warrantless Searches Of People’s Houses

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2022 @ 10:51am

    She is the law!! I mean pulling this exact shit 11 times and no one ever found anything wrong with it? And of course the 'punishment' isn't even anywhere near what it should be for someone betraying their position, oath of office, and just plain fucking decency. I do hope the guy gets his Picasso's back... Well how do you know he didn't have Picasso's?? They didn't write down what they stole & were illegally in his home taking things... they don't sound trust worthy.

  • On the post: Bakery Sues Other Bakery In Trademark Suit Over Unprotectable Elements

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2022 @ 09:14am

    Oh lord, are we going to be milking the puns over this??

  • On the post: Netflix’s Password Sharing Crackdown Has It Sounding More And More Like Comcast

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2022 @ 09:12am

    Because demanding to control where your customer can use the thing they are paying you to provide ALWAYS works out so well. If I am paying you for 3 streams, why does it matter where I use them? Unless of course you arr just trying to kill off more of your customer base by being irritating pretending that somehow me using the 3 streams I pay for is costing you something. Its not, you just want to create "more customers"... If they are sharing someones password & using one of those streams had you considered they might be doing so because they can't afford your service? Or perhaps a student away at school should have no problem using one of the the family accounts streams, but oh no you now think this is a huge sin. Stop changing the 'rules' of the game & get realistic. If they are paying you for x streams and only using x streams whats the real problem other than your imaginary profit margin.

  • On the post: Bakery Sues Other Bakery In Trademark Suit Over Unprotectable Elements

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2022 @ 03:32am

    Screw you guys we own whimsical!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • On the post: Supposed Terrorist Gets 20 Years In Prison For Uploading A Bomb-Making Video An FBI Agent Made For Him

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2022 @ 10:17am

    My favorite was the guy who had to borrow $20 to buy the gift card to send to ISIS & they nailed him for material support... Last time I looked, no one from Hobby Lobby ended up in prison and they gave the terrorists millions.

  • On the post: Student Expelled Over Off-Campus Nazi Joke Can Continue To Sue The School, Says Appeals Court

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2022 @ 07:46pm

    The was a TAC Truism about this... Decisions made in the midst of someone screaming "Do something NOW!!!!!!!!!" never end well for the decision maker.

  • On the post: More Issues With Copyright Enforcement At Scale: YouTube Reinstates Videos After False Claims

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2022 @ 04:54pm

    Because no company, when caught doing shit has EVER played the we got hacked card.

  • On the post: Ubisoft Teaches Customers They Don’t Own All That DLC They ‘Bought’

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2022 @ 10:04am

    Because then they would have pissed off the people who paid them to unlock the content, so it makes much more sense to take it away. (I know it hurts the brain, but this is how they think. I mean they sold a game & didn't warn the buyers that they were turning off the servers for it in a month... thats REAL smart.) Given how various companies have been taking away with 1 hand just before rolling out something "newer better" (thats absolute crap) I would not be shocked to see them roll out some newer remastered version that requires a full purchase of the new old product & to purchase the "remastered" dlc sometime in the near future.

  • On the post: Arizona Makes It Illegal To Record Cops From Less Than Eight Feet Away

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2022 @ 09:57am

    Why do they need this protection? I mean it doesn't seem to matter a majority of the time when there is video clearly showing the cops murdering someone, no one ends up charged & if they do magically they get off. Its not like the videos are stopping them from violating peoples rights, its not like it leads to any changes... so the only reason to do this is to lock up the FOP giving you a good soundbite at election time about how you are making sure the cops can "protect" citizens, without any video records, right into their graves.

  • On the post: OAN Starts Attacking Verizon, The Last Cable Giant Willing To Platform Its Conspiratorial Gibberish

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2022 @ 05:49am

    What was that phrase again... Oh yes.... You need us more than we need you. While they might feel they are fighting the good fight & winning, pissing off what seems to be one of the last cable systems keeping their conspiracy afloat. How horrible when they manage to speed up their departure from the last few outlets & can no longer rally the troops to do their bidding & buy their merch. This also proves that if you just ignore the complaints coming from the far right claiming conspiracy & just keep on keeping on making your business decisions the world doesn't end. Its really hard to put this into practice, because people at their base want to win & think that they will magically craft the argument that will make a person completely change and become sane again. Y'all ain't learned shit from zombie movies, you can't argue them back to being human, you can't talk them out of murdering you, and showing any sort of mercy because you remember the human they once were means you're gonna die. You can not convince someone who has made up their mind they are wrong. (period full stop let that soak in) Anything you say will be called lies & just encourage them to keep shouting at you. Ignore the crazy, keep quiet, and hope the horde of zombies just moves the hell on.

  • On the post: Paperwork Suggests Donald Trump Has Left The Board Of His ‘Tech’ Company; But Truth Social Says He’s Still There

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2022 @ 12:59am

    Imagine a world where the media just decided to stop giving a former president and his antics any airtime? No one really cares about Truth Social, well maybe the SEC. Its going to implode, but given the track record no charges for anyone involved. Stop giving him the ability to screech that the media is stupid and out to get him. The faithful who gave him money for this stupidity will lose their money, no amount of reporting or evidence will change their minds. Starve the fire that is Trumps ego. No one really cares what he 'truths' after a Jan 6 hearing, its not under oath so its going to be yet another series of lies. Imagine all the coverage wasted in the last year bothering to ask for trumps side or trumps opinion that we could have used to report more important things... like a reporter found an odd shaped leaf in the parking lot.

  • On the post: Ubisoft Teaches Customers They Don’t Own All That DLC They ‘Bought’

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2022 @ 12:51am

    "The consumer can only be jerked around so much before a clapback occurs" Oh come on now, I know you've heard of Nintendo... Ubisoft has decided to tell them to hold their saki.

  • On the post: Court Denies Immunity To Child Protection Workers Who Allowed An NYPD Officer To Abuse His Son To Death

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2022 @ 12:47am

    Its only a felony if they are unborn.

    "threaten to destroy what little faith anyone has in humanity" Just makes me wish I could trigger the ELE humanity deserves. Their job is to protect children, they didn't do that, but thats not a crime. Well that seems like a really fucking large hole in the concept that should be plugged. Handing out immunity to officials. Perhaps that is what made them think they could get away with allowing the children to die, not investigate, and investigate the mother in retaliation. To ask for immunity when it is clear you helped kill a child though inaction and actively protecting the abuser and there was a chance you could have gotten it... Pity no one will do anything to make sure they have a duty to actually protect children, investigate claims, & not just give a pass to another government employee would be twisted by the unions and fop as an attack on the poor poor police officers... Reminds me of something I saw about Sandy Hook... "In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over." source: https://twitter.com/dpjhodges/status/611943312401002496?lang=en

  • On the post: North Carolina Republicans Push Bill Forcing Towns To Destroy Electric Car Chargers

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2022 @ 06:00am

    Marburg.

  • On the post: Senators Klobuchar And Warren Are Mad That Meta Is Taking Down Abortion Posts; If They Were Serious, They’d Protect Section 230

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2022 @ 03:33am

    "The bill would make social media sites like Facebook and Instagram potentially liable for any “health misinformation” found on their platforms" Just as soon as you 2 assholes can get health misinformation and flat out lies about how the human body works coming from Congress we might think about it. Until then, GFY.

  • On the post: Vallejo PD Takes So Long To Investigate Officers, They Often Kill Again Before Their First Investigations Are Closed

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2022 @ 09:24pm

    Not the only place... I hit something talking about this sort of thing on Imgur, lost track of that post but found more information. It took 2 years to investigate, a cop shooting a man who's hands were handcuffed behind his back... only to not charge the cop. Even the cop saying “You’re about to die, my friend” didn't change things. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/07/22/west-valley-city-sergeant/

  • On the post: BMW’s Push To Make Heated Seats A $18 Per Month Subscription Portends A Dumb And Costly Future

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2022 @ 07:04pm

    Tesla disabled functions on a used Tesla that the previous owner had paid to have enabled & demanded a new payment to return the car to the state it was in when the 2nd purchaser bought it. https://www.techdirt.com/2020/02/11/end-ownership-tesla-software-updates-giveth-tesla-software-updates-taketh-away/

  • On the post: TikTok Sued Again By Parents Whose Children Killed Themselves Participating In A ‘Blackout Challenge’

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2022 @ 06:56pm

    "Sometimes the only way to discover what should have been done is to examine the evidence after the tragedy has already occurred." Sometimes the only way to is actually pay attention to the world. Child dies in backseat in summer. Pretty sure it shouldn't have taken more than 1 to make the point but now we're mandating systems to alert parents their kids are in the backseat. Child dies after seeing "fill in the blank" online. Yet parents are still relying on the digital babysitter, & are upset the corporations didn't care about their kid. Child gunned down in school. ... Perhaps humans are just that stupid.

  • On the post: Scaling Content Moderation Is Impossible: YouTube Flags Horror Video As ‘For Kids’

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2022 @ 06:46pm

    They put their faith fully in their system, and will still refuse to accept they screwed up.

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