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• On the post: Hormel Fairly Chill About ‘Spam’ Trademark, Still Missing Business Opportunities

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2023 @ 10:34am

  There are less self demeaning ways of getting attention on the Internet.

• On the post: Hormel Fairly Chill About ‘Spam’ Trademark, Still Missing Business Opportunities

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2023 @ 11:25am

  Those parasitic scum, as you call them, are usually called _customers you fuck face.

• On the post: Settlement Handed To 11-Year-Old Autistic Student Who Was Locked in A Cop Car For Hours, Hit With $25,000 Bail

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2023 @ 10:23am

  This I gotta hear: what would he have learned in a psych course that would negate his statement? And you're going to have to support this one with citations to be believed at all.

• On the post: Settlement Handed To 11-Year-Old Autistic Student Who Was Locked in A Cop Car For Hours, Hit With $25,000 Bail

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2023 @ 10:22am

  Nobody was getting 'terrorized' by the child with the behavioral disability. Another child fucked around and found out. I'm sure they will thing twice about bullying someone with a disability next time.

• On the post: Settlement Handed To 11-Year-Old Autistic Student Who Was Locked in A Cop Car For Hours, Hit With $25,000 Bail

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2023 @ 10:19am

  This is an interesting take. Speaking for someone who hates your criminal guts. The entitlement is straight up impressive.

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Latest Round Of Bigoted Tweets Likely Cost ExTwitter $75 Million Over The Rest Of 2023

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2023 @ 02:53am

  Self loathing? No man, I love myself! Lots, actually. Daily even.

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Latest Round Of Bigoted Tweets Likely Cost ExTwitter $75 Million Over The Rest Of 2023

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2023 @ 07:06pm

  It made me cringe to think about the music and...uh...artistic choices people made on their pages. But, goes to show that even years later a brand can have value. Also makes you wonder if anyone will even want to use the Twitter brand for anything once the credits get done parting out the X corporate carcass like a Honda Civic at a chop shop.

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Latest Round Of Bigoted Tweets Likely Cost ExTwitter $75 Million Over The Rest Of 2023

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2023 @ 07:02pm

  Jesus fucking Christ you ignorant twit...that's not going to work as a fucking insult against my wonderbread white ass.

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Latest Round Of Bigoted Tweets Likely Cost ExTwitter $75 Million Over The Rest Of 2023

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2023 @ 03:35pm

  When an airplane crashes, it doesn't go from 30k feet to the ground instantly, there's a period of descent. Companies are the same way. And it usually takes multiple years to even decades to kill a company that is 'worth' 44 Billion.

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Latest Round Of Bigoted Tweets Likely Cost ExTwitter $75 Million Over The Rest Of 2023

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2023 @ 03:03pm

  It's the racism that maks it bigoted, fuck face.

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Latest Round Of Bigoted Tweets Likely Cost ExTwitter $75 Million Over The Rest Of 2023

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2023 @ 02:42pm

  Taking last year's numbers and applying the 60% drop that outside sources have estimated and Musk own words seem to confirm, a generous high revenue estimate for X was about 2.7 $B a year. But if we extrapolate a 75 $M drop for the final six weeks out to a cool 600 $M a year drop off. Then, subtract out the mind boggling 1.5 $B a year in interest payments, and he's got about 600 $M a year to run the entire company. Figuring a fully loaded composite labor cost across the entire organization at $150,000 a year (a low guess considering they still employ 500 engineers allegedly), that comes to about 200 $M a year. leaving 400 $M for all infrastructure costs. Payouts. Etc. That can't possibly work....

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Latest Round Of Bigoted Tweets Likely Cost ExTwitter $75 Million Over The Rest Of 2023

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2023 @ 02:17pm

  "It's too hard to not support Nazis" isn't nearly as compelling and argument as you think it is. The OP isn't saying don't collect quotes from Twitter, but instead to stop promulgating it across the Internet through imbeds and actively posting To torture the usual analogy: We're well past hanging out in a bar that happened to become the Nazi Bar. The Nazis bought the bar, invited all their friends including the ones with pointy white hoods, and every time you pay the cover charge they are handing some of your money to the Nazis and Klan money.

• On the post: Elon’s Censorial Lawsuit Against Media Matters Inspiring Many More People To Find ExTwitter Ads On Awful Content

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2023 @ 08:11am

  You're using a lot of words to say "We shouldn't worry about Nazis getting support from advertisers, everyone else should change." Which is even more absurd than what I read in your original post. You also make a lot of assumptions that are incorrect.

• On the post: Elon’s Censorial Lawsuit Against Media Matters Inspiring Many More People To Find ExTwitter Ads On Awful Content

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2023 @ 07:35pm

  I'm curious why you would think the people who are spending money shouldn't have control over the use of their content when negotiating a contract? What other rights are you thinking to strip of parties in a contract? Liquidated Damages? You're also incredibly wrong with your main premise. The concept of Brand Safety predates the internet by like.....a 150 years or so. It was just easier to do in print because every decision was made by a person, and all the content was either written or edited (usually both) by a person who could evaluate it.

• On the post: WV Supreme Court: Omnipresent Concern Like ‘Officer Safety’ Can’t Be Used To Excuse Constitutional Violations

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2023 @ 05:20pm

  If he was on blood thinners and had a brain bleed, he was dead right there. You're now moving the goal posts even further. Also, I just straight up don't believe you. Police DO get to consult before they do things like: lie on a warrant, perform a no knock warrant on the wrong building, pull over a car for a "broken tail light". In 20 years of work, he got into exactly one situation where he thought he needed to pull his duty weapon, and he still took the time to realize the guy went for a wallet not a gun. You're vastly overstating the "split second decisions", and understating the numerous opportunities to avoid having to make these decisions. Also, you also are ignoring ER docs, or surgeries that go wrong. Plenty of docs have to make split second decisions.

• On the post: WV Supreme Court: Omnipresent Concern Like ‘Officer Safety’ Can’t Be Used To Excuse Constitutional Violations

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2023 @ 05:00pm

  Bruh, you're moving the goalposts by comparing the safety of policing in the US to world wide medical safety? Do you realize how fucking dumb you look? What the fuck are you on about with medical malpractice discussion. You're again walking back the goal posts. It is, by definition, negligence. And, just because someone made a decision in a split second doesn't absolve them of negligence. And yeah, my dad had some incredibly shitty, racist, and straight up ignorant world views while he was a cop. Funny enough, he was also a staunch Republican. Now, he hates the Republican party as much, possibly even more, than me. And I sincerely hope that that your family isn't as racist, shitty, and ignorant as you. But, considering I spend quite a bit of time around cops, I have pretty low expectations.

• On the post: WV Supreme Court: Omnipresent Concern Like ‘Officer Safety’ Can’t Be Used To Excuse Constitutional Violations

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2023 @ 09:38am

  That 'analysis' has been thoroughly debunked. It extrapolates from a few, small, studies and draws conclusions that aren't supported by the structure of the studies. Much better studies show the rate is probably 1 in 100 or so(and that's inclusive of disability and death): https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l4185 Also, Dr's DO go to jail for negligence, you dumbass. EVERYONE has a staffing problem right now. Even Subways. Finally: my dad was a cop. He spent the last 1/2 of his career hating it...and not because of the people outside the department but because a huge percentage of hist co-workers were raging assholes.

• On the post: The Man Decides He Doesn’t Like Being Hassled, Issues Tickets To Reporter For ‘Hampering’ City Employees With His Questions

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2023 @ 09:27am

  Have you never bought an airplane ticket or rented a hotel room? Whatever 'reasoning' you want to concoct, it's clearly contrary to the world around you.

• On the post: The Man Decides He Doesn’t Like Being Hassled, Issues Tickets To Reporter For ‘Hampering’ City Employees With His Questions

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2023 @ 05:13pm

  When talking ranges of dates, between is inclusive of the bounding dates. Generally to this is true for any range: if turkeys between 8 and 12 pounds a free with a 100 dollar purchase, bot the 8 and 12 lb turkeys are included. Not just the 9 through 11 lb.

• On the post: WV Supreme Court: Omnipresent Concern Like ‘Officer Safety’ Can’t Be Used To Excuse Constitutional Violations

  

  Mamba ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2023 @ 01:10pm

  You're dumb, but come ON, you can't be this dumb. What percentage of the adult population, has surgical procedures, takes prescription drugs with possible interactions or side effects, or gets sick with something serious in a year. It's approaching excess of 100% as many people have multiple contacts in a year. How many adults have interactions with the police where violence is involved? Less than 2%. That's two orders of magnitude less. Also, many of the people police come into contact with have a MORE dangerous job. "Police officers have a workplace fatality rate similar to maintenance workers, construction workers, and heavy vehicle mechanics." Police can vag up, and realize that They. Aren't. Special.

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