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• On the post: National Park Service Invites Americans To Disappear ‘Disparaging’ History From Public Places

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2025 @ 04:13am

  These are the works of Christian Nationalists, or 'White Christian Nationalists', except that's a qualifier that does virtually zero work. At the core of these mfers efforts is a basic denial of facts combined with profound racism. And a large percentage of the country is ready and willing to participate.

• On the post: RFK Jr.’s MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Seem To Exist, Misinterprets Others

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 30 May, 2025 @ 05:24am

  This is like playing air guitar and it being out of tune.

• On the post: DC Circuit Upholds TikTok Ban In Alarming Ruling, Claiming It Actually Enhances Free Speech

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2024 @ 03:53am

  At least they're still bothering to torture the law, facts, and basic rational thinking. How long before they won't feel the need to make even that minimal effort?

• On the post: Dear Senators Klobuchar & Lujan: Now Do You See Why Letting HHS Censor “Misinformation” Is A Terrible Idea?

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2024 @ 05:01am

  What's the use of talking about facts and reason when the country just elected a bunch of aholes who are almost completely impervious to facts and reason, and were obviously so? Why does the law matter when you have far more Kacsmaryks and Cannons? What about when SCOTUS itself doesn't care about facts and the law? The boding is getting terrifying.

• On the post: VPN Company Cyberghost Says We Infringed Its Copyright In An Advertisement We Ran For Them A Decade Ago

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2024 @ 04:33am

  4K TVs

• On the post: Florida Judge Blocks Paper From Publishing Video Showing Deputies Killing An Inmate

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2024 @ 05:49am

  If they used conspiracy laws against law enforcement the way they do drug dealers, a big percentage of judges, DAs/US Attorneys and cops would be in prison.

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Ridiculous SLAPP Suit Gets Green Light from Partisan Judge

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2024 @ 04:01am

  What good are standards or codes of ethics if they're not enforced? Why aren't there standards that involve multiple examples of ignoring really basic law and facts? Of course, we have a SCOTUS that would fail these routinely, and corrupt pols who are impervious to facts, and about a third of the country in a cult. Bad boding all around.

• On the post: Judge Doughty’s Conspiracy Theory: How RFK Jr. Got Standing To Sue Over Imaginary Censorship

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2024 @ 03:43am

  Are you actually trying to claim that a mallet isn't a hammer? Correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe that mallets, and gavels, are used to hammer on things. To me, and dictionaries [usage] and etymology and uh .... that kinda makes it a hammer.

• On the post: Judge Doughty’s Conspiracy Theory: How RFK Jr. Got Standing To Sue Over Imaginary Censorship

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2024 @ 03:36am

  Does the 1st A. even apply to worms?

  Does the 1st A. even apply to worms?

• On the post: Oklahoma Gov’t Revokes License Of Teacher Who Dared To Push Back Against State’s Censors

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2024 @ 07:12am

  "For all the whining about “indoctrination” of students with “liberal agendas,” state officials clearly aren’t opposed to indoctrinating kids. They just want to be the ones doing the indoctrinating" This sounds kinda familiar. One of the most prominent and enduring national myths is the one about the Puritans coming here to escape religious persecution. This is wrong, they had no problem with religious persecution, they just didn't want to be the ones getting persecuting. They immediately engaged in their 'puritanical' persecution so bad it gave us that word.

• On the post: Texas School Thinks It Can Solve Student Mental Health Issues By Banning Black Clothing

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2024 @ 03:53am

  Bela Lugosi's dead

• On the post: Appeals Court Rejects DMCA Constitutional Challenge, Because Apparently Fair Use Means Nothing Good Will Ever Be Published

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2024 @ 05:41am

  jesus, the whole article is about how and why it's wrong, just like articles disussing good rulings. Issn't that a little more 'interesting' than glib empty comments?

• On the post: Court: Your 1st Amendment Rights End Where A Cop’s Horse’s Ears Begin

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2024 @ 07:22am

  The oranges of this date back to my tykish years watching that show with the family sitting around a B&W TV. [Just to make this Trump-related]. Even more so by saying--orange ya glad I didn't try to tie it in to My Mother the Car? [god I'm old, and again I'm REALLY sorry....]

• On the post: Court: Your 1st Amendment Rights End Where A Cop’s Horse’s Ears Begin

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2024 @ 04:24am

  A little back-story should be discussed here. The officer is a fierce opponent of free speech and named his horse Moose as short for 'Ed Moose', the singular form of Ed Meese, the guy in Reagan's orbit even when he was gov of California and Meese was instrumental in the crackdown on protests at Berkley in 1969 where a student, not even a protester, was killed [reminds of Kent State and 4 dead in Ohio...]. So this was a case involving talking to the horse Mr. Ed [Moose]. [Sorry about all of this]

• On the post: EU’s ‘Going Dark’ Expert Group Publishes 42-Point Surveillance Plan For Access To All Devices And Data At All Times

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2024 @ 04:08am

  Phone manufacturers could end this BS by refusing to comply. Yes I know this is pie-in-the-sky crap but it's still true, imagine if you simply couldn't buy a phone in the EU, the ahole pols would end the insanity pretty quickly.

• On the post: Second Circuit: Yeah, You Can’t Arrest Someone For Asserting Their Fourth Amendment Rights

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2024 @ 03:39am

  So can we start arresting cops when they assert qualified immunity?

• On the post: Louisiana Becomes The Third State To Pass A Law Creating A No-Go Zone Around Cops

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2024 @ 06:28am

  Wow, this is monumentally obtuse. I wonder if the cops never seem to forget to turn the camera on when they're the ones getting abused? I wonder how often the cameras don't work then? Or the footage gets lost? And of course they make it just as easy to get a hold of the footage that makes them look bad as when a citizens is behaving badly, right? What a putz.

• On the post: iFixit Cancels Partnership With Samsung Over Shitty Repair Practices

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 31 May, 2024 @ 04:02am

  In these discussions you don't usually hear about cameras but I have a Sony RX10 MkIV that cost $1700 new that had these two tiny plastic parts break, they're concentric ring cams/switches that go around the shutter button, one is the on/off switch the other for zoom. They couldn't cost more than pennies to make but the cheapest I could find to get the camera fixed was about $500, $600 if I went with the Sony approved route. You had to replace the whole top assembly.

• On the post: Why Jonathan Haidt’s ‘Protect The Kids’ Proposals Could Make Things Worse For Kids

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 24 May, 2024 @ 05:31am

  He didn't argue that conservatives were better people or that liberals only had two dimensions, they had all five, it was more about how they ranked the priorities of the 5. And, it was much more nuanced than that and it involved those with conservative and liberal mindsets, not really close to todays political split. He seemed to have a fair amount of data showing a very widespread cross-cultural divide though. BUT, I never could understand his conclusions considering the hallmarks of a conservative mindset related to it being authoritarian, Manichean with a real distrust/inability to handle ambiguity and uncertainty, distrust of the new and different/group think, all of which to me is the perfect recipe for delusional thinking. Kinda like what you would expect of religiosity, in other words, why conservatives are by far the most religious.

• On the post: Warner Bros. Discovery Gives In And Transfers Games Back To Developers’ Steam Accounts

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 24 May, 2024 @ 04:58am

  Wow, can't say I ever expected to see “A Canticle for Leibovitz” ref, great book I read near 50 years ago.

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