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• On the post: 4th Circuit To Cops: Arresting Someone For Following Your Instructions Means You Don’t Get Any Immunity

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 11 May, 2024 @ 03:44am

  In Arizona, you can be charged with a felony sex offense for mooning.

• On the post: Appeals Court: Just Because Speech Provokes Negative Reactions Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Protected

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 02 May, 2024 @ 11:19am

  Intolerance of intolerance is NOT intolerance

  Intolerance of intolerance is NOT intolerance, Hating folks for who they are is hateful, hating folks who hate folks for who they are is NOT hateful. Stochastic terrorism is real and should not be protected. [Self reference is a bitch, who shaves the barber, set of all sets that aren't members of themselves, and etc. it can break basic logic, ask Bertrand Russell, it shouldn't break how we deal with it]

• On the post: Catholic AI Priest Stripped Of Priesthood After Some Unfortunate Interactions

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 02 May, 2024 @ 10:57am

  AI--Awfully Imaginative

  Awful in both senses. Are they delusional or dishonest? Of course as others have pointed out, that's a question for ALL clergy. Do they'know' when they're just making shit up? Why not program in a function to indicate such is happening?

• On the post: Flynn Family’s SLAPP Suit Against CNN Slapped Down By Judge

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2024 @ 05:45am

  When bunch of folks' whole MO involves making shit up, maintaining coherence ain't gonna be a thing.

• On the post: Top Lawyer In Texas Doesn’t Understand Court Rulings, Celebrates Obvious SCOTUS Loss As A Win

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2024 @ 04:54am

  What this clearly demonstrates is the stupidity of those who keep voting for this POS. As a Texan, yes, it's mortifying--the ignorance and stupidity of an astounding percentage of my fellow Texans is manifest.

• On the post: Senate Now Considering Section 702 Re-Up With A Dangerous Amendment Attached To It

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 03:53am

  One of the reasons Trump got elected back in 2016 was not the lies he told but the times he told the truth, saying things no one in MSM would ever admit to. And years later, we have Trump Derangement Syndrome, where Dims are against anything that Trump/MAGATs,GOP are for no matter how good it might be to be for those things. Of course, it's almost universally true that if those PsOS are for something, it's gonna be for utterly absurd, ridiculous, asinine, or otherwise bogus reasons, but that doesn't mean it still isn't the right thing to do. Like here, we have the left in love with surveillance and FISA? FFS, what universe have I been transported to?

• On the post: Cops Claim Body Cam Footage Of Wrong Address Raid Would Be ‘Dangerous’ To Release To General Public

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 03:39am

  There's some real basic logic these mfers don't seem to understand. Supposedly release of the bodycam footage would “damage officers’ reputations”, IOW, expose shoddy law enforcement. And they claim the security camera footage was 'redundant'... SO, what they're openly admitting to is that the security camera footage is proof of really shoddy law enforcement.

• On the post: Judge Slams Ken Paxton’s Attack On Media Matters’ Free Speech Rights

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2024 @ 07:46am

  "Ken Paxton will have to learn" HaHa HaHaHaHa HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa...

• On the post: Elon Claims Twitter’s Traffic Is At An All-Time High Because He Can’t Be Bothered To Understand The Misleading Data People Show Him

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2024 @ 06:20am

  Sociopathy and Delusion

  I wonder what's more prevalent in billionaires, sociopathy or delusion? What's the prevalence of both? Hmmm... who can we put in that category?

• On the post: How Copyright May Destroy Our Access To The World’s Academic Knowledge

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2024 @ 06:35am

  There's a related issue that's been bugging me for over a decade now, something mostly only concerning to footnote-geeks though--references/citations that rely more and more on URLs that won't be around all that long. Yeah, who reads books anymore? Who looks at footnotes? which for a long time have morphed into cheaper but really irksome endnotes? Maybe I'm too fucking old but it's damn near tragic that this is happening.

• On the post: As The US Freaks Out About TikTok, It’s Revealed That The CIA Was Using Chinese Social Media To Try To Undermine The Gov’t There

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2024 @ 05:39am

  In a somewhat related issue, one of the most heinous examples of US spying occurred when it chose to use a polio vaccination program in its efforts to find Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. This was monumentally stupid and exhibited the kind of utter contempt these mfers have towards the health and wellbeing of the rest of the world and even most US citizens.

• On the post: Investigation: ‘Gold Standard’ Of Evidence Turned To Pyrite By Colorado Crime Lab Employee

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2024 @ 04:28am

  Massive conspiracy anyone?

  When one of these kinda situations come up, and it's distressing how often they have, it makes me wonder about how it would go if they applied conspiracy laws as loosely and with as much abandon as they do in drug cases. If this woman worked on capital cases, it would be attempted or actual murder and I don't believe NO ONE had any idea what she was doing, in 30 years?

• On the post: Prosecutor Dumps Case Against Migrant Charged With Murder Just Because One Of The Officers Assaulting Him Died After This Assault

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2024 @ 03:36am

  Yeah, that's true except that Orange Jesus now speaks more of a pidgin combo of slur and English, maybe call it Englurish or maybe Sluglish.

• On the post: Twitter’s Former Top Execs All Sue Elon Over Missing Severance

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2024 @ 06:14am

  Eminently Guillotineable Monster

  The incredible Corey Doctorow came up with that term and I instantly knew I would have to steal it for routine use and god is it deserved v v routinely for SO many mfers out there.

• On the post: In SCOTUS NetChoice Cases, Texas’s And Florida’s Worst Enemy Is (Checks Notes) Elon Musk.

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2024 @ 03:33am

  What an astoundingly ignorant thing to say, as if you have no idea about word usage. Pretty much proof you're spewings are worthless drivel.

• On the post: Elon Only Started Buying Up Twitter Shares After Twitter Refused To Ban Plane Tracking Account

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2024 @ 07:40am

  The kid with the tracking account deserves to be extremely proud of the results of his efforts, I hope he manages to get serious rewards, I mean beyond the massive schadenfreude of watching the train wreck he's helped turn Musk into.

• On the post: Elon Only Started Buying Up Twitter Shares After Twitter Refused To Ban Plane Tracking Account

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2024 @ 07:31am

  There's a fairly stark dichotomy that's almost never mentioned--the right generally hates folks for who they are while the left mostly hate folks for what they do to others. At least that's been the case until more recently when the right now combines their hate for folks with utterly delusional justifications, and this post exemplifies both quite well.

• On the post: Fractured Streaming Services Don’t Suck Enough To Keep The NFL’s Peacock Experiment From Being A Success

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2024 @ 07:09am

  I live in central Texas and didn't know or remember that Houston had a team after the Oilers until seeing some BS story recently about its quarterback, so, no, not much of a sports fan. Which is why I have to ask, are they even making the slightest attempt to make it worth watching on a streaming service like multiple/special POVs, your own replays, etc? I'm betting there's zero or virtually zero added value going with the streaming. Do you even know what resolution and frame rate you're getting?

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Is Also ‘Libel Tourist, Vexatious SLAPPer’ Elon Musk

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2023 @ 11:40am

  A rocket engine is controlled explosions? If you want to call it an explosion, it would be ONE explosion, not a series of them. BUT, explosion has a real definition and while definitions are by usage, that's not true when you're in a technical discussion which this one is and that should be clear. A constant flow of fuel and oxigenator that burns is NOT an explosion, far from it, in fact, if it started 'exploding' it would likely destroy the rocket. And what's wrong with using nukes to propel rockets in space, an environment already harsh due to radiation of various kinds? It boggles my mind that anyone objects to this. We really could very likely be mining asteroids if they had continued with the development. Is there a better way? Sure, all kinds of ways we ain't figured out yet. That's why it's sad they didn't figure out how to do the Orion Drive, they could have by now, you can't say that about other tech.

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Is Also ‘Libel Tourist, Vexatious SLAPPer’ Elon Musk

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2023 @ 04:55am

  Standard rocket engines aren't really controlled explosions, hell, even combustion engines aren't, if there's explosions [detonations], it's a problem. What IS real explosions for rocket propulsion is the old Orion Drive from late 50's early 60's which very unfortunately they discontinued. It proposed using repeated atomic bomb blasts, each bomb about the size of a coffee can. It almost certainly would have been successfully developed and we'd probably be mining asteroids now if they had kept at it. They managed a test flight with conventional 'bombs' that looked really promising. The guy running the project, Ed Taylor, once lit a cigarette with an atomic bomb.

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