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• On the post: State Of Iowa Sued By Pretty Much Everyone After Codifying Hatred With A LGBTQ-Targeting Book Ban

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2023 @ 05:22pm

  "I have to wonder how much of the sudden sexual-repression-into-law fervor coming from the Christian community leadership" Do you think this is new? FFS, it's SOP for decades at least. I'll admit the shrill factor has been upticking for some time and that's because they realize how badly they're losing the fight, but it's been there all along.

• On the post: State Of Iowa Sued By Pretty Much Everyone After Codifying Hatred With A LGBTQ-Targeting Book Ban

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2023 @ 01:51pm

  Great demonstration of what 'vile, putrid fuck' means.

• On the post: State Of Iowa Sued By Pretty Much Everyone After Codifying Hatred With A LGBTQ-Targeting Book Ban

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2023 @ 03:58am

  Just a reminder, the creeps who favor this kind of legislation are generally the same ones who think the sight of a female breast will harm a child. That kinda says it all.

• On the post: Elon Says Copyright/AI Lawsuits Don’t Matter Because ‘Digital God’ Will Arrive Before They’re Decided

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2023 @ 09:47am

  So Elon Musk is a mechtheist. Love it.

• On the post: Elon, After Personally Driving Away Advertisers, Tells Them To Go Fuck Themselves (Repeatedly), And Says ‘Earth’ Will ‘Judge’ Them For Killing ExTwitter

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2023 @ 04:33am

  This has a strong Howard Hughs foreboding feel to it, Elon will end like Hughs, he'll turn into a recluse [probably constantly cursing advertisers and all others who called him out for being, uh, Elonesque] and at death, well, it wasn't pretty, as wiki describes Hughs' state at death "His hair, beard, fingernails, and toenails were long—his tall 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) frame now weighed barely 90 pounds (41 kg), and the FBI had to use fingerprints to conclusively identify the body"

• On the post: Groq Sends Elon’s ‘Grok’ A Cease & Desist, Though A Funny One

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2023 @ 04:07am

  Shouldn't one of these oracle-type of AI's [given Hitchhiker's Guide as inspiration] be called '42'?

• On the post: Sports Illustrated The Latest To Bare Its Entire Ass Thanks To Laziness, Greed, And Half-Cooked ‘AI’

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2023 @ 04:35am

  AI can be a little tricky to get into, especially without any actual intelligence to practice with.

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

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2023 @ 03:47am

  Language doesn't work like that, inconsistencies abound as you'd expect since usage determines what's 'correct', which really ain't a thing anyways.

• On the post: Well, It Looks Like Pretty Much Every Government Agency Was Complicit In The Raid Of A Small Town Newspaper

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2023 @ 08:42am

  It’s garbage all the way down and all the way up. And it’s how things are in most of America

  What more needs saying? How much more cynical can one get? How depressing that apparently no amount of cynicism is enough. It's all so sordid and pettily so.

• On the post: The US Healthcare Scam Illustrated In The Impossibility Of Getting A Bill For Five Stitches

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2023 @ 03:50am

  I've had a couple of harrowing incidents involving medical care recently. One involved 27 days in the ICU but possibly the worst was turning 65 in mid-March and what that led to in the prior months, at least 6 fucking months! The volume of junk mail trying to get me to sign up for various Medicare plans was almost frightening, I was deluged daily. I got robo called incessantly, including numerous examples where I declined the call sending to voice-mail but within less than a second another would come in with a different area code, from a different state FFS, this repeated 3 or 4 times. How'd they do that? Spoofing area codes is no big deal but recognizing the sending to voice mail and calling again so rapidly? It 's pretty much proof they're chasing inordinate profits, absurd shenanigans-level profits. The ICU thing, it was billed at just under half a million but the insurance paid only a fraction of that and I was on the hook for under $1300.

• On the post: Judge Extends Injunction Against Montana’s Anti-Drag Show Law

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2023 @ 06:15am

  Again, another article that proves Hitchens was right

  It's kinda disturbing how poorly these aholes' brains perform after being poisoned by religion. Most of them simply can't fathom that their religion doesn't get to dictate what is or isn't real or moral.

• On the post: FCC Starts Taking ‘Space Junk’ More Seriously, Fines Dish For Parking Satellite In A Dumb Spot

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2023 @ 04:55am

  This was what caught my eye also. Why even bother having such utterly ineffectual fines, they simply become a [minor] cost of doing business. It's pretty much the norm when it comes to fines as sanctions by government agencies and it really needs to stop. At the very least, fine amounts need to be multiples of the benefits gained by the prohibited activity/behavior, or multiples of the costs involved if, as here, the reason for the fine is to limit the risk of costly accidents, which would be probably 10's of millions for geostationary satellites.

• On the post: Elon Fires Half Of ExTwitter’s Election Integrity Team, Because A Manager Liked A Tweet Calling Him A Fucking Dipshit

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2023 @ 09:51am

  Is it really that much of an issue that the emperor has no clothes when he's as dickless and ballless as a Ken doll?

• On the post: ‘Porn’ Is A Human Right

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2023 @ 09:01am

  Proving Hitchens right

  You could justify calling a pretty substantial number of TechDirt posts the 'proving Hitchens right' entry for the day.

• On the post: Yet Another Court Says Yes You Can Publish The Law

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 02:54pm

  Its origins go all the way back in the late 1800's when it was created by fire insurance companies. I would be interested to know its funding sources, maybe it's entirely free of the insurance company influence, I don't know but I'm too cynical to not see $$ as dominating in some way.

• On the post: Yet Another Court Says Yes You Can Publish The Law

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 02:36pm

  There's a lot of kinda scary but hilarious videos on youtube about absurdly bad electrical work. While most of it is pretty easy and like you say just following directions, some things can get a little complex especially stuff like grounding properly which often confuses pros. FYI question--will dropping a hair dryer or any other live electrical piece of equipment in a full sink/bathtub trip the GFCI? Not necessarily, not if you have PVC drain pipes and the sink/tub is otherwise electrically isolated from ground.

• On the post: Yet Another Court Says Yes You Can Publish The Law

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 07:49am

  Well, I stand corrected, some places are so anal they do require a permit for something like an outlet replacement. NO ONE WILL DO THIS. Same for doing basic plumbing-NO ONE is going to get a permit for this crap, it's just ridiculous to expect anyone to.

• On the post: Yet Another Court Says Yes You Can Publish The Law

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 07:25am

  I think that's BS and actually silly, see my other reply. You're actually saying that just DIY replacing an outlet is breaking the law! That's just seems like nonsense.

• On the post: Yet Another Court Says Yes You Can Publish The Law

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 07:23am

  That's not true in Texas and I'd bet in most states if not all. If what you're saying were true, you'd be breaking the law if you replaced a breaker or outlet and that sure seems absurd to me, I've never heard of such BS before. Even adding a whole circuit doesn't require a permit, that really would be extreme.

• On the post: Yet Another Court Says Yes You Can Publish The Law

  

  mechtheist ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 04:32am

  The NEC is basically a document serving the insurance industry, isn't that correct? As far as I know, a citizen isn't bound by it, you can't be thrown in jail for violating it. I've had my electric power supply company folks not care if my wiring was a bit south of absolutely to code BUT, you can have an insurance claim denied if you do something hinky and burn your house down. It's true that what's good for the insurance industry is by and large what's good for actual human beings living and working in and around the electrical installations covered by the code though I'd bet someon with a lot more knowledge than me could give numerous examples in the code that are not in the best interest of homeowners or workers but are in the interest of insurnce companies covering such installations.

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