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• On the post: Trump Threatens CNN For Very Basic Reporting On His Shitty, Unpopular War

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2026 @ 02:33pm

  an exact copy of Victor Orban’s autocratic media policy in Hungary

  Guess where J.D. Vance is this week.

• On the post: Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations To Focus On Deportations

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2026 @ 09:52pm

  Oh, this comment is going to age like fine wine come November.

• On the post: Congress Wants To Put The Law Behind A Paywall. Again.

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2026 @ 05:21am

  In some ways that actually made the joke funnier.

• On the post: Trump Fires Attorney General Pam Bondi For Not Making His Vindictive Fantasies A Reality

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2026 @ 04:51pm

  Leopard, meet face.

• On the post: Trump Celebrates Easter By Dropping An F-Bomb, Threatening More War Crimes

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2026 @ 12:26pm

  Dear Trump, WHY are you in these wars?

  Epstein distraction. That's all it was, nothing more, nothing less. Donald J Trump, the most peaceful president in US history, started a war military operation that sends US soldiers to die so that the news will talk about something other than his dead pedophile pal. That's it.

• On the post: Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration To Hold ICE Shooters Accountable

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2026 @ 05:06am

  It was never about immigration. It was about Minnesota voting heavily Democrat in the last election.

• On the post: The Trump Administration Is Trying To Steal $21 BIllion Earmarked For Better Broadband

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2026 @ 06:05am

  States should just call his bluff and decline the BEAD funding. This same "do what we demand or we'll take away your funding" trope is used all over the place to coerce states into doing things they otherwise would not want to do, a kind of reverse blackmail. Just choose not to participate in it. Sure, it costs more, but freedom has a price.

• On the post: Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2026 @ 01:32pm

  The problem with trying to ban VPNs is that no one uses VPNs in Enforcementland. Strangely, all traffic to prohibited websites comes from Useavpnia.

• On the post: Hey, Game Devs: The ‘Placeholder Assets’ Excuse For Using AI Is Running Really Thin

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2026 @ 04:48am

  AAA game dev is getting too large for humans to perform. The teams required are too large to be managed effectively. The pace of output is too quick to be sustained. All this corner cutting isn't because the industry is lazy or cheap. It's because price pressure and output demands make it impossible to do anything else. That doesn't make it acceptable, but it means there is hard cap (quality/size/fidelity/etc) on what the general public can reasonably expect a AAA game to look like that no amount of advances in technology will ever overcome. Eventually, the burden of adding one more developer to the team will not provide more value than it adds management complexity and QA requirements.

• On the post: CBS News Under Bari Weiss Sees Worst Ratings In Quarter Century

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2026 @ 06:14am

  Fundamentally, does it matter if CBS news utterly flops? Consider, if CBS made $0, flat nothing, if the Ellison family just wrote a big check for the whole thing every year in perpetuity, would it be worth it for the information control alone? I think it's been made pretty clear that taking over CBS News wasn't a business decision. They don't have a grand plan for making tons of money using it. What they are doing, clearly, is a hostile takeover of any opposition.

• On the post: An Open Letter To Members Of The United States Congress

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2026 @ 06:24pm

  Certainly, some will try that, but it's going to be a hard sell convincing voters in October/November that you actually hate Trump when just six months previously you were doing a backflip to prove how Trumpy you could possibly be. I realize that six months is an ice age in politics but the seismic level of flip flop required for that maneuver is just too much.

• On the post: An Open Letter To Members Of The United States Congress

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2026 @ 03:21pm

  Every Republican in congress knows that they only still have their seat because they are more adept at brown nosing Trump than the guy they replaced or the guys who tried to replace them over the last 2-6 election cycles (depending on which chamber you are in), and they know that if they step out of line the first thing that will happen is someone even more eager to swallow will be tapped to replace them. They aren't going to magically grow a pair before election day 2026, because if you are in a deep red state then Donald Trump decides who occupies your office next year, not you. You want to pucker up and kiss that ass and hope you survive the coming storm. If you're in a purple state, you're fucking toast no matter what you do. You can choose to lose the primary or choose to lose the general but you can't win both.

• On the post: An Open Training Set For AI Goes Global

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2026 @ 06:26pm

  This is like insisting you're only going to learn how to read by browsing AOOO because you can't trust the copyright of books you read at the library.

• On the post: DHS Takes Out Its Funding Frustrations On Millions Of Americans By Sending ICE Agents To Do TSA Work

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2026 @ 08:51pm

  Oh right. It's the fault of the party that controls neither chamber in congress, the executive branch, or the judiciary. It must be their fault. The republican party, which controls every aspect of government completely has no way of preventing this.

• On the post: DHS Takes Out Its Funding Frustrations On Millions Of Americans By Sending ICE Agents To Do TSA Work

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2026 @ 12:35pm

  “Guarding an exit?” What the hell does that even mean? TSA agents don’t “guard exits.” No one “guards exits.”

  I'm not sure if this is hyperbole to make a point or you haven't been to an American airport in the last 25 years but there absolutely are TSA agents (usually reading a book or asleep) stationed at control point exits. I would say look for them next time they are there but I guess you might not find them now. Look for the Call of Duty cosplayer reading a book or asleep instead, I guess. I, for one, am cautiously optimistic about ICE deployments to airports. The TSA has never been a useful addition to airports. It is a Bear Patrol employment program for America's dullest and least competent people. For a quarter of a century Americans have enthusiastically assumed the position so that people who couldn't make it as a mall cop get to throw away their tooth paste tubes, ogle/molest their genitals, make unqualified executive decisions about what counts as breast milk, and of course riffle through people's luggage for petty cash. What I hope happens is that America as a whole finally realizes we don't need ICE in airports because we never needed the TSA.

• On the post: Afroman Wins: Jury Rules Mocking Cops Who Raided Your Home Is Protected Speech

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2026 @ 09:53am

  I can say what I want, no matter how untrue it is

  That's a bold claim to make after a day in court where you have the truth of it dumped on you and your client.

• On the post: The Worst Sheriff You Know Just Made A Great Point (About Trump’s Anti-Migrant Actions)

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2026 @ 04:58am

  Sometimes people can be nuanced and something other than pure evil or pure good. Shocking, I know.

• On the post: Afroman’s Defamation Trial Is Going About As Well For The Deputies As Their Original Raid Did

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2026 @ 04:54am

  You can't defame someone with the truth.

• On the post: Brendan Carr Pretends To Be Tough, Demands Broadcasters Support Disastrous War

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2026 @ 03:52pm

  They could, in theory, sell give the right to unfavored broadcast ranges to some favored crony. Imagine for a moment that Trump "determines" that the only acceptable broadcaster for NBC's spectrum is OAN and gives them a legal right to broadcast on that spectrum jam those broadcasts nationwide.

• On the post: Brendan Carr Pretends To Be Tough, Demands Broadcasters Support Disastrous War

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2026 @ 06:08am

  Since when has precedent stopped the Trump administration from filing a baseless lawsuit, insisting on governing as if the lawsuit was successful while cooperative courts drag their heels until it finally gets legally disassembled and then "but we've gone too far to go back now."

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