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• On the post: Trump Admin Tells Expecting Mothers To Avoid Tylenol Due To Unproven Link To Autism

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2025 @ 06:12pm

  It doesn't even have to be that. With a mere correlation (and an extremely loose one like this) you can end up really deep in the weeds trying to figure out whether it's a cohort problem. IANAD, but it might even turn out to be that women with those genetic factors linked to autism are also just predisposed to get miscellaneous unrelated pains and thus end up treating them with acetaminophen. IF that turned out to be the case, this is just pointless cruelty for no reason.

• On the post: Gavin Newsom Signs Law Enforcement Face Mask Ban And Everyone Gets Stupid About It, Including Federal Prosecutors

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2025 @ 05:03pm

  They also didn't ban criminals from committing murder with this law either. I guess that means murder is legal now. That which is not prohibited (by the most recent law passed) is allowed!

• On the post: Disney’s Lawyers Successfully Defended Jimmy Kimmel (About Fair Use, Not His Free Speech Mocking Trump)

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2025 @ 06:09pm

  I want to get off of Mr. Trump's Wild Ride.

• On the post: MAGA’s Big Miscalculation

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2025 @ 01:38pm

  If I could bring back one person from the dead it would be Charlie Kirk, just so I could force him to watch that dumpster fire. I'm not sure if he'd openly repudiate it, he sold his soul a long time ago after all, but deep inside I think he'd find it stomach churning. I think his inner private person would be horrified at what he helped wreak.

• On the post: AI Slop Startup To Flood The Internet With Thousands Of AI Slop Podcasts, Calls Critics Of AI Slop ‘Luddites’

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2025 @ 06:54am

  No, I'm pretty sure smashing machinery because it takes away jobs from manual laborers is anti-technology and anti-industrialization.

• On the post: Newly Granted Nintendo Patents An ‘Embarrassing Failure’ By The USPTO, Says Patent Attorney

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2025 @ 09:20am

  Can't wait to find out 1970s D&D was infringing on Nintendo's 2025 patents by allowing wizards to summon monsters to fight for them.

• On the post: The Judiciary Is Breaking Down: Federal Judges Now Openly Revolt Against SCOTUS Shadow Docket During Live Court Hearing

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2025 @ 04:09pm

  I don't think it's done for. The one saving grace we have going for us is that these people are all monumentally stupid incompetent morons who burn bridges like they breathe air. They got where they did by convincing a lot of people that they were competent truth tellers. They aren't smart enough to keep that lie going and aren't competent enough to hold onto the country they stole. Eventually, when the dumbasses who voted for him realize they've been taken for a ride (again!) the whole thing will fall apart. The house of cards is already coming apart. We're just in that torturous period between elections where there's no opportunity to vote them out yet. If (somehow) Trump (or his successor) holds onto power come 2028 then it will be time to hang up the hat.

• On the post: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages Of Fraud. Records Show Three Of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2025 @ 03:55pm

  Accusing the Trump administration of hypocrisy is a bit beyond shooting fish in a barrel. It's like shooting already dead fish on a table.

• On the post: The Judiciary Is Breaking Down: Federal Judges Now Openly Revolt Against SCOTUS Shadow Docket During Live Court Hearing

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2025 @ 02:55pm

  New flash: The Reaganites are not in charge anymore. SCOTUS did not "lose" Wilkinson. Trump and friends never had the Reagan wing of the GOP. The rise of Trumpism is a direct rejection of everything Reagan conservatism stood for, body and soul. Reagan and friends only ever LARPed about small government and fiscal discipline but at least they were solid about rule of law and opposition to socialism. The new kids aren't even LARPing anymore and they fucking love socialism. Not the cuddly college activist socialism, but the brown shirt goose stepping tankie socialism.

• On the post: After 30+ Deaths In Protests Triggered by Nepal’s Social Media Ban, 145,000 People Debate The Country’s Future In Discord Chatroom

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2025 @ 01:12pm

  Neat, but if the military has to "allow" you to run the country I'd be really skeptical about how much power someone in that role would actually have. I could be totally wrong though. Maybe the military will effectively hand over the keys and do whatever the potential new government bids, but it would be a shocking first. The real test is going to come when the new government decides to change some heads at the top of the military.

• On the post: National Guard Accidentally Sends Evidence Of Troop Disillusionment To The Washington Post

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2025 @ 09:43am

  Once is an "oops" (in normal times, a "you'll never work in this town again" oops). I can't wait for 3 years and 3 months from now when we'll start finding out how many top secret war plans were accidentally (or "accidentally") emailed straight to the Kremlin.

• On the post: Federal Judges Are Done Playing Nice: NBC Reports Full-Scale Revolt Against SCOTUS Shadow Docket Bullshit

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2025 @ 01:38pm

  Is that so? Which laws are they breaking? Where have these so-called "activist judges" erred in their rulings? Surely, the Supreme Court could may real hay taking these rogues to task with detailed call outs and lengthy dissertations about the actual legal principles being ignored. If the bullshit is so easy to refute, why haven't they done it?

• On the post: The Murder Of Charlie Kirk Didn’t Help Anyone

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2025 @ 12:54pm

  There is no Tolerance Paradox. Allowing bad speech doesn't "enable" bad acts. If that were the case then absolute intolerance of bad speech would prevent bad acts, but it categorically does not.

• On the post: The Murder Of Charlie Kirk Didn’t Help Anyone

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2025 @ 10:10am

  Whatever there is to be said about Charlie Kirk (the less, the better, IMPO) he was not violent. He was not a source of violence. He did not initiate violence against anyone. Could his ideas have inspired someone to violence? Maybe. But inspiration is not culpability. If violence is the only political answer that remains, then (in that case) it should only be directed at the actual source of violence. The American Revolution wasn't fought by butchering royalist authors.

• On the post: DOJ Issues Official Denial Of ‘Redact Every Republican’ Epstein Files Statement Via Apps Note Screenshot

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2025 @ 12:48pm

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• On the post: SCOTUS Says ICE Can Use The Family Guy Skin Color Chart For Arrests (But Won’t Explain Why)

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2025 @ 01:08pm

  "The Way to Stop Discrimination on the Basis of Race Is to Stop Discriminating on the Basis of Race." --John "SCOTUS Chief Justice" Roberts, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, 2007

  Oof. That aged like fine milk.

• On the post: Trump Administration Now Murdering People In International Waters Just Because

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2025 @ 01:03pm

  Quick. How many US troops/federal agents have been injured or killed by, oh let's be generous, anyone in a boat in the past... uh, how about fifty years?

• On the post: DC Circuit Makes Rookie Mistake In Actually Following Binding Precedent In A Case Involving Donald Trump Firing People

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2025 @ 12:57pm

  Can't wait for the shadow docket reversal to spend more words admonishing the circuit court for not "reading the room" than explaining which parts of the law they apparently got so wrong.

• On the post: US Open Tells Broadcasters Not To Broadcast Trump Being Booed At The US Open

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2025 @ 12:30pm

  I bet they were just saying "Boo Urns".

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2025 @ 06:36am

  You can tell when you're doing something right when politicians get mad about it, personally.

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