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  • On the post: The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment

    Ngita ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2025 @ 07:25pm

    I dont see anything that suggests all of the above can't be true, they obviously categorise people with a literacy level of 5th or 6th grade as literate rather then illiterate

  • On the post: Bill Would Give The State Dept. The Ability To Deny Passports To Citizens Who Criticize Israel

    Ngita ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2025 @ 06:25pm

    Hamas is not Palestine, Palestine is not hamas

    But at the same time the Republican Party controls the us government. The us goverment controls the us. Is your argument that a country that feels it can not reconcile with the us should go to war with the republican party? Hamas has been in control of Palestine since 2006. The inhabitants of Palestine have been holding and killing hostages for nearly 2 years. Are you contending that not one resident of Palestine but only Hamas is involved in this? Your comparison to the nazis would only hold up if in 1939 that Jews went into Berlin and killed 1000 plus people and took 240 hostage. They did not.

  • On the post: As The Nintendo, Palworld Lawsuit Continues, Switch 2 Store Hosts Blatant Palworld Clone

    Ngita ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2025 @ 07:26pm

    Nintendo is probably not being hypocritical because the lawyers/bosses behind the lawsuit probably don't even know about pal land. But this is really a conflict between the copyright maximalists, everything belongs to us and the artists, who borrow, have inspiration, do stuff like people they like etc just like they have for centuries and have practical issues like there are so many good chords and if you have alleady written x for company z that when you right z for company y its really hard to make x and y not almost identical technically its not even a copyright issue because copyright does not cover it,so they are using patents.

  • On the post: Why False Equivalence Is One Of Democracy’s Most Dangerous Lies

    Ngita ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2025 @ 04:50pm

    I would disagree, both parties have abandoned the truth. Are they equally bad? no their is no false equivalence. One is clearly behaving worse then the other.

  • On the post: El Salvador Throws DOJ Under The Bus: Tells UN That US Has “Exclusive” Jurisdiction Over Renditioned Detainees

    Ngita ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2025 @ 04:15pm

    Exactly the same as the Israelis held by Hamas. Hamas might call then detainees, but they are kidnappeees,hostages or captives. I know you blame trump but trump does not personally do all this, The bureaucracy that enables these actions was there before trump and chances are will remain after trump. I am sure there excuse will be the same as the nazi's we were following orders.

  • On the post: Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles

    Ngita ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2025 @ 04:02pm

    Is techdirt social media?

    I would disagree, I am not on bluesky but I am not on twitter either, I am barely on Facebook, but I rarely go outside my family and friends. I feel like I have plenty of exposure to dissenting voices, perhaps all the exposure I actually want. news media dont all agree with each other, what you see on the bbc or abc Australia varies quite a bit from say the daily mail.

  • On the post: LA Law Enforcement Agencies Rioted So Hard They Ended Up Shooting Each Other

    Ngita ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2025 @ 07:21pm

    see the recent issues, with county sheriffs vs out of county deputies and the various FBI and ATF agents "caught" by overly zealous police.

  • On the post: Marco Rubio Doesn’t Know How Many Gov’t Branches There Are But Is Sure None Of Them Can Tell Trump ‘No’

    Ngita ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2025 @ 03:54pm

    was rubio heard to mutter "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"

  • On the post: How Not To CwF+RtB: Tell Fans They’ll Pay Any Price If They’re ‘Real’ Fans

    Ngita ( profile ), 22 May, 2025 @ 04:40pm

    More cost but that a fixed cost. There is almost no cost per unit. so having spent there money to make it their is no real reason to not sell as many digital licences as they can. Once they buy BL4, its only a small step to selling them battlepasses, expansions and eventually BL5. personally since bl3 got perhaps a hour of play total I would pass regardless.

  • On the post: Industry Begins Embracing True Fans, Super Fans, Core Fans As An Alternative Way To Fund Creators

    Ngita ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2025 @ 03:48pm

    Lazy? fans

    Unfortunately chasing the true fans does lead to enshitification, the artist pushes resources and time towards keeping the true fans happy and a easy shortcut is delaying things for the non true fans. then you have groups like file770 where if your not a true fan your not a fan at all and do not belong in their group or voting for their awards. Generally I know that the artist is just trying to chase a few more dollars, but I ignore all supplications. if owning 90-100% of their books is not enough, oh well. Its not about being lazy ,its disagreement with the whole true fan system.

  • On the post: Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Enshittification Meet

    Ngita ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2025 @ 04:29pm

    Its not fascism everywhere. Deciding someone is not a citizen and laws governing citizens don't apply - fascist. putting advertising on "screensaver" is merely extreme capitalism. so its not all fascism. I generally feel that fascism can be right or left since its not really either, at that point its the leaders, those that work for the leaders and everyone else, note by default communism is not fascism. its just very easy to take that little step.

  • On the post: Yet Another Columnist Claims Bluesky Is A Liberal Echo Chamber Because Its Users Keeping Kicking Nazis Out Of The Bar

    Ngita ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2025 @ 03:17pm

    Pretty sure blue sky only wants the left. So no interest in joining, does not make me a nazi, if everybody not of the left is a nazi your seeng nazi's under the bed. Liberals is a party not a faction, note our liberals are right wing.

  • On the post: A Coup Is In Progress In America

    Ngita ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2025 @ 05:51pm

    Since we will probably never have a Harris administration we cant know for sure. But hey the word coup is being thrown out there. Someone may act on it. But we can suspect that a Harris Adminstration would have its own issues. it probably would have been like the biden administration but more extreme. I would consider this a lesson to the elite democrats that they need to pay attention to who they put forward it is not just a game of tic tak toe.

  • On the post: TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat, And Xiaomi Hit With GDPR Complaints Over Personal Data Transfers To China

    Ngita ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2025 @ 09:46pm

    Weaponisation is generally used in a derogatory sense in modern usage. even the definition seems to offer "bad" examples. Sorry Glynn Moody and CashnCarry I could not find a good or at least less evil synonym.

  • On the post: Milwaukee Meteorologist Fired One Day After Criticizing Elon Musk’s Nazi-ish Salute

    Ngita ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2025 @ 09:48pm

    If lifting your hand over your shoulder is a nazi salute then it's a nazi salute. But do is pretty much every salute in the last century including every American officer ever saluted. the first salute was a rough American salute. Go watch some old John Wayne movies for similar salutes. The second was probably intended to be a cheer or fist bump, but autism... One of the more amusing memes I have seen had Obama, Captain Kirk, Kamala and Ms Clinton all making similar gestures.

  • On the post: NJ Cops Are Suing To Protect Their Exclusive Right To Keep Their Data Out Of Data Brokers’ Databases

    Ngita ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2024 @ 07:50pm

    The telephone company that sold data to the non us broker is probably under US law. The real estate company that sold data to the non us broker is probably under US law. Google that sold data to the non us broker is probably under US law. The company that sold satellite photos to the non us broker is probably under US law. The problem Is not in the broker who packaged it all up and resold it, even is he used so called anonymised data, which loses any anonmosity once combined into other sets, the issue is all this data is happily gathered, sold and resold to who ever wants it.

  • On the post: NJ Cops Are Suing To Protect Their Exclusive Right To Keep Their Data Out Of Data Brokers’ Databases

    Ngita ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2024 @ 07:12pm

    Sad state of affairs

    When even the president of the police benevolent association does not know how the US works. Maybe stuff like this and the issues with how much public accessable data gives on military bases they will actually add general privacy laws. Sadly it will probably end up in more specific carve outs.

  • On the post: Judge: Just Because AI Trains On Your Publication, Doesn’t Mean It Infringes On Your Copyright

    Ngita ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2024 @ 07:17pm

    What if they did not use a computer

    They read lots of things, then they thought about things , then they wrote something. Lock them up!!!, How can they possibly write something that not a copy of my work after reading my work.

  • On the post: Facial Recognition Firm Announces Way To Punish Retail Workers, Shoppers For Forming Relationships

    Ngita ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2024 @ 07:59pm

    My preferred supermarket is 90% self checkout. But I happily join the line for the click and collect checkout ie the old person line which is mainly staffed by a quick and cheery woman in her 40's. I dont think she has given me a discount even once despite 100's? of times using her checkout, in my 60's I am frequently the youngest in the queue. Note there Is a bigger and newer version of the same supermarket 1 block away without a click and collect line.It has a few very busy manned lines I rarely go there...

  • On the post: Dear Jeff Bezos: The ‘Hard Truth’ Is That Cowardice Like Yours Is Why People Don’t Trust The Media

    Ngita ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2024 @ 03:37pm

    45 years ago my father was telling me. Don't trust the press, don't trust reporters to accurately quote you. sorry its got nothing to do with Bezos.

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