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• On the post: Russia Issues Fine To Google For More Money Than Exists Over Banned YouTube Channels

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2024 @ 09:56am

  Y'all ... we thought the adverts were bad before, but think of how many ad's Google's gotta be selling NOW to make up for this fine!!

• On the post: Elon Musk Lies, Falsely Claims Subsidizing Starlink Would Have Saved Hurricane Helene Victims

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2024 @ 09:31am

  Ummm, I'd just like to say that I also donated 1000 Starlink satellite access kits to the Carolinas! Sure I did! I guarantee it! (hey, "The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check!")

• On the post: Age-Gating Access To Online Porn Is Unconstitutional

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2024 @ 09:43am

  Available Data?

  There’s just one problem: Adults do care about age verification.

  Seems like this data must now exist -- compare average daily views (or whatever) before and after the law was in force. Since accounts are free and nearly instantaneous to set up, any drop in usage must have come from adults "caring" about verification.

• On the post: NYC Comptroller Report Says ShotSpotter Is Just Wasted Money

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2024 @ 09:56am

  Free performance improvement for shotspotter?

  python -c "import random;print(random.choice(['shot spotted','all quiet']))" ... bumps up from 20% to 50% ... improvement???

• On the post: NYC Officials Are Mad Because Journalists Pointed Out The City’s New ‘AI’ Chatbot Tells People To Break The Law

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2024 @ 09:56am

  They should have approached the mayor’s office quietly, and worked with them

  This just shows how inept they are -- they think the ONLY issue is with the bad results of the LLM (if we can classify them as just "bad") ... as if there's no issue at all with the string of *@#$-ups, at every level of city administration, that fed into the decision being made to release this.

• On the post: New Jersey Sued Again For Giving Cops Access To Newborn Babies’ DNA

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2024 @ 09:42am

  Everyone knows a BABY doesn't have any rights, only a FETUS can have rights! This is Repubmerica!

• On the post: Florida’s Unconstitutional ‘Stop WOKE’ Act Blocked By The 11th Circuit Appeals Court

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2024 @ 09:43am

  FL: Your honor, we don't want to ban speech, we just want to ban certain conduct Judge: And what kind of conduct would you ban? FL: Errrm ... the kind of conduct where ... words come out of a person's mouth Judge: GTFO

• On the post: Snap Sues USPTO Over Generic Trademark Denied For Being Generic

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2024 @ 09:35am

  Spectacled Bears to file amicus curiae?

  or Spectacled Owls? or Spectaled Porpoise? (the point being that there are more uses of the word than just those things that help you see better, and those uses of the word are what make it, ya know, generic)

• On the post: HP Tries Desperately To Make ‘Printer As A Subscription’ A Thing

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2024 @ 10:14am

  Gretchen ...

  Stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pubd-spHN-0&t=7s (seemed appropriate here)

• On the post: Microsoft Lays Off Nearly 2,000, Including A Bunch From Activision Blizzard Studios

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2024 @ 11:02am

  quick google search on "microsoft profits" ...

  Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending September 30, 2023 was $40.215B, a 15.99% increase year-over-year. Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending September 30, 2023 was $151.597B, a 9.36% increase year-over-year. Microsoft annual gross profit for 2023 was $146.052B, a 7.69% increase from 2022. Microsoft annual gross profit for 2022 was $135.62B, a 17.06% increase from 2021. ... clearly that's not enough to retain employees.

• On the post: HP CEO Makes Up A Whole Lot Of Bullshit To Defend Crippling Printers That Use Cheaper Ink

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2024 @ 09:13am

  Inverse buyer's remorse?!?!

  I had given up on HP and bought an Epson EcoTank last year thinking that I could avoid this HP-induced print-cartridge drama ... little did I know that I was also avoiding HP-mediated computer viruses! Thanks HP!! I feel much better about my decision to buy from your competitor!!

• On the post: ExTwitter Accused Of Secretly Boosting Mr. Beast Video With Undisclosed Ad Placements

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2024 @ 08:37am

  (not a porn thing) ... classy!

  The quote at the end is classy! I cannot understand why major brands aren't advertising on ExTwitter -- "MrBeast's X video (not a porn thing) ..." Yep, that's exactly what all major advertisers want to append to all their marketing and PR.

• On the post: Missouri AG Announces Bullshit Censorial Investigation Into Media Matters Over Its Speech

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2023 @ 10:10am

  so the crime of "fraud" does not actually require fraud anymore?

  or just in Missouri?

• On the post: Republicans Want To Block Broadband Funding To Schools That Refuse To Implement Easily Bypassed TikTok Bans

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2023 @ 12:57pm

  My 7th-grade daughter just mentioned that, on her LOCKED-DOWN SCHOOL-ISSUED computer, she uses an old google doc from a 5th-grade class to chat with friends that she can't otherwise communicate with through "official" means ... but I'm sure this whole "Ban TikTok" thing is totally different and will totally work you guys!

• On the post: Elon Musk Decides ‘Who Needs Headlines, When We Can Just Have Pretty Pictures?’; Suspends Account That Made Fun Of Him

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2023 @ 09:43am

  Wow ... just fucking wow.

• On the post: Elon, Who Insisted He Had Solved The Spam/Bot Problem, Now Says He Will Paywall Twitter To Stop Spam/Bots

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2023 @ 09:40am

  Next up: Elon solves the world's cybersecurity problems ... by unplugging the network!! It's cheap!! It's effective!! He's a super-genius!!

• On the post: DOJ To Court: Here Are The Many, Many Reasons Why The FTC Can & Should Be Investigating Elon Musk’s Handling Of User Data

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2023 @ 11:00am

  Agreed that most companies probably have similar issues. The critical difference is that most companies will admit it, apologize/make amends, and .. ya know .. fix the problem. That last bit is kinda key!

• On the post: Montana’s Response To Lawsuits Over Laughably Unconstitutional TikTok Ban Is To Say That TikTok Is The Equivalent Of ‘Cancer-Causing Radio’

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2023 @ 09:59am

  Next week's news: Montana bans all microwave ovens

  Technically, microwaves are radio-waves ... and they can do cause cancer ... so I guess Montana will soon ban all microwave ovens?!?!

• On the post: Today In ‘Here’s How Elon Is Making ExTwitter Worse,’ He’s Going To Get Rid Of Headlines & Snippets For News

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2023 @ 10:50am

  Good seed of an idea, but HORRIBLE execution

  As others have noted, making people stop before they share a link might have some positive benefits (at least slowing down the spread of misinformation). But this is about the worst possible implementation of it I can think of. This is just gifting the hackers and phishers a golden opportunity -- you literally cannot tell if it's a legitimate link or phishing, it's just an image.

• On the post: The Pillow Guy Unveils Nonsensical Plan To ‘Monitor’ Imagined Election Fraud With Drones

  

  PB&J ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2023 @ 10:25am

  So much wrong-ness it makes my brain hurt

  As someone who does this kind of stuff for a living, the amount of wrong-ness in his statement literally made my brain hurt. Like, no joke, it's actually really hard to string together that much wrong-ness, inaccuracy, and error into a single statement ... and yet, here we are, and he's probably not even the most wrong GQPer today!

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