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  • Elon Musk’s Lawyer Faces Sanctions After Deposition Meltdown, While Engaging In Unauthorized Practice Of Law

    Shannon Vanshoon ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2024 @ 11:36am

    Yes, it's amazing how much people will deny the existence of something that's not happening... unless you have any kind of evidence to back up your claim. But you may as well say the medical professionals in question are in the pocket of the Unicorn Mafia.

  • Elon Finally Finds A Government He’s Willing To Stand Up To: When The Censorship Demands Target His Political Allies

    Shannon Vanshoon ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2024 @ 12:08pm

    Here We Go Again?

    but I DO know that the situation reminds me of the paradox of tolerance…
    Ah, to save Mike a bit of stress having to deal with this again: use of Karl Popper's 'paradox' should be done carefully, since it's so easily misunderstood. (Which I admittedly have done myself in the past, including a certain famous picture/comic that is usually the source of the confusion.) As for the Brazilian court's decision, as Mike mentioned, disregarding Bolsonaro being a [i]complete bellend[/i], this isn't the right way to go, so you could say that Musk is right to do this... insofar as he's potentially 'required' to do anything. Not that it changes the main point that Musk is a massive hypocrite, of course, which he definitely is.

  • Court Tells FBI It Can’t Just Take A US Private Vault Customer’s Money Without Explaining Its Actions

    Shannon Vanshoon ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2024 @ 11:46am

    (Facepalm Emote)

    One would think an otherwise upstanding law-enforcement unit would do something wacky, like, say, get a warranty for the SPECIFIC deposit-box that their target owns, rather than do a broad 'smash and grab' like this, but that would presumably involve actual investigative work. This was essentially the equivalent of saying 'We think the killer's on this block' and then breaking into everyone's houses there hoping to find them. Also, I can't help but ask why the hell civil asset-forfeiture is still a thing, but we all know why.