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• On the post: It Was Spelled In Seashells By The Seashore. The DOJ Now Pretends It’s A Felony.

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2026 @ 02:20pm

  Everyone should be charged, however.

  Then why aren't you ranting and raving about this administration's lack of pursuit of justice for someone posting "86 46" back in 2022? Or is it only a threat when it's directed at Trump?

• On the post: The Other Side: Game Dev Tim Cain Isn’t Helping In The AI In Gaming Debate

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2026 @ 02:10pm

  From what I understand of the math behind it, not only will it not get better, it will only get worse. It’s a research dead end, a false path with nothing down it that will not lead to “AGI”.

  Artificial general intelligence and "AI as a tool" are two different things. There's no way to say one way or the other whether AI as a tool will get better or worse over time.

  It’s also a bubble, and one that’s going to pop in the near future.

  Bubbles bursting doesn't get rid of the thing that caused the bubble in the first place.

• On the post: It Was Spelled In Seashells By The Seashore. The DOJ Now Pretends It’s A Felony.

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2026 @ 01:46am

  And if third graders ruled the world, that might mean something… but they don’t and it doesn’t.

  I dunno, Trump does seem to have the intelligence and vocabulary of a third-grader.

• On the post: Tennessee’s ‘Charlie Kirk’ Act Would Force Public Universities To Be As Hypocritical As MAGA’s Favorite Dead Boy

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2026 @ 11:50pm

  Was literally a Leftist who was nominated by Tim Walz

  Citation needed, because the most recent official document lists him as having "no party preferences". He was, however, described by a long-time friend as a conservative evangelical Christian who was against abortion, and had strong views against LGBT groups. That doesn't very leftist to me.

• On the post: Tennessee’s ‘Charlie Kirk’ Act Would Force Public Universities To Be As Hypocritical As MAGA’s Favorite Dead Boy

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2026 @ 01:49am

  The violence NOW is all coming from the Left.

  So the guy who shot and killed Melissa Hortman and her husband(and planned to kill multiple other democrats) was a left-wing double agent or what? It's almost as if you're a cherry-picking piece of shit.

• On the post: Tennessee’s ‘Charlie Kirk’ Act Would Force Public Universities To Be As Hypocritical As MAGA’s Favorite Dead Boy

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2026 @ 01:42am

  What censorship power was given to the government 5 years ago, and how did TD lie about it?

• On the post: RFK Jr. Wipes His Hands Of This Whole Measles Outbreak Thing

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2026 @ 12:34am

  Joke's on you, I'm not American, so I'm actually taught critical thinking in school. I guess you missed that class.

• On the post: RFK Jr. Wipes His Hands Of This Whole Measles Outbreak Thing

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2026 @ 09:21am

  Measles is still a trivial health problem in U.S

  As long as the current administration is anti-vaccine, it has the potential to become a very non-trivial problem.

• On the post: The Broken U.S. Press Sits Down For Cocktails And Giggles With Fascists

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2026 @ 11:49am

  You fought for freedom of speech and freedom of the press for fascists.

  1. That doesn't make any sense. Fascists are generally against freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
  2. How did Techdirt fight for that, exactly?

• On the post: Kash Patel’s Defamation Suit Against The Atlantic Is Designed To Generate Headlines, Not Win In Court

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2026 @ 10:13am

  On top of what Stephen said, it's worth remembering that Trump literally had to start a pointless war for people like Carlson and Jones to start backpedalling. They didn't mind when he was just corrupt, blowing alleged drug traffickers out of the water, and letting ICE arrest whomever they wanted.

• On the post: The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: New Pew Study Deflates The Social Media Panic

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2026 @ 11:55pm

  Yes you have. It’s been pointed out to you before. Here it is again. You just keep pretending it doesn’t exist.

  That study is based on data from nearly 20 years ago. Even if the casuality is rock-solid, it doesn't mean the same effects occur today. The authors even note that themselves: "Similarly, we cannot provide evidence as to whether years of experience with the platform mitigate or exacerbate the effects on mental health." And regarding evidence in general, if one study shows harm and multiple others don't(and assuming they're all methodologically sound), there's little reason to believe there's actually harm.

• On the post: Kash Patel’s Defamation Suit Against The Atlantic Is Designed To Generate Headlines, Not Win In Court

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2026 @ 11:42pm

  Patel pulled it out of his ass.

• On the post: Trump Is Literally Negotiating With Himself Over How Much Taxpayer Money He Gets Because His Taxes Were Leaked

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2026 @ 12:04am

  I can't tell if you're taking the piss or not.

• On the post: Oh Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2026 @ 12:51am

  Go ahead, ask me what “woke” means for the 10th time, cakeboy.

  Not him, but okay: what does "woke" mean, specifically?

• On the post: ‘Trump Phone’ Sees Price Hike, But Still No Release Date (Or Actual Phone)

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2026 @ 01:22am

  No such thing has happened. “Corruption” doesn’t just mean random thing you don’t like. If there was actual fraud of some kind (rather than a failed project) affected parties could sue for fraud. They haven’t. That is an idiotic claim.

  Suggesting that if nobody has sued, that means there's no fraud is even more moronic.

  Donald Trump was ruled legally liable for the rape

  Literally false. (Stephanopoulos had to pay a lot of money for this!)

  That's what's called a technicality, and one that only a rapist or rape apologist would use. According to the judge in the case, it was rape, despite New York law using a narrower legal definition.

• On the post: Judge Tosses Trump’s Ridiculous $10 Billion Defamation Suit Against Rupert Murdoch

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2026 @ 01:08am

  You don’t know much about the law

  In that case, feel free to explain in great detail how the ruling is wrong. Don't forget the cite the relevant precedent.

• On the post: ‘Trump Phone’ Sees Price Hike, But Still No Release Date (Or Actual Phone)

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2026 @ 05:48am

  Last year the fraud-prone Trump organization announced a half-assed wireless phone company.

  Which, in this case, would make them the fraud-phone Trump organization.

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

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2026 @ 12:13pm

  Yes, god forbid that tax money are ever spent on something that doesn't directly benefit you.

• On the post: Trump’s Anti-Migrant Surge Is Now A Mudslide That’s Wiping Out What’s Left Of His DOJ

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2026 @ 10:45am

  Huh, so she is. It seems he fired her because she didn't go after his opponents hard enough, meaning that whomever follows her could get up to even dumber shit than she did.

• On the post: The EU Killed Voluntary CSAM Scanning. West Virginia Is Trying To Compel It. Both Cause Problems.

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2026 @ 02:14am

  Yeah, but that’s just coming down on the privacy side of the trade off, isn’t it?

  They're not really coming down on the side of privacy when the motivation to stop scanning is avoiding fines. More to your point, "Stop voluntarily trying to remove CSAM or we're going to fine you" isn't much of a choice in the first place.

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