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

    TaboToka ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2024 @ 11:31am

    Lol, I wonder who caused that?

    as the federal government fails to help them
    Then place the blame where it lies: the GOP. If you think the GOP cares about anyone who is not rich†, you're living in the land of delusion. †They "care" about suckers they can convince to vote for them, but only as a means to an end.

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

    TaboToka ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2024 @ 11:15am

    Jobs

    funding [undocumented immigrants] who COMPETE WITH AMERICANS FOR JOBS AND HOUSING.
    If you're unable to compete in the market for a job and housing, you aren't doing it right -- and we aren't going to give you the job/housing welfare you crave. You forget this is America, not some socialist hellhole like Sweden or The Netherlands that guarantee its citizens such things.
    FEMA spends stolen U.S. taxpayers’ money
    Ahh, I see the problem. You failed to get a basic education on how society and government works. Did you go to school in a Red State, perchance? Here's an easy way to understand: taxes are fees you pay to live in a civilized society.

  • On the post: Ex-Congressmen Pen The Most Ignorant, Incorrect, Confused, And Dangerous Attack On Section 230 I’ve Ever Seen

    TaboToka ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2024 @ 01:24pm

    Communication? Huh?

    If Twitter was the only way to communicate, it would be bound directly to First Amendment
    If Twitter was the only way to communicate, I wonder how anyone could use it, since it requires fingers (or some other way to input content) and eyes (or some other way to read/hear) at least, which can be used to communicate without the need for Twitter. Even if the internet was only capable of supporting Twitter and nothing else it would still not automatically fall under the purview of the 1st Amendment, because of those pesky first 5 words:
    Congress shall make no law

  • On the post: Instead Of Fearing & Banning Tech, Why Aren’t We Teaching Kids How To Use It Properly?

    TaboToka ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2024 @ 07:33am

    Meaningless statistic

    The United States is one of the top 10 spenders on education in the world,
    So what? How do teacher salaries compare to other jobs? Superintendent salaries are 5x or 10x the average teacher's salary. That's the wrong person to get paid that much. Teachers should be paid MORE than admin staff, if you care about quality. How much is spent on meals? Are they healthy, tasty meals prepared by trained chefs, as in other countries, or are they garbage burgers & pizza supplied by the lowest bidder? Are the kids taught how to pass standardized, garbage tests, or are they taught how to think critically, solve problems and understand?

  • On the post: Elon’s Eager Twitter Funders Are Losing Faith, As Stakes Are Effectively Worthless

    TaboToka ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2024 @ 05:34pm

    Super Genius Elmo is going NATIONAL!

    One thing that becomes clear in the book is that many of the investors who agreed to back Musk’s bid MAGAs truly believed that Elon had the secret sauce necessary to revitalize Twitter the government. They were under the false impression that the (not at all accurate) mainstream narrative about Twitter’s the government's old management administration being “too woke” and focused on “censoring conservatives” meant that Twitter the government would be easy to “fix.”
    To wit: Trump Wants Elon Musk to Run a 'Government Efficiency Commission' Fail upwards, Elmo!

  • On the post: First Mover Advantage Shows How Copyright Isn’t Necessary To Protect Innovative Creativity

    TaboToka ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2024 @ 08:37pm

    One builds upon the other

    Look at the number of people who take risks in creating something that might be subconsciously or intentionally taken from someone else
    You're describing nearly all music, and most cinema/tv shows. There are a limited number of notes in Western music, and limited number of phrases that sound aesthetically pleasing. It is nearly impossible to have an completely original phrase that includes nothing that hasn't been written/performed prior. Same for scripts. There is a general framework for telling stories that has been copied and built upon over and over again. The modern comedy has its roots in Menander's plays from ~300 BCE. That's not to say someone should be able to lazily produce "BUNE" about a princess who takes over the salt production on a water planet by riding giant water bunnies (which no outsider has ever done), or "Deadman vs Honey Badger", but to lock up culture for 100+ years at a time is stupid.

  • On the post: Justice Alito Almost Messed Up The Internet; Then He Threw A Temper Tantrum

    TaboToka ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2024 @ 08:27pm

    Lol, "GAB"

    it’s amazingly like a clap-trap dive bar outside city limits
    ...where all the seats are slightly damp and reek of piss, and the beer is watery and tastes like piss.

  • On the post: 4th Circuit Says Using Drones To Photograph Property Isn’t Protected By The 1st Amendment

    TaboToka ( profile ), 30 May, 2024 @ 10:18am

    Riiiight

    When he started drawing “rudimentary property lines” he was clearly breaking the law in every state I’m aware of.
    We all know you’re familiar with some of the 50 states that make up the US. You made a claim he was breaking “a law”, so which law specifically?

  • On the post: Court To Cops: If We Can’t See The Drug Dog Do The Thing, We’re Gonna Be Suppressing Some Evidence

    TaboToka ( profile ), 18 May, 2024 @ 02:17pm

    Go for the vulnerable spot!

    here [are] no penalties for breaking the law and/or constitutional rights
    If only you could sue them for rights violations AND get any payout from the police pension fund, that would shut down malfeasance† right quick. † The cops who were looking forward to retiring would suddenly be invested in policing (heh) the conduct of the others.

  • On the post: Microsoft Shutters Several Bethesda Developers Post Acquisition, Same As It Did In Activision Acquisition

    TaboToka ( profile ), 11 May, 2024 @ 06:11pm

    ???

    I mean I can see where Microsoft is coming from here, a company that’s bleeding money and hasn’t made a profit in years
    That statement doesn’t describe Microsoft, post-acquisition. They had enough $$$ to buy those studios AND buyback stock (which, honestly, should be prohibited for any company accepting federal fund/bailouts/covid relief), and still report healthy profit on their 10-Q.

  • On the post: Microsoft Shutters Several Bethesda Developers Post Acquisition, Same As It Did In Activision Acquisition

    TaboToka ( profile ), 11 May, 2024 @ 05:59pm

    Eh?

    There’s a problem it now costs 100 million plus to develop a triple AAA games plus millions needed to promote it gaming is now becoming like making a Hollywood film expensive and risky
    Only if you do it the EA-sweatshop-big tent-way. There are successful small shop game developers that manage to produce quality titles that aren’t bug-filled crap requiring post-launch DLC to fix.

  • On the post: Justice Department Wants To Take Its Bite Out Of Apple

    TaboToka ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2024 @ 07:09am

    When non-experts climb Mt. Stupid

    Super apps provide a user with broad functionality in a single app.
    No. No, no, no, no. A well-designed app doesn’t have “broad functionality”. You don’t want your social media app to also do your banking and stream your music. You want your social media app to do social media, and do it well. Your banking app does banking. And your music streaming app does the streaming. I’ve lost count of how many clients I’ve had to steer into a narrow, well-defined scope, or that I’ve rejected because they insisted their ‘everything’ app had to have way too much functionality. (I have yet to see any of those rejects make it to market and last more than a year)

  • On the post: Hackers Gained Access To The Sensitive Data Of 36 Million Comcast Customers

    TaboToka ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2023 @ 08:08am

    Shitty, you say?!

    how shitty their encryption protocols are.
    Bhe rapelcgvba hfrf gur zbfg nqinaprq grpuavdhrf bhe fhzzre vagrea pbhyq pbcl sebz FgnpxBiresybj! — Comcast Security (probably)

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

    TaboToka ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2023 @ 08:30pm

    Ahem

    so consistently and spectacularly wrong
    Donald Jessica Trump has entered the chat.

  • On the post: California Senator Nancy Skinner Falls For Junk Science Moral Panic; Makes Blatantly False Claims In Support Of Social Media Addiction Bill

    TaboToka ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 01:13pm

    Meh

    Doesn't matter - only one was a Drag Queen, and without any source at all, we're going to call this a tipped foul. Better be careful OP, lest you strike out.

  • On the post: California Senator Nancy Skinner Falls For Junk Science Moral Panic; Makes Blatantly False Claims In Support Of Social Media Addiction Bill

    TaboToka ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 01:11pm

    Reading comprehension fail, much?

    Oops. That’s double what you requested.
    They requested one, you supplied one. One is not double of one, but at least you tried. Your second "example" was of a school teacher, not a drag queen. Since your evidence lacks any (credible) source, it is not verifiable, thus dismissed out of hand. Try again.

  • On the post: Part 2: Microsoft Bolsters Sony’s Justification For Withholding Console Info In Court Doc

    TaboToka ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2023 @ 03:17pm

    Reading is Fundamental

    who the fuck is still reading techdirt
    Apparently you are, so what's your excuse?
    after even NY Times and Polico exposed their fraudulent reporting on the Twitter Files
    There's no "fraudulent reporting". The Twitter Files (TTFs) are a nothingburger, and anyone with the bare minimum of reading comprehension skills knows this. Let's look at page 232 of the sworn deposition of FBI Agent Chan, the supposed "smoking gun" Elmo thinks TTFs expose: 
    Q. BY MR. SAUER: Okay. So right here at Paragraph 17 he
says, "The Site Integrity Team blocked Twitter
users from sharing links over Twitter to the
applicable New York Post articles and prevented
users who had previously sent tweets sharing those
articles from sending new tweets until they deleted
the tweets violating Twitter's policies," correct?

A. BY THE WITNESS: So that is what he wrote, but I am not
aware of the specific details of the actions that
they took until you just read that paragraph to me
today.

Q. Do you know if anyone at Twitter reached
out to anyone at the FBI to check or verify
anything about the Hunter Biden story?

A. I am not aware of any communications
between Yoel Roth and the FBI about this topic.

Q. Are you aware of any communications
between anyone at Twitter and anyone in the federal
government about the decision to suppress content
relating to the Hunter Biden laptop story once the
story had broken?

MR. SUR: Objection; lacks foundation.

THE WITNESS: I am not aware of Mr. Roth's
discussions with any other federal agency. As I
mentioned, I am not aware of any discussions with
any FBI employees about this topic as well. But I
only know who I know. So I don't -- he may have
had these conversations, but I was not aware of it.

Q. BY MR. SAUER: You mentioned Mr. Roth.
How about anyone else at Twitter, did anyone else
at Twitter reach out, to your knowledge, to anyone
else in the federal government?

A. So I can only answer for the FBI. To my
knowledge, I am not aware of any Twitter employee
reaching out to any FBI employee regarding this
topic.
    You're so wrong so often, one could wonder if that's your true goal.

  • On the post: Multiple David Sosas Ask Supreme Court To Overturn Decision Saying It’s Fine To Arrest ANY David Sosa When Cops Are Seeking A SPECIFIC David Sosa

    TaboToka ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2023 @ 05:13pm

    Prevention?

    Can you change your middle name (or add one) to a series of unicode characters/emojis, so you are obviously not that David S. 🎃 David Sosa?

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

    TaboToka ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2023 @ 02:12pm

    GAH, how hard is it?

    How to unshittify your site:

    1. CEO publicly says, "I made a mistake and will pay attention to needs the community starting now."
    2. CEO goes on a personal voyage of discovery (month-long silent retreat in the desert fueled by booze and 'shrooms)
    3. If CEO survives, CEO returns and does the right thing.
    The end.

  • On the post: Warner Bros Discovery Merger Gets Dumber As Layoffs Continue And Company Licenses Streaming Content To… Netflix

    TaboToka ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2023 @ 12:31pm

    Welcome to late-stage capitalism, where C-suite doesn't have to do anything right and they still get paid.

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