trs8080

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by trs8080 4y ago
Packing the court with partisans does, in fact, count as court packing. Here's a helpful article: https://www.rutgers.edu/news/what-court-packing From the article: "People often use "court packing"
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by trs8080 4y ago
I'm siding with not banning journalists on an absolute free speech platform. > Orwellian Ok bud.
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by trs8080 4y ago
Ah yes, another attempt to pretend that the single Supreme Court justice nominated by the former (D) president was blocked for anything other than partisan political reasons and that Trump didn't add the most number of SC justices sinc
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by trs8080 4y ago
Just because you can't be bothered to do even the most basic Google search doesn't make you right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pulitzer_Prizes_awarde...
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by trs8080 4y ago
Except you're attempting to legitimize the decision by calling journalists "clowns," as if you're the gatekeeper of "real" journalism. People making these sorts of excuses are usually the ones who are most voca
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by trs8080 4y ago
"It doesn't matter that Elon Musk is silencing his critics on his absolute-free-speech platform, these aren't /real/ journalists." Please. I didn't realize all of Musk's fans had gone to j-school and
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by trs8080 4y ago
You realize that those of us who aren't Musk fans also dislike other billionaires, right? This is a class issue, not a personal one.
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by trs8080 4y ago
Yes, because pocketing money directly from fundraising activities for a 501c3 is illegal, regardless of if you pay capital gains on it.
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by trs8080 4y ago
Turns out the FAA has been stalking people for decades. Can we also add "getting arrested is kidnapping actually" to this list of arbitrary interpretations?
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by trs8080 4y ago
> They are the ones that don't want free speech Content moderation and free speech are not mutually exclusive. Absolute free speech is not the only kind of free speech, nor is the definition of "free speech" the same globa
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by trs8080 4y ago
If "we" is you, go ahead! You're free to judge whomever you want. This is a fairly simple issue - a community of people who are pro-privacy and anti-surveillance have concerns about a former surveillance officer working for a
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by trs8080 4y ago
Some people do not support law enforcement and a large number of people using Mastodon are pro-privacy and anti-surveillance. RPI's cavalier response to their concerns about a former surveillance officer being hired by a company that c
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by trs8080 4y ago
Being concerned about a pattern of behavior is paranoia now?
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by trs8080 4y ago
"Body positivity" is not about labeling everything as beautiful but rather not labeling people who may not match traditional standards of beauty as "ugly."
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by trs8080 4y ago
I'm aware that we don't have all the evidence yet - this is why there's a federal probe. So far, the quotes we see from employees (those competent scientists that you said you trust) suggest extreme malfeasance. Regardless of
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by trs8080 4y ago
Good thing you trust the competent scientists he's hired, because they're the ones blowing the whistle on Musk's operating practices. The lede: "Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investig
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by trs8080 4y ago
"Millions of white working-class and middle-class Americans vote against their own economic interest by defending policies that hurt them while profiting the rich, including the 1% wealthiest Americans. Several factors help explain thi
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by trs8080 4y ago
"seeing the initial shots were fired by a group of armed black men, killing several white men at the police station" This is a loose interpretation of the article which loses important context. The initial shot was fired when a wh
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by trs8080 4y ago
Agree, but this announcement kinda makes me think they're working on either money-making enterprise tools a la Teams/Slack/etc OR maybe even exploring ML recommendation engines as an entrypoint to creating their own search en
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by trs8080 4y ago
It was free, so they never sold it and nobody ever bought it. Companies often times need to pivot or introduce pricing to their products to survive. Would rather pay a modest fee to ensure that Brave continues as an alternative to the major
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by trs8080 4y ago
Most people are probably just amused. I'm more on the unhappy side because a vehicle can actually kill people when it crashes and Musk seems like more of a "move fast and break things" personality, which is not a great combin
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by trs8080 4y ago
> No you did not, you responded with an unrelated fact that "right news" (which is widely over categorized in these research papers BTW) is the most shared link Yes, on Twitter, which according to you was "Extreme left aut
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by trs8080 4y ago
> doesn't that just mean someone who doxes people they don't agree with ... no?
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by trs8080 4y ago
> Try to actually talk about what I am complaining about > > I hate when people attribute opening the Overton window to more than just Extreme left authoritarian political opinions, which is what Political Twitter was isolated to b
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by trs8080 4y ago
Answered above, reproducing for you here: "As the Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin noted on Twitter, the suspended users include Chad Loder, an antifascist researcher whose open-source investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot le
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by trs8080 4y ago
"As the Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin noted on Twitter, the suspended users include Chad Loder, an antifascist researcher whose open-source investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot led to the identification and arrest of a ma
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by trs8080 4y ago
> I hate when people attribute opening the Overton window to more than just Extreme left authoritarian political opinions, which is what Political Twitter was isolated to before elon This is incorrect. "Based on a massive-scale expe
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by trs8080 4y ago
Sounds like this space is ripe for disruption. You could do a whole white supremacist App Store with Klanstagram, Fourteen Little Words (a "pure" dating app), and Save Our Marriage (an anti-LGBT mobile game).
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by trs8080 4y ago
Did you miss the news that he laid off half the company, including the content moderation team? That says plenty.
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by trs8080 4y ago
> After all, these people were perfectly happy to keep using and promoting Twitter when it was ideologically captured by their in group. Now that Elon owns it, well, now it sucks and is bad. Conservatives weren't satisfied with Parl

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