originalfrozenbanana
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- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 1 month ago:
This is a good question from the wrong angle. This event is cathartic for many people because the ultra rich who ruin countless lives never get punished. When they see “consequences” it’s a golden parachute. This event is frustrating because the media, legal, and security apparatuses expect us to treat this assassination as a grave act, but actively normalize the acts of harm Thompson and other leaders like him commit every day.
This event is revealing in stark terms the divide between the elite and the average person. Should murderers be prosecuted? Sure - in a world where justice and the rule of law matter for everyone equally. Doesn’t feel like we live in that world.
- Comment on Supreme Court justice sparks social media fire storm for her comments on gender transitions for minors 1 month ago:
Conservatives mad on Twitter isn’t controversy worth discussing. Shoo troll.
- Comment on USA | California bill would give public university admission priority to slaves' descendants 1 month ago:
Brother that’s exactly what you said. “Instead of giving preference to the ancestry of applicants, why not use the content of their character” is exactly that. It’s twisting MLK’s words 60 years later to parrot the arguments white supremacists have always used. You don’t even know you’re using their words, do you? Or you’re the troll.
- Comment on USA | California bill would give public university admission priority to slaves' descendants 1 month ago:
This is the argument always used to oppose equity programs. “Why not just use merit instead of skin color” leads to overwhelming discrimination. African American students don’t measure up as highly as white students on tests that have been historically designed with the explicit purpose of discrimination. It’s not a level playing field. How will you determine the content of someone’s character for college admissions? How about we use standardized tests? nea.org/…/racist-beginnings-standardized-testing because those are fucked my guy
You’re conflating the issue of proving ancestry with merit based admissions, either intentionally or because you don’t realize just how fucked up that is. Every black person in the US is historically an immigrant, just like every non-indigenous person is. Most black Americans’ ancestors did not come here by choice. So when you conflate “use discriminatory standardized tests” with “how is a black American supposed to prove their ancestors were slaves” you’re being extremely racist. Stop complaining about whataboutism and think about the arguments you’re making for more than five seconds. This law is intended to bypass the progress that the right wing has made in making race based admissions standards illegal, not to harm white kids.
- Comment on USA | California bill would give public university admission priority to slaves' descendants 1 month ago:
What about things that are unfair to descendants of slaves? What do you think about those things?
- Comment on USA | California bill would give public university admission priority to slaves' descendants 1 month ago:
What do you mean?
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 2 months ago:
Should have tried throwing a baseball sized rock at it that seems to work
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 months ago:
Drat. Thanks 😂
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 months ago:
Does this imply that if I am standing on an object moving at a constant speed in a straight line, and I am lifting and dropping a sufficiently massive object such that I’m causing the object in standing on to accelerate towards the object I’m dropping, that eventually I’ll slow or stop the object I’m standing on?
- Comment on In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily 2 months ago:
Ignore them they’re being mildly pedantic
- Comment on How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ? 3 months ago:
In general that would be pretty easy to identify. If the number of votes were large enough to impact an election you’d see voting numbers that are far greater than you expect based on the population and demographics of the area served by a particular voting office. In addition you’d see counts greater than you expect when certain people are working but not for others.
In addition usually you have to check in at a desk or table to get your ballot. An official dishonestly stuffing the ballot box would also have to somehow fabricate real voters checking in at the desk, or else there’d be more ballots than people who checked in and they’d identify the fraud. Where I live you check in with your ID card so unless the official had a bunch of IDs of valid registered voters they’d be caught.
Lastly voting fraud is a crime pretty much everywhere, so getting caught is bad.
A more realistic version of voting fraud is what is being planned in the US: getting supporters of a candidate (in this case Trump) to volunteer at voting locations and having those people fabricate evidence of fraud. This can just be their testimony, but it can be used later in lawsuits to give face value validity to accusations that the election was stolen, and used as justification for violence or a coup. This is what Trump tried, poorly, in 2020. They will try better in 2024.
- Comment on Meta suggests AI Northern Lights pics are as good as the real thing 3 months ago:
To the person eating the fruit, maybe, but the person picking it from the tree knows
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 3 months ago:
But they literally HAVE a fiduciary obligation. I agree with you that people use that as an excuse for heinous shit, but in this case they had a formal, legally binding offer. Musk was in breach of contract and they sued for specific performance or damages. Musk didn’t want to pay the damages. If they didn’t sue, Twitter would forfeit I think $1bn in damages and their stock would tank. Not suing would open the door for hostile investors to come in, pretend to buy, back out when they wanted to and time the stock movements. I get what you’re saying, but this is a case where if the board didn’t sue then Twitters shareholders pay for it.
You and I may agree that they never should have been in that place to begin with but that’s definitionally a fiduciary obligation
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 3 months ago:
Ok? But that’s not what the Twitter board claimed. I agree with your premise but that isn’t what happened here.
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 3 months ago:
No, I don’t think that’s true. Twitters board had to sue for specific performance because Musk backed out of a formal offer in the late stages for fabricated reasons. It’s not like it was “sue musk or go to jail” but their job as board members comes with a fiduciary obligation, and musk was paying 38% over the share price. Twitter is FAR from blameless but sueing musk isn’t a failing …harvard.edu/…/twitter-vs-musk-the-complaint/
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 3 months ago:
Not that they are blameless - far from it - but they had a fiduciary responsibility to pursue the deal because it was good for their shareholders
- Comment on Researchers build AI-powered security systems that predict criminal behavior, claim 82.8% accuracy in predicting felonies with CCTV monitoring 4 months ago:
Guarantee it’s just racist
- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 5 months ago:
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
- Comment on 5 months ago:
THE hacker news?
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 5 months ago:
Hell yeah hang in there, I hope good times come your way soon. You deserve it!
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 5 months ago:
I love that he is appearing in front of A white house. Not THE White House but his base won’t care. The vibes are right, ya know?
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 5 months ago:
Same
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 5 months ago:
When people say Lemmy is better, they mean the software and the platform are better. You’re talking about the users of the two platforms. Lemmy users are still idiots, just like Reddit users, we just use Linux and don’t use chrome
- Comment on OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content 5 months ago:
They sell the cheating tool and the detection software
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Yeah the argument here should not be “why are they allowed to sue each other at all,” it should be “why did my elected representatives waste our money over this stupid shit?”
Find the resolution at the ballot box if that is viable in your country
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 5 months ago:
Sure till they copystrike their own subs
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 5 months ago:
Everyone knows after any commercial success the best thing you can do is rebrand by announcing the death of the successful product \s
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 5 months ago:
No you don’t lol. I love when you right fucks try to pretend you care about women or women’s sports all of a sudden. Literally no one buys it. “Aw golly gee I just care about fairness in women’s sports” nah bro you hate trans and nonbinary people. Own it! Be the bigot you really are, loud and proud!
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 5 months ago:
So wait do you care about biology or the insular rules of various international sporting bodies? It’s hard to keep up with whatever you’re pretending to care about
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 5 months ago:
She’s not a man. Either you think everyone with XY chromosomes is a man, even if they have female genitals, or you acknowledge that neither genitals nor chromosomes alone are sufficient to define gender and you acknowledge that trans people exist as their identified gender. You don’t get it both ways.
Sorry I forgot for a second where I was and just wasted all that energy typing out something you won’t read because your side doesn’t care about the truth.