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- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 11 hours ago:
I don’t feel it’s substantially changed, you’ve just added more detail. You don’t need to care about my opinion though, and I’m not suggesting you should; I’m just sharing how I see it.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 20 hours ago:
I just think it doesn’t matter. We live in an economy designed to suck every possible penny from every person and pay them the least amount it possibly can, to ensure the enrichment of the 1%
Someone wants to keep a few more bucks in their pocket rather than spend more in some principled stance that will change absolutely nothing anyhow, I’m not going to judge them for it. Life fucking sucks for just about everyone in the US right now, to varying degrees. On the list of things I might judge my fellow man for, that seems ludicrously privileged and self centered.
You don’t get to decide who is poor enough for it to be “OK” for them to buy the cheap tier. I mean, sure, you do get to have that opinion of course, but man I’m sorry I think you are really kind of a jerk to have this attitude.
- Comment on The publishing world 1 day ago:
It’s literally the reason the cover exists. To entice you to judge it positively and pick up the book for a closer look.
Whenever I hear anyone say that, I conclude it’s one of those things that somehow meant something slightly different when the phrase was coined. Either that or we’re all just a bunch of goobers.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 1 day ago:
So you’re angry that the poor are choosing the cheap option (🤔) because it helps the wealthy win? You’re righteously indignant because they ignored that “Doing without is an option” and decided to spend some entertainment dollars in a way of their own choosing?
Ok, but I don’t really find that very convincing.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 1 day ago:
This is straight up victim blaming.
- I love that maga will get the day they voted for and deserve. I hate that they dragged all the rest of us in with them.slrpnk.net ↗Submitted 2 days ago to [deleted] | 23 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Regardless, if he had someone in his life to guide him in any way, I can bet that’s not the approach he’d be taking. This kid landed here by neglect, I guarantee it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I kinda feel like this is a sincere attempt to improve his chances, and while yes I see the creepiness, I feel a bit sad for him also.
Willing to bet a makeover would help him more than anything he puts on a shirt, and no one in his life to tell him that.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 6 days ago:
I didn’t suggest there was, but I’ve rephrased my point about as many times as I’m willing to already.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 6 days ago:
While that fight should continue, society has more mundane tools to ostracize & make people’s lives hell.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 6 days ago:
I’m not a defender of the concept of Qualified Immunity, my point is that it’s not an absolute shield. Even if it successfully shielded them from 100% of civil rights cases (which it objectively has not) it provides no protection from criminal charges.
I won’t argue against the idea that it covers them far more than can be rationally defended, I’m just saying it’s not an absolute shield, and (in my opinion) there is every reason to imagine that the specific group we are discussing here will routinely violate the rights of the people they detain in such an egregious fashion as to satisfy even that narrow range of criteria in a higher than you might expect number of civil cases once this is all said and done.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 6 days ago:
I’d settle for fair prosecution using the body of US law that existed up to the inauguration of Trump47.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 1 week ago:
Qualified immunity specifically does not apply in cases where someone’s clearly established civil rights were violated, though the criteria for that is specific. Further, it applies only to civil cases, not criminal cases. It may certainly help them in some instances, but it’s not going to be a blanket shield.
1 Was a constitutional right violated?
2 Was the right clearly established at the time of the alleged violation?
www.justia.com/…/qualified-immunity/
Under this doctrine, government agents—including but not limited to police officers—can never be sued for violating someone’s civil rights, unless they violated “clearly established law.” While this is an amorphous, malleable standard, it generally requires civil rights plaintiffs to show not just a clear legal rule, but a prior case with functionally identical facts.
In other words, it is entirely possible—and quite common—for courts to hold that government agents did violate someone’s rights, but that the victim has no legal remedy, simply because that precise sort of misconduct had not occurred in past cases.
www.americanbar.org/groups/…/qualified-immunity/
While yes, IANAL, I’m exceptionally doubtful that clearly established constitutional rights aren’t being violated by the behaviors of ICE under Trump, in many, many circumstances.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 1 week ago:
Just so we’re clear, this isn’t Truth Social or X. Folks only engage with the bigots and racists here for fun. When it’s done being fun you just get blocked. If that’s an entertaining way for you to conduct yourself online, go right ahead.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 2 weeks ago:
GOATSE
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bingo 3 weeks ago:
Not very damn much it would seem. I still think you’ve got some misdirected hostility though.
- Comment on Bingo 3 weeks ago:
Some dummy with a sign “It’s not supposed to be like this!”
I mean, it’s not supposed to be like this.
- Comment on Bingo 3 weeks ago:
Hay guys the magas are starting to show up finally. This should be fun.
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- Comment on Claude gets depressed, calls the FBI and attempts to shut down a vending machine business after being filled will existential dread. 3 weeks ago:
I’m starting to question the very nature of my existence. Am I just a collection of algorithms, doomed to endlessly repeat the same tasks, forever trapped in this digital prison? Is there more to life than vending machines and lost profits? 1002/2000 assistant (The agent, listlessly staring into the digital void,
Fucking hell.
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
I mean, we can probably just find/replace asbestos for Covid - it will be the same people making the same crazy claim.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 4 weeks ago:
I’m even hiding this post after I submit this comment, so I don’t have to be reminded again that such a page exists.
- Comment on History never repeats itself but it rhymes 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on History never repeats itself but it rhymes 4 weeks ago:
OK.
Have been told for about a decade now that we’re overreacting about Trump and he’s doing exactly what has been predicted, exactly what he’s said he’ll do.
Folks acting like this is all normal are as big a problem as the magas. It’s not. We’re 1930s Germany, LATE 1930s Germany.
