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trs8080

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    Comment #34074940

    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 us…

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    Comment #34072850

    I'm siding with not banning journalists on an absolute free speech platform. > Orwellian Ok bud.

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    Comment #34072671

    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 th…

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    Comment #34020982

    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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    Comment #34020958

    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 usua…

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    Comment #34015818

    "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 g…

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    Comment #34002212

    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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    Comment #34002143

    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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    Comment #33992689

    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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    Comment #33992386

    > 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 …

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    Comment #33909443

    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 abou…

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    Comment #33909295

    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 form…

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    Comment #33909182

    Being concerned about a pattern of behavior is paranoia now?

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    Comment #33897755

    "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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    Comment #33885182

    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 trus…

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    Comment #33883803

    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 de…

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    Comment #33833165

    "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%…

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    Comment #33833008

    "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 impor…

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    Comment #33821016

    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 …

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    Comment #33820102

    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 t…