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Billionaire-Backed Conservative Legal Groups Are Paying for Judges’ Luxury Vacations
We should try making bribery illegal again. That would be fun.
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Billionaire-Backed Conservative Legal Groups Are Paying for Judges’ Luxury Vacations
We should try making bribery illegal again. That would be fun.
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Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support
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It makes some sense for business & enterprise stuff, but not for household/consumer computers & devices. That's just rent-seeking and forced obsolescence. There is no good reason a home computer from the past fifteen years should have security patches withheld because the manufacturers want people to throw them away and buy and brand new ones.
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Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more
Democratic Gov Tim Walz, who vetoed a bill last year that would have boosted pay for Uber and Lyft drivers, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he was concerned because so many depend on those services, including disabled people.
I get the sentiment, but relying on private for-profit companies to provide basic transportation services in a city is stupid. That's how Minneapolis got in this situation.
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville doubles down after blocking hundreds of military promotions: 'I don't care if they promote anybody'
He's an ass, but this isn't single-handed. He only has this power because his fellow Republicans (and Manchin, and probably Sinema) are allowing it. If a handful of Republicans wanted to fix this, they absolutely could.
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Putin's suggestion of Ukraine ceasefire rejected by United States, sources say
I'm pretty sure the Ukrainians will cease firing once the Russians leave their country and stop trying to murder them.
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Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment
I have nothing against advertising in general, but I won't tolerate OS-level advertising and I don't want ad-subsidized hardware.
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A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this?
Oh, I very much doubt that he's the only billionaire who's written a letter like this to Google in the past year.
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Data is a bad man
He's also been regularly compromised by sketchy backdoors placed by the manufacturer in his firmware and remote code execution exploits.
But to be fair, anybody on the bridge who knows how to work the consoles could kill everyone aboard if they wanted.
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Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms
The RIAA vs the AI industry... Can they both lose?
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Lawyers who sunk Elon Musk's big pay package are now asking for nearly $6 billion worth of Tesla stock. Musk doesn't seem happy.
It's really hard for me to feel sorry for any of the parties involved so the ethics feel weird.
I guess the law firm saved the shareholders from being fleeced and they want their cut. It's obscene, but still a small fraction of what Elon would've walked off with.
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Haley: The Senate is the ‘most privileged nursing home in the country’
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For one, he destroyed the legitimacy of the federal judiciary & supreme court. Which is terrible, but great. Like Voldemort.
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Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR
This is more bark than bite, imo. They're just threatening to withhold products at this point, but as the article points out:
So... go right ahead. Let's see how this really plays out.
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Top up or down?
I only flip if the bottom bun is losing structural integrity.
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Judge dismisses Disney lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis alleging retaliation
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Yes, but the judge is right wing hack and doesn't care.
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Liberal groups seek to use the Constitution's insurrection clause to block Trump from 2024 ballots
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Exactly. It would be beyond stupid for "Liberal groups" to try to disqualify him now. He's on track to sail through the primaries and lock up the Republican nomination. Never interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake.
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I too prefer spending less money for a better experience.
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Trump cancels news conference to release report on 2020 election
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Post how you like. Don't mind pedantic gatekeeping.
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Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support
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Honestly, a bit of both. It probably gets more hate than it deserves but there's a lot of pointless change just for the sake of changing things. It's better than Win10 on a Surface, touch screen and pen support have improved. But beyond that, I don't really see a reason to jump to it until they force the issue by ending support for 10.
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Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
It's a shame this isn't working out, I was really hoping it would turn out to be a better way of doing self-checkouts.
The little convenience store on my way to work is nice, but I guess it falls apart in a larger store situation.
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What's your favorite fan-theory for a Movie or TV show you've watched?
Deep Space 9: The Prophets are future Bajorans that evolved beyond space & time, which is why they refer to themselves as "of Bajor" and have such a high interest in the fate of its people. The Pah-wraiths are just future evolved asshole Bajorans like Kai Winn & Jaro Essa.