@marcelias IMHO, the US court system is now suffering because of it's reluctance to both penalize frivolous performative lawsuits, and to sanction parties for contempt of court.
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This Week In The 90sFound something remarkable (and also quite sad).
In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.
The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.
...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.
@DeathBecumsMe Oh yes. Porn bots are proliferating like rabbits, and the MAGAs and Elon fans are becoming more numerous and assholish by the day.
@sundeck I let Belem Knight (my alter ego) write up the hot fantasies, while I write up the longer stories.
@gulovsen It is very possible. Once the Fox News grandees start being humiliated and embarrassed on the witness stand, the groundswell of "FFS! Stop this shit!" inside Fox may become too loud to ignore.
Kashmir HillFascinating story: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979
At first the police just wanted two hours of footage from this guy's doorbell Ring cam.
"It was just the beginning.
They asked for more footage, now from the entire day’s worth of records. And a week later, Larkin received a notice from Ring itself: The company had received a warrant, signed by a local judge. The notice informed him it was obligated to send footage from more than 20 cameras — whether or not Larkin was willing to share it himself."
mtsw“So let’s be clear about what Abbott, Carlson and other MAGA types are advocating here. In pushing a pardon for Perry, they’re stating they believe that if someone plows his vehicle into a crowd of protesters, the protesters have no right to self-defense.”
I think this is steelmanning the actual conservative belief.
The thing they actually believe is that it's okay to kill liberals.
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-smearing-of-garrett-foster?utm_medium=email
@aeveltstra @ricardoharvin @root @eniko Yes, that was the correct course of action. He's just a steamrollering bully, and unless enough people tell him to ingest a good dose of STFU or they will leave, he is going to continue with that behavior pathology.
@muzikant @maxkennerly i predict that he is being paid to convert it to a subversive platform.
@EricCarroll @nebulousmenace @DataDrivenMD
I watched euphoria turn to total disappointment in the original Dot Com era as work colleagues quit for startups where their stock grants, for some of them, looked like they would become multi millionaires within 18 months. The grants ended up either as wallpaper when the start-ups crashed, or so far under water you needed a submarine to even see them.
I watched euphoria turn to total disappointment in the original Dot Com era as work colleagues quit for startups where their stock grants, for some of them, looked like they would become multi millionaires within 18 months. The grants ended up either as wallpaper when the start-ups crashed, or so far under water you needed a submarine to even see them.