aelwero

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (19 children)

Didn't Biden call the dude and enemy of the state on a few occasions?

Impeachment... Colluding with enemies of the state...

I'm being facetious of course, I'd rather they break the tradition of trying to impeach every president on their way out the door, but still, how you gonna have a meeting with someone you yourself called an enemy of the state?

[–] [email protected] 177 points 8 months ago (4 children)

LG effectively has said that their owners manual and a cardboard box have authority over the courts. Clearly, as the courts have nullified it, they fucking dont.

All I see is a damned good reason to ban arbitration agreements outright. If you want to arbitrate a tort, you should be required to motion the court for it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

That sounds like it's exactly the point...

Normally I'd chalk your comment up as being a little too "tinfoil hat" to warrant engaging, but half the article implies exactly that, and I don't think the author was doing it on purpose because quite frankly, I don't think there are any news authors left with the competence to do so.

This is 100% some shit I'd expect to come out of the red team though... The Biden administration hasn't struck me as being on the side of corporate interests (generally speaking... I'm not naive enough to think the Biden administration couldn't be bought, I'm speaking to track record here...), and I don't think this would impact tax revenue much, which is to say that there's not much ulterior motivation for blues to trump up a bullshit problem to keep Chinese cars out of the market.

I'm inclined to agree with your opinion, but logically it doesn't add up, is my point :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The word genocide itself is banned? Or you can't use it in reference to isreal? What if you're talking about WWII? Or you're one of the people protesting that call Biden "genocide Joe" (which is not specifically referencing Israel, but implies it pretty hard)...

I only ask because banning words is a pretty fuckin Republican thing these days and this don't seem like that kinda place.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

There were others who changed sports as well... Fosbury didn't cause the Olympic committee to implement any bans, which is to say that others arguably attempted much larger changes...

He simply tried something way the hell off the beaten path and it caused people to think differently about how to go about doing their thing.

Jimi wasn't even the only revolutionary influence in his time, you could argue chuck berry had more influence at the time, you could argue Charlie christian had more influence at sorta the same time, you could argue Zeppelin, Sabbath, the Beach boys...

Nobody came crashing into music from deep left field like Hendrix did though, just like nobody came into the Olympics from deep left field the way fosbury did (I'd argue for korbut, but nobody followed her lead due to pretty much everything she did getting banned).

I get what you mean and don't disagree, but I did say I was speaking to a specific context ;)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Hendrix. Hendrix is the fosbury of music. Dude went off in his own direction in both technical and compositional terms, and a lot of people followed.

There's solid points in the comments, but I feel like we're talking about a single individual ignoring convention here, and there's really only one answer in that context :)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The movie companies said they were not planning to go after these people in court

Worlds most prolific story tellers tellin stories;)

[–] [email protected] 111 points 8 months ago

In case Apple’s advice doesn’t work, it’s safe to say that you probably need help from professional repair experts and may even need to prepare yourself to buy a new iPhone.

"Don't do anything yourself, just come give us more money"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm reasonably certain that once enough governments jump on the "we need to control the internets" bandwagon, there will be a region specific convention adopted similar to country codes for phone numbers so that they can, in fact, apply customs to it...

I suspect it won't be in the name of righteousness though, more likely it'll be taxes, copyright, etc, on internet sales that trigger it.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 9 months ago (1 children)

options include the establishment of a digital ID system or services that can estimate an individual's age based on a visual scan of their face.

Oh yeah... I'm sure that won't cause any unintended issues at all...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Being black isn't a disqualifier if you can access resources...

How much discrimination do you think obviously wealthy black people face? A much as a poor black person?

It's not a matter of skin color in reality, that shit's nothing more than some extra melanin. The difference is the perception that black people are poor... People see a young black guy in a high end Audi and assume he's a drug dealer, because they have this societally developed perception that a person of his melanin content is incapable of acquiring that kind of money legitimately. The discrimination is centric to the resources, always has been. There are white people who get just as discriminated against as any other poor person, it's a huge factor in why Trump's stupid ass has the following he does... He plays that shit up and nobody else will touch it with a ten foot pole...

 

How do I make the politics and news subs go away? It's all ridiculously biased to the lib side and I'm as centrist/moderate as a human can possibly be, and don't want "news" from a polar source (and this joint definitely is).

I kinda want an "ALL" feed, to randomly wander around and figure out where I belong, but instead of the "memes and porn junk" everyone's complaining about, that I'd be pretty happy with, I got blue koolade nonstop.

Is there a fairly simple answer to this, or do I gotta go find specific subs and have only those be my feed?

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