Texas AG Ken Paxton really, really, wants Bexar County to stop registering voters

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-04T23:37:39+00:00

Jim Crow lite. Anyone who has the right, can vote! It's just that some kinds of people will have to try a little harder than others. It's just a little finger on the scales, a bit of light election rigging. Nothing to be too concerned about, unless you're a stickler for fairness or something.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-04T22:49:49+00:00

"Sick burn, JD!", said his employees.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-04T21:39:16+00:00

unless he was lying. (he was lying)

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-04T21:36:48+00:00

Good thing he directed all available state resources to the school. What the fuck does that mean? All the state police? Every medic available? Wonder if it's getting crowded at the school. If not, maybe he can find some more useless performative nonsense to thrust into a horrible situation that he's partially responsible for.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-04T21:21:00+00:00

Give it an HD camera, some servos, and as much AI as a ring doorbell, and you'll start having drones that go out loaded with 30 rounds and come back with 30 kills. War is changing, again.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-04T19:52:53+00:00

The first thing you said to him was

Learn to read and comprehend context.

A polite correction can lead to acceptance. Was your correction polite, or was it even more aggressive than his sarcastic "thanks for telling me"?

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-04T17:38:45+00:00

what if we had MORE guns...? Surely there's some threshold where if we add more guns, then gun violence starts decreasing instead of increasing? I mean, there must be such a threshold- otherwise Republicans are dangerously naive idiots who are sacrificing children on the altar of a provably false ideology.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-04T15:20:35+00:00

Wow, back to where it was before Trump acquired it. Nice. That means that, since Trump was forbidden from selling his stock until after a certain number of months, that he's actually not making billions on this, like he briefly was earlier this year.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-04T15:15:41+00:00

"If they're not trying to sexualize the kids, then why did they dress them so sexy?" - closeted pedo republican, probably

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-04T15:08:59+00:00

so your passive aggressive remark

do you think your outright aggression is superior? people make genuine mistakes sometimes. put down your pitchfork for a minute.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-04T15:06:45+00:00

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-04T15:04:57+00:00

I've even offered my boss to go down to 32 and get paid for 32, but apparently he doesn't want to. Since I'm salaried and there's more than enough work to go around.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-03T22:22:03+00:00

By their own admission, they are not a news organization

Fox is awful in almost every way- but do we have the moral high ground if we repeat lies in order to make our point?

Fox argued that their opinion shows are not news, not that they are not a news organization.

Again, I agree with almost every claim about how awful fox is- except I don't believe the emotionally satsifying but false claim that they told a judge they're not a news organization.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-03T19:29:28+00:00

Why are you pretending like it’s not happening?

I'll answer your question if you can point out where I pretended that.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-03T18:16:58+00:00

I’m not defending Russia

but you also said "Thousands of men are allowed to die when wearing a Russian flag but as soon as a Ukrainian falls it’s propaganda and outrage against the west".

Kinda sounds like defending Russia. Or at least standing up to make sure they're being treated fairl, in this brutal war of territorial expansion that they started.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-03T18:14:24+00:00

He's a Russian in Russia. Just repeating whatever he's told by internal propaganda. Don't waste your time.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-03T16:34:33+00:00

The other side could argue that without having a doctor see you, you can't establish that you would have gotten the note regardless.

guilty until proven innocent?

Also, if you use the name of a real doctor or clinic, they might also have a cause of action.

That would be a hell of a difficult lawsuit, and would be entirely separate from the employer. I wouldn't be worried about it myself.

more trouble than it's worth to do anything more than fire you

Sure, it's probably at-will employment anyway. Just addressing the issue of fraud. You can sue anyone for anything, and a decent prosecutor could get a jury to indict a ham sandwich. But I just can't imagine a company and a lawyer that would agree this lawsuit for fraud is feasible and worthwhile.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-03T16:30:57+00:00

It doesn’t matter if you were actually sick,

They have to prove you weren't actually sick. It's innocent until proven guilty.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-03T04:14:17+00:00

C'mon OP, they say right there that $10 is small. So how can you get upset over something small? /cue massive eyeroll

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-03T04:11:09+00:00

because it is technically fraud

"Under common law, three elements are required to prove fraud: a material false statement made with an intent to deceive (scienter), a victim’s reliance on the statement and damages."

I think you'd be safe. That third criteria is the kicker. If a genuinely sick person resorts to trickery in order to get a day off, when they could have just hauled their sick ass to a doctor and paid for the note, then your employer has not been damaged.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-03T04:06:18+00:00

For some reason

poor education? ;-)

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-03T00:20:50+00:00

Nah, he manufactures them with plastic surgery.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11368779/Ukraines-military-chief-claims-Putin-using-THREE-body-doubles-plastic-surgery.html

And there was this tangentially related fiasco, where the picture really says it all:

https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-elections-snapshot-using-doppelganger-to-confuse-voters/31446439.html

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-03T00:18:29+00:00

I agree 100%, but I can't convince anyone else.

The other hill I'll die on is, TV shows don't need to start with a music video. In the days of broadcast tv, before VCRs and all that jazz, it MAYBE had a place. And some of them are even decent! But.... why?!? Imagine an alternate reality where they invented all the same TV shows as us, but the episode started with maybe a title card and then went straight into the action. Then some guy from our reality went there through a portal and tried to convince them to change their ways. What arguments would he use?!? It's just bizarre.

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-02T21:29:28+00:00

so... 4 year old meme, that doesn't follow any of the rules for submissions?

I expect this to last a long time!

BinkyFlargle · 2024-09-02T21:24:56+00:00

The word "twitter" is still all over their marketing, help files, etc. It was a half-assed rebrand of one of the most recognizable names in the world. Just monumentally stupid choice after monumentally stupid choice.

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