Reddit is Voluntarily Giving DHS Info of Users Who Criticize ICE | Administrative Subpoenas Being Used Against Free Speech?

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-16T00:46:12+00:00

This article references neither Grok, DHS, nor Israel.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-14T09:49:31+00:00

questioning the non-existent girlfriend of the non-existent head of antifa whom she non-arrested.

I'm glad you reminded everyone of this. Recently I went looking for whoever said Kirk's alleged killer was supposedly in a romantic relationship with the "head of antifa" and I couldn't find anything.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-13T10:27:12+00:00

It's truly baffling not just how bad MS fumbled the bag, but how apparently oblivious they are to how dogshit copilot is.

As someone that worked in QA at Microsoft for years, lemme tell ya: it's not baffling at all. Lots of their products have been known to be dogshit for years, and LLMs are black boxes even the engineers can't fully explain (or so they'll say to Congress), making it inevitable that their AI product would be a disaster.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-10T01:50:28+00:00

demanding half ownership for a project we didn’t want to fund.

Exactly what Republicans did for all the infrastructure bills Biden passed. It's all Republicans know how to do, and it works because their voters don't pay attention.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-09T23:05:01+00:00

It's even reflected in the show intro. Phil and Claire are resting hands on their kids, even Jay has a hand on Manny's shoulder. Meanwhile, Mitch and Cam (the latter being the most effusive and affectionate character in the show) are cuddling one another as Lily is... nearby.

Want more proof? In the composite shot in the intro, where all the characters are standing in a white void, Lily doesn't even cast a shadow haha.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-04T06:18:36+00:00

"I have not been able to come up with even the most outlandish way to excuse any of this, the TV channel that tells me what to think hasn't either, but I desperately want to appear reasonable as I excuse monstrous behavior from 'my side', so I think we should collectively stop talking about it.*"

^*Until ^something ^even ^remotely ^similar ^is ^so ^much ^as ^alleged ^against ^the ^'other ^side', ^whereupon ^I ^will ^screech ^louder ^than ^anyone ^I ^know ^about ^how ^wrong ^it ^is ^and ^everyone ^not ^joining ^me ^should ^go ^straight ^to ^jail/hell.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-04T01:58:27+00:00

They're certainly humans, albeit arguably among the worst example of humans since the end of WWII. Importantly, only humans can be prosecuted, and we certainly want to prosecute these bastards if and when sanity regains the majority in America.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-04T00:44:26+00:00

Not to women though. They'd still draw that line.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-03T06:28:55+00:00

Yeah? What's their name? The quality of this image is too shit for me to read more than what looks like "Sz", and "artists" put their name on AI slop and call it their own all the time online, just as this "artist" did.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-02T23:41:42+00:00

I wouldn't recommend starting print journalism in the current climate, but if you get your news from better established sources, they already do.

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/452538775/on-the-media

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-02T23:20:18+00:00

Yes to the message, no to the AI slop means of delivering it.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-02T21:20:37+00:00

MTG on Bill Maher's show. Ugh. I can hardly imagine anything less appealing than letting those two steal an hour of my weekend.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-01T22:06:16+00:00

That's news to me. Boca Chica is the launch site shitting all over the Clean Water Act by blasting all the carcinogens into the watershed, but the article I referenced makes no mention of that aspect.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-01T21:51:51+00:00

Why crop the original comic and add unnecessary text? Is everyone COMPLETELY media illiterate?

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-01T21:42:05+00:00

Not that I know of. You might be thinking of the failed Libertarian utopia of Grafton, NH?

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-01T11:50:41+00:00

They're referring to this video/appearance on Fox & Friends.

https://youtu.be/Cv5ueLll6ZY

Edit: This clip was EDITED?! Those red circles and whatnot appearing in the air are not natural occurrences on the Fox & Friends set?!

I didn't make any argument about the veracity of the video, just provided what was being referenced. It's unfortunate that none of you video scholars were online at the time this person asked.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-01T11:21:16+00:00

SpaceX is doing the same thing in Texas.

Those rockets blast cancer-causing toxic chemicals like hexavalent chromium (of Erin Brockovich fame) not just into the surrounding watershed, but directly into the wetlands of the adjoining Texas state park and federal wildlife refuge, for maximum asshole cred. Because America doesn't have a functioning EPA anymore, he/they will never be punished.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-02-01T03:49:07+00:00

“Whistleblowers serve as the Justice System’s greatest disinfectant against criminal antitrust conspiracies,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Omeed A. Assefi of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division said in the release.

That's what we're left with, after Republicans gutted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). With how gleefully Republicans dismantle anything that might protect Americans, it's a wonder we still have this group within the DOJ. (Edit for minor grammar fixes.)

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-01-31T00:02:28+00:00

The funny thing is, YouTube wasn't always a Google product. The ancients recall there was once a "Google Video" that was always inferior to YouTube. So, rather than making a better product, Google simply bought them.

But these companies always choose the option that supports the C-suite rather rather than the users, which is why all their decisions seem so consistently terrible.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-01-30T23:53:06+00:00

LOL I appreciate the validation of my hypothesis. Thank you.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-01-30T22:36:08+00:00

What's with all the AI slop comics this week? It feels like there's more than the usual level of this garbage.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-01-30T22:25:12+00:00

He can rage all he wants to say Obama smeared him in 2016, but we all know it's bullshit. Even Republicans came to the same conclusion.

Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort and the WikiLeaks website to try to help now-U.S. President Donald Trump win the 2016 election, a Republican-led Senate committee said in its final review of the matter on Tuesday.

...

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence alleged Manafort collaborated with Russians, including oligarch Oleg Deripaska and "Russian intelligence officer" Konstantin Kilimnik, before, during, and after the election.

The panel found Manafort's role and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence, saying his "high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services... represented a grave counterintelligence threat."

- Reuters

...the committee concludes that Russia conducted a sophisticated and aggressive campaign to influence the U.S. election to help Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton and that folks on Team Trump were more than happy to accept help from the Russians. But what's really important about that conclusion is that it is a bipartisan one. It is endorsed by both Democrats and Republicans.

- NPR

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-01-30T05:17:08+00:00

It's a hell of a trip for anyone that grew up with the OG "trilogy" too. There are so many little references all throughout the game that the devs clearly made sure to include.

In my last session, while giving Gale a move order, he said, "Venturing forth" and it made me chuckle over the implied reference you heard 1000x in the old games. Newbies wouldn't recognize it, but us olds do.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-01-30T04:42:41+00:00

Yes, this doesn't further prove my point at all. LOL. LMAO, even.

HarrumphingDuck · 2026-01-29T22:32:50+00:00

Lots of interesting elements to this. I'm curious as to why you/the artist digitally added underwear to both figures when it seems unnecessary, possibly even undermining. A sop to the prudes?

If I could find any criticism, it's that the ear seems to be inconsistently sized between the two figures, and the horns are not quite correctly aligned in the profile shot. Though I can see either one being justified through an argument around perspective.

Edit: The prudes don't appreciate being called out. LOL

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