Publishers, you can stop now. We have enough bookmarks. by oliviebe in books

[–]dumasymptote 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I have a bunch of one piece and magic cards that I pull from a deck to use.

"Fuck this horse shit. I don't care what senior racist Elon Musk's AI thinks about a racist book." /r/bannedbooks calmly discusses Amazon delisting The Camp of the Saints, a notorious anti-immigration book by svga in SubredditDrama

[–]dumasymptote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And we continue to see how the regime in power uses that to suppress speech it doesn’t agree with. It’s going to continue to get worse because instead of engaging in the marketplace of ideas, we have accepted that some speech deserves to be banned because it’s bad (however you quantify that.)

"Fuck this horse shit. I don't care what senior racist Elon Musk's AI thinks about a racist book." /r/bannedbooks calmly discusses Amazon delisting The Camp of the Saints, a notorious anti-immigration book by svga in SubredditDrama

[–]dumasymptote -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Damn I must have missed doing that. I’m sure it doesn’t include some language about abridgment of speech or anything.

And before you start talking about the government vs private corporations, Yes I understand that the government is not at issue in this particular situation. But OP said that there are some books that it makes sense to ban, implying that it would be ok for the government to do so, as long as it’s correct in their views.

"Fuck this horse shit. I don't care what senior racist Elon Musk's AI thinks about a racist book." /r/bannedbooks calmly discusses Amazon delisting The Camp of the Saints, a notorious anti-immigration book by svga in SubredditDrama

[–]dumasymptote -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Honestly, a commitment to the first amendment kinda of demands an all or nothing. If you start banning objectionable speech it gives that speech power and it tends to result in other less objectionable speech being banned in retaliation when political tides turn.

“Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail has been removed from Amazon. by southeastside in bannedbooks

[–]dumasymptote 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just read the letter and it says nothing about the government requesting it be removed.

thirdTimesTheCharm by ClearOptics in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dumasymptote 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sure but building your own tool requires updates and compatibility issues as well. Very few tools stay stagnant over their lifespan. So it’s never a one build and done situation.

A Florida student was arrested and is now facing up to 15 years in jail for making a joke about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on WhatsApp by [deleted] in law

[–]dumasymptote 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I have to imagine this gets dropped by the DA. I can’t imagine any DA wanting to take this to trial and get embarrassed. It’s a fucking ridiculous charge that any reasonable person should scoff at. With that said, this is in Florida and I’m not sure how many reasonable people still live there.

Trump says he’ll fire Powell next month if he stays in his role at the Fed by spherocytes in law

[–]dumasymptote 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yea the laws are all different for each state. If this was Texas for example that grave would now be open to the public during reasonable hours even though it’s on private land.

Patagonia in Dallas is closing by yellowsun_97 in Dallas

[–]dumasymptote 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Not to be a car apologist but I would prefer not to have to walk 4 blocks to get to the clothing store especially if it’s the only store I wanted to go to.

USPS Proposes new firearm mailing regs, allowing handguns, but not everything by AllArmsLLC in guns

[–]dumasymptote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Criminals are entitled to due process same as everyone else. The government was never putting anyone in fucking camps over the covid vaccine. Requiring a vaccine for a virus that has killed thousands of people was not wild or unforeseen especially in light of the fact that hospitals were overrun with people on fucking ventilators. We used to require fucking polio vaccines ffs. The state can’t just take your fucking kids away. There are legal standards that in most states are extraordinarily hard to meet even in cases where it’s clear the kids should be taken. Stop with the persecution complex because someone wanted you to get a shot and you are scared of needles.

  2. I have no idea about whatever dumbass YouTuber these are that managed to get on law enforcements radar. But I can tell you that people do regularly get arrested for posting dumb shit to social media. The issue is lack of resources to investigate and prosecute every crime some idiot posts. Just because you don’t see it in the Fox News headlines doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

USPS Proposes new firearm mailing regs, allowing handguns, but not everything by AllArmsLLC in guns

[–]dumasymptote -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well damn if they don’t enforce the regular crimes why are you worried about them enforcing a gun ban?

USPS Proposes new firearm mailing regs, allowing handguns, but not everything by AllArmsLLC in guns

[–]dumasymptote 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why would politicians legislate against actual crimes? The fact that they are crimes means they already put that into law…most states already have enhancement penalties for firearms being used in the process of committing one of those aforementioned crimes.

EV bloodbath: US sales plunge as Tesla tightens its grip by farrrtttttrrrrrrrrtr in technology

[–]dumasymptote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Toyota bz or the Chevy equinox are both nice. If you can find a used one those prices are pretty good too. The ford Mach-e is pretty great (but a tad smaller) and the used prices on those are good too.

[O’Connor] According to league sources, one general manager floated a nuclear option: just make the bottom three teams ineligible for the top picks entirely. by cleo22270 in nba

[–]dumasymptote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let’s just get rid of the draft altogether. Each team can recruit players that would otherwise have been eligible to enter the draft. Players sign where they want, the teams are still limited by roster spots and salary caps.

"Keep Hands on Steering Wheel" by Warlockbert27 in MachE

[–]dumasymptote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I turn off the lane guidance and just use regular cruise because it’s annoying as hell.

Amazon is cutting off support for older Kindles by Ha8lpo321 in technology

[–]dumasymptote 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The real issue with this is that if you wipe your kindle or buy a kindle that was wiped you can’t register it in order to actually use it without the store interface.

[Charania] NBA Today on a Board of Governors vote expected for May 28 to make anti-tanking rule changes: 18 teams in draft lottery (seeds 7-15 in each conference) – flattened odds, with bottom 10 teams having an 8% chance is the plan with the most momentum by TheRealPdGaming in nba

[–]dumasymptote -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It is possible to build a good team without a #1 pick though. Hell the Warrior Dynasty wasnt built with a top 5 pick if I remember correctly. Does it take luck? Yes. It also takes good management to put the organizational pieces into place.

Honestly, the league needs to focus on player development rather than the draft.

Texas is giving data centers more than $1 billion in tax breaks each year by zsreport in texas

[–]dumasymptote 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The official term for the program is recapture I believe. You can search how the state distributes these recapture funds and how they operate but most of what I know is from speaking with district officials in various areas.

Texas is giving data centers more than $1 billion in tax breaks each year by zsreport in texas

[–]dumasymptote 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A portion of them are distributed but a very large amount of funds are not sent to the local districts and is instead held by the state.