Yes that is the legal justification. I am not interested in the legal justification. Laws are not inherently good. They were clearly paid less than their worth if there’s six figure payouts to be had here.
This is the fundamental injustice of capitalism. The owner pays you a small amount and keeps all the profits. A child would recognize that as unfair.
This feels like theft. Maybe not technically legally but the people who did the chatting aren’t getting the money. Capitalist hellscape
Parents raised their own alarms, with several pointing to the political division Kirk’s presence would inevitably import onto campus
Peeve: it’s not the division that’s the problem. It’s the hate and lies.
Microsoft is probably salivating at the idea of being the only legal OS provider.
Republicans value in-group loyalty more than anything else. That usually is part of conservatism.
If it was that easy to get to trump, I assume someone would have door-dash’d him something lethal already.
I don’t think it matters. It’s like sports. They might have a particular manager or player but they still love the team.
If they won’t use signal or similar then they’re kind of shitty, but sometimes with friends and family that’s how it is.
People should stop using Facebook products.
I’ve never paid a subscription for YouTube. It’s been, what, like $10/mo for ten years? Can buy a lot of media drm free for that $1200.
Republicans are bad people who value personal power and in-group belonging more than anything else like morals or consistency. They are bad people. That’s how bad people make decisions.
I just saw a play that has a plot point about how someone gets robbed by some racist, well connected shits, and the police won’t do anything to help. The closest he gets to justice is vigilantism, where he hunts down and shoots 3 of his assailants dead. Only then does anyone start to listen to him, but when he agrees to talk peacefully they shoot him dead.
I’m not sure “the only way you’ll get justice is with your own bloody hands” was the author’s intent, but that seems to be the message.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-gooder_derogation
Some people are very fragile and have poor emotional regulation. When they see other people doing good, it makes them feel bad, so they lash out.
Environmentalism, biking, veganism, all commonly evoke this behavior.
Mistrust and anger with the federal government appears to have contributed to a willingness of some of the jurors to nullify, meaning they refused to side with prosecutors to send a larger message, people familiar with the jury’s deliberations told CNN.
Good. Nullify everything these assholes do.
It’s a post-truth world for many people and maybe always has been. Feelings are the only things that matter. The “facts don’t care about your feelings” line was, as always, projection.
I think few people think they’re reasonable and not extremist, even when they are relative to the Overton window.
Like, the guy who wants to deport all immigrants thinks he’s a centrist because he doesn’t want to kill them.
I switched to Linux a year or two ago. Pretty much every game I’ve played has worked fine. (Elden ring, guild wars 2, nioh2, pillars of eternity…)
Even non-steam stuff was basically click and go with Heroic launcher
Seriously, folks, how hard is it to just walk away?
I read recently that “will power” doesn’t meaningfully exist, but it’s rather the result of many other factors. That said, many people seem to be bankrupt of what one would call willpower. I don’t know why.
Maybe it’s the capitalist hell scape. Maybe it’s the plastic in our bodies. Maybe people are just largely social followers, and with a large enough contingent of idiots many people who would behave better follow down into the slop.
They’re still there for, well, I can think of three reasons.
People vote for them. Organizing people to vote is hard for various reasons, but that mechanism is still present.
They’re not murdered. Always an option, but certainly an escalation that doesn’t scale well.
They’re not expelled. Wikipedia says "In the entire history of the United States Congress, 21 members have been expelled: 15 from the Senate and six from the House of Representatives. Of these 21 members, 17 were expelled for supporting the Confederate States in 1861 and 1862. ", so that’s not a commonly used option.
Personally I worry that if non-violent options fail, more people will see violence as an acceptable option.
Yep. Infrastructure shouldn’t be privately owned.