I don't care about baseball, but Sinclair's woes are wonderful, karma for the sneaky merger nonsense and the right wing disinformation 'must run' segments forced on local stations.
I wonder how long it'll take for police departments to begin directly funneling former military toys they never needed to far right groups like the oath keepers.
While in coalition government in the UK, Nick Clegg's political party, under his leadership, agreed to throw millions of the poor under the bus by rubberstamping cruel benefit sanctions (that were fortunately ruled illegal) in exchange for a 5p tax on carrier bags, then crowed about it for years like it was some great legislative achievement. The man is utterly tonedeaf, even for a centrist politician, and is more than happy to enable the worst of humanity if he thinks it will benefit him.
Nobody should have any faith in section 230 being reformed for the better in this system, there are too many people in too many pockets for that.
What are the odds that this turns out to be part of an organised mass reporting campaign by chuds to punish her for being one of the few female creators to be fairly high up on the leaked list of twitch earners? She was posted front and center on articles on right wing asshole tabloids like The Sun as though she was #1 on the list, and the internet being what it is, loves nothing more than to go after women, LGBTQ+ creators and minorities to punish them for the crime of existing.
Who would have thought corporations wouldn't do something they're not obligated by law to do? It's not like the broken system they helped create means they're obligated to maximise profits at all costs, even if it may lead to the loss of human lives!
Yes, but my point is that he was never in a position where twitter needed him to survive, they used him as a source of free content and when he became too much of an issue for them to ignore, the dumped him with no real ill effects. To a narcissist like Trump, that is unbearable, he's never been in a position he can't bully or buy himself out of repercussions.
But he's a rich, white conservative, his life experience has taught him that means that the rules don't apply, they only exist to be weaponised against the poor.
He's never been in a situation where he can't just take what he wants, regardless of the law, then tell the wronged party to sue as he knows the legal fees would be crippling. He was never in a position of power with Twitter, the platform existed before and after him, and that, coupled with the loss of his audience, will enrage him until the day he dies.
That comment reminds me of the interview Ben Shapiro had with the very right wing British journalist, Andrew Neil, where he had no defense for his opinions and behaviour, so he got mad and accused Neil of being a biased leftist as that's all he's got.
Given the subject material of Toy Story, the Ideal Toy Company Stunt Rider toy of Evel is what inspired Duke, rather than Evel himself, and Evel's heirs have no ownership of that. Amusingly, the IP respecting Knievel heirs are selling a reproduction version of said toy which doesn't seem to have any involvement from Mattel (Who bought out Tyco who bought out Viewmaster who bought out Ideal), funny that.
Unfortunately for the western world, being far right is not a crime.
Let's be real here, nobody named is getting fired, it'll be slaps on the wrist with one or two of the older people named getting put on paid leave, then pushed to take early retirement so it looks like they've done something without actually having to do anything. The only way cops get fired is if they blow the whistle on other cops, or need to be scapegoated to prevent backlash from wealthier, whiter constituents.
I am shocked, shocked! What's next, law enforcement officials being caught on camera colluding with far right groups so the can clear out so police can attack counterprotesters? Police departments running their own 'unofficial' secret social media packed with racism and far right lunacy? Police unions making it near impossible to fire people who have proven to be completely unfit to hold any sort of power? Police departments running recruitment ads on Brietbart? Police departments hiring people to train officers to shoot first, ask questions later and instill an 'us vs them' mindset? Police departments using qualified immunity as a selling point? Police departments leaking criminal records and other information to try and smear people of colour killed by officers even if they did nothing more than live in an apartment in the same building as an officer. Oh wait...
There's been a long term project on the far right to fill police departments with their people to help disenfranchise minorities and give them the ability to play out their shitty whims without any sort of repercussions, so these leaks will keep on coming, and little will happen aside from slaps on the wrist, they sure as hell aren't firing officers with far right ties as there'd be virtually no-one left in some forces.
And to think, all it took to get the hardest right conservatives to abandon their 'corporations are flawless angels who must be protected from the government at all costs' was a group of K-Pop fans pulling a prank on their precious god king. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so terrifying that a major western democracy could be taken over by people so petulant and thin skinned with such piss poor impulse control;
Probably traced, but this is all too common in comics and comics adjacent media. Some 'artists' have built careers out of tracing porn stills, see Greg Land.
Because if they blow endless amounts of money defending unconstitutional Conservervative feeling protection acts, there's less money availabvle for the things government is meant to do, and gives them another excuse for slashing government spending. When election season rolls around, they'll run on the government being broken, and people who've been shafted by republican government will lap it up without ever stopping to look at how it really got this way.
Right wing populist rule, same as Brazil, India, Florida... Their initial plan was do nothing, resist any sort of control measures because they thought it'd be mostly old people and the poor who'd get sick and die as protecting Brexit, their donors and 'the economy' was more important. Of course that changed when Boris caught it, because like most things it's not really an issue to conservatives until it happens to them. Unfortunately their handling of the pandemic meant the disease had already spread far and wide and now it's nigh on impossible to put that genie back in the bottle, especially after they've revoked all social distancing and mask rules and vowed never to lock down again.
Don't worry, I'm sure he's having his lawyers draft up another Murdoch protection act that will spare his media outlets there from lawsuits or having to moderate comments. No doubt he'll have it crafted with surgical precision the way he did with the last Murdoch protection law, leaving smaller outlets to fend for themselves.
They won't, they'll just skip over it the way they do the articles about the Trump admin trying to silence critics, journalists and whistleblowers as they only want to defend the free speech of people who want to use the N-word on twitter.
There are cases where more staff would have lead to bloat and made things worse, this isn't one of them. They had 500 people making the kind of Triple A game that other companies have struggled to produce with 2000. CDPR Management knew they were understaffed, more people would have helped but they didn't hire them, they just kept on promising versions for all the major (non Nintendo) platforms and crunched the hell out of those 500 people then put an unfinished game where even the working versions were broken, and kept those people crunching to fix as much as they could to stem some of the backlash.
On the post: MLB In Talks To Offer Streaming For All Teams' Home Games In-Market Even Without A Cable Subscription
I don't care about baseball, but Sinclair's woes are wonderful, karma for the sneaky merger nonsense and the right wing disinformation 'must run' segments forced on local stations.
On the post: LAPD Sees Your Reform Efforts, Raises You $20 Million In Bullets, Snacks, And Surveillance
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I wonder how long it'll take for police departments to begin directly funneling former military toys they never needed to far right groups like the oath keepers.
On the post: Facebook's Nick Clegg Makes It Clear: If You're Looking To Undermine Section 230, That's EXACTLY What Facebook Wants
While in coalition government in the UK, Nick Clegg's political party, under his leadership, agreed to throw millions of the poor under the bus by rubberstamping cruel benefit sanctions (that were fortunately ruled illegal) in exchange for a 5p tax on carrier bags, then crowed about it for years like it was some great legislative achievement. The man is utterly tonedeaf, even for a centrist politician, and is more than happy to enable the worst of humanity if he thinks it will benefit him.
Nobody should have any faith in section 230 being reformed for the better in this system, there are too many people in too many pockets for that.
On the post: Twitch, Others, Ban Amouranth Yet Again, Once Again With Zero Transparency
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'If you don't like hot tub girls you're a chud...' Yes, that's exactly what I said.
It's perfectly fine to dislike hot tub girls, but if you're organising or participating in harassment campaigns against them you're in the wrong.
On the post: Twitch, Others, Ban Amouranth Yet Again, Once Again With Zero Transparency
What are the odds that this turns out to be part of an organised mass reporting campaign by chuds to punish her for being one of the few female creators to be fairly high up on the leaked list of twitch earners? She was posted front and center on articles on right wing asshole tabloids like The Sun as though she was #1 on the list, and the internet being what it is, loves nothing more than to go after women, LGBTQ+ creators and minorities to punish them for the crime of existing.
On the post: Texas Pols Shocked To Learn Their Bill Let Gas Companies Off The Hook For Climate Change Preparedness
Who would have thought corporations wouldn't do something they're not obligated by law to do? It's not like the broken system they helped create means they're obligated to maximise profits at all costs, even if it may lead to the loss of human lives!
On the post: Trump Asks Court To Reinstate His Twitter Account ASAP
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Yes, but my point is that he was never in a position where twitter needed him to survive, they used him as a source of free content and when he became too much of an issue for them to ignore, the dumped him with no real ill effects. To a narcissist like Trump, that is unbearable, he's never been in a position he can't bully or buy himself out of repercussions.
On the post: Trump Asks Court To Reinstate His Twitter Account ASAP
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But he's a rich, white conservative, his life experience has taught him that means that the rules don't apply, they only exist to be weaponised against the poor.
He's never been in a situation where he can't just take what he wants, regardless of the law, then tell the wronged party to sue as he knows the legal fees would be crippling. He was never in a position of power with Twitter, the platform existed before and after him, and that, coupled with the loss of his audience, will enrage him until the day he dies.
On the post: Perfect Timing: Twitch Gets Compromised With Voluminous Leak Of Data Via Torrent
'Twitch is a cesspool that needs exposing!' posts a 4chan user without a hint of self awareness.
On the post: AT&T Set Up And Paid For OAN Propaganda Network; Yet Everyone Wants To Scream About Facebook
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That comment reminds me of the interview Ben Shapiro had with the very right wing British journalist, Andrew Neil, where he had no defense for his opinions and behaviour, so he got mad and accused Neil of being a biased leftist as that's all he's got.
On the post: Disney Defeats Lawsuit Brought By Company Owning Evel Knievel's Rights Over 'Toy Story 4' Character
Given the subject material of Toy Story, the Ideal Toy Company Stunt Rider toy of Evel is what inspired Duke, rather than Evel himself, and Evel's heirs have no ownership of that. Amusingly, the IP respecting Knievel heirs are selling a reproduction version of said toy which doesn't seem to have any involvement from Mattel (Who bought out Tyco who bought out Viewmaster who bought out Ideal), funny that.
On the post: Hacked Data Exposes Law Enforcement Officers Who Joined Far-Right Oath Keepers Group
Unfortunately for the western world, being far right is not a crime.
Let's be real here, nobody named is getting fired, it'll be slaps on the wrist with one or two of the older people named getting put on paid leave, then pushed to take early retirement so it looks like they've done something without actually having to do anything. The only way cops get fired is if they blow the whistle on other cops, or need to be scapegoated to prevent backlash from wealthier, whiter constituents.
On the post: Hacked Data Exposes Law Enforcement Officers Who Joined Far-Right Oath Keepers Group
I am shocked, shocked! What's next, law enforcement officials being caught on camera colluding with far right groups so the can clear out so police can attack counterprotesters? Police departments running their own 'unofficial' secret social media packed with racism and far right lunacy? Police unions making it near impossible to fire people who have proven to be completely unfit to hold any sort of power? Police departments running recruitment ads on Brietbart? Police departments hiring people to train officers to shoot first, ask questions later and instill an 'us vs them' mindset? Police departments using qualified immunity as a selling point? Police departments leaking criminal records and other information to try and smear people of colour killed by officers even if they did nothing more than live in an apartment in the same building as an officer. Oh wait...
There's been a long term project on the far right to fill police departments with their people to help disenfranchise minorities and give them the ability to play out their shitty whims without any sort of repercussions, so these leaks will keep on coming, and little will happen aside from slaps on the wrist, they sure as hell aren't firing officers with far right ties as there'd be virtually no-one left in some forces.
On the post: Microsoft CEO Politely Confirms Trump TikTok Fracas Was Dumb, Performative, Nonsense
And to think, all it took to get the hardest right conservatives to abandon their 'corporations are flawless angels who must be protected from the government at all costs' was a group of K-Pop fans pulling a prank on their precious god king. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so terrifying that a major western democracy could be taken over by people so petulant and thin skinned with such piss poor impulse control;
On the post: Sony Pictures, Defenders Of The Creative Industry, Appears To Be Using Fan Art Without Giving Credit
Probably traced, but this is all too common in comics and comics adjacent media. Some 'artists' have built careers out of tracing porn stills, see Greg Land.
On the post: Florida Presents Its Laughable Appeal For Its Unconstitutional Social Media Content Moderation Law
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Because if they blow endless amounts of money defending unconstitutional Conservervative feeling protection acts, there's less money availabvle for the things government is meant to do, and gives them another excuse for slashing government spending. When election season rolls around, they'll run on the government being broken, and people who've been shafted by republican government will lap it up without ever stopping to look at how it really got this way.
On the post: Will COVID Become Australia's 9/11?
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Right wing populist rule, same as Brazil, India, Florida... Their initial plan was do nothing, resist any sort of control measures because they thought it'd be mostly old people and the poor who'd get sick and die as protecting Brexit, their donors and 'the economy' was more important. Of course that changed when Boris caught it, because like most things it's not really an issue to conservatives until it happens to them. Unfortunately their handling of the pandemic meant the disease had already spread far and wide and now it's nigh on impossible to put that genie back in the bottle, especially after they've revoked all social distancing and mask rules and vowed never to lock down again.
On the post: Rupert Murdoch Learns Why Intermediary Liability Protections Matter: Australia Says Media Orgs Can Be Sued Over Facebook Comments
Don't worry, I'm sure he's having his lawyers draft up another Murdoch protection act that will spare his media outlets there from lawsuits or having to moderate comments. No doubt he'll have it crafted with surgical precision the way he did with the last Murdoch protection law, leaving smaller outlets to fend for themselves.
On the post: Reverse Warrants Show Feds Sought Data On Thousands Of Police Brutality Protesters In Kenosha, Wisconsin
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They won't, they'll just skip over it the way they do the articles about the Trump admin trying to silence critics, journalists and whistleblowers as they only want to defend the free speech of people who want to use the N-word on twitter.
On the post: Make It A Trend: More Modders Get Hired By Developers, This Time CD Projekt Red
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There are cases where more staff would have lead to bloat and made things worse, this isn't one of them. They had 500 people making the kind of Triple A game that other companies have struggled to produce with 2000. CDPR Management knew they were understaffed, more people would have helped but they didn't hire them, they just kept on promising versions for all the major (non Nintendo) platforms and crunched the hell out of those 500 people then put an unfinished game where even the working versions were broken, and kept those people crunching to fix as much as they could to stem some of the backlash.
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