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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pffft. Next up, FDA declines to approve aspirin for headaches. Give me a break. The whole rent-seeking bureaucracy around American medicine is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

It is comedy gold to me that people in this thread think self-defense is somehow a “right wing” issue, like they forgot all of human history. A bunch of ignoramuses who never lived with measles refusing to vaccinate their children.

Pure brain rot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This guy must be trolling.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

“Neutral” to what, precisely? Ireland is one of only 8% of countries on this planet that are still considered full democracies, a number that’s rapidly dwindling as the authoritarians gain political ground. And you think Ireland should be “neutral” to the piecemeal extirpation of democratic civilization because, what, Russia and China and the fascists in the US and Europe will just leave Ireland alone?? That we shouldn’t have active deterrents? Nobody is asking Ireland to go to war. They’re asked to be able to defend themselves.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

These are billionaire CEOs, not artists. There’s nothing particularly mysterious about their work, which you can learn all about from the many, many self-fellating autobiographies their ghost writers churn out every year.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I can't imagine how hard it must be to manage a company as big and complex as YouTube.

To be fair, not at all. Someone in her position would be making broad decisions, such as “should we have a downvote button,” and spending her time courting advertisers and handling the whiny board of directors, who are mostly geriatric babies.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would’ve bought a Tesla years ago, if it weren’t for that piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

As a cohort, the American gerontocracy is uniquely shitty. You almost have to admire the boomers’ tenacity to destroy everything before they die.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Violent criminals are a fairly small fraction of total inmates, and a whopping 76% of the Texas jail population hasn’t even been convicted of a crime.

Also, Texas loves rapists and most of them aren’t in prison anyway. Not to mention Abbott just pardoned that convicted homicidal murderer.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

To be fair, being smart is famously correlated with getting hit in the head for a living.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don’t think that’s quite right, because there’s no instruction associated with spreading lies about someone. You don’t have to say “you should attack this person based on this [random lie]” to be guilty of libel. The lie itself causes the bad consequences that now make you guilty.

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