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Comment Re:Deception is undemocratic (Score 1) 46

What have the Romans ever done for us? ... He said, posting on a phone or computer invented by the free market, on an Internet developed by the free market, on a free website whose operations are funded by the free market, probably having driven a car invented by the free market earlier this morning, sitting in a room climate controlled by free market developed equipment.
Should I continue or are you so mired in "I hate the free market" double-speak that you are beyond reason?

Fwiw, You know the EPA completely lied about ddt?

Geez if we could only go back to living in caves and 40y life span socialist paradise.

Comment Re:Great! (Score 1) 26

That actually happened to me.

My business (and me personally) have never had a Facebook account.

Imagine my surprise about ten years ago when I discovered a Facebook account for my business that had apparently been automatically created by them. I looked into this a bit and discovered that if enough people say they are at your business (somehow, they note their presence through their own Facebook account?) then Facebook creates an account for your business automatically.

I just ignore this thing that they created on their own. I don't have a Facebook account and my business doesn't either.

Comment Re:The EU should outright ban US social media. (Score -1, Troll) 99

Says "the voice of Satan".
Perhaps you forgot your sig?

Europe "we have free speech as long as what you say is approved, obviously"
US fell into that 2021-2024, I get it. You need to snap out of it. I hope you do.

I do find it ... curious ... that suddenly this aggressively pacifist bunch of milquetoasts who scurried like cockroaches when called out on their 2% defense budget "promises" (not just by Trump, but by Obama before him - WHO ALSO warned against EU's excessive RU-snuggling over NatGas as well...) are all marching in war-drum lockstep INSISTING that war is imminent? (And it's hard to tell if they'd rather fight Russia or Trump personally - their TDS is as bad as slashdot).
Germany ROARING that they're remilitarizing and Mertz pounding the podium very Kruschevian...sure. As if everyone will just *forget* that Germany a) did NOTHING since UKR was invaded in 2014. I think they sent some helmets when Trump was (the first) sending actual military weapons to UKR? b) Germany couldn't be dragged away from being all snuggled up to Nordstream 2 until that was ... no longer an option. (Let's watch the $43 BN in payments from EU to RU after the 2022 invasion... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FMapPo...)

The idea that "after Ukraine Russia will certainly attack Europe" might be politically useful but is breathtakingly stupid from anyone not in Latvia, Estonia, Poland, or Lithuania (who all have legitimate reasons to be nervous). To invent that Putin is somehow cracking his knuckles over the opportunity to conquer Europe as soon as possible couldn't be more laughable...unless it happens to now be coming from the EXACT PEOPLE who insisted in their younger days that the Russians would never do such a thing.

HILARIOUS.

Comment Re:What a strange set of coincidences. (Score -1, Flamebait) 33

The Sahara has turned a lush green wildland 230 times in the last 8 million years, as recently as 9000 years ago.

I 1000% guarantee you, if there were leftists then, they absolutely INSISTED this was humans' fault.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation.com%2Fth...

Hint: The warming effect of each molecule of CO2 decreases significantly (logarithmically) as its concentration increases. This is scientific fact. There was no "runaway greenhouse effect" on earth even when CO2 was MULTIPLES of where it is today.

Comment they were left behind by their own choices (Score 1) 99

For years they adamantly insisted they didn't need to upgrade their room making and navigation tech while Asian companies hungrily iterated improvements.
When other companies integrated vacuum AND mopping tech, Roomba refused because they'd rather try to sell you 2x separate $200 devices.

This is simply a case where an early leader got it's head so far up it's own ass it didn't realize it was being left behind. Or rather, it saw all the signs and insisted they were wrong.

Oh well. Evolution requires death of the unfit.

Comment starts with bullshit, IS bullshit (Score 0) 27

"Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century," with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050," says the lead researcher on a new study from the University of East Anglia in Britain.

Well.
As recently as 2018 widespread studies showed that only 3 of 20 wild population groups were decreasing, and the overall number of polar bears was increasing steadily.

Now the propaganda engines have gotten going, the litany is "well we didn't know the data very precisely before so we were guessing, making it appear that populations were growing when they weren't"

Funny how data is only considered precise when it validates that the sky is falling.

Comment Re:94% of Trump's cases lose in lower courts (Score 0) 138

There are two polar possibilities (ofc there are gradations between, for the pedants) :

94% of the time Trump is wrong and the Supreme Court is simply ruling on ideological grounds to support him
Or
This is a signal of vastly out of control lawfare, where legions of well funded legal teams cherry pick activist ideological judges to give them the rulings they want, which then fail when finally tested against strict rules of constitutionality

Personally I'd say leftists are just pissed that their usual passing lane is blocked - using the courts when they can't get legislation passed has been their (rather reliably successful) tactic for 50 years.

Comment TikTok divestiture law doesn't allow extensions (Score 3, Interesting) 21

The TikTok divestiture law, officially known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, mandates that ByteDance must divest its ownership of TikTok by January 19, 2025, or face a nationwide ban.

The law contains no provision for extending or changing that deadline.

Trump has no authority to extend or change the deadline since that date was written directly into the law.

Note that the date is almost a year ago now....

Comment Re:it's funny (Score 1) 32

It is also true that something that's nice and convenient isn't a necessity, either.

I fully agree that it's nice.
I fully agree that it's convenient.
It requires a fair amount of self-discipline; there are some employees that can handle that, and some that cannot.

Ideally, a company would evaluate you on your performance & productivity, not where you're sitting.

It's still not "a necessity" that's bullshit hyperbole.

Comment Re:Why should I subsidize EVs? (Score 1) 169

Scratch a liberal and you always, always find an absolute fascist.

We MUST contribute to the greater good, you say? There is no opt-out? Or else what?

And we all know who gets to decide what is the greater good, right?
Certainly not that ridiculous "democracy" that would vote against electric cars.

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