Biden Administration's response to accusation of deploying "goons" to suppress dissent: conscript industry goons to stop people talking about dissent.

Have you seen any indication out of any recent DNC supporters that they'd place country over party?

For reference, the trigger for this violence appears to have been the imprisonment of Jacob Zuma, former president of South Africa, for contempt of court after he refused to take part in an inquiry into corrupt arms deals during his time as president. KwaZulu Natal, where the riots are happening, is Zuma's home province.

Your body, her choice...

They don't even need to do that. They can just parrot "Death of the author" and then make up whatever shit they want.

It's looking like this is less about the reader's interpretation and more about bringing authors to heel.

Bold of you to assume Twitter is a Western platform at this point...

I keep getting the impression that the vaccine itself is tangential. It's about imposing identity cards on everybody, enforced by a yearly requirement to check in and get the yearly vaccine or be denied access to basically everything. It's about governments giving themselves carte blanche to just rescind people's civil liberties now that they're becoming inconvenient and, hell, a pandemic's a much better excuse than "in the name of efficiency".

This is something that essentially every civil service ever has wanted. That's not to say your point about Bill Gates is wrong, I just can't see any way to prove or disprove such a thing.

I'm fairly sure that Da Jooz do not have exclusive ownership of the world's arseholes, you know.

Like dude, you are not any more representative of the community or the original work itself

I'm not sure that is their aim. They seem to want to redefine both, not represent them.

Clearly, she's not Black, only dark-skinned.

Pffft the real pros for go Delta Plus Ultimate II Turbo: Hypervirus

Yeah, I'm not arguing you on that point, not at all - I don't have a spinal-reflex-level disagreement with you, Imp!

I'm impressed. Sanjay Mishra managed to put out an entire article without once providing any meaningful data about the subject of the article. Bravo

Yeah, that's the logical one, but it sounds stupid, doesn't it?

it's either in signal transiting between dishes/cable connections or stored on a physical machine

You have very much more faith in your transmission media than I do! If I'm sending anything of importance, I'm keeping it until the transmission completes and we've done some checksums dance to verify you've got all of the data. Only then does it get deleted.

Any way I try and re-type that referencing Da Jooz it sounds utterly idiotic.

I get the impression that a Google privacy engineer is kind of like an insurance claims adjuster's job. It's not to help you, the user, it's to advise Google exactly how far they can go without breaking the law.

Just stopping to interject my usual comment. Don't say "Cloud", say "Someone else's computer" - it'll help focus your mind on the gaping holes in the cloud model.

I'm not sure that it's not simply that the DNC is doing Alphabet's bidding.

In progressive time that’s like, forever.

And yet the harms done by slavery, a practice which conclude in the US 150 years ago, are current, urgent and must be addressed now.

As I recall, the issue with intelligent design was that it was being taught as a science and yet failed to meet several requirements of this.

CRT fails this similarly, but I'm not sure if it's being taught as a science and so must be addressed on the grounds of it's many other failings.

It's a reference to Kasparian's bid for meme stardom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evh3wvVQuI8

It's a reference to Kasparian's bid for meme stardom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evh3wvVQuI8

Ana Kasparian has always been a lying hateful bitch.

You're just jealous because she's better than you...

EDIT: I can see I'm going to have to explain this one - it's reference to Kasparian's bid for meme stardom with this little rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evh3wvVQuI8

Wasn't there a suit filed against Portland due to their abject failure to maintain streets safe to walk down? Did that progress, and, if not, why not?