So this confuses me. They were a pirate site, and everyone knew they were pirate site, and then an investment company drops millions of dollars into them so they can go legit.
Doesn't that just expose the investment to lawsuits from all the companies whose content they were pirating? I mean, a studio may send a cease and desist letter but never pursue serious court action because there's no assets to take from a website that's run by a couple of college students. But once they get an influx if cash, now there's something worth suing over. Even if they stopped posting pirated content, shouldn't their previous acts still be subject to litigation?
Clearly that didn't happen, but I'm just wondering why.
The terms "actively harmful" and "misinformation" will be defined by your local Democrat commissar of course. I'm pretty sure every oppressive regime in history of mankind justified silencing their opposition on the grounds that they were harmful and spreading misinformation.
"I believe in free speech, but..."- all this means is that the same bullshit the left has been spewing for decades pushing gun control is now being used against the first Amendment as well.
Which is why they've worked overtime to make prior sexual acts inadmissible in court.
Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior, and often these things go to trial as little more than he said/she said accusations (which means it's impossible to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt and they never should have gone to trial in the first place, but that's a completely different argument).
"She's done the same exact thing 50 times and never cried rape before" is a powerful statement when you're asking the jury to basically pick who is more credible without any real evidence to support either side. So of course women and the government don't want to let you make that argument.
I despise the term "rape survivor". The term "survivor" is reserved for events that could have possibly killed you. There are plane crash survivors, wild animal attack survivors, murder attempt survivors, etc.
Rape is a traumatic physical assault, but unless there was another element to the crime that involved the risk of death, it's not a potentially fatal event and it's inappropriate to use the term survivor to describe people who have been raped.
LMFAO. I see the original site for the article had 4.2K comments. Any idea if some of the posters brought that inconvenient truth up?
Honestly, I've always thought Trump is an asshole, but at this point he has got to be the politician most scrutinized and picked at by the media in US history. I honestly don't care if the bad shit they say about him is true anymore, because they are just endlessly fishing for derogatory things to say about him.
It's petty and in bad faith, and says more about them than the alleged things they are reporting on.
If Russia hasn't already privately communicated that with the first NATO soldier they find in Ukraine they will kick off World War 3 by vaporizing every NATO country's capital they're doing it wrong.
That's the beauty of nuclear deterrence, you don't have to be able to win a war, you just have to be able to devastate the other side so bad that it doesn't matter who wins.
they have my phone number, credit card, etc.
Why in earth would you give a social media site that stuff?
Maybe I'm just a dinosaur, but I still view any sort of posting on the internet as the kind of place where somebody with a handle like "clitcrusher69" will anonymously post how they want to fuck your mom while you watch because you don't agree about the best Star Wars character.
It's not a place to be sharing personal information, and it never should be taken too seriously.
a “volatile, on-again off-again relationship of more than seven years”
That's what the judge called it. Yep, sounds exactly the same as a marriage to me.
Why doesn't Canada just formally declare itself an authoritarian dictatorship and cease the pretense of being a democracy?
If they ever develop a technology that flawlessly reproduces the feeling of having sex with a real woman, consider marriage and relationships dead.
If anything, the attraction of AI girlfriends is a form of commentary on how truly awful real women behave.
It's also hard to accurately capture your diet even when acting in good faith.
I had one of those apps where you record your calories and nutrients, and packaged food was pretty easy- you just select "1 can of coke" from the database. But if it's a serving of vegetables someone plated for you, was it a cup or 1.5 cups? Did they add a ton of salt that you don't know about?
You basically have to either eat all prepackaged foods (unhealthy) or prepare all your meals yourself and religiously measure and track every recipe component to get an accurate assessment.
His mistake was going down the parental rights angle and trying to work with the school directly. That's how reasonable people handle things, but we don't live in reasonable times- as he found out.
What he should have done is called Poison Control and told them one of his younger kids got into the bag and he doesn't know what the pill is or how many were in there because the school distributed them without proper markings and probably no prescription. Then he should have proceeded to file a police report and get on the evening news. He could have probably forced whatever authority licensed that clinic to do an investigation by doing this.
Bottom line: they couldn't give a shit about his rights as a father, but the school would have slunk away with its tail between its legs if they were exposed for potentially poisoning a child.
"2SLGBTQI+"
LoL, they just keep adding letters.
There was an episode in that series that highlighted stupid women and men that simp for them.
It's after a nuclear apocalypse and they are military officers in bunkers. The girl is in her bunker, and there's two dudes in another bunker. I think the girl had a crewmate that went outside where the radiation is supposedly lethal and that's why she's alone. One of the two dudes develops feelings for the girl over their radio chats.
The girl can swear she hears living people outside and ignores the two guys warnings and leaves her bunker. They hear screaming and the radio cuts off.
Pretty soon the girl shows up outside of the guys bunker (which is miles away) and convinces the guy who is simping for her to open the door and go outside. The other dude tries to stop him and immediately slams door shut behind him to protect himself.
Turns out all the "survivors" are some kind of vampire, and the girl and her simp buddy are turned. The episode ends with the last human guy in his bunker and his former crewmate is trying every code on the door starting with 0001. He tells the last human that he's got infinite time to keep trying until he gets in and you see the human guy sink down in his chair because he knows the vampire is right.
Agreed, but doesn't the Communications Decency Act render the government's lawsuit moot anyway?
Regardless of any promise Facebook may have given to "crack down on vaccine misinformation" (which is a statement so broad and vague that it can't possibly be construed to be a promise or contract that would be subject to consumer protection laws), they are given pretty much complete immunity from liability for the content on their site.
That's bright letter law, that I don't necessarily agree with, but it's been tested in court numerous times. They have no obligation to censor even illegal content, and can't be held responsible in any way for the things their users post. How did this joke of a lawsuit survive a preliminary motion to dismiss?
The key here is choice.
He chooses to live this way, which is cool for him. As Fight Club said, "the things you own end up owning you" so paring down belongings is appealing to me.
This guy, who doesn't even want to own enough belongings to fill the trunk of a car? Not for me, but more power to him for living the life he wants to live.
Some people want to own all the things, and if they can financially support that lifestyle, more power to them.
The WEF fuckers want to take that choice away from us. They want us all to live like this guy, "for the planet" or some other BS reason. Of course those rich fuckers aren't planning to give up any of the shit they own, that's just for the plebs.
And this goes right in to the equality gibberish that the left is always spouting. Women cannot simultaneously be the equal of men, yet fall victim to "grooming", "coercive control", etc. If men as a sex are presumed to be able to control women just by having stronger willpower, then women are not their equals.
I get that the dude's a certifiable retard at this point. Whether from before his multiple aneurysms or not, it doesn't matter anymore. But Jesus, for all little gophers that they have doing things for senators you can't tell me he doesn't have somebody that can fucking dress him properly.
Exactly. They also lack the ability to comprehends second and third order effects like how taxing a manufacturer or business simply gets passed along to the end consumer in the form of higher prices.
I can't imagine Ian Fleming or the original/real version of James Bond that he wrote having anything positive to say about trannies.
If you read past the underlines, he cares about a lack of diversity in a meeting of all men. LoL. What tripe.
No one in the real world thinks we have a strong economy. It's absolute bullshit to say that prices are up because of increased demand. If anything, demand has been reduced as people tighten their belts to deal with high inflation.
I read the book Shogun years ago, which is about a 1600's Englishman stranded in Japan. One of the major themes is the clash of cultures and values between him and his hosts.
There's a scene that has always registered with me where a merchant has their stall and goods destroyed; I can't remember the cause. The main character tells his translator that this is terrible and she basically replies: "Why? This man produces nothing. He exploits the farmer who grows the food by buying it for a pittance and then marks it up, selling it to us for more than it's worth."
I do believe that the "middlemen" that move goods to market and retail them do provide some value, but it's always annoyed me that no matter the industry, the middlemen always seems to make much more money than the producer.
South Asian store owner
Activists blame the incident on white supremacy
Of course they do, because every incident that includes zero white people is somehow an indication of white supremacy.
What it really is: Someone tries to rob Apu and he lays down the law; just like that dude in the turban beating the guy with a stick in the video that made the rounds recently.
This is the most I have seen of this movie and I'm so glad I didn't bother to watch it.
Harrison Ford and John Rys Davies are just tired and sad looking and there's about zero overlap between Indiana Jones and Fleabag fans, so I have no idea where that woman is in this movie.
So, Amazon's showroom will no longer carry the only thing I buy there. I guess I'm not surprised, as I've seen their video game shelves dwindle down to almost nothing over the last 5 years.
Their sale prices on video games and blu-rays were often cheaper than online retailers, with the added advantage that you could take it home immediately and not have to worry about it being beat to shit in shipping.
I wouldn't dream of buying a TV, appliance, or computer from them, so I guess I'll just never shop there again.