Why enact common sense gun laws when we can just expand the surveillance state even more and just violate everyone’s privacy? (Well, almost. I don’t imagine Elon Musk is having his text messages read by an FBI LLM)

The only ones that can call them out on that is congress. And right now Congress is being run by a bunch of boot licking Republicans and spineless Democrats.

I don’t think you understand how much it is that jurors are not allowed to know about jury nullification. If it’s found out that they bring it up in the jury deliberations, or mention or even allude to it during the trial, they can be kicked off the jury immediately.

They basically shifted all the research that they were doing through alpha fold to Isomorphic Labs.

Edit: there’s a case to be made for the idea that they may have wanted to lower the public profile of the work they are doing in order to monetize it. Alpha fold was a non-profit endeavor, and switching it over to isomorphic labs may give them the opportunity to sell their research as a product instead of giving it away for free.

Go capitalism! 😒

Exactly. Their problem is becoming the fact that there is now at least 2 entire generations of people who have no idea what the “red scare” was. They have grown up knowing Russia as a capitalist country and now that capitalist country is the one that has attacked Ukraine with an eye for conquest. The modern red scare has become capitalists, or more precisely oligarchs like Putin and Trump/Bezos/Musk/et all.

Will the succeed in their agenda? Probably not, you have to flip actual Republican seats to do so. But dammit they’re gonna try.

I find this attitude defeatist. A not insignificant number of people who perennially vote for Republicans are in favor of a lot of Democratic socialist ideas. The problem to surmount is the decades of propaganda making the word socialism somehow demonic and evil. There is also the unholy marriage of the Christian church and republicans. Glued mostly together by the continual fight over abortion.

Not sure if you are blaming Congress for that or saying that we’re likely to have a repeat of that bullshit from Trump.

I have to admit the repeat scenario is pretty likely, there’s a lot of morons who are more than willing to dive in front of the fucking bullet for this octogenarian POS.

The question is, would any Congress have the courage and integrity to go after the mother fucker this time? Because the feckless Democrats just let Ollie North jump in front and take all of the blame wow Reagan walked free.

Still not an option because jurors are not supposed to know about jury nullification and lawyers are not allowed in any way shape or form to suggest it.

There is in fact a current case in the UK, which is the legal system that the US has based itself on, in regards to a lawyer insinuating jury nullification during their closing remarks. The lawyer is being held in contempt and is now awaiting their own trial for that.

Yes, there is an old saying that any publicity is good publicity.

And for about half a year Budweiser was on the minds and mouths of just about any media person who had a platform.

I would applaud their stock increase after the blow up over Mulvaney if it hadn’t been for the fact that they dropped her like a fucking rock the moment that shit hit the fan. They left her in the cold while people were sending death threats and harassing the ever living shit out of her meanwhile Budweiser tried their damnedest to convince the country and the world that they had completely reversed course on any trans inclusion or sympathy.

So the Budweiser corporation or whatever conglomerate they are a subsidiary of can get fucked I won’t touch that piss water for all the tea in China.

Because it’s a question about the constitutionality of whether or not they were within their rights to violate his.

This is a question for judges.

This is not the kind of case that goes in front of a jury.

I believe they’re citing two different rights in the Bill of Rights. They mention the Fourth amendment which provides against unwarranted search and seizure and then as an addendum they allude to the fifth amendment which provides against self-incrimination.

Do gay people seriously still use this kind of derogatory language in referring to their partners?

Or has this been appropriated by incels to make themselves feel superior?

I knew this was one of the things that they had banned. But I don’t actually know what it means. Or why it was something someone would ban.

I think the point was that if AP had published their “filter” and made it a separate and visible toggle setting in their code, this would have been fine. They didn’t choose that option though and this doubling down on the doubling down is just further proof of their disingenuousness.

Personally, I still find AP’s initial attitude churlish and distasteful. The belief that there should be some kind of divider built into the platform in order to “weed out the toxic elements” goes against everything the Fediverse stands for, which is the diversity of opinion without constraint. It is literally the reason why most of the people who left reddit are here in the first place.

What’s the word from “billionaires are job creators” people? Oh, yeah. Their the ones laying everyone off in order to use “AI”.

Correction, the SpaceX IPO is what briefly made him a trillionaire on paper. And yeah, that stock is in free fall too. Likely to be moreso when the locks come off for the people who got free shares as employees. If you look at the stock, and the way he set it up (his 1 share is worth 10 of everyone elses in voting power, as well as other weirdness) it’s not a long term stock. No one but a moron or a Musk Stan would keep it.

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I used to think this was an exaggeration. I am no longer that naive.