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  1. Re:That's becoming a meme on Republicans Are Reportedly Using a Self-Destructing Message App To Avoid Leaks (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't care if anything was actionable in the emails. At least one email that was required to be retained for official records was deleted after being subpoenaed, that was illegal.

  2. Re:Unemployment insurance? on eBay Founder Pledges $500,000 To Test Universal Basic Income Program In Kenya (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Unemployment payouts require you to be actively looking for work and only continue for a limited amount of time. UBI stipends would continue if the person is employed and would continue for a person's entire life. Though in this test the payout will only continue for 12 years.

  3. Re:Only 86%? I would have expected it to be 100%+ on 86 Percent of New Power in Europe From Renewable Sources in 2016 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you have adequate storage to overcome any temporary lack of generation.

  4. Re:What America really wants to know on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It can be used to make pasta, so yes, you can slather it with cheese sauce, or marinara or whatever your favorite type of sauce is.

  5. Re:Am I supposed to hate this or not? on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They probably would be considered GMO if people didn't mind starving to death.

  6. Re:"...which begs the question..." on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    I prefer taking it as the original meaning no matter how absurd.

  7. Re: So now under Trump... on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    They didn't undermine the democratic process to get Trump elected. They undermined it to weaken the position of whoever was elected. Since Trump was elected, his position is weakened by the apparent support of Russia. If Hillary had been elected her position would have been weakened by the information released.

  8. Holograms get press attention.

  9. Re:Does not matter on Are Robots Coming To Take Investor Jobs on Wall Street? (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's great for the company. As an employee, the company I work for is one of my last choices for investment. If the company does well, I'm not overly worried about my investments. If the company does poorly, I may be out of a job and need those investments.

  10. The ammosexuals don't even seem to understand that there can be any other positions except their own and some liberal in a safe room completely anti-gun.

    And it doesn't help that the outspoken liberals agree with them on this point.

  11. Re:Fast food on Report Finds PFAS Chemicals In One-Third of Fast Food Packaging (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    The USDA food pyramid was based on the food used to fatten livestock.

  12. Re:Second that on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 1

    More like what happened after the 2016 elections.

  13. Re:History lesson on False News, Absurd Reality Present Challenges For Satirists (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    He is getting paid for goods and services by foreign powers, which, while troubling, is not unconstitutional or even illegal.

    The senate is also available in two years.

    The soap box is being used, but only to express dissatisfaction, not to propose alternatives.

  14. Re:History lesson on False News, Absurd Reality Present Challenges For Satirists (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Among the exceptions is imminent lawless action, which is unlikely to apply to advocating a coup due to the lack of immediacy, but could easily apply to some other kinds of "political" speeches I've heard.

  15. Re: History lesson on False News, Absurd Reality Present Challenges For Satirists (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying we shouldn't vote?

  16. Re:History lesson on False News, Absurd Reality Present Challenges For Satirists (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is just another President, Bannon is irrelevant.

    Unlike Hitler and Mussolini Trump faces an insurmountable obstacle to becoming a true tyrant and dictator. The Constitution and the designed in Checks and Balances. Hitler was able to achieve his position of power due to great flaws in the design of the government of the Weimar republic. There was nothing to stop him when as Chancellor the President died and he just took over the office. Further He came into office with his own private military/police force that engaged in the more dubious acts of his government.

    That's incorrect. Hitler was elected on a platform of populism, then the population and his supporters slowly eroded away the protections in place until he could successfully be granted unilateral power.

    The Constitution is only as powerful as the people willing to stand for it's principles. When you have a majority willing to piss on the Constitution, putting power and ideology before the good of the nation, then the Constitution just becomes a piece of inconvenient paper. Soon you'll be hearing how the Constitution is too limiting to deal with the challenges of today's world.

    Then it's a good thing he appointed a supreme court justice that believes the opposite of that.

  17. Re:History lesson on False News, Absurd Reality Present Challenges For Satirists (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    In the meantime, I'd bet that he's violated the Constitution, in that I think it very likely that a government has had dealings with part of the Trump empire. Trump is going to make it as hard as possible to find out for sure, of course.

    Unless the dealings involved gifts of some kind instead of exchanges of similar value there's no violation. Past presidents have put their assets into a blind trust to avoid having to deal with such, but it is by no means required.

  18. Re: Indeed! on False News, Absurd Reality Present Challenges For Satirists (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    He didn't say that Trump wasn't, just that he was the least fascist of the available options.

  19. Re: Indeed! on False News, Absurd Reality Present Challenges For Satirists (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say indisputably responsible, he shares responsibility, but ultimately the responsibility belongs to the people that kill them.

  20. Re:Won't happen on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't take much to ruin a claim of zero emissions.

  21. Re: Reddit = a bunch of cowardly idiots. on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    He still won the majority of America, as opposed to the majority of Americans.

  22. Re:Sure. on Mexican Surgeon Uses VR Headset To Distract Patients During Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You might not forget, but it plus the local anesthetic makes it easy to ignore.

  23. Re:Banned for Doxxing on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The political leanings are relevant if non alt-right doxxers are not being banned.

    Note: I have no evidence that this is the case, just saying that you can't automatically say that it is or is not politically motivated.

  24. Re: Reddit = a bunch of cowardly idiots. on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Trump won because he listened to what the majority of America was concerned about.

  25. Re:There is only one thing I hate more than fascis on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    She wasn't even a Trump supporter, she had on a hat that made fun of his MAGA slogan. She was presumably pepper sprayed because it looked similar to the Trump hats.