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  1. What YouTube staff did here was stop this instance of their social media platform being used to foment white nationalism (Why are we using that term anyway? I thought those types hated political correctness?). That it still happened in the first place is a case in the point that the spread of such antisocial ideology is endemic to social media. No irony, just evidence of the issue that the hearing is about.

  2. Re:Cruel and unusual on More Jails Replace In-Person Visits With Awful Video Chat Products · · Score: 2

    "Crime" being a larger and larger number of acts that really shouldn't be labeled as such. Like drug addiction, or paying various fines for things that ultimately amount to being poor.

    Private for-profit prisons are fascistic, plain and simple. Collusion of government and private interests to institutionally exploit the people. In the pursuit of profit, the for-profit prison industry lobbies the government to increase the number of incarcerable offenses so they make more money incarcerating, under the guise of being "Tough On Crime". The officials that enact what the private prison lobby pushes for are predominantly of one political party in particular.

  3. Re:Legal activities should not be blocked on GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaccine Campaigns (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    "Legal activities should not be blocked"? I was unaware that GoFundMe was a government institution.

  4. There's a word for that... on Decade-Long Study: Measles Vaccine Doesn't Cause Autism, Even in High-Risk Kids (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "...since a controversial and ultimately retracted 1998 paper..."

    Fraudulent. The word you want is Fraudulent.

  5. Re:Wages of Wage Stagnation on Workplace Theft Is On the Rise (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    "Errors in pay" that are conveniently in the employer's favor is called Wage Theft if proven. Wage Theft is a crime.

  6. Re:The right to be wrong on Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    What if the right to be wrong affects others detrimentally? "Don't tread on me!" says the Gadsden Flag. The trodden upon in this case are those who can't be vaccinated, and to a lesser extent those who have vaxxed since vaccinations are not a perfect shield in a similar manner to seatbelts against crash injury. They are emphatically not the Pro-Pestilencers, as they cry to be.

    The freedom to recklessly swing one's fists about ends at another's nose.

  7. Re:They are paying taxes, just more direct on Amazon To Fund Computer Science Classes at 1,000 US High Schools (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean paying to improve things that you could personally benefit from rather than what society at large needs for everyone to benefit, including Amazon? That's what I see going on here. Refusal for such huge megacorps to pay taxes like Amazon does is refusal to pay for the upkeep and improvement of the social structures that make success for everyone possible. That's the true theft, not taxation.

    And now Amazon has their claws in those schools who now have to do what Amazon wants them to do or else the funding gets pulled. We saw it happen in NYC with the whole HQ2 deal.

  8. Re:Keep business out of education on Amazon To NYC After Reconsidering HQ2 Plans: It'd Be a Shame If Something Happened To Your Kids' CS Education · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Three places where profit motive has absolutely no place in a healthy society: Healthcare, Corrections... and Education. Profit motive in these areas only subverts the public good.

  9. The correct solution on YouTube Struggles To Fight Mobs Weaponizing Their 'Dislike' Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nexus Mods has had the correct solution to this problem for years already: Remove the dislike button.

  10. Re: California - "Should I move out?" on Study Reveals The Most Googled 'Should I' Questions In Each State (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    My sister works as a mortgage underwriter and on a lark managed to find an identical-layout house to our childhood home in Missouri. Ours goes for $150k. Out in Cali? >$1 million.

  11. Splitting them up is really the only option on Tim Berners-Lee Says Tech Giants May Have To Be Split Up (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Those "small players that beat them out of the market" that Tim speaks of? They don't. They disrupt the big boys' gravy train and then get bought, and then their novel new concept becomes part of the big boys' gravy train. So, ultimately, breakup needs to occur.

  12. SHOCKED! Not that shocked. on President Trump Accuses Twitter of Political Bias (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3

    Wingnut president accuses media outlet that doesn't bark at the GOP moon of "Political Bias". News at 11.

  13. Re:Look at all these jobs... on PC Case Maker CaseLabs Closes Permanently (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    I figured it out. "Make America Great Again" means either one of two things:

    1: It's a commandment to whoever succeeds him.

    2: It's actually Make America (enter another) Great (depression) Again

    ...Or both.

  14. Re: R.I.P. Tesla on Saudi Fund in Talks to Invest in Tesla Buyout Deal, Report Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The monied have a vested interest in the status quo, even if it's unsustainable. Are you really expecting them to have such foresight?

  15. R.I.P. Tesla on Saudi Fund in Talks to Invest in Tesla Buyout Deal, Report Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Think about it... Saudi fund investing in Tesla. Oil wealth investing in disruptive technology that can potentially obviate the need for petroleum fuels. If this happens, they'll deep-six that company because it's a threat to their cash cow.

  16. Re:States can get serious on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "and yes some Democrats are dirtbags on the issue too, despite what comes out of their mouths."

    So can you show me the numbers where the votes against Leahy's proposal were about equally D and R? Otherwise, it looks like a classic "Both Sides Are Bad (So Vote Republican)" retort.

  17. Chinese and their bureaucratic layers... on A Student Was Rejected By A College Because Of China's 'Social Credit System' (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    In America here, we just go straight to using the Credit Score itself as a social credit score. We don't have a second layer on top of it.

  18. Classic "It's only a joke" fallback on Game Company Receives Complaints About Bad Example Set By '%FEMALENAME' (kotaku.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Was only speaking Satirically" = "It's just a joke, lighten up". The classic capper to a round of bullying, trying to delegitimize the grievances of the bullied.

  19. More accurate analogy: Flower pot hat fad craze subsides, Flower potting enthusiasts rejoice as flower pot prices improve dramatically

  20. What about that SCOTUS decision? on Nearly Half the Patents on Marine Genes Belong To Just One Company (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I recall a uninamous SCOUTS ruling that states that naturally occurring genetic sequences cannot be patented. Shouldn't this apply to this case?

  21. At the very least... on Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    At the very least, it gives challengers to Republican incumbents who are against Net Neutrality another vector to assail the general Republican complicity in the Trumpster Fire.

  22. Security concerns? Gravity concerns. on Coming Soon to a Front Porch Near You: Package Delivery Via Drone (wsj.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am against "Drone Delivery" for one fundamental reason: Gravity. If a delivery truck has a mechanical failure, it's just dead on the road No harm done to the cargo. Gravity does not ensue upon my package. If a delivery drone has a mechanical failure, down it goes, and so does my package.

    If a delivery truck takes a hit, it'd have to be a pretty seriously heavy hit to damage my package. If a delivery drone takes a hit... All aircraft are designed first and foremost to optimize weight, because it has to work against gravity to even move. It just doesn't have the bulk to sustain damage like a ground vehicle does.

  23. Re:Not enough actual crimes on 23 Attorneys General Refile Challenge To FCC Net Neutrality Repeal (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Which of these Attorneys General are up for re-election in 2018, or are in a state where the governor that appointed them is up for re-election?

  24. What case is this?

  25. Re:Good. I could finally buy a new graphics card on Get Ready For Most Cryptocurrencies to Hit Zero, Goldman Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I am predicting a glut of second-hand used cards first.