He did that because the shitheads that follow people like Cult of Dusty were sending PewDiePie's follows death threats, so PewDiePie replaced his list with a single link to K-Pop band BTS as a half joke, half attempt to sic millions of teenage fangirls onto said shitheads.
Before this, PewDiePie also followed plenty of people who are not right wing, including Laci Green, Boogie2988, James Charles, and the aforementioned BTS. It's almost like he was using Twitter to follow interesting people regardless of whether or not he agreed with them, just like everyone else.
And The Last Jedi had the seventh-biggest opening weekend of all time (and third-biggest domestically, while CM barely made the top 20).
Incidentally, Avatar is still the highest-grossing movie of all time by a long way, yet it ended up almost completely disappearing from the public consciousness within a year after release.
This is an MCU movie with no competition marketed to pander to woke people so extensively that it was even released on International Women's Day. No one with a brain thought it was going to have a bad opening weekend. You won't get a good idea of how the movie has been received until next weekend. It's like The Last Jedi--that movie had a massive opening only to drop 67.5% in the second week, ending up making 33% less than The Force Awakens and having knock-on effects on the rest of the franchise. Captain Marvel probably won't turn into that sort of disaster for various reasons (primarily that it's not considered a core movie), but there's no reason to be celebrating some sort of political or moral victory just yet.
BTW, despite Rotten Tomatoes going to every effort to purge the reviews of bad actors, the audience score for Captain Marvel is still only 57%.
Actually, the overwhelming majority of people above the age of 12 do think that Logan Paul is a shithead, particularly in regards to the Suicide Forest video. Doesn't mean that the bout with KSI shouldn't have been referenced in the Rewind, but most people are fine with him not being actively included. You're right about PewDiePie, though.
The link says in the very first line that you can't be fired simply due to having differing political views from your employer. In other words, if you wouldn't fire a liberal for it, you can't fire a conservative for it either. Which goes against the comment I was replying to. Incidentally, nowhere in the post is it said that political activity is only protected outside of work hours, just that political activity can't directly interfere with business. Since James Damore's memo was in direct response to a request for feedback concerning a topic that's already political, a memo that wasn't even meant to be spread outside of a forum that was explicitly intended to be a safe space for discussion, it would be pretty hard to argue that in his case.
[I]t's nearly impossible to describe to a modern computer user what that means
Only if that user has somehow never heard of MMORPGs. A MUD is just a text-based non-massive version of that. LambdaMOO itself was more like Second Life or VRChat than a traditional MMO, but the analogy still stands.
These games, or at least most of them, were already banned by Saudi Arabia for various reasons just like other countries like Australia ban games. This specific news event had nothing to do with it. Just the media getting shit wrong again as usual.
Six percent is just standard volatility for Bitcoin. This is nothing compared to the 20+% drop it had over the course of a few hours a couple of weeks ago. Not to mention that it's already back up to $14k again. This is just someone trying to smear Bitcoin with facts that everyone has already known about it for years, and I say that as someone who recognized Bitcoin as a massive Ponzi scheme a long time ago.
People want to secure their homes in such a way that they can get in and out. Not you, and not anyone else. So get your fucking paws off of our private information.
As a card-carrying member of the ACLU, I'm having a hard time seeing what its mission has to do with Gawker. Even free-speech fundamentalists like us acknowledge limits, and one of those limits is the right to privacy. The only exception to that is if the speech is something newsworthy about a public figure, and that sex tape was decidedly not newsworthy.
With gawker out of the way, they're moving onto defending a clear scammer [wsj.com] against deadspin.
Who's "they"? Certainly not Peter Thiel, the guy who you and this documentary are blaming for the death of freedom of the press in this country. He has nothing to do with that lawsuit.
What's the better option? What they did, or publish and be damned (with probably at least a bunch of harassment for the guy), or withhold the name but not tell him they might publish in future if he keeps it up?
Very obviously the latter, as it's not the fucking job of one of the largest media companies in the US to enforce a private citizen's adherence to social norms.
But since you haven't gotten too many real answers to your question (which, if I understand correctly, is a request for a durable, long-lasting watch that just does what watches are supposed to do), I'll inform you of what I wear: the Casio G-Shock MT-G 900. I can't remember exactly when I got it, but it's been at least five years ago. It has an easy-to-read face with backlight, a steel band that doesn't get worn much with age, a radio receiver that syncs the time with the Fort Collins transmitter, and a solar-powered battery. I didn't have to actively charge it (by putting it on the windowsill during the day) until the past year. The only problem is that it's a little bit pricier than your old watch, but not by much.
"Aid and comfort" is a fairly well-defined legal term, and simply praising a terrorist group or act would not meet the necessary criteria for it beyond a reasonable doubt. And this specific case where someone just named something after a terrorist group would be laughed out of court here.
It's not just semantics--there's a big difference between the government funding methods to discourage people from saying things that are surely just "inauthentic comments" meant to provoke a reaction, which is what "creating trolling-free environments" suggests (and is even how it is read in the quote in the/. summary), and the government funding methods to combat Russian disinfo sockpuppet factories, which is what is actually happening. Ironically, the researchers themselves could be argued to be trolling people with the word choice, though I don't think that's deliberate.
Again, that's not trolling, regardless of what some people are calling them. That's astroturfing for the Russian government and Putin, and against the US, Ukraine, and Alexei Navalny. Trolling is when you say controversial, annoying, and/or inflammatory shit just to get a response from people. That's not the aim of this astroturfing, which is just a relatively new way of disseminating the same old FUDdy propaganda that governments have been producing since the invention of writing.
It is thus not a surprise that many governments, political parties, and various other groups deploy tactics to influence public opinion on the internet, a practice commonly referred to as trolling.
No, that's commonly referred to as "astroturfing." Trolling is something totally different, and not something that state actors generally get involved in.
No, it isn't. At least in the US, posting medical records publically is only illegal if you yourself are a "covered entity," e.g. a member of the health-care team bound by law to keep medical records private. If you're a journalist (or some other random person like Julian Assange) and someone gives you a medical record, you're legally free to post it everywhere you want. The only person breaking the law is the person at the start of the chain. This is similar to how government leaks work--Woodward and Bernstein are within their rights to publish, and the only person breaking the law is Deep Throat.
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He did that because the shitheads that follow people like Cult of Dusty were sending PewDiePie's follows death threats, so PewDiePie replaced his list with a single link to K-Pop band BTS as a half joke, half attempt to sic millions of teenage fangirls onto said shitheads.
Before this, PewDiePie also followed plenty of people who are not right wing, including Laci Green, Boogie2988, James Charles, and the aforementioned BTS. It's almost like he was using Twitter to follow interesting people regardless of whether or not he agreed with them, just like everyone else.
Rob
And The Last Jedi had the seventh-biggest opening weekend of all time (and third-biggest domestically, while CM barely made the top 20).
Incidentally, Avatar is still the highest-grossing movie of all time by a long way, yet it ended up almost completely disappearing from the public consciousness within a year after release.
Rob
This is an MCU movie with no competition marketed to pander to woke people so extensively that it was even released on International Women's Day. No one with a brain thought it was going to have a bad opening weekend. You won't get a good idea of how the movie has been received until next weekend. It's like The Last Jedi--that movie had a massive opening only to drop 67.5% in the second week, ending up making 33% less than The Force Awakens and having knock-on effects on the rest of the franchise. Captain Marvel probably won't turn into that sort of disaster for various reasons (primarily that it's not considered a core movie), but there's no reason to be celebrating some sort of political or moral victory just yet.
BTW, despite Rotten Tomatoes going to every effort to purge the reviews of bad actors, the audience score for Captain Marvel is still only 57%.
Rob
I don't think you can archive Twitter ban messages, unfortunately.
Rob
It already has. There's documented proof of it.
Rob
Actually, the overwhelming majority of people above the age of 12 do think that Logan Paul is a shithead, particularly in regards to the Suicide Forest video. Doesn't mean that the bout with KSI shouldn't have been referenced in the Rewind, but most people are fine with him not being actively included. You're right about PewDiePie, though.
Rob
The link says in the very first line that you can't be fired simply due to having differing political views from your employer. In other words, if you wouldn't fire a liberal for it, you can't fire a conservative for it either. Which goes against the comment I was replying to. Incidentally, nowhere in the post is it said that political activity is only protected outside of work hours, just that political activity can't directly interfere with business. Since James Damore's memo was in direct response to a request for feedback concerning a topic that's already political, a memo that wasn't even meant to be spread outside of a forum that was explicitly intended to be a safe space for discussion, it would be pretty hard to argue that in his case.
Rob
Not in California.
Rob
Only if that user has somehow never heard of MMORPGs. A MUD is just a text-based non-massive version of that. LambdaMOO itself was more like Second Life or VRChat than a traditional MMO, but the analogy still stands.
Rob
https://twitter.com/malekawt/s...
These games, or at least most of them, were already banned by Saudi Arabia for various reasons just like other countries like Australia ban games. This specific news event had nothing to do with it. Just the media getting shit wrong again as usual.
Rob
http://marshallbrain.com/manna...
Rob
The big problem with this is that if you metamod regularly, the algorithm no longer gives you moderation points. I know this from personal experience.
Rob
Six percent is just standard volatility for Bitcoin. This is nothing compared to the 20+% drop it had over the course of a few hours a couple of weeks ago. Not to mention that it's already back up to $14k again. This is just someone trying to smear Bitcoin with facts that everyone has already known about it for years, and I say that as someone who recognized Bitcoin as a massive Ponzi scheme a long time ago.
Rob
People want to secure their homes in such a way that they can get in and out. Not you, and not anyone else. So get your fucking paws off of our private information.
Rob
As a card-carrying member of the ACLU, I'm having a hard time seeing what its mission has to do with Gawker. Even free-speech fundamentalists like us acknowledge limits, and one of those limits is the right to privacy. The only exception to that is if the speech is something newsworthy about a public figure, and that sex tape was decidedly not newsworthy.
https://aclum.org/civil-liberties-minute/did-gawker-have-a-first-amendment-right-to-publish-hulk-hogans-sex-tape/
Who's "they"? Certainly not Peter Thiel, the guy who you and this documentary are blaming for the death of freedom of the press in this country. He has nothing to do with that lawsuit.
Rob
Very obviously the latter, as it's not the fucking job of one of the largest media companies in the US to enforce a private citizen's adherence to social norms.
Rob
But since you haven't gotten too many real answers to your question (which, if I understand correctly, is a request for a durable, long-lasting watch that just does what watches are supposed to do), I'll inform you of what I wear: the Casio G-Shock MT-G 900. I can't remember exactly when I got it, but it's been at least five years ago. It has an easy-to-read face with backlight, a steel band that doesn't get worn much with age, a radio receiver that syncs the time with the Fort Collins transmitter, and a solar-powered battery. I didn't have to actively charge it (by putting it on the windowsill during the day) until the past year. The only problem is that it's a little bit pricier than your old watch, but not by much.
Rob
Nudes have been removed from the magazine, not the website.
Rob
"Aid and comfort" is a fairly well-defined legal term, and simply praising a terrorist group or act would not meet the necessary criteria for it beyond a reasonable doubt. And this specific case where someone just named something after a terrorist group would be laughed out of court here.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/7...
Rob
It's not just semantics--there's a big difference between the government funding methods to discourage people from saying things that are surely just "inauthentic comments" meant to provoke a reaction, which is what "creating trolling-free environments" suggests (and is even how it is read in the quote in the /. summary), and the government funding methods to combat Russian disinfo sockpuppet factories, which is what is actually happening. Ironically, the researchers themselves could be argued to be trolling people with the word choice, though I don't think that's deliberate.
Rob
Again, that's not trolling, regardless of what some people are calling them. That's astroturfing for the Russian government and Putin, and against the US, Ukraine, and Alexei Navalny. Trolling is when you say controversial, annoying, and/or inflammatory shit just to get a response from people. That's not the aim of this astroturfing, which is just a relatively new way of disseminating the same old FUDdy propaganda that governments have been producing since the invention of writing.
Rob
No, that's commonly referred to as "astroturfing." Trolling is something totally different, and not something that state actors generally get involved in.
Rob
Not a typo. It's sad how long it's taking social media to even get to what we had in the Usenet days.
Rob
No, it isn't. At least in the US, posting medical records publically is only illegal if you yourself are a "covered entity," e.g. a member of the health-care team bound by law to keep medical records private. If you're a journalist (or some other random person like Julian Assange) and someone gives you a medical record, you're legally free to post it everywhere you want. The only person breaking the law is the person at the start of the chain. This is similar to how government leaks work--Woodward and Bernstein are within their rights to publish, and the only person breaking the law is Deep Throat.
Rob
Right-wing safe spaces exist *cough*r/The_Donald*cough* but they're not as pervasive.
Rob