[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

These are the same Senators who argued ex-presidents can't be impeached.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

He seems to be confusing "freeware", which is basically a license for copyrighted work, with "public domain", which is the absence of a copyright.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you'd say "in the consulship of Jones and Smith". 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of "Julius and Caesar".

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

If social media apps exist to slurp up as much user info as possible, and they do, then it makes sense to be concerned about the government that they're subject to.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

That is what is known as "sarcasm". I wasn't sincerely calling for violence against the Supreme Court, but rather drawing attention to their hypocrisy.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

All these UBI experiments ever seem to demonstrate is the "BI" part.

But the part that needs to be demonstrated, IMHO, is the "U".

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Good riddance.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

There was a vampire movie, I forget what it's called, but part of the lore was that vampires were only affected by religious symbols from their original society. So showing a cross to a Muslim vampire wouldn't work.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

many advertising companies have argued it would undermine their industry.

Yes.

“Absent this data, smaller enterprises will lose a critical path to reach and attract new customers

They seemed to get along just fine for centuries without it.

"[...] and consumers overall will have less exposure to new products and services that may interest them,” a group of ad trade bodies wrote in a letter first reported by Adweek.

They say that like it's a bad thing.

I will be availing myself of this law just as soon as the website is up.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Computer, reformat EMH holomatrix to factory defaults. Authorization Janeway Pi-1234

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

People who use "I didn't know who it belonged to" to justify stealing things.

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