.... good?

Everyone (even kids) have a reasonable expectation of privacy, but children using drugs in school isn't something that falls under that reasonable expectation of privacy.

What's even worse is they're doing it to ban anything they label porn, aka anything they label "obscene". Those penalties they list are to imprison their ideological enemies: anyone not straight or "Christian".

The idea of shooting any round at someone and expecting to "just wound them" is absurd, but .223/5.56 is definitely in the range of "reliably fatal if applied to the chest or head" .

It might not be a "big boy round" but it's still a rifle round -- if wasn't powerful enough to reliably "incapacitate" (i.e. kill) a human being at 100 yards the world's militaries wouldn't still be using after 40+ years.

So higher wages, better working conditions, and in exchange maybe be held to a higher standard of professionalism?

That would never work!!!!!111111

My guess is the CTO of Chat GPT: Mira Murati. based on a mix of how she's appeared in interviews, including this one with the WSJ.

I've had good beer and crappy beer in Germany: the same as the USA.

Turns out the idea that "small breweries generally make good beer, and industrial breweries make garbage" tends to be true worldwide.

Right, the "take mass transit" works great ... in places with functional mass transit.

Did you? -- paywall bypassed link.

Late Friday night, the former president of the United States—and a leading candidate to be the next president—insinuated that America’s top general deserves to be put to death.

That extraordinary sentence would be unthinkable in any other rich democracy. But Donald Trump, on his social-media network, Truth Social, wrote that Mark Milley’s phone call to reassure China in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”

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Trump loves to hide behind the thin veneer of plausible deniability, but he knows exactly what he’s doing. If a mob boss were to say, “In times gone by, people like you would have had their legs broken,” nobody would mistake that for a historical observation. The suggestion is clear, and it comes from a man who has one of America’s loudest megaphones—one that is directed squarely at millions of extremists who are well armed, who insist that the government is illegitimate, and who believe that people like Milley are part of a “deep state” plot against the country.

They accused the blahaj.zone admin of "defending a transphobe" and their instance "unsafe for LGBTQ+" people.

The admin in question is trans and blahaj.zone is named after an IKEA shark plushie that's become an icon of the trans community.

Oh, they're real -- I've met several in person. It's very rare they're older than "young adult".

I remember anything bad was "gay" in 2003, and greedy/stingy people were told to stop being such "jews".

The school-yard game where you tried to keep possession of a football for as long as possible while everyone else tried to strip it away or tackle you was called "smear the queer".

Bowling alleys and bars had a visible haze of cigarette smoke.

Yeah, it was bad.

Most people don't have a problem with ads.

People have a problem when the ads are so intrusive and prevalent they get in the way of the actual content. People have a problem with ad networks acting like obsessed stalkers -- building incredibly detailed profiles of them as a person and selling that information to others.