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Old, large, cranky. Gotta go to the bathroom.
Also, that picture isn’t me.
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'Qualified immunity' is a genuine piece of judicial activism, a doctrine created from thin air by the Supreme Court, granting almost limitless immunity for almost anything police officers do. It's why lawsuits over most of the worst atrocities by American police get tossed from court.

So it's news when a court notices that a cop's done something so outrageous that a lawsuit will be allowed.

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The end of YouTube would not be a terrible outcome. Instead of a worldwide monopoly on DIY video, new and perhaps less evil options would have a chance.

At the height of COVID, the US military ran a disinformation campaign, trying to make Filipinos distrust the newly-introduced COVID vaccine — because it came from China. ( archive.ph )

"We weren't looking at this from a public health perspective," said a senior military officer involved in the program. "We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud."

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The Pentagon lied and people died — an ordinary day, in other words.

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Instead of taking constant screenshots by default, it'll take constant screenshots only for used dumb enough to opt-in, and instead of storing everything in a plain text user-accessible and easily-hackable database, it'll have some level of encryption, probably making it accessible only to Microsoft, cops, and better hackers.

For me, the issue isn't even in the tech; it's in the company. Microsoft produces usually-functional but frustrating software, and has a long track record of tactics that prove it's not trustworthy. The only people who'd opt-in to this software from this company are people who don't know much about this company.

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That's what we've been saying for 30+ years, so why stop now?

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Looks like the link is formatted correctly, but The Times is demanding a password.

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Grazi.
Hope you didn't have to pay twice.

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What a screwball take.

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And as always always always happens in cases like this, there's no indication that the officers involved were disciplined in any way.

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And they'll win if there's any justice, but we all know that's a huge 'if'.

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Trump is your dumbass wingnut uncle, the loudmouth with an opinion he loudly shares about everything, always wrong and always mean. That's all he is, plus money all his life, so he's famous and about 40,000,000 dumbass wingnut uncles just love him.

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And the Japanese know a thing or two about such things.

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Biden then said, “And what happened was, Barack said to me, ‘Go to Detroit, and help fix it.’" This is way too deep in the nettles for me to remember or even google; do you have any idea whether that trip to Detroit was about the pandemic, or (like TBD seems to think) about the recession?

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Thank goodness for the statute of limitations, man.

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I appreciate the research you've put into this, kind sir or ma'am.

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