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• On the post: Trump’s Immigration Theater: Pulling Cops Off Child Sex Crimes To Chase Landscapers

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2025 @ 12:16pm

  Release the Epstein Files.

• On the post: Trump’s Immigration Theater: Pulling Cops Off Child Sex Crimes To Chase Landscapers

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2025 @ 12:15pm

  Nah. It's not theater, it's self defense.

• On the post: Judge To Trump: No, You Can’t Just Declare ‘Off With Their Heads’ To Political Enemies

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2025 @ 12:26pm

  Trump "Will no one rid me of this turbulent judge."

• On the post: Buzzfeed CEO Aims To Solve AI Slop Problem With More AI Slop

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2025 @ 04:05pm

  Person who killed parents begs court for mercy on the grounds of being an orphan.

• On the post: Nevada Court Shuts Down Federal Civil Forfeiture Loophole That Bypassed State Restrictions

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2025 @ 05:38pm

  Unless they put real teeth in the prohibition it won't matter at all. The law needs to be written such that even if the locals gave the feds illegally seized money they still are required to return and pay the victims attorney fees. If the feds refuse to give it back to the local yokels, well sucks to be them double.

• On the post: Apple Dumps Suit Against NSO Group After Israeli Government Walks Off With A Bunch Of The Company’s Files

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2024 @ 02:05pm

  Does asking the Israeli govt to seize the evidence to prevent it from being available to the US courts count as destruction of evidence? If so that opens grounds for the judge to rule that the case will proceed under the assumption that the 'destroyed' evidence contains everything the other side said they expected to find proof of.

• On the post: Warner Bros. Discovery Gives In And Transfers Games Back To Developers’ Steam Accounts

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 24 May, 2024 @ 11:59am

  Others suggested it was just that the company didn’t want the headache of figuring out the sales taxes on these titles anymore and just wanted it all to go away.

  I'm not following the logic here. If the games were sold on Steam, it'd be Valve that was responsible for the collecting the sales taxes and delivering them to the relevant authorities.

• On the post: Tennessee Senate Votes To Ban Chemtrails Because What Even The Fuck

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2024 @ 02:37pm

  The best part of this is that...

  ... while it was written as pure crackpot nonsense. If it were to be interpreted at it's most literal wording, it would be the most radical anti-climate change legislation in the world. Banning burning coal, hydrocarbons, biomass, etc.

• On the post: Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2023 @ 07:19am

  Correction: "Where there's a wallet, there's a way..."

• On the post: California Legislature Bribes Big Media Journalists With Big Tech Money To Support Link Tax Bill

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2023 @ 07:58am

  We all know what the "plan" for how to use the extorted money will be

  Step 1: Slash funding for journalists from all other sources by >100% of the amount of free money coming in. Step 2: Increase founding for journalists by 70% of the new money coming in. Step 3: Layoffs and job cuts. Step 4: ???? Step 5: Increase profits, share buybacks, and executive compensation.

• On the post: GAO Would Like The FCC To Explain Why It Still Maintains A Pathetic, Dated Definition Of ‘Broadband’

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 03 May, 2023 @ 06:46am

  The FCC should just stop pretending that a single value will remain valid long term. If they adopt the 100/20 standard this year, instead of just calling it "Broadband" they should call it "Broadband 2023". That way in a few years when the industry is whining about how unfair a faster standard would be, trying to claim that the "Broadband 2023" standard is still fast enough in 2028 would help make them look ridiculous even to the tech illiterate.

• On the post: Fitbit Users Still Pissed At Google For Outages And Making Everything Subscription Based

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2023 @ 07:42am

  What unhappy Fitbit users need to understand is that after their preferred platform was bought by Google they have 2 choices: 1) Pay a combined billion/year in subscription fees to become a big enough revenue source that Google will actually care about keeping it alive. 2) Switch to the competition. If they don't want option 1, they should plan to do 2 quickly before Google decides to kill them on no notice.

• On the post: Ninth Circuit Tells Twitter It Can’t Reveal Exactly How Many National Security Letters It Receives Because The DOJ Showed It Some Scary Stuff

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2023 @ 02:35pm

  So how long until Elon decides to just "bypass" the issue by firing everyone at Twitter with a security clearance and dismantling all the closed areas/scifs/etc in his buildings so that the company has no one who can legally take receipt of or any place to store the next NSL the feds try to send it.

• On the post: Even After Its Own Data Protection Agency Said There’s No Safe Way To Do Age Verification, France Wants To Do Age Verification For The Internet

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2023 @ 01:25pm

  So the rubber stamp CNIL will be using on all the proposals it gets...

  ... will just be NON in red ink?

• On the post: Signal: If UK Government Undermines Encryption It Can Kiss Messaging Service Used By Its Employees Goodbye

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2023 @ 07:33am

  We're not banning breathing. We're just outlawing systems that function by using expansion and contraction to cycle the volume of air exposed to an air/blood interface used to transfer oxygen and carbon dioxide between the two.

• On the post: Elon Tries (Badly) To Defend The Banning Of Journalists As Twitter Starts Blocking Links & Mentions Of Mastodon

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2022 @ 11:54am

  Has anyone checked in with Vegas bookies lately? I'm curious what the odds are of Twitter overtaking Microsoft, Google, and Facebook in EU fines is before they go bankrupt, are liquidated, and shut down.

• On the post: Twitter’s Former Head Of Trust & Safety Explains Why, For All His Billions, Elon Musk Can’t Magically Decide How Twitter Will Work

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2022 @ 02:15pm

  Just as an aside, um, who the fuck searches for “#boobs” and what is wrong with them?

  Except in the eyes of censorious prudes, nothing is wrong with them; rather the opposite. Which is why people search for them.

• On the post: Cloud-Based Smart Home Gadgets Keep Getting Bricked Because You No Longer Own What You Buy

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2022 @ 01:24pm

  The 'S' in IOT also stands for support and sustainability.

• On the post: The Downside Of Apple’s Lockdown Mode: Websites Call Tell If You’re Using It

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2022 @ 12:25pm

  This reminds me of the person who tried to cover his tracks by making a bomb threat using Tor; but who was then busted because he IDed himself connecting to the school network and was the only person using Tor on it at the time. https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5224130/fbi-agents-tracked-harvard-bomb-threats-across-tor

• On the post: U.S. Consumers Pay $1,600 Annually For Cable TV Channels They Don’t Watch

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2022 @ 10:40am

  Those numbers don't appear to make any differentiation between people buying both services and people buying only 1. Meaning it's being pulled down by all the cord cutters paying less than $120/mo for just internet. Without some sort of breakout, it appears unusable for the current discussion.

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