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  • On the post: DOJ Temporarily Deletes Trump Photo From Epstein Files, Ensuring Everyone Knew About The Deletion

    Thad ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2025 @ 08:44pm

    Nah, there are still tens of thousands of people in the FBI. That's way too many people to purge everybody but the Trump loyalists, though it's not for lack of trying. The incompetence isn't because there's nobody at the FBI who knows how to do their job. It's because the people who do are being micromanaged by the incompetents at the top.

  • On the post: LG Forces TV Owners To Use Microsoft ‘AI’ Copilot App You Can’t Uninstall And Nobody Asked For

    Thad ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2025 @ 02:45pm

    Hey, remember last week when somebody told me I was wrong about people not wanting AI, because just look at how many people use Copilot?

  • On the post: Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired All Their Actual Tech Experts

    Thad ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2025 @ 09:39am

    Republicans are way better at messaging than Democrats are. I used to think it was because Republican policy is simple gut-check stuff -- "lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king," as Sideshow Bob put it on The Simpsons -- while Democratic policy is more complicated and abstract. Then there was the ACA debate, and I saw that wasn't it. That was a case where Democrats had the simple gut-check message -- billionaires want you to suffer and die so that they can get richer -- and Republicans had abstract economic theory (socialism!). And Republicans won the argument -- yes, the ACA passed, and yes, it became popular once it actually went into effect, but "Obamacare" was extremely unpopular at first and the midterms were a bloodbath. So yeah, Democrats are just bad at messaging. Even when they have a simple, clear message, they manage to muddle it up. And of course on top of that the news media is in the tank for Republicans and will treat their claims and criticisms as serious even when they're obvious bullshit.

  • On the post: Larry Ellison Is Very Excited To Destroy What’s Left Of CNN, Sweetens The Pot For Hostile Warner Takeover

    Thad ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2025 @ 09:33am

    Democrats have stated that they intend to cause problems for any Paramount/WBD merger and may even act to dismantle it if they return to power (which at this rate is increasingly likely, considering the bloodbath that’ll happen in the midterms and Trump having no heir apparent who can feasibly win an election), so that’s something, at least.
    Talk is cheap, but at least they're talking about it. Biden made some real moves back toward trust-busting but one term wasn't enough to see real results. I'm hoping whoever the next Democratic president is takes what he started and runs with it.

  • On the post: Administration: ASL Interpreters At Briefings Would Prevent Trump From ‘Controlling His Image’

    Thad ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2025 @ 08:28pm

    I used the word "eugenicist" and I meant it. He's repulsed by anyone with a disability. He's even offended by the idea of recognizing disabled veterans. And look at the people he's put in charge of public health. RFK uses straight-up eliminationist rhetoric to describe autistic people, and Dr. Oz talks about how people who don't meet his standards for physical fitness should be denied healthcare. These people are nazis. They want to purge people they see as inferior, which is a long list and PWD are at or near the top.

  • On the post: Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired All Their Actual Tech Experts

    Thad ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2025 @ 08:20pm

    Wait, slow down. Did you say Batman is hiring?

  • On the post: Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired All Their Actual Tech Experts

    Thad ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2025 @ 08:19pm

    Thanks for the correction. I saw it once, the first time it ran, which according to the timestamp on that video was at least 13 years ago.

  • On the post: Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired All Their Actual Tech Experts

    Thad ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2025 @ 03:40pm

    I vaguely remember an old Family Guy episode where they abolish the government, and then at the end they decide they should all make decisions together as a community and put them to a vote, except it would be a lot of work for everybody to vote on everything, so maybe instead of that they should vote on some representatives to vote on things for them, and maybe it would be a good idea for candidates with similar policy positions to organize into groups so they can coordinate, and... *fade out to credits*

  • On the post: DOJ Temporarily Deletes Trump Photo From Epstein Files, Ensuring Everyone Knew About The Deletion

    Thad ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2025 @ 03:23pm

    They're not sending their best.

  • On the post: Kansas Resident Patrick Roach Successfully Sues Verizon For Refusing To Unlock His Phone (And Wins)

    Thad ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2025 @ 02:05pm

    Holy shit, he succeeded and won?

  • On the post: DOJ Temporarily Deletes Trump Photo From Epstein Files, Ensuring Everyone Knew About The Deletion

    Thad ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2025 @ 12:14pm

    Baaaaaahahaha these motherfuckers are so dumb they did it again. The Bezos Post:

    Three days after releasing a large tranche of Jeffrey Epstein documents that contained few mentions of President Donald Trump, the Justice Department on Monday disclosed thousands more files that included wide-ranging references to the president. The documents show that a subpoena was sent to Mar-a-Lago in 2021 for records that pertained to the government’s case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice in sex trafficking. They include notes from an assistant U.S. attorney in New York about the number of times Trump flew on Epstein’s plane, including one flight that included just Trump, Epstein and a 20-year-old woman, according to the notes. The newly released documents also include several tips that were collected by the FBI about Trump’s involvement with Epstein and parties at their properties in the early 2000s. The documents do not show whether any follow-up investigations took place or whether any of the tips were corroborated. The documents were available for several hours Monday afternoon and evening on the Justice Department website but appear to have been taken down around 8 p.m. The Washington Post downloaded the full set of files while they were accessible. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to questions about why the documents had been posted and then apparently removed.
    (emphasis mine)

  • On the post: Administration: ASL Interpreters At Briefings Would Prevent Trump From ‘Controlling His Image’

    Thad ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2025 @ 12:08pm

    I mean, he's got a point. Accommodating people with disabilities undermines his image as a eugenicist piece of shit.

  • On the post: Bari Weiss Shows Her True Colors, Kills A 60 Minutes Story Critical Of The President’s Concentration Camps

    Thad ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2025 @ 08:13am

    I never thought I’d see a positive version of malicious compliance these days
    The way things are in both government and business right now, I suspect there are rather a lot of people engaging in positive malicious compliance that we're not hearing about.

  • On the post: Bari Weiss Shows Her True Colors, Kills A 60 Minutes Story Critical Of The President’s Concentration Camps

    Thad ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2025 @ 08:41pm

    Aaaaanyway, because Bari Weiss is incompetent she didn't realize she was only spiking the story in the US. It aired in Canada and it's on the Internet where anyone can check it against what she eventually chooses to run in the US. ‪@snarkyrobot.bsky.social‬ comments:

    The only good thing about the people who want big important jobs they don’t know how to do is that they don’t know how to do those jobs and don’t inspire loyalty in the people who do. Think about this: CBS had an option/requirement to provide this to Global-TV and nobody, NOBODY told Bari about it. ‪That doesn’t just happen! There are likely long-standing contracts in place that made it happen. The lawyers knew. The producers knew. Everyone involved in the reporting knows where their work is being aired, I imagine. And they followed the order to kill it on CBS…and refused to proactively do more ‪ And now every reporter at every other outlet can go minute by minute and see what was cut and what was added. Any verbiage changes to make them look worse. Every single edit is now a potential story, a potential scandal. Her fingerprints will be all over the scale if she dares to put her thumb there ‪ It’s vindictive and glorious. It’s the perfect form of malicious compliance. Because a real head of news who wasn’t spending their day in the worst group chats imaginable would know this could happen. And because she only cares about the title and power, learning the job was treated as beneath her.

  • On the post: Larian Studios The Latest To Face Backlash Over Use of AI To Make Games

    Thad ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2025 @ 08:03pm

    And, ultimately, this technology simply isn’t going away. You can rage against this literal machine all you like, it will be in use.
    GenAI is a bubble, it is going to burst, and that is going to have a significant impact on its viability going forward. It is possible that some limited uses of genAI, like the ones mentioned in this story, will continue. But it is not inevitable. Pretending that a short-term trend is a 100% reliable predictor of where technology is headed in the future is silly.

  • On the post: Bari Weiss Shows Her True Colors, Kills A 60 Minutes Story Critical Of The President’s Concentration Camps

    Thad ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2025 @ 03:39pm

    (the italics indicate sarcasm)

  • On the post: Bari Weiss Shows Her True Colors, Kills A 60 Minutes Story Critical Of The President’s Concentration Camps

    Thad ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2025 @ 02:14pm

    I mean the part where they didn't do it for the previous government is pretty fucking different.

  • On the post: DOJ Temporarily Deletes Trump Photo From Epstein Files, Ensuring Everyone Knew About The Deletion

    Thad ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2025 @ 12:12pm

    And it's not just about Trump, or Republicans or Democrats. It's about powerful men (and it is almost entirely men, with a few exceptions like Ghislaine Maxwell) acting with impunity. Politicians, royals, Ivy League professors, Fortune 500 executives. Powerful men flaunting their power, their ability to do as they please without consequence. If we're going to reckon with this, really reckon with it -- and I have my doubts -- it's going to mean some very big changes.

  • On the post: Bari Weiss Shows Her True Colors, Kills A 60 Minutes Story Critical Of The President’s Concentration Camps

    Thad ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2025 @ 11:31am

    Ministry? No. This is private business willingly acting as an arm of the government.

  • On the post: DOJ Temporarily Deletes Trump Photo From Epstein Files, Ensuring Everyone Knew About The Deletion

    Thad ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2025 @ 11:27am

    Maybe. But I'm not so sure this is really about the Epstein files. I think that, by and large, people are really fucking unhappy with the way things are going right now, including a whole lot of people who voted for Trump. But Trump voters won't admit, even to themselves, that this is exactly what they voted for; they have to make excuses, come up with some reason they were tricked, that Trump isn't who they thought he was or his policies aren't what they thought they were (even though they absolutely fucking are). Trump's association with Epstein has been a major outlet for those excuses, but if it weren't that I think they'd find something else. I agree with you that these people legitimately do not care that Donald Trump is a pedophile and that, with the exact same information but different circumstances, they'd be defending him. But I think that if the economy were better, most of them would be defending him even now.

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