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- Comment on New York Times and Other Publishers Ask Court to Penalize OpenAI 1 day ago:
Will enforcement though? What they’re doing is illegal under existing law but there is no enforcement because the criminals are backed by incredible wealth. Until there are consequences, it won’t get better with a new law or policy.
- Comment on DeRozan Cut by Kings 5 days ago:
Bah gawd it’s T-Mac’s music, he’s suiting up too along with Kwahi and VC!
- Comment on First American Woman Rows Solo From California to Hawaii 6 days ago:
Holy fucking shit what an absolute beast, no matter their sex. JFC
- Comment on Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension. Now He’s Eligible to Play. 6 days ago:
Hope they get thrashed with him so at least the embarrassment Trump and Fifia have brought on the US can end.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Did Palantir have its fingers in NHS yet?
“Proceed to emergency room unless skin pigment darker than X value or if against genocidal ethno-states, in which case your rights have been replaced with a dildo. Go fuck yourself.”
- Comment on The Celtics are trading Brown to the 76ers 1 week ago:
Was a bit of a head scratcher, I was reading Brown was irked he was included in Gianni’s potential talks, which is understandable as he’s carried the team during significant portions of Tatum’s absences. Bos definitely throwing in the towel on this core.
Still don’t know who legit contenders are in the east after this, NYK and Philadelphia? Mia is too empty to do anything even with Gianni’s unless they decide to seriously invest in this window, which TBF they are good about.
- Comment on Morant to the Portland Trail Blazers for Jerami Grant and Kris Murray 1 week ago:
Yeah they needed grant a lot more than another talented point guard. Granted Jrue and lillard are in their twilights, they also have “face of the franchise” scoot?
- Comment on We’re Getting America’s Children Hooked on Gambling 2 weeks ago:
And LaBubu, “blind box” where you don’t know which one you’re getting and to get a specific color have to repurchase. Why sell 1 to a kid when you can make them buy 150.to get the “special” one? Artificial scarcity and gambling at its finest. Set those endorphins up from a young age.
Imagine they were concerned about how addictive Diablo II was back in the day…
- Comment on Sources: Lakers' Reaves intends to sign 4-year, $185M extension 2 weeks ago:
Good for him, dude deserves to get paid.
- Comment on Wages Are Falling. Wealth Is Surging. No Wonder Americans Are Unhappy. As Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, workers are facing higher prices and fears of A.I.-driven job losses. 4 weeks ago:
'first COVID, then inflation" as if that were the start of the experience. Go back to NAFTA, passed by the Dems and Clinton when the party became fully corporate owned, that was the end of the US middle class, and the 90s was when education also died and became a commodity with universities being run by MBAs looking at students like they were cell phone plan subscribers. Education became unaffordable over just a matter of years while good middle class jobs went to Mexico (for those that already weren’t shiped overseas elsewhere).
Reagan’s destruction of the air traffic controller union, along with the introduction of the 401k were watershed moments for greed, financial insecurity and economic instability, and the end of the US’s flirtation with not being run by ultra rich.
- Comment on Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’ 4 weeks ago:
Great read, thank you.
- Comment on Nobody wants to work anymore... 5 weeks ago:
All they’re asking is to work at or below the amount they’ve lobbied to let them pay you legally, which at the federal level hasn’t increased a cent since 2009.
Just a matter of showing up to a job without being able to get medical care because the industry is twisted to not address and deny care if you’re lucky enough to pay exorbitant rates for “healthcare”.
Simply show up for that job in a car that you can in no way afford with gas that you can’t afford after eating a breakfast you can’t afford.
Also, for many who do want to enjoy this exploration and are working the Trump government is making it more difficult for them to stay and work by announcing last week more than one million workers will need to leave the US first if they want to stay and work permanently. www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrpz4l1klgo
Plebs are so lazy
- Comment on There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This 1 month ago:
Zzzz too little too late NYT and who cares about OpEds when that is the only place you have real honest news.
They’ll roll over again and again for fascists, they’ve long excused every kind of horrific action.
- Comment on Knicks sweep Cavs, return to NBA Finals for 1st time since 1999 1 month ago:
Flowers are due. They made a huge trade for Bridges after making the huge KAT trade and both have planned out. Bridges trade was treated with due skepticism but GMs are finally starting to trade big for winning basketball as much as big names. Alex Caruso, OKC same deal.
- Comment on Cavs decide they can "fix her" and net Harden by giving up Garland 1 month ago:
Narrator: he was not a visionary.
- Comment on THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION 1 month ago:
Who could have seen this coming from Harden?
- Comment on Virginia becomes first Southern state to mandate paid family and medical leave for workers 1 month ago:
Meaningful. A real win, hard fought. Well done.
- Comment on ‘We Have Always Known’: Sinaloans Say the Reckoning Over Corrupt Leaders Was Overdue 1 month ago:
Terrifying to live like that. I’m just glad we don’t have any such problems in the USA.
- Comment on Wizards Get #1 Pick 1 month ago:
Portland has nothing on the board in either round. Wow.
- Comment on Millennials Owe 500% More in Student Debt Than Their Parents Did 2 months ago:
Only the other generations wouldn’t be the unicycle on flat ground, they’d be balancing on a kixed-grade cement wall and the boomer would be on a nice flat paved surface on their two wheels.
- Comment on Hershey’s Promises to Use Only Real Chocolate After Backlash | The change follows weeks of complaints from a grandson of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup inventor and other vocal consumers. 3 months ago:
Hershey bars can’t even be sold in Europe as chocolate because they have even the menial standard of 10% cocoa to label a product as chocolate. Unfortunately, vegetable oil, rubber, micro plastics and godfuckingknowswhatelse they put into their shit products doesn’t even meet that.
- Comment on Bulls waive guard Jaden Ivey after anti-gay comments 3 months ago:
Or the “my account was hacked” bit that became standard PR move ~10 years ago.
- Comment on Cade to Miss Time with Collapsed Lung 3 months ago:
Damn. Hope he’s ok quickly. The NBA is better when there are more relevant teams and it’s been too long for Detroit especially given the season they’re having. The east needs at least 3 reasonable title contenders or playoffs suck and the finals is a foregone conclusion.
- Comment on THE WASHINGTON WIZARDS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION 3 months ago:
“If AD is reasonably healthy”
Why would that be a reasonable assumption or hypothesis? He’s played 1 full season (65 games per the NBA all-star inclusion eligibility) since COVID title.
- Comment on The Trump Administration Goes to War, by Any Memes Necessary | A series of White House social-media videos turn the carnage in Iran into gleeful entertainment. 3 months ago:
“why do they hate us?”
- Comment on V.A. Begins Drive to Put Homeless Veterans Into Guardianship | A joint effort with the Justice Department creates new authority to compel veterans into institutional or involuntary care. 3 months ago:
Good to know we’re focusing resources on things that matter to vets while cutting doctors and nurses in the VA
- Comment on Bam Scores 83 to Put Up 2nd Highest Scoring Game in NBA HISTORY!! 3 months ago:
Durant’s comment is a backhanded compliment if one ever was made. “It takes a lot of stamina” is what his comment boils down to which points to the volume of the shots rather than talent–which seems pretty clearly supported. When your own team decides to go for it, when the other team is The Wizards who care nothing for the sport, when refs decide to play along, when you’re a has-been playoff threat 6th ranked team in the east…it all has to line up. Some "moment”. Big asterix to me.
- Comment on Get a Dog, Live Longer? 4 months ago:
Have disposable income that allows you to buy a dog, but also medical care. Wonder which one is the causal variable and which one is just correlative?
- Comment on Trump’s Attack on Iran Is Reckless 4 months ago:
Eliza:
Words! Words! Words! I’m so sick of words!
I get words all day through;
First from him, now from you!
Is that all you blighters can do?
- Comment on I've never seen Joker get this heated before 4 months ago:
Joker’s eyes looking like that? If you don’t know what it looks like when a quiet, calm one gets pushed over the line like that? You do not want any of that noise.
Dort should be suspended. Fucking clown ass clown forever will now be cheap shot dort. Of all the guys you could pull that sophomoric bullshit on, Joker? That’s where punks are too comfortable and don’t fear consequences .
What if joker twists his ankle on that trip attempt and is out for the rest of the season? What if it’s the beginning of career affecting injuries? League should be severe with that punishment, the dude is an all-timer. People will watch his games in 50 years.