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Comment Re:Burden of proof? (Score 0) 88

As I recall hearing some lawyers talking about defamation, they will have to prove their allegations are true, while he has to prove they had intent to cause issues for him.
It's probably easier for his defamation claims to win, unless they actually have proof of him cheating, but if they had that, they'd have already used it to get him banned and his wins revoked.
Now to me the claims of $100 million is insane, and I can't imagine that even if he wins if he'll get a judgement anywhere near that. But again, just a reminder not only is it true that ianal, but that applies to probably everyone that's posted a comment on this thread.

The lawyers I listen to most often on youtube are LegalEagle, and Lawful Masses. So far, they haven't said anything about this case. (Legal Eagle seems more likely to cover it.)

Comment Not half good enough (Score 1) 409

$8 for half the ads.
When it gets to $4 for no adds, I might think about it, depending how much worse twitter has become.
As it is, the only reason I even have twitter is because of the places that require to you have twitter.
Overall I find it a useless unstoppable scroll feed of trash.

Comment Re: Single egg-basket strategy isn't good (Score 1, Offtopic) 373

Isn't being alive more important than short term cheaper fossil-fuel cost?

To prevent a 2C average increase and catastrophic tipping-point anthropogenic climate change, we need to emit less than 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per person per year in total in the short term, and 0 tonnes by the medium term.

Average car use is 2.4 tonnes of CO2e per driver per year, just from the car.

2.4+everything else > 2.1.

Electric cars average 1.15 tonnes of CO2e per driver per year, just from the car.

The options are clear: reverse climate change and stop the Anthropocene extinction event; or continue to have too many kids, use cars, fly, use fossil-fuel electricity, eat meat, and by doing so make the biosphere "unlivable" for us and most complex life.

Comment Still using an old BlackBerry for the buttons. (Score 1) 180

I have an Android work phone, but I still use my ancient BlackBerry (no SIM card, so no internet) with physical keyboard buttons for my alarms, calendar, to-do, notes, passwords, and music.

I've used touch screens for years on Android, but I'm still nowhere near as fast on it as I am on my ancient BlackBerry. I still make mistakes when typing on touch screens, and struggle to move the cursor to where I want it.

Comment Re:It's called consructive dismissal (Score 1) 231

Companies have been doing that scummy routine for a long time before I was even born.

But in no way is trying to intentionally make people so miserable until it induces them to quit so the company can avoid their legal responsibilities is anywhere near equivalent to working the job you were hired for at the hours and duties specified by your contract.

Comment Re:Wonder about their results (Score 1) 71

"at least 46% [of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch] was comprised of fishing nets" 2018-03-22 Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic

Unsustainable human overpopulation results in the fishing industry torturing to death about 2 trillion fish every year.

Comment Order of magnitude too many people. (Score 1) 248

To prevent a 2C average increase and catastrophic tipping-point anthropogenic climate change, we need to emit less than 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per person per year in the short term, and 0 tonnes by the medium term.

Having 1 child averages 58.6 tonnes of CO2e per parent per year, 23.7 in poor countries, and 117.7 in rich countries like the USA (2050 vs life expectancy).

58.6 > 2.1.

We need to have a fertility rate of about 0.01 per person for several decades, or we'll turn the Anthropocene extinction into a mass extinction and make the world "unlivable".

Comment Re:Pulled out? (Score 1) 189

Sounds caring, but it's no more effective than pacifism when they really do want to hurt you.
The "tools" are essentially indivisible from the people wielding them in the conflicts of war, and even civilians can get caught up if they are part of the support of the military. Working in a warehouse the ammunition is being stored while shipping? You're building is a target, even if civilians are in it. In a fuel depot, especially one close to the front that the tank divisions are getting their fuel from? Well expect that to get hit for being a military asset even it's being staffed owned by civilians.
Don't like that kind of thing, keep your civilians out of all military locations and support positions, and that includes keeping the military out of the civilian things as well. But more than a few countries like having lots of military assets in civilian locations so when they inevitably get attacked during a conflict, they can pretend it's the enemies fault for the civilian casualties. It's plain and simple an attempt to use the civilians as a shield for the military.

Overall this whole thing is screwed, and the best case would be if russia gave up immediately and paid reparations to Ukraine, as well as return the part they stole recently if Ukraine wants them to. But we all know that putin is far to egotistical do that, and in fact will never admit that he was wrong. So I sincerely hope they get their asses kicked all the way to arctic sea by the Ukrainians.

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