There is no right to privacy.

There is no right to your image.

Government can TRY to make those rights, but the freedom of expression is superior to the idea that you can stop me from hand drawing your image when you're at the beach.

Yep it is 2025 and they still say such stupid shit. Take cloud seeding for example. I can guarantee you they won't take strong action to end/deny/shutdown cloud seeding. Because then when all the extreme rains keep happening, they can't point their stupid fingers at anything. Man made global warming is just this thing they have to deny and ignore. And if Trump (who fucking won) were to actually completely shut down cloud seeding, then they'd have no conspiracy to blame. FML. That's just one fun example of their mental gymnastics.

Racists are everywhere. Usually, they just say stupid off color things, but they can still be nice/kind/polite to others. Racists come in many varieties and shades of grey. But kill a few million Jews, Greeks, Armenians, and all of a sudden people are ready to start punching some faces.

0 Kelvin, not 0 degrees Kelvin. In practice his limit is likely 0 Rankine.

This is statism, writ large.

You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.

I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.

Your point of view is basically not the laws as they stand today. You can go to a farm supply store and buy a fairly large amount of 24D and spray your lawn if you want to. It's up to you to read the label and mix as needed. But more importantly, "causing environmental contamination" is also basically pretty hands off in America. When Obama tried to do some water reform it failed to stick. Today a farmer has to opt in to the idea of providing adequate buffers to help cleanup runoff and make streams improve. We know a lot more about how to improve things but it is not really enforced. You choose to do so and get your CRP payments. A LOT of large dairy/feedlots will get approved, and water and aquifer quality is barely a concern in most "ag" states in America. The rivers will tell the truth. And one household and their lawn doesn't have much to do with it. They probably aren't over spraying herbicides or fertilizing to the same degree.

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).

This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

Yes, exactly. Best Buy got Napster because they bought Roxio - the CD-Burning software company. LOL. "Roxio Toastt". Roxio was the first vulture to pick the bones of the original Napster, buying branding assets when the feds shut it down.

Invented virtualization.

The problem as I see it is that if we take it read that all of this is 100% absolutely true and we have three years to prevent an existential world-wide crisis from destroying the environment and rendering the Earth as inhospitable, then all eyes should be on China--which thus far has been exempted from various intergovernmental requirements to reduce CO2 emissions. And part of the problem is that while China itself claims it has capped carbon emissions--a lot of the environmental and governmental statistics coming out of China is as honest as a three-dollar bill. Meaning unless they are willing to actually audit China's numbers--which account for 31% of emissions, give or take a hell of a lot of uncertainty--we can convert the US and Europe to eating bugs (to save on cow farts) and it won't matter one whit.

But despite China's "Double-Carbon" policy announced in 2020, I'm personally not convinced China is doing anything outside of trying to position itself as a "responsible world leader"--that is, it seems China is more interested in displacing the United States and eradicating the "western centric" world than it is actually doing anything that is transparent, verifiable and actionable.

China can't help it, and for the same reasons why GDP numbers from China are untrustworthy: the CCP must maintain appearances to maintain legitimacy--which puts a lot of incentive on lower party officials to lie, cheat and steal.

And the real question is can the world, when facing an existential crisis, afford to put up with China's lack of transparency and unwillingness to allow outside observers actually audit all aspect of China's society for environmental compliance?

Before you think "that's stupid", remember that a lot of the environmental excesses of the Soviet Union were not uncovered until after the Soviet Union collapsed. And despite better intelligence gathering and satellite coverage--it's still possible to hide a hell of a lot behind government secrecy.

Like we did in Area 51.

At least this shows Europe (Anti-tourism is spreading across Europe) a way forward in how to stop tourism

These guys don't actually believe in free speech. During Covid when a democratic governor shut down a church, they sang the song of the first amendment. When tradiional Catholics were categorized a certain way, they sang the song again. But time and time again you can see that these guys don't actually care. No principles. Why would a college student, foreign or domestic, not want to protest? Or speak out about damn near anything? Or have any of a huge variety of opinions? They have to be super careful now about how and what and to whom (or where) they share these opinions? And we're supposed to believe that the current administration will limit this hyper critical treatment of online speech to foreigners wanting to come here to college? Are they promising this is limited to online reviews - by the way its not... they were asking/forcing Harvard to review their cameras... Will they hire spies to go on campus during protests to gather video and further intel? I'd almost guarantee that they will/have/do. Will there be a Palantir database for this too? Will citizens accidentally be pulled into this dataset?

And just to further cement the absurdity of all of this, Republicans on J6 carried the flag of traitors all over DC. But they're not "foreign terrorists", just domestic. I'm not even sure if that's sarcasm or sadness. I just can't understand anything these days.

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.