I don't see a rash of bans, but I do see the same abusers of moderation given all the mod points they can use every day.

You can thank student loans for that. Earlier generations got their schooling subsidized, but now people have to get loans to pay for it themselves instead. Colleges therefore could raise tuition. Then a bipartisan effort in Congress was launched to make sure we couldn't discharge those loans through bankruptcy like you can gambling or other personal debts, which was led by Joseph R Biden. I think we know how that turned out, forgiveness for a few of the worst abused players, and blaming inability to keep his campaign promises related to partial forgiveness for all buyers blamed on Congress while he went around them to fund genocide in Gaza.

...how often does ChatGPT use Dictionary.com's word of the year, "6-7"?

I wish I had a girlfriend like that... (Not really, I prefer people that challenge me. Maybe someone should train ChatGPT to challenge people.)

People suck.

There is a reason why we put limits on cops - it's not to protect the guilty. It's to protect the innocent. Cops hate these limitations because it makes their job harder and they frankly do not give a crap that they are the ones breaking the law and hurting innocent people.

I personally would never give my DNA to Ancestry.com in part because they used to let cops examine it and even now because I do not trust them to maintain their current rules. I have however given my fingerprints when I worked in finance.

The problem is how many other things DNA can tell.

Did your mother cheat on your dad? Your grandmother? Do you have a gene that some asswipe is going to think makes you more likely to commit a crime? Or makes you likely to be gay? Or stupid/lazy/racist?

Keep in mind this not about what the gene actually does - it is what some asswipe is going to THINK the gene does. Look back at the the old fake 'science' that claimed skull size or shape determined things like that.

Mankind has a long history of judging people not on reality but on bad science.

Maybe they are just reading each other's cookies?

... and Meta _always_ strictly abides by their privacy deals! (See the number of times they have violated their consent decree with the FTC by violating the established privacy rules.)

Yes, I'm sure than Monsanto is champing at the bit to be the next Owens-Corning and sued into oblivion, which is why they're working hard to make sure that Roundup has to be removed from the market for safety reasons.

Do you people even hear yourselves sometimes? How do you say shit like this with a straight face?

If true, that sounds like pretty dangerous ground for an alleged scientific journal to be treading upon. "Who cares if the paper is accurate or not, we're retracting to make it easier for plaintiffs' lawyers to sue" doesn't sound very scientific.

Perhaps they could establish a payment network for them or otherwise make them actually useful. File and pay your taxes for you.

They are buying up property IN CHINA, which is again just numerical garbage. They pretend their homes are worth $2 trillion instead of $1 trillon. Trade imbalance still exists.

To buy property out of China, that would be undoing the trade imbalance. But China hates when their citizens buy property out of China. They call it corruption.

The USPS is also pretty crap about it. They regularly just don't bother to add new addresses to their databases for months or sometimes even years. At work we're having to use an alternate address for a multi story residence with dozens of units because of this. It's really quite irritating. Their address validation system is also shit. They will tell you for example that an address has an invalid secondary (unit number type, e.g. suite/apartment/whatever) but then won't tell you what the correct one is even though they have to know in order to tell you that the one you used is invalid. And this is when you PAY for validation! I don't know how much of this is due to DeJoy but it's shit.

We don't need more military. In fact we need less.

The reason for the existence of the second amendment was to not need a standing militia. We DEFINITELY don't need both things.

Did they actually get it? I only saw it was proposed.

Will farmers actually get it? Farm subsidies are mostly claimed by large corporations.