There's a difference between being surprised with information you might've locally broadcast in passing, and highly non-local information that you neither did nor had the intention of broadcasting locally.

The latter is creepy af, not pleasant.

Hmm, I guess that tells us that :)

Wish that argument had been made already, sigh.

You certainly cannot, but it's unclear how you can get past the being attacked by people who are trying to kill you stage without doing some of it. I'd love a nonviolent solution, but not if it gets me killed in the process of making the attempt. I'm willing to risk death to some degree, because life is a risk, but most of us have limits.

Nothing I am about to say excuses Fox's obscene weaponization of attention, but this has always been true of all news media starting at least with bards, criers, and orators, and that's assuming that prior primates didn't have members of bands that fulfilled the same function. Sensationalism has always gotten eyes and ears and what news is or isn't reported, and how it has been reported, has always been a means of manipulating the masses.

I'm not going to go over the entire list. That would take all damn day, and I owe you nothing.

For me, it's frankly sufficient to say that Trump is a racist, rapist, and pedophile, and Harris isn't.

For a slightly longer statement: Everything bad that Harris is, Trump is more of it. Authoritarian? He's a full on fascist. In favor of genocide? He wants the genocide done faster so he can build a hotel on top of it. A liar? Doesn't even bear inspection, he's one of the lyingest liars who ever lied.

You seem to think that comment was for you, when it was a reply to my own comment.

As I am generally inclined to be charitable to people not demonstrated to be fuckwits, I will assume that you are using Mobile and Slashdot hid this fact from you because they are shit at web design.

That's irrelevant to the legality of the people entering the country to apply for asylum, which is a right granted by a treaty we signed. This makes that act arguably illegal.

I don't see how Google reducing the number of Linux distributions they distribute is an antitrust problem.

They don't really need to unify anything. What they need to do is add a few bits and bobs to Android to make it provide a Chrome OS-like experience, and just throw ChromeOS away. Maybe they will find some use in some of the resources used around booting, or some drivers, but the latter thing is mostly already in Android.

Literally the only reason ChromeOS exists at all is that Chrome for Android wasn't very good at the time, and they needed an OS which could run the desktop version of Chrome. ChromeOS and Android have different device management systems, and Google has been putting their effort into the Android management software lately. Now that Chrome on Android is about as good as it is on the desktop, they can retire their redundant Linux distribution and its management tools and save themselves a lot of duplicated effort.

Every time you mod me down I just post more to get more karma, and it works, so my karma stays at or near the kap.

100% agree.

I believe that in Slashdot's current moderation system (with scores capped to five, and the content of comments being outright unavailable on mobile if the scores fall too low) moderators' identities (that is, their made-up slashdot ones, not their actual identities) should be public. You should be able to see who is responsible for which mods.

This is not as good as a proper web-of-trust system where e.g. your chosen Slashdot poster relationships would affect how moderation was applied to comments, which IMO would also make it unnecessary to see who modded what and how. But at least it would let you make informed decisions. Sure you can adjust comment scores based on those relationships, but you cannot affect the effects of moderation that way, and that's what's really wanted to make moderation effective and useful — The only way in which I care what my foes or freaks think about a comment is that if they think it's bad, I want to read it — which is the opposite of what Slashdot moderation does.

That's the same thing, though.

Yes, absolutely, that's how Trump can be working with foreign dictators with whom he has nothing else in common but money* and power.

* Yeah, it looks a lot like Trump was worse than broke (in a shitload of debt, that is) before he became president again and leveraged that to collect bribes. But he still had enough money in his little hands, even if it wasn't actually his, for that to still make sense.

The question you should be asking is what crimes he had to commit in order to need one, and the answer is none, because Cheeto Benito was returning to office and promising to attack him on specious bases.

It's both things of course.

Rapid trading should never have been allowed, it makes the market a game.

The probable best solution is a fee on trades, but the big brokers all do HFT so they are against it.

No, they aren't.

First, it's not ruined. There's lots of cesspools, but there's lots of good out there too. Also, while we all get a bunch of shit presented to us, you also attract what you put out, and what you go looking for. The algorithms make sure of that. You get more of what you interact with.

Second, it's not a few people. It's the majority of people ruining the internet. Eternal September proves this. The masses of dumbshits have a multiplying effect on scum content. They interact with it, making sure everyone sees more of it. They even repost it in the name of mocking it, likewise.