The next logical step would be to require telcos to stop spoofing, which they absolutely can do because they have all of the call routing information and can easily tell when a number is being spoofed.

They're supposed to FOLLOW THE LAW. Bonta is qualified to speak to that. Who the fuck are you? Nobody? 10-4, good buddy.

The free plate of shit is not free. There are costs to society from it existing. It cannot exist without society. Therefore it is reasonable for society to regulate it.

People were mobile until they invented agriculture, but then they also started eating more carbs...

Many studies draw bullshit conclusions from inadequate data and are later invalidated, so skepticism is warranted.

In this case there are numerous strong confounding factors which it really doesn't sound like they investigated, let alone addressed

Disposable vapes shouldn't exist but if they have to, they should have at least a one dollar per unit (not per pack) deposit to ensure that they get returned.

It's not just us. As long as it's anywhere it can reach everywhere due to modern travel. It's the same as when the gates foundation announces it's eradicating something but they don't go to certain countries so it's just a lie

Ad Hominem does exist, but suggesting or outright saying that someone is too stupid to understand an argument is not ad hominem.

Ad hominem means "from a person" and it is specifically making the argument that some person's argument is incorrect because of something unrelated about them.

This is the opposite! This is saying that something is true because someone's argument is allegedly bad. It is just an insult.

If the statement is "you're wrong because you're stupid" then it's Ad Hominem.

If it's "you're stupid because you're wrong" then it's just an insult.

It's still shitty as insults are for responding to insults, not arguments. When someone has resorted to them for any other purpose then they are generally conceding the point, as it's an announcing that they have no further argument.

When Diogenes said that in a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face, it was an insult, but it was apt enough. Insults have their place. But it wasn't a substitute for an argument :)

Insults are not ad hominem.

There is no such thing as an ad hominem attack.. It is an argument and fallacy.

Insults can be attacking. This one was. Taustin is a dick who's defending a billionaire and therefore an idiot. But it's still not ad hominem

Zuckerfuck says anyone who trusts him is a "dumb fuck"

Guess what?

You wouldn't know a fact if it was reported by the USCG

IME that's more common for cities. For rural areas like the one I live in now nobody gives a shit. In fact we weren't even required to have trash collection until a year or two ago.

Most people are prosperity worshippers. They think anyone successful deserves to be successful. Therefore they think corporations are great and we should listen to what they tell us. They've also never known anything else.

Nobody is pretending you're an adult. There's no value in that.

What you're defending here is Reddit being shit.

Why would you defend shit?