He’s definitely bringing home the bacon.

Wait … are you saying I have to give up my Frigidaire collection?

Nope, not at all. I was checking for a couple of weeks when the controversy was still running high, and to make sure my comments hadn’t been reverted. But it seems like Reddit The Company effectively stamped out any dissent by forcefully taking over subreddits, so fuck 'em.

Right up front here, Musk is an absolute idiot, and wrong about almost everything. I am not defending him as a person, and I am not defending his specific plan here to have people pay monthly for their account.

However – charging a small one-time fee for an actual account with the ability to post is a legitimate avenue to reduce bots. SomethingAwful forums have done this for a long time: an SA account is $10. Doing something like that (maybe not as high as $10), and grandfathering in existing accounts - that could work, because the main thrust would be using the fee as a bot-blocker.

Musk, however, just wants the money, and he’s hiding that behind the idea of preventing bots with it.

However, law enforcement agencies will still be given discretion in certain cases. For example, if a person continues to commit the offense after being cited, they can be taken into custody and held until they appear before a judge, which must occur within 24 hours.

This is completely reasonable. You’re picked up for trespassing, cited, released. You go right back and trespass again at the same place. You have demonstrated that a citation and a court date are insufficient to prevent the offending behavior. Now you get to wait in custody until you see a judge.

People can also be taken into custody if they can’t be properly identified (reasonable), or if police believe a person poses a danger to the community or themselves (also reasonable). Police will have to explain their decision to hold the person.

In both of these kinds of situations, the police are empowered to take actions to prevent crimes, and to ensure public safety. This is what we want police to do. These police powers existed before the no cash bail law in Illinois, and it is impractical to require a judge to rule on every such situation at any hour, on any day.

I get that police are a bit famous for abusing the powers they have, but no new power for police to imprison people has been introduced. And, in fact, eliminating cash bail removes an undue burden on arrestees who are unable to pay to excuse themselves from detention. Now, all people in the State of Illinois get treated equally when it comes to pre-trial detention; the rules aren’t different depending on how much money you have.

That’s why I can sleep easy at night even though my house is heated by coal.

If there is any appearance standard, it must apply to all students in the exact same way. If girls are allowed to have hair which “falls below the eyebrows or earlobes,” but boys are not, that is discrimination based on gender. If girls are allowed to wear “skirts below the knee,” but boys are not, that is discrimination based on gender.

I’m in no way suggesting that girls be held to the appearance standards that boys are held to; rather, boys should be held to the appearance standards that girls are held to.

Executive pay is notoriously complicated to calculate because so much of it comes in the form of stock grants or stock options. A detailed look at the compensation packages at all three companies shows how the UAW’s claim both overstates and understates reality, depending on the view.

Seems like a reason to make executive pay less complicated, doesn’t it? Or at least formulate a way to calculate it in a way that makes it easy to compare to hourly and salary employees’ compensation.

I meant “smelly” in a personal hygiene kind of way, and school administration can most certainly take action to remedy a situation where a student is not hygenic.

I can certainly imagine a hairstyle which would block the view of other students. I know that’s not what I was originally implying with the word “disruptive,” but it’s something.

… he was told his hair fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes.

Unless they have the exact same standards for hair length for all students, regardless of gender, that’s plainly discriminatory.

Of course, in reality, hairstyle rules are stupid. As long as it doesn’t cause a disruption (think smelly, or formed into the shape of a helicopter), whatever you wanna do with your hair is fine.

… initial phase I safety trials have already been carried out in people with celiac disease …

In case you happened to miss that part. Good luck!

Ass-relatives.

“I know it sounds delusional.”

Just the teeniest bit of rationality poking through there.

Nazis are that by choice. Men, women, Jews, Black people, old people, young people, neurodivergent people - not a choice.

Criticizing people on the basis of something they didn’t choose is pure bigotry, and is inexcusable. OP said, in full:

There’s a lot of arguments in this thread. Underlying it all is a single issue, a single problem that is generating all of the worries and fears people have.

Men. We all know men are the problem. We all know society’s allowance of men’s behavior is the problem. And yet we tiptoe around it with things like this.

ITT: men who are ignoring the massive problem with sexual harassment, assault, and rape. “not all men”. But enough.

Is it more difficult to place the blame properly on people who exhibit problematic and antisocial behaviors? Yup. And if you choose instead to use bigotry to create a sound bite that is easily digestible by other bigots, you can go fuck yourself.

Been a while since I watched it - remind me how Cabracadabra failed?

That’s not just Hell’s Angels. It’s also Pagans and Outlaws.

More than one person got killed at that party.

“This was nothing less than an attempt to violently overthrow the government, the legally, lawfully, peacefully elected government, by individuals who were mad that their guy lost,” Chutkan said during one October 2022 hearing, later adding, “it’s blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.” (my emphasis)

“The people who exhorted you and encouraged you and rallied you to go and take action and to fight have not been charged,” Chutkan said during Palmer’s December 2021 sentencing hearing.

Those are simple statements of fact.

Trump’s attorneys have indicated they may seek removal to federal court in another of his cases, in which he’s charged alongside 18 co-defendants in Fulton County, Georgia, for allegedly orchestrating a “criminal enterprise” to thwart the 2020 election results in battleground state.

Judge Jones’ ruling denying Meadows’ motion to remove makes it absolutely clear that none of these Georgia defendants meet the “low bar” for federal protection from State prosecution for performing their federal duties. Why? Because interfering in a State election is not a federal duty.

I’ve tried to have ChatGPT help me out with some Powershell, and it consistently wanted me to use cmdlets which do not exist for on premise Exchange. I told it as much, it apologized, and wanted me to use cmdlets that don’t exist at all.

Large Language Models are not Artificial Intelligence.

So … what they’re saying is that he was stone cold sober when he was drugging his victims? That’s not a great look.