KnitWit

What’s with the push to platform this guy?

Yep, more surprised that he is still alive than I am that he pled guilty to SA.

It’s ok cause Maynard has The Remedy. (Sorry for Youtube)

No, I don’t think Greenpeace should pay a firm to lobby effectively for them. My dad was big in his state’s trout unlimited and over time I realized that I disagree with our entire system of special interest groups. Almost all of them end up straying from their mission in the search for money to effectively lobby congress. It still favors the money over the individual and many orgs get such tunnel vision that they discredit other good solutions. It’s a crap system that leads to crap results.

Agreed fully. It never fails to have people materialize who will say that rights that should be given to you but rarely are instead allows for legal fictions to have untold sway over policy.

That’s great and all, but I don’t see anything in that sentence that says ‘corporation (who is apparently a legal person) has the right to pay another entity vast sums of money to petition the govt to not enforce laws mandated by congress.

It is truly astonishing to me that we somehow allow official lobbying of the justice department by firms like this. Foundationally corrupt system.

That is a lengthy EO. Definitely designed to round up people as opposed to helping them.

Probably still the lead as a major contributor. The phaseout started when elder millennials were young (iirc the timing right). Its still pretty prevalent (Portland schools system as an example) in a wide range of places. And for anyone young enough that has managed to avoid it, they were likely raised by someone who was affected by it so its a learned behavior passed on kinda thing.

Calling it now: This is going to end up with a small fine for Anthropic that may or not ever be paid out, and scapegoating leading to the elimination of LibGen, annas-archive, etc.

First time I’ve ever believed anything she said.

And that was likely just a ruse to step down from his house seat that he had literally just been re-elected to over the whole underage girls thing. Seems to be a common theme.