Just in case anyone thinks you’re being cheeky… https://prospect.org/justice/police-have-no-duty-to-protect-the-public/

This is the difference between a normal racist and a high functioning racist that knows a failed state can’t effectively oppress the people.

What changed in their admissions procedures as a result of the court ruling? Is it as simple as just not asking race on the application so they couldn’t hold spots open to fill racial quotas? Or is it more complex than that?

Their game is just to try to make the ISPs liable; they don’t actually want it enforced. In fact, failure to enforce is the feature. They paint the ISP as complicit in the piracy then sue the ISP for hundreds of millions in damages hoping for a no-fault settlement. That’s a much better revenue stream than suing someone for 10k who can’t pay it.

https://pi-hole.net

Currently 20% off!

It’s not even that simple. If you skip ahead during an ad, the YT servers could just keep streaming you the ad content anyway. Their servers can ensure that the next 30s of packet data you receive is an ad no matter what, so the only way you can skip it is to wait it out and close your ears and eyes. Basically the same concept as ads on broadcast TV. Which means we’ll have to do a TiVo for YT… Gross.

My best guess is he was hoping to kick off the Christian jihad/civil war by creating a martyr. He knew the maga folks would believe he was a Democrat plant and run with it.

/s, hey, you dropped this

It’s not that simple, at all. Who pays the office rent? The insurance premiums? The corporate taxes? Buying equipment? Paying for time off? Etc.

Vermin Supreme!

It’s pedantic, but you are not your computer. They don’t collect (according to them) PII other than phone numbers.

• Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), - absolutely necessary for anti-ddos techniques
• browser type, browser version, - necessary for UX to build a functional website for the browsers that customers actually use
• the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, - critical for determining what is popular and what isn’t to improve how the interface is designed and what parts are pulled forward and what parts are hidden in menus
• unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. - useful for determining how often you switch devices and the performance and other experience metrics to drive making the app more user friendly

I work on web software professionally and this is a pretty minimal list that is completely justifiable for maintaining operations. If you can’t answer basic questions like “what are users doing with the app?”, you can’t make intelligent decisions about how to improve it.

There’s a lot of the same stuff here: https://legal.lemmy.world/privacy-policy/

I don’t know anything about this app or company so I’m not going to defend them, but there aren’t any real red flags here. If this amount of data collection bothers you, you really should stop using the internet in general.

Oh, you contributed to the kernel? Name every commit SHA.

Because administrative penalties are a thing. Your right to a jury trial only applies to crimes, and not everything is a crime. SCOTUS effectively ruled that if something could be a crime, even if you’re not being charged with a crime, the government can’t issue a non-criminal fine for it instead.

This is it. I have a ton from humble bundle and free keys. Very few I’ve paid for and never played.

They’re not unaware; this is the game. They make the request knowing it will be denied, it gets denied, right-wing media reports that Trump is being censored (he’s not) because it’s over (it’s not) and they’re just trying to punish him more (they aren’t). But right wingers don’t read any other sources, so it makes sense on the surface and they believe it because it fits the narrative.

Kynseed. It’s like Stardew but pretty different.

Nah, I think it’ll just be probation with generous terms. If they put him on house arrest, he’ll challenge that saying it’s political and it will prevent him from campaigning. It’ll be easier to just slap him with a “you have to report your travel plans” and a few hours of community service. He deserves much more, but it’ll cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars and take years if they actually try to punish him. I’ll call it a win if we can always refer to him as “convicted felon DT” and let him walk. That will give more ammo for harsher sentences for the federal cases.

Fortunately for them, Drumpf is dumb enough to break the few laws we do have so they don’t need to reign anything in to get him.