As an engineer he approach problems with a practical to find the solution, but sometimes there are no practical solutions and people just need comfort/inspiration from their leaders.

Reminds me of that time on Star Trek: Lower Decks when Rutherford, the engineer, tried to switch careers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUa8Iq2iQZk

The annoying thing is that they held us hostage for our free labor, but the results are proprietary for Google’s benefit only.

That training data ought to be forced to be made freely available to the public, since we’re the ones who actually created it.

If you’re trying to affect public opinion,

Yeah, and they’re not.

Throwing soup on art.

They did no such thing! They threw soup on glass, harmlessly.

Why are you lying about both their motives and their actions?

Okay, let me be clearer: they didn’t vote to “approve” of the protestors. They voted to accede to the protestors demands even though they fucking hated MLK, because they had no choice.

What part of your study is measuring an irrelevant thing do you not fucking understand?

What the fuck are you even talking about? Do you think the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because White Moderates “voted” in favor of it?

No, the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because the massive disruptions it caused made it clear that trying to preserve the white supremacist status quo would no longer be possible, and that the only alternative to negotiating concessions to the likes of MLK and the NAACP would be having to deal with the likes of Malcolm X instead.

Similarly, Just Stop Oil’s path to victory has absolutely fuck-all to do with popular “approval” of their tactics, but everything to do with becoming so disruptive that it becomes worth it to capitulate to their demands to make the protests stop. Just Stop Oil is trying to be the Malcolm X of the climate movement. They don’t want your approval, and they don’t need your approval.

Spamming the false notion that approval matters all over the thread is nothing but the reactionary pearl-clutching of a concern troll.

Why? Because they got some glass dirty?

Who gives a fuck about “disapproval?” “Disapproval” is entirely irrelevant – actually no, more than that: “disapproval” is what reactionaries do when they can’t ignore you anymore, which is a sign that you’re winning.

Change like this doesn’t happen because the Powers that Be “approve” of the protestors. Change like this happens because the protestors have caused enough disruption to force the Powers that Be to capitulate.

Yeah: the lesson here is that if you’re gonna get punished like an ecoterrorist for harmless protesting anyway, you might as well just do actual ecoterrorism instead.

I feel like the Site Isolation and Total Cookie Protection features eliminated one of the major use-cases for Multi-Account Containers, and that might be why it isn’t getting enough attention.

“Genera” is a plural form of “genus” (i.e. also “type,” but in the fancy scientific sense used in taxonomy).

Not only did I haul drywall home in a minivan, I even had the foresight to buy a couple of 2x4s to act as rails to slide it on so the edges wouldn’t get chewed up by the rounded rear hatch opening.

People in this thread, unironically:

I mean, given that Jesús would not only be a brown hippie moonshiner, but also probably a damn Mexican furriner to boot, he’d be lucky if they didn’t lay siege to the whole neighborhood, Waco-style.

No, because then the ATF will show up and shoot him.

I mean, If we’re talking about imposing vigilante justice on criminal corporate execs, I guess I’m down with that too.

No it is not the correct answer! The correct answer is to put the CEOs who perpetrate this criminal shit in prison for millions of counts of hacking and stalking!

Merely shrugging and implementing a technological workaround is not an appropriate response to someone perpetrating a felony against you!

These are criminal violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Jail the motherfucking felon CEOs!

None of that is a substitute for government regulation. They must be forced to comply.

Giuliani did not respond to an order to explain why he should not be disbarred

Ted Goodman, a spokesperson for Giuliani, called the decision “an absolute travesty and a total miscarriage of justice.”

I am sick and tired of these nakedly duplicitous shitstains whining about whining about how allegedly unfair it all is after they COULDN’T BE BOTHERED TO FUCKING SHOW UP AT THE HEARING!