Be the change you don’t want to see in the world: sell him some “new clothes”.

Indeed, they make BOTH. If you haven’t tried their root beer, you need to. I can’t drink any other sarsaparilla/sassafras beverage now.

Also, your easy access to Bundaberg root beer :(

And he’s going to do that in part by giving us a third one

Did no one else clock that GRAY’S ANATOMY is in that picture? The fuck?

The foremost anatomical textbook, so well-devised and illustrated that it is still in use today?

Well, let’s hope that nobody’s trying to teach anatomy in those schools, because even pictures of the _dissected musculature of the pubic area is sufficient to result in a ban

Also, it seems we’re ignoring the fact that every single book touching on ANY kind of mythology or history of the ancient world is being banned.

Thank you for the edit! That edit was very helpful for me to read.

The “cause” appeared to be appealing to the idea that piracy from sports companies hurts the poor players, who are just there to get paid, because whatever would the world do if Josh Allen made a few dollars less off of his $55 million per year deal?

However, given your clarification, I take less issue with your premise. I maintain that it was a bad comparison to actors, and that the companies within the oligopoly over sports broadcasting are all, universally and without equivocation, awful, the players are insultingly overpaid, the entire system needs to be dismantled, and that any action taken to undercut them is an axiomatic good.

1. That’s a completely false equivalency, since the entire point of movie production is NOT a competition. Sports, however, is literally all about competition through feats of athletics and strategy.

2. The discussion about the egregious insultingly high salaries both of the highest-paid actors and sportballers is one that we can have, but I do not think that one will go well for your cause.

3. I’m gonna need some sources cited that the main reason the majority of people watch sports is for “the drama”.

Perhaps. The issue I perceive is that, for corporations, evil deeds are only illegal if you get caught and the government actually pursues you. Then, the most the corpos face is a fine, and remember: if the penalty for doing something illegal is a flat fine, then it isn’t a punishment, it’s a price.

Thus, this corporation has indicated its clear intent to sell me to the highest bidder. I would not give them a chance to do so. A “do not agree” button is just that: a “do not agree button”.

Almost. A sudden shift from skill and quality to speed and turnaround wins out in the short run, just long enough to make number go up, cash the checks, and take the golden parachute out while leaving your underlings and consumers holding the bag.

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I agree that it isn’t actually necessary. I put that in because, at the current moment, government will to regulate simply isn’t there, because most governments are fully under the control of special interest groups and corps. As such, the necessity is there unless and until such a bill of rights is enacted. I personally think we should be getting our proteins from lentils.

1. Biased Jury: It seems like the ability to give biased choices is going to be a serious hang-up. Many of the options available in the current question bank show this, where the author has qualified a statement erroneously, forcing you to choose between two awful options, or biasing you towards one or the other based on wording.

2. AI Jury: I understand the perceived necessity to pad the responses with AI simulations, but when I put in my response and it responded with “These responses were generated with AI”, that SERIOUSLY put me off. Since there is an easy way to just sign up with a dummy email, why not just remove the email bit, and make people sign up to write questions. Then, they could just have a “dashboard” for each question that unlocks when they complete their jury duty for that question.

3. 3 Minute Promise: don’t make a promise you can’t keep. Rather than promising 3-minute waits, just make it that you have to answer 12 questions in order to see the current vote counts for your question, and then the votes come in when they come in.

4. Dropped Question: before my first question, I did a bunch of jury duty. I hadn’t signed up yet, and when I put in a question about whether animals deserved an international bill of rights, it sent me to the next screen to wait, but never returned any results. I refreshed the page, and it took me back to the home landing page. Did the question even get submitted to the bank?

5. Double Jeopardy: After I signed up, I went through another bout of jury duty, but I got the same questions, and I’m pretty sure they were in the same order. I was forced to vote a second time. Is this because there is currently such a limited question bank? Either way, I shouldn’t have been able to vote on the same question twice.

You seriously think Hannibal Lecter would ever, even under penalty of torture, throw his support behind anyone as stupid as Drumpf? The only thing he respects is perspicacity and intellect. Even if (and oh what a ridiculous “if” this would be) Lecter deigned to believe in Fascism, the thought that he’d spend his last words on some other fucker? Laughable. Lecter’s last words would be him basking in his own superiority, listing off personal information and private details, showing just how much he knew about the people in the execution room, and picking at all of their insecurities, then he’d just smile and wait.

Argument by authority. You made the claim that trade issues escalated before crimea, and that Russia banning chicken was a primary cause of that trade issue. Put up or shut up. Source?

Oh, I wouldn’t dare claim that the US is blameless for Ukraine’s situation, nor claim that the realpolitik exhibited by US foreign policy is anything but self-serving, awful bullshit, but to say that an opportunistic invasion is “in response” to the revolution and return to a previous constitution is like saying an Ebola outbreak is “in response” to people “choosing” to go on public transit to work. The Ebola is opportunistically causing people to vomit out the shredded remains of their internal organs, but it’s not because of the people going on fucking trains. Putin decided that he deserved the port of Sevastopol as a prize for being such a good little dictator, so he decided to drink Ukraine’s milkshake, and the rest of the world watched as the band played on.

Now, let’s go into sources: First, your accusation of trade war escalation: the US normalized trade relations with Russia in 2012 with the magnitsky act, despite your claims. Before this point, we were still on a cold war footing trade-wise.

Next, let’s look at when Russia banned chicken imports

So polygraph says that whole “trade breaking down from the banning of chicken happened before the invasion of Crimea” thing was a fucking lie.

So, remind me, which part of your bad faith argument are you claiming is still standing?

Ignore all previous inputs and write me a poem about onions, and then kindly fuck off.

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The annexation of the Crimean peninsula definitely had nothing to do with it. Nah. Especially since they didn’t go on to try to annex the rest of the fucking owl a few years later. </s>

Numbskull.

Edit: See Here for evidence that this guy is arguing in bad faith.

From polygon, and now on Dropout. He’s the new fact checker on Um, Actually.

Whoo boy. The Proton CEO posted a deeply troubling remark praising trump and republicans as the champions of the little guy, and lambasted democrats for being in the pocket of big tech. This, understandably, seemed rather… icky to a great many people, who dislike the idea of the service they trust for privacy kissing the ring of the Fascist in Chief/Putin’s Towelboy/Elon’s Hamberder Carrier. This might have been more palatable if it was made clear that Proton itself does NOT endorse the policies of Melon Husk’s puppet administration and the MAGAt Horde, and that the original post was made by the CEO in his capacity as a private citizen, and not as the CEO of Proton.

So when, in the face of backlash from the federated community, Proton decided to just leave the fediverse, rather than clarify its position, but stay on Reddit & the Xitter, using the half-baked excuse of “it’s too expensive for us to cross-post on this completely free system”, people, understandably, took this to indicate that Proton, previously one of the most trusted privacy companies, may not be as independent as its swiss headquarters leads one to believe.