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As someone else said: it doesn’t replace streaming even a little. Pirating is replacing buying music directly. Streaming facilitates finding new music and trying it out. Being able to listen to anything at any time. You simply can’t do that with downloads; no one can download everything. Piracy in this case really just works for people still listening to their highschool favs and not people looking for new stuff all the time.

No. Clearly it will be solved by men doubting women’s problems. Men are so fragile.

ITT: men who refuse to believe women. Like every time.

I didn’t realize the moon’s distance to the Earth varied enough to cause annular eclipses. I always wondered why we didn’t see more eclipses since the moon is revolving around earth monthly.

Either “a jury is permitted to examine” every record a former president swipes and claims as “personal” to determine whether it is, or jurors must be told that “a president has sole authority… to categorize records as personal or presidential during his/her presidency.”

Can’t categorize files as personal after you vacate office. Classified files are by law government property and cannot be owned by anyone. Can’t declassify files after leaving office.

This hack needs to be impeached and this trial appealed and the judge replaced posthaste.

most people are, and have always been awful, bloodthirsty ghoulish pieces of shit

Most people are empathetic and decent. This sounds like apologia or projection. Evil people think everyone else is just as evil and that’s how they rationalize it.

Oh I will.

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Make sure you keep your money in bitcoin so when it crashes we can all laugh at you. Again.

That sounds like an act of war…

But McCarthy’s departure was notable for one amusing, and politically significant reason. With the end of his tenure as the representative from California’s 20th Congressional District, McCarthy—in what appears to be a fit of pique—screwed over the House Republican Caucus that he had led until his unceremonious removal from the speakership last fall. By choosing to quit at the end of 2023, McCarthy took with him the one thing he had to offer his fellow partisans: protection for their rapidly dwindling majority.

And if he wins the fascists will take that as endorsement. Whatever they would have done via backlash will become the norm since their present supports it.

Put a Taser on it and you’ve got one of the weapons from Steinhardt’s Guide to the Eldritch Hunt, a d&d 5e supplement based on Bloodbourne aesthetic. I gave it to my campaign’s current big bad.

“States rights” only means one thing for the right wing: persecuting and enslaving people they don’t like. It meant that during the civil war and it still does today.

Yeah. This is a good first step. But it needs to go further. A lot of the wealth is not in direct income. We should be including in this capital gains, and perhaps imposing a similar tax on people with assets totally $10M+ or so. A lot of valuation comes at people holding huge assets and stocks, increasing in value and they take loans out on those assets to actually buy anything.

Armies of scribes carved into stone, impressed into clay, and wrote onto vellum to blanket empires in written news.

Yes. This semi-happened elsewhere. But this isn’t for the “people”. These were for the rich and powerful and the government.

And I’m sorry if your shitpost wasn’t understood. As has always been the case, text is not a great medium for conveying sarcasm. We did invent /s for that reason.

Trump wouldn’t want someone who is more of a grifter than himself. Santos is the Platonic Ideal of Grift: so incredibly tactless and immoral that it’s hard to believe he’s lying as much as he is.

If by “karma” you mean continuing to be relatively popular (because he’s not really in the news), being able to enrich himself with impunity and continuing to have one of the biggest life-long power trips possible, then sure. He’s going to go down in history as a momentous judge without huge controversies simply because his shit isn’t the rankest in his court. He’ll mostly be a footnote during this period.

Yeah. She quit because lying conservative pundits got their base riled up with the mere idea she committed plagarism that they made enough of a stink to pressure her or the school.

This is the right-wingers favorite play: Cancel Culture. They harass, pressure, send death threats and swat anyone they don’t like for any perceived fault. More often than not, those targets just quit to get away from the harassment or magnifying glass their life comes under as a consequence. Everyone has shit in their past they aren’t proud of and with that much attention it’ll be brought out and made a much bigger deal of than often warranted.

Landlords are cops? I haven’t heard that one before. What does that mean?

Googling…wait, is this real? https://systemicjustice.org/article/landlords-as-cops/

I thought evictions took 30-90 days and required court approval in the US.

Print and written media existed for literally thousands of years

Uh, no? If by media you mean anything that could remotely considered for the masses then absolutely not. The printing press was so revolutionary because it allowed making multiple copies of written documents without doing them each manually. Reading and writing was so expensive and rare a hobby because the written word was expensive; why would you need to read more than the basic signs if chalk boards were your limit of writing?

“News” before then was word of mouth. Town criers and the like.