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Schadrach

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    Canadian Politician Offers to Buy Two U.S. States in Response to Trump’s Takeover

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  • No. He was found liable for sexual abuse in a civil trial. Convictions are criminal and the standard of evidence is higher.

    Basically the courts have decided that it's slightly more likely than not that he sexually abused Carroll, which is all that's needed to win a civil case. Criminal cases are on a "beyond a reasonable doubt" threshold which is much harder to meet.

    Frankly, he probably wouldn't be criminally convicted because of the higher standard - the defense in a criminal trial doesn't have to prove the accused didn't do it, they don't even have to prove it's more likely than not they didn't do it, they only need to prove there's a reasonable doubt that they might not have done it. And I think there's just enough wiggle room around it he could possibly skate by.

  • I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost

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  • Sounds like an obvious spot in the market for a bullshit-free smart TV. You'd just have to get the UX right.

  • Choosing pink is chaotic evil?

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  • I was just assuming it was just Power Word: Shit and would effect anyone up to however many hit dice.

  • Choosing pink is chaotic evil?

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  • To be fair, the president elected two months ago is the oldest asshole to have ever won the office.

  • All windows shatter

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  • I'm only proud of the one, and only because of how weirdly out of sync with what you'd expect the given reason was.

    Basically every other sub I've ever been banned from was a "you commented on a post on a sub we've since decided we don't like, so we've summarily banned you with a bot just in case".

  • All windows shatter

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  • The majority of reddit subs I've been banned from were for posting in other unrelated subs in violation of sadly unenforced moderation rules.

    Then there's being banned from r/atheism for "egregious immorality" - I look at it as a badge of pride to be banned from an atheism sub on grounds that sound like ones only a religious sub would use.

  • Conspiracies

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  • Let's be fair, if I told you that a UFO cult led by a sci-fi writer performed a massive infiltration of the US government (the largest ever detected) in order to whitewash itself in official records you'd have thought I was wacko before Operation: Snow White came to light. The same UFO cult also had a number of their agents insert themselves into the life of a journalist who had written negative things about them in an attempt to get her to either off herself or be institutionalized, dubbed Operation: Freakout which was only uncovered in the aftermath of the discovery of Operation: Snow White.

    The UFO cult in question is Scientology.

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    Asking some reasonable questions about Elon Musk's "help" with the Cybertruck bombing case

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  • I mean it sounds like it could be video from the charging facility

    I mean that's what I assumed. I can't imagine a reason one would want a camera watching you charge - like that's an expense for little if any benefit. And if it was charged at a charging station owned by Tesla, I would be shocked if there wasn't camera footage or if Tesla didn't have access to it.

    but what the actual fuck they can unlock your car.

    I would imagine any car with keyless entry can be unlocked by the manufacturer if they have your VIN. They build the system and pair the keyfobs and locks, they're bound to have that ability in case something happens to your keys.

  • Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South

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  • Yeah pornhub seems pretty legitimate and safe these days.

    Yeah, they got threatened a few years ago with essentially banking cutting them off if they didn't make a concerted effort to purge anything shady, which they achieved by purging basically all end-user uploads that weren't verified models or studios.

  • Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South

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  • Too bad there aren’t other porn sites with massive libraries of content that apparently no one in power has noticed.

    The states aren't banning PornHub from being accessed there, PornHub are blocking themselves from being accessed from those states so as to not need to comply with new state laws requiring ID proof of age to access because they don't want to handle personally identifying information of end users. So basically you're just waiting for law enforcement to notice and charge them, and then find out if they're run out of somewhere the state can reasonably do anything about it.

  • Trump Medicare pick Dr. Oz says uninsured ‘don’t have right to health’ in resurfaced clip

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  • Being serious, it seems like he picked his people from a couple of pools.

    1. Republicans with a lot of social media clout.
    2. People plausibly accused of being Russian agents.

  • american culture

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  • Every couple of years Chinese make a new Sun Wukong move, TV show, or videogame.

    Let's not forget that in the same way you can trace a huge amount of things you see in Western stories to the Greek epics and Gilgamesh you can trace a huge amount of things you see in anime/manga to the Journey to the West.

  • These dames wanting inclusivity

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  • You're actually demonstrating my point - I said "a common noun" for one and "a term" for the other. The whole point is that any "acceptable" language for those notions (a person of the sort who possesses female genitals and potentially has ova that she could hypothetically carry to term and identifies as a woman and a person attracted to the sort of person they might hypothetically be able to reproduce with) has to have at the very minimum an adjective if not an entire phrase attached to it.

    For example, imagine someone tried to re-popularize the old English words to refer to cis folks, using wifmen for cis women in this example. That would immediately be deemed transphobic, specifically because it's a common noun to refer specifically to cis women and not a shared category you have to use an adjective or phrase to differentiate from.

    Same thing applies to orientation - we have a lot of words for sexual orientations. But a word for a person who is attracted to cis people of a given sex relative to one's own is unacceptable - the very idea that there could be a term for it is transphobic. Despite sexual attraction being one of those rare cases where what genitals you have and whether or not they're the original equipment is actually relevant.

    Also wouldn't "gynephile" meaning one who has an attraction to women still not be precise enough, since women includes trans women by definition, at least the feminine ones?

  • These dames wanting inclusivity

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  • Let's say yes, since we're in a hypothetical. Breeding fetish, perhaps? Maybe just someone who's specifically looking for a long term relationship leading into children?

  • These dames wanting inclusivity

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  • Except "woman" doesn't mean "female person" anymore, it means "anyone who identifies as a woman" because attaching any common noun at all for people based on sex rather than gender would be accused of transphobia.

    It's kind of like if someone asked what the term for the sexual orientation of someone who is interested in partners they could hypothetically reproduce with is, the answer is there isn't one and suggesting there should be will get called transphobic.

  • Texas governor buys billboards warning migrants they'll be raped if they illegally cross border

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  • The billboards aren't saying Americans will rape them, but the smugglers smuggling people into the country, which does have a high incidence of happening.

  • Pedo Trump

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  • Call him Donald. He hates it

    Yeah, but beinf assosciated with him is insulting to all the other Donalds out there and Donald is inside the top 20 most common boy's names in the US over the period that most current adult males were born. I presume that's why he hates it - it's a common name, some might say a peasant name (despite it's meaning).

  • Mourning obligations

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  • Meanwhile, Luigi’s bullet had plenty of impact and plenty of meaning, as evidenced by the outcry of support from common people of both parties. This may be one of the only issues that the far left and the far right actually agree on.

    Two things:

    1. The constituents of populist wings of both left (such as it exists in the US) and right have generally the same concerns but radically different views on what to do about them and how to do it. So executing a health insurance CEO from a company known specifically for denying care at a much higher rate than other insurance gets approval all around even if one side wants to solve the problem by nationalizing healthcare and assuming the government will fix it and the other by deregulating it and assuming the market will fix it.
    2. This is the best kind of political violence - the sort where it's clear and obvious what the issue is, what message is being sent and there's a clear line between the problem and the violence that goes right through the message. As opposed to say burning down a pawn shop with someone inside in the name of mistreatment of black people by law enforcement (Montez Terriel Lee, during the second night of BLM 2020 protests in Minneapolis).

  • Woman jailed after using shooting suspect's catchphrase as insurance company denied claim.

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  • Yeah, I'm pretty sure they realized they were never going to convict her of anything. Protected speech that also references a wildly popular killing is just not something you're going to be able to convict over.