So if one uses torrent distribution of (linux) kernel/firmware updates, scientific datasets (cf OpenData and Academic Torrent sites (yes they are real and often used)) then one is assumed guilty of violating some industry’s paranoia? (“pfff... criminal behavior on the internetz is like totally common dude - sez so…

This almost identical troll message has hit about five comment pages that i’m aware of. I think they’re testing some sort of (“AI”) script-bot. The key with this one is that it initially focuses on “no hard evidence”, “nothing has been proven”, and, “trump is still there”. How they manage to monetize this sort of…

Your points 2,3,4 are unequivocal and spot on. And the spirit and sense of your first point is equally accurate. What is worthy of some significant push back is even a qualified “roughly 42%” out of the land of increasingly nebulous polling data. Slowly it’s becoming clear that polls are being manipulated not only for…

This judge is nearly or completely around the mental bend. He is clearly now acting unfit to be a judge. Someone needs to file the correct complaint to the Judicial Conference of the United States - the sooner the better.  We have more than enough trouble with the republic without judges going Captain Queeg.

This strawberry-pretzel salad is legally not a salad but whatever, man

Trump Embraces Accused Sexual Assault Enabler Jim Jordan in Ohio

Thus i know i’m the very last manual transmission driver in all of greater gawker-land (“eh, if you drive a manual, then you’re too old to procreate, and don’t have a ‘baby on board’”)

There is a challenging (and necessary) profession called psychometrics, which aims to measure the mental ability of a prospective patient as to what level of social support is required. A practice which involves a lot of complex and diverse tests. Anyone demonstrating a persistent interest in conspiracy focused…

“40% of Republicans say Russia election meddling is no big deal” this is in the face of all the intelligence services (whom the republican lip-service ‘honor their service’) saying it is a big deal. How can this be!? well, you guessed it: the Russians are hacking to benefit the RNC, so why would they do anything to sta…

Apparently the trump mess cleanup crew is grasping on the word “should” in that tweet to allow that it was not an instruction but more like ‘guidelines’. Try to keep that in mind the next time your boss says “And this should be completed before the end of the second quarter” (well it depends on what the meaning of a…

So... boiling down the gist of this posting becomes: let’s get all that money out of our politics. That’s a grand idea of course, but you might make mention that: It’s always been a matter of money, (oh yes Obama’s election too), it will remain a matter of money as long as the supreme court is 5:4/”Citizens_United”,…

the National Transportation Safety Board—an agency whose job it is to determine causes of accidents

Marvin the Martian was robbed (herein) and should’ve been rated much higher. And yet i’ll still dignify this honest effort with a vital fun-fact: What’s the chief graphical distinction between “Wile E. Coyote” and “Ralph Wolf”? (ans: The color of their noses. Ralph’s is red, while Wile_E’s is black)

now now (..now [finger-wag]) we must be civil to those who would destroy our republic and its basic freedoms for their own fantastically selfish venal interests

with... what? republicans being republicans? of course you’re not for a second suggesting that Ocasio-Cortez has revealed some novel republican behavior, are you? nah. they’ve been like that for multiple decades now. here’s the real head-cracker: there are special groups for gay republicans, black republicans, trans…

The mistake here is a very common one, and it’s summarized here (italics mine):

indeed, if one recalls that film (and i do) then the message of this post is certainly clear.

Well, not that it’s worth anything in this weary world but Ms Goldberg just slid to the top of my sacred list of worthy people.

If in doubt, etymology it out! From here we learn that the noun “milk” comes to us first from the verb “to milk”: “from PIE root *melg- “to wipe, to rub off,” also “to stroke; to milk,” in reference to the hand motion involved in milking an animal.” And since we cannot do that with a nut (nooo, put your hand down…

Yeah! Don’t trust anyone over uh... 53? (ageism is the acceptable new racism ...yet again)