Never heard it called the birch bitch.

God damnit.

Every browser I switched to since Firefox has been a good user experience, and then I find out some horrible bullshit.

Is there any safe browser that isn’t run by hateful assholes?

Same. Updated firmware today.

Meanwhile best we can do in America is hide tracking dots in every color printer.

You don’t keep your Sega Genesis in an oaken cask?

Nazi truck.

OG Facebook?

They will ban my racist uncle and require a college education again?

Lol no.

So many lies in one post (by Trump), it’s hard to keep up with them.

I’d like to punchasize his face, for free.

It just occurred to me that the reason I don’t remember those events, and have no basis to compare, because I had already left the platforms. Same for Digg.

I deleted my personal and business Twitter account the day Musk took over.

I have no idea about anything at all, but part of me wants to see this be the result of some predictable, stupid mistake, like a unit conversion error or something, and another part of me wants it to be something totally unpredictable, like some unique gravitational anomaly or some latent radiation of some kind, like, something with muons.

It takes too much time and resources. A lie runs halfway around the world before the truth laces up it’s shoes.

Manipulators and liars need to be stopped by a higher authority. I’m fine with that authority being civil liability, the criminal justice system obviously sucks at it. Let’s get serious and stop letting this stochastic terrorism go unpunished.

Lose your dad to Fox News conspiracies? Should be able to sue Fox News for child support. Lose your husband to a mass shooting caused by some deranged Trumper that thinks Paul Pelosi is coming to take our guns? Should be able to sue trump personally for wrongful death. It’s not like Fox and Trump don’t know what the consequences are.

Let juries be the arbiters.

This problem isn’t going to be solved without financial liability or violence.

Ignorance is bliss.

This is not an area of law I stay up to date on, but that did not used to be the case. Is that a rather new development?

Last I knew most courts were holding that since customers are sharing this information with third parties (sharing with their phone companies, Apple and Google, Facebook, etc.), giving everything away anyway, most individuals have waived any claim to an expectation of privacy. The right to privacy is founded upon reasonable expectations. I did hear about some pushback on that, more recently, but not from the Court of Appeals from DC, which has jurisdiction over appeals taken from federal agencies, prior to the Supreme Court. I’d be grateful to be shown otherwise. About time, if true.

Search and seizure, the Fourth Amendment, only applies to State actors. The only exception is when a private entity is acting as an agent of the government, such as in the case of private prisons.

Congress needs to pass consumer protection laws aimed at privacy in the digital age. They haven’t updated this sort of thing I believe since 1996. It used to be legal for adult video stores to disclose the tapes people rented, but Congress passed a privacy law forbidding it when some journalists disclosed some of their rentals. The scandal had some cool name. I forgot what.

Nah, it was a letter signed by a bunch of doctors to some medical society or another.

Very possible. There was a group of podiatrists who wanted to add athletes foot as a primary symptom of COVID. I can’t seem to find their letter right now. Google really sucks these days.

It’s a serious virus. People don’t realize. Just because most people fight it off like a flu doesn’t mean is was as easy on your body for it to do so. Imagine if we had a president that didn’t treat it as a joke. Might be a few million people still alive.

People don’t get it. The inflammatory process can do these sort of thing to any organ or system, or parts of them.

People got a thing called COVID Toe. This is where you and every person already has some fungus that live on their feet and which gets into the skin and toenails. Maybe you have a little yellowing of the toenails or you’re just “prone to athletes foot.”

Then you get COVID and suddenly your immune system is working overtime. The fungus starts to multiply faster and spreads more aggressively. Your toes start to get itchy and red, more than usual. They swell. They yellow. Then they start to crack and ooze, possibly requiring surgical debridement or in the most severe cases, such as where the patient already had diabetes affecting their peripheral nerves, amputation of the foot to prevent necrosis and sepsis. Imagine dying from athletes foot because your immune system was overwhelmed fighting a coronavirus.

Agree. Could see neowise with the naked eye.

Maybe it’s just the location of the comet in relation to the sun?

This one is like washed out until right after sunset and then it’s gone past the horizon a few minutes later.