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In order to be able to appeal directly to the jury, the actionists then represented themselves in court and reminded the jury members of their right to acquit as a matter of conscience, regardless of legal argument.

This led to a hung jury. The state is expected to continue to pursue a conviction, with a retrial likely in February 2026. Palestine Action said this would create “another opportunity to expose who the real criminals are”.

The state didn’t get the result they wanted so they’re just doing it again. That’s cool. Much legitimate, very justice.

playing a private show for the obscenely rich while they’re forcing their employees to work for crumbs is way way way way more fucked up than just cheating on your spouse

Yep, it definitely is!

They’re just regular fuck-ups like us, but with obscene amounts of money.

They’re much worse than regular people.

Having money, fame or power causes changes in the human brain that reduces the ability to perform empathy. The rich are always at least a little more evil than normal people and if any one of us becomes rich, we’d also be a worse human.

That said, humans fuck and sanctity of marriage is made up nonsense. To paraphrase principal Skinner: No, it’s the monogamy that’s wrong.

impacts small indie artists

How?

I read the article but I don’t understand how bots making and listening to songs to generate royalties for the bot owners affects anyone but the royalty-payers?

Puzzgrid.com is a user submitted word wall game.

@ptz@dubvee.org

What are the qrts?

Braniac, a British show kinda like mythbusters, filled a pool with custard and walked over it.

Threaded messages seems fine to me, as you said that usage is more well understood than threadiverse which risks conceptually-centering a billionaire controlled platform.

The existence of threads makes threadiverse an inappropriate name for fediverse content aggregators, is the point I was being overly sarcastic about.

Defederating from threads seems like the best way to make it nice. That way there’s less influence from psychopathic billionaires who happily stoke genocide for clicks.

More like hurricane Charlie.

This is a story of one bootlicking employee who was in desperate need of fucking off and minding his own business:

However, just as the movie started, an employee told them to put their snack bags away, the report said. They agreed but the employee apparently insisted on sitting next to them to monitor the snack situation.

A few minutes later, one of the children popped a Skittle he was already holding into his mouth, and quite frankly, all hell broke loose, the women said. The employee started shouting at them, and said that the police would be called unless they left. This is when the children started crying.

“My niece asked nicely: ‘If you’re calling the police, are they going to kill my mum?’” one of the women told the newspaper. “And he laughed at that stage. He looks directly in her face and he said: ‘Yeah, maybe we’ll find out.’

Time to dissolute a few modern day monasteries.

I think the allusion is probably to clouds, given that project nimbus is amazon and google cloud updating the israeli government’s cloud computing and nimbus is latin for cloud. The israeli government is generally not as big on christian metaphors as the US government is.

This is part of Leonard Leo’s plan to re-mccarthy-ize US society and purge anyone left of fascist, same way he orchestrated the right wing take over of our courts.

At my previous job their was a role where you just called insurance companies and asked them incredibly basic questions about what they planned to do for a patient with diagnosis X and plan Y. This information should be searchable in a document with a single correct answer, but insurance companies are too scummy for that to be reliable.

In 2021 we started using a robot that sounded like a human to call instead. It could handle the ~80%+ of calls that don’t use any critical thinking. At a guess, that’s maybe 5-10% of our division’s workforce that wasn’t needed anymore.

With the amount of jobs like this that are 100% bullshit, I’m sure there are plenty of other cases where businesses can save money by buying an automated bullshit generator, instead of hiring a breathing bullshit generator.

Don’t Do What Donny Don’t Does!