Deleting my post is violation of freedom of speach.

Repeating it doesn’t make it true. Sorry, but that’s simply not what the first amendment is about. ‘Freedom of speech’ means you can’t be arrested for a YouTube comment criticizing our glorious Cheeto (yet). It does not grant you control over the content other people choose to publish to private websites.

These spaces are not free, public spaces, and they have never been. Stop living in this fantasy world. Twitter is not a town square, it’s Elon’s private club and he can do whatever the hell he wants. The only thing I can do is choose not to use it, and focus on sites run by people I’d rather support.

Based on what exactly? I’ve gone to one of his events, he’s pretty explicit about being a science educator. I can’t say I’ve seen him claim otherwise anywhere, though people definitely like to put those words in his mouth.

Freedom of speech is a protection from persecution from the government, not an obligation for all other parties to be exposed to your speech.

Websites are private spaces, and like most private spaces, have their own rules to abide by. It’s their right to make those rules whatever they want, and people can choose the rules that make a more pleasant space to occupy.

If you want the freedom to be hateful and hostile to people, feel free to hang out on 4chan. Forums are typically more tightly controlled, especially specific topic forums, with discussion tightly controlled to keep things on the subject so the site stays useful and not buried in irrelevant content.

Didn’t DOGE already cut support for the Panama facility? Something along those lines was in the news a couple months ago

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/andor-season-2-creator-tony-gilroy-scrapped-five-season-plan/

He tells the story quite differently. Sounds to me you heard it was supposed to be 5 seasons and started looking for problems. The entire series had tons of nothing side characters given unusually deep characterization, it’s been a hallmark of Gilroy’s style. I genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about with the production quality of the last episodes.

Why would people here care that much about this? This kind of material exists on any site that allows user submitted content, and the only solution is aggressive automated moderation, which winds up hurting everyday users. Would you prefer that anyone who uploads a song or podcast that names a drug be automatically removed and have to be manually approved?

These are low-effort scams to steal credit card numbers, it doesn’t seem like any of these had an actual avenue to purchase drugs. They should be removed for sure, but this is hardly some wild breach of responsibility.

A common story, but not true. When Lucas was filming Star Wars he hadn’t yet had the idea that Vader was Luke’s father, hence the clumsy retcon about Vader killing Luke’s father ‘from a certain point of view’ in Return of the Jedi. Vader is just shortened ‘invader’, the dutch translation is just serendipity (or proof that the force is real).

My understanding is that they were embryos from HIV infected parents, so they had very little chance of avoiding infection during birth. His argument is that their chances of survival were already so low, there’s little harm that could be done if the treatment wasn’t effective.

Maybe it would be more helpful if the old leftists who wasted too much time protesting started putting their lives on the line instead of insisting their children should do it for them.

Don’t worry I’m sure we’ll get them soon, their top prompt writers are all over it.

My dude, that’s not a toad, that’s a leopard frog.

Is an IPA with a little pineapple juice suddenly not an IPA?

Believe it or not, strong flavors are popular, IPAs are fucking great.

Now pickles, those a fucking garbage no human would willingly eat. Nobody actually likes that shit, people just pretend to so they seem cool.

You can’t, and that’s irrelevant to what I was responding to.

Those companies polluting are making products that people are buying, they don’t just pollute for the hell of it. If everyone actually changed their buying habits these companies (and most of the global economy) would collapse.

Come on, that’s fucking stupid. You think Nazis are born that way? Of course people become Nazis, and it’s happening more and more.

I took a similar class almost 20 years ago, and it unquestionably kept me from at least 2 serious accidents, and potentially saved my life. I cannot recommend them enough to new drivers, it’s absolutely the most dangerous part of our daily lives.

And yeah, these mirror settings are the absolute best way to drive. It takes some getting used to, but there are absolutely no downsides to having a wider field of vision.

When adjusted like this, you can still easily see the side of your own car by moving your head slightly, which is trivial when backing up.

I learned about this in a driving class almost 20 years ago and never looked back (pun fully intended).

Well they did find Shmi, but by then she’d been freed and married to Cleig Lars. She did free a shitload of other slaves from Tatooine, but at that point there’s no reason to steal Shmi away from a reasonable life.

They did write a book about her trying to do this - Queen’s Shadow.