Garbanzo @ Garbanzo @lemmy.world

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Allegedly. That's really the key, isn't it. No need to get the rage train fired up based on what is claimed in a lawsuit that hasn't been resolved yet.

People are often racist dick heads, but sometimes they're actually just shutting down businesses that aren't being run in a way that is safe for workers and customers.

You just have to make a post on your Facebook profile saying that you don't consent and that you retain all rights. Bonus points for working in some sovcit stuff.

I wouldn't expect anything different after how things were handled when Hillary was the incumbent

Yes, just not for the President. Sarah Palin defeated the incumbent governor and went on to win in the general election. There's a few more, but she's probably the most recognizable example.

Presidents who face serious primary challenges go on to lose the general election. GHWB, Carter, Ford, LBJ, and Truman all lost or dropped out after being primaried despite none of them actually losing their primaries. Not sure how that plays out this time, but I'd recommend registering Republican and voting for Nikki, just in case.

Ok, but where's my bread?

Statistics like this are bunk. If I'm camping in the forest my chances of having a bad encounter with a bear are astronomically higher than drowning in a bathtub. Context is everything when it comes to your specific risk profile.

I think you'll find a stronger correlation between gun violence and economic disadvantages than you will with the mere presence of guns, but whatever

I don't really see how that could work on its own. So the party is banned, so what? All the deplorables are still around and now they've got one more grievance to get riled up about. By fracturing the party you nullify their political power and that's obviously a good thing, but it might increase the likelihood they resort to terrorism. The only solution I can see working is fixing our education system, but that doesn't help in the short term.

Nah, Google was a thing by the time Napster was around. If you were hip enough to know about one you probably knew about the other. You'd get an idea by figuring out what genre the artist was, reading reviews, just seeing where discussion was taking place. Not by listening to it, you'd have to queue it up to download and wait while hoping your source didn't go offline before it downloaded. And yes, even at 56k you could load and read text while downloading MP3s, it was just slow.

Once you found the song and started downloading it you had plenty of time to browse the rest of the library of the person you were downloading from. That could lead to finding stuff you never heard of that you would like. The only catch was that you couldn't listen to it immediately, but you could Google what you found to get an idea of what it was and go from there.

Over 20 years ago, the internet was revolutionized through free music file sharing. Today, Napster’s legacy lives on through websites that rip YouTube’s audio.

Is this guy a boomer or a zoomer? It sure seems like he doesn't know that what made Napster great wasn't really the downloading so much as how it facilitated discovering new music. Looking through other people's collections while the thing you came for downloaded was amazing.

Edit: I looked it up, Zoomer

I didn't watch the video, but it sounds like it was in the context of discussing self defense. A student asked if he meant people should carry guns, so he showed that he was carrying one in an attempt to confirm that he practices what he preaches. He was probably also trying to normalize it. Pretty dumb, but obviously not intending to intimidate the kids.

This is why I only read articles where the title mentions someone getting slammed

Greg Abbott is taking a stand

The author of the article really served that one up.

Do you look like Gollum? That's how I'm picturing this.

Secure the boarder!!!!

I wonder what the results would be if "Christian, but too embarrassed by those that claim the label to apply it to myself" was an option

Uh huh, then they turn around and bomb the safe zone.