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HappyMeatbag, to chat in The Return to the Office Has Stalled
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My reaction was “Noooooo! Lightning won’t strike twice! It’ll disappoint everyone!”

HappyMeatbag, to news in Violence against women: Sex without consent is rape, say MEPs
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What does MEP stand for in this case? I found lots of explanations that define it as Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing and another for Minimum Environment Price. Just a guess, but I don’t think either of those fit.

HappyMeatbag, to news in Climate activist faces 10 years in jail for a fake letter 'canceling' an oil industry conference | CNN
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I hope she doesn’t actually get anything close to ten years. That’s something you’d expect from a corrupt third world dictatorship, not New Zealand.

HappyMeatbag, to lgbtq_plus in June Anti-Trans Legislative Risk Map
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They can’t see the hypocrisy, because to them, it isn’t hypocrisy. They’re simply enforcing gods law, and gods law is beyond question. There’s no “argument” to be had.

Faith is maddening to rational thinkers for that reason.

To them, it’s as fundamental as gravity. If someone won’t accept something as simple and obvious as gravity, then they’re the one with the problem.

HappyMeatbag, to lgbtq_plus in June Anti-Trans Legislative Risk Map
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There are plenty of Floridians who smile when they look this map.

HappyMeatbag, to reddit in Why is it harder to evade a subreddit ban than a sitewide suspension?
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I respect Reddit

That’s not something you hear very often lately.

HappyMeatbag, to news in Prigozhin’s insurrection may be destined to fail but it will weaken Putin
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Even though I had no idea what KUTGW meant, I was tempted to upvote you anyway. Still, I looked it up first, just to be safe.

For anyone else who’s as clueless as I was: KUTGW stands for Keep Up The Good Work.

HappyMeatbag, to news in Leader of Wagner mercenaries says forces entered Russian city of Rostov facing no resistance
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Wow. Last I read, Prigozhin was talking shit, but the Russian government wasn’t actually after him yet. I’d feel bad for him if he wasn’t such a scumbag.

This will be equal parts amusing and horrifying.

HappyMeatbag, to news in Doomed Titanic sub CEO tried to sell cut-price tickets, saying it was ‘safer than crossing the street’
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Not gonna lie, the idea of a giant squid attacking the sub is pretty funny. It’s like something out of a cartoon.

HappyMeatbag, to news in ‘We Never Stopped Applying Pressure’: IBEW railroad workers win four short-notice, three convertible sick days
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I remember being disappointed in AOC when she voted to block the strike. At the time, I thought her excuse was bullshit, but it looks like the administration really did what she said they would do.

HappyMeatbag, to news in Opinion - Death clocks are ghoulish, whatever you think about billionaires in subs
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Death clocks are ghoulish. Dethklok, however, is AWESOME.

HappyMeatbag, (edited ) to news in Russia launches lab to study Xi Jinping ideology
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I had to read the story to try and make sense of the headline. TLDR: yes, it’s ridiculous as it sounds.

This is the best example of a world leader brown-nosing that I’ve seen in a while. For Putin, though, this qualifies as dignified behavior.

HappyMeatbag, to news in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says Russia Acted In 'Good Faith' In Ukraine Invasion
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He wants people to distrust the mainstream media and listen to his own words. That almost sounds reasonable, but I wonder how clearly he’ll be able to enunciate with Putin’s dick in his mouth.

HappyMeatbag, to technology in Do You Think There Would Have Been a Large Protest if Steve Huffman Just Said We're Charging to Use the API to Increase Revenue?
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I can’t blame reddit for wanting to be profitable,either. They just went about it in the worst, most confrontational way possible. They insulted the people who gave reddit all of its content, and alienated their core users.

Even if Huffman had been nicer about it, though, no amount of diplomacy would make up for the fact that their API pricing is ridiculous. Nor would it make their complete inflexibility and stubbornness more palatable. The arrogance and disrespect they’ve shown is astounding. Trying to “fix” that with pretty words, but without actually changing their plans, would be like trying to polish a turd.

I think there would still be a massive protest. The only difference would be the tone.

HappyMeatbag, to news in ISPs say US should force Big Tech firms to pay for broadband construction
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The Biden administration last month urged the EU to reject the forced payments proposed by European ISPs, saying the plan "could give operators a new bottleneck over customers, raise costs for end users, and alter incentives for CAPs/LTGs [content and application providers and large traffic generators] to make efficient decisions regarding network investment and interconnection."

The Biden administration also said payments from tech firms may violate net neutrality principles, saying that it "is difficult to understand how a system of mandatory payments imposed on only a subset of content providers could be enforced without undermining net neutrality."

So… did someone from the administration even bother writing this themselves, or did they just copy/paste what Meta sent them?

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