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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • The fact that you have to say “in a sense” alludes to it being clickbait. In a sense every NDA ever has some sort of value attached to it. It would also be $15k difference in Trump’s legal team offers and after negotiations were final a $7.5k actual difference. Compared to the 600k already owed hardly a move of the needle. It’s really just standard lawyer negotiations.

    The title makes one think Trump did the same thing he did the first time again which is not the case


  • Damn clickbaity headlines. It’s not like he offered her more money to shut up. Stormy Daniels was ordered to pay Trump’s legal fees due to a failed defamation suit and Trump’s lawyers tried to get an NDA in addition to the amount that Stormy’s legal team offered. The headline makes it sound like he was randomly offering her money just to shut up which is not the case. When we promote these sort of headlines it just gives the MAGA cult stuff to point at as to why all news is “fake news” and nothing should be trusted.






  • A company “accusing” someone of piracy isn’t proof. Access to the internet is almost essential these days. If you can prove a person is pirating prosecute them under the law with fines or even incarceration if warranted. But stripping internet access from someone shouldn’t be seen as an acceptable punishment for a free citizen anyway.

    Whoever owns the network attached to the IP address also shouldn’t be responsible for actions of every user. Let’s ban an entire company, college, or government institution from the internet because an IP showed up on a list… dumb ruling.










  • People think emulator protections in the law are stronger than they really are. Sony vs Connectix made emulation legal, but it wasn’t heard by the supreme court. PS1 games weren’t encrypted and relied on other methods like disc wobble to prevent piracy…so without proactively violating any measures you could just not include that check in your competing emulator and play retail discs without breaking any laws.

    In steps the DMCA anti-circumvention laws for bypassing video game / console encryption measures, which is an even bigger untested minefield without precedent in favor of emulation. And since games are default encrypted on new consoles and arguably not subject to exemption (at least while still supported) it really might be a disaster to fight it.

    Nintendo is a dick but it’s not in our interest or theirs to really push the boundary on the status quo. The get to slap suit whatever they want taken down, we get to play the emulation hydra game where it’s still legally grey.





  • Mods could just make a filter to remove everything new anyway. The concept of mods being unpaid volunteers means they get to fuck with reddit if they really want. They already had that issue with some subs just starting to allow porn during the first api protest. Sure reddit can just churn through to newer friendlier mods like the first time but they’re not going to be able to crush all the dissent and drama from moves like that.

    But actually I think reddit has a bigger problem than protests. They tweaked their algorithm recently and it is going the way of facebook now, I’ve been getting 0 upvote day-old posts shown to me. They’re probably getting more engagement but I don’t think redditors are going to put up with that level of enshittification as easily as other social media where people are locked in by friends and followers.