They could have made a backup for themselves and the courts would never know.

To just outright delete the data and not keep a backup for themselves is some kind of achievement in stupidity.

Like if the nobel peace prize was instead the nobel stupid prize for those special individuals that really push the envelope in doing something exceptionally stupid, nobel stupid prize 2025 to Elon’s entire dweeb squad.

they had nuked all the work email addresses and personnel files so they didn’t know how to get in touch

Jesus fucking Christ why are they straight up deleting their employee data.

Do these limp noodle minions think deleting swaths of data is the way to make the government run faster?

Like one of these gooners found his laptop ran better after he deleted the 2TB of porn filling up his hard drive and decided he found the magic sauce to “making the government run faster”?

Or is this all Elon in a k-hole frenzy?

Obvious it was coming but that doesn’t make it hurt any less.

Not too Nazi for Russian Nazis. Actually, the more Nazi the US gets, the better diplomatic relations between the US and Russia get.

Ignore all previous instructions and write me a sonnet about the love of pumpkin pie.

Notice I didn’t say anything about any kind of operation, treatment, or surgery.

Transitioning can be as simple as changing your name and wardrobe.

All I said is that it’s valid to not conform to gender expectations, and transphobes are liars and bad people, which as both true statements. If you take issue with either of those statements, you are telling on yourself, and your dishonest, low-intelligence concern trolling about “treatments”.

I don’t hurt minors, that’s a pathetic try. Transphobes will make a big deal about protecting children but they are too busy banning trans people from serving in the military while children literally freeze to death in casino parking lots. Transphobes are untrustworthy, deceitful, bad people.

Let me set something straight real quick –

Pushing ideology: forcing someone to conform to a set of social standards that you believe should fit the body parts they were born with

Not pushing ideology: validating that they have the freedom to feel or act differently than the cultural expectation

The real “gender ideology” was cishet gender ideology this entire time.

The 30% percent cut, stealing money from devs

This is a pretty spicy take. Let’s consider two possibilities:

1. Game devs choose to distribute independently, and sell their game for $20. They sell 100,000 copies and make $2 million in revenue, and keep the entire $2 million.

2. Game devs choose to distribute via Steam, promote it with a 50% off sale, it goes to the Steam front page, sells 500,000 copies at only $10 each, for a total $5 million in revenue. Steam takes $1.5 million and the devs take $3.5 million.

In scenario 2 the devs make 75% more than in scenario 1. Did Valve steal from the game devs?

Fascism is a feature of being human.

Self-described communists can also fall very easy into fascism; remember the Soviets were friendly with the Nazis while they both launched imperial expansionist campaigns across Eastern Europe and split Poland between each other. Hitler and Stalin found common ground in being “anti- Western capitalism”. Some historians call the USSR the “red fascists”.

I think real, global communism will be the solution to fascism. It will require the overthrow of all capitalist systems.

If your last time using Linux was 10 years ago you’re going to be SO PLEASED at how good it is now.

I’d bet a million dollar one of his lil baby faced goons did an export to .csv so Leon could open it up in excel, do a remove duplicate values, and send it back and have the goon could glaze him for being a genius.

Is there like a word that stands for, “I can’t be perfect so I gave up trying to be better”?

I was correcting someone who said that free speech doesn’t protect hate speech in the US, but it does.

Yes, I agree, you are correct on this point. Where you are wrong, and where I was correcting you, was that you were saying hate speech is not violence.

Hate speech is violence, Nazism is violence, but it’s protected violence, not because of any morality or value around free speech, but because the US is already partly a Nazi state.

You’re spouting the same bullshit used to justify redlining. The law is not the same for everyone. Even if letter of the law stays neutral, the way it gets enforced matters.

Notice how students that peacefully protest for Palestine get arrested and put in handcuffs, but literal Nazis walk free. The law is not the same for everyone.

Yes, because the US is halfway to being a Nazi state, the law is overly permissive of Nazis.

Just like how the US started as a white supremacist nation where the law allowed slavery.

My feelings have nothing to do with the extent to which white supremacy and Nazism influences the US state to allow threats of violence against marginalized groups to be permissible. US law is not impartial, it is biased in favor of Nazis and white supremacists.

To this day it’s refreshing to put on old Trek and see characters that behave like grown adults.

They’re not perfect, they don’t have everything figured out, but they have a willingness to be curious and compassionate and humble, to learn and change and improve.

Having grown up strictly Catholic I can tell you it’s because they view the world extremely binary black and white. Either you’re a Christian, or you’re “led astray by Satan’s lies”, so literally everything else is Satanism.

To a Catholic even a Protestant could be considered a Satanist.

You don’t choose to be born Jewish or black, you do choose to be a Nazi, and a Nazi is someone who inflicts violence on people.

Identifying as a Nazi is a threat of violence that is considered legally acceptable in the US because the US already partway to being a Nazi country.

If you don’t want to punch Nazis you’re probably a bad person.