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[andy_hilmer]

More purpley wailing over beer. But thank you anyway.

[Auld_Lang_Syne]

I’m mostly putting this here because this message needs to be widely spread:

Trump rolls back Obama-era protections for transgender students

Psychological diagnosis are used to help people understand their illnesses and improve their understanding of how their diseases challenge them so they can treat them. They help their loved ones understand behavior that is out of the ordinary so they can help they can help them stay healthy. They are not intended to slander people.

[ChickieD]

Thank you.

[Auld_Lang_Syne]

Thank YOU!

[Melizmatic]

Snark of this caliber should not be ignored:

Google's new product identifies whether a comment could be perceived as “toxic" to a discussion

With this excellent new tool, I’ll be able to have my computer pre-filter my trolling to make sure it’ll get past the mods! This is great! Before, my complete assholery would often shine through the surface, allowing people to easily see through my tone and concern trolling. But with this amazing new technology, Google’s got my back! Never again will I start random racist and sexist rants in the middle of a long bad-faith diatribe meant to waste your time and elicit angry responses. From now o…

[anon67050589]

Good post, on topic while also adding new ideas (and avoiding the disparagement of religion that doesn’t further the conversation, which caused a number of posts just prior to be flagged). Basically, it threaded the needle well:

'Demonic activity was palpable' at Trump rally, says Florida pastor

I don’t think these people use ‘demonic’ etc metaphorically. They mean it literally. Living in a magical world. I had a roommate in amway (or actually the offshoot, who’s name escapes me). Of course she was trying to recruit me (which was not going to happen), but I did go to one of their ‘retirement’ parties because, gosh, that sounded weird. It is the strangest event I have ever been to. It is also the only time I have experienced fanaticism from a large group of people first hand. It w…

[Nightflyer]

I like this one:

'Demonic activity was palpable' at Trump rally, says Florida pastor

I see a lot of mocking here, but the pastor has a point – there is evil at those rallies even if we disagree on the source. In the spirit of the witness, let me tell a parable: Meet Amy. Amy is a nice girl, could be from anywhere . She wasn’t the smartest in her class but she got into community college and did okay. Then she meets Steve. Steve is charming and says all the right things and makes her feel special. He can be bossy, but her dad was bossy, too and it’s normal for guys, right? Besid…

[TobinL]

Customs officials refuse to allow passengers to debark a domestic flight unless they show ID

You know, you guys don’t have to just take my word on it that CBP has no authority over you on domestic flights, you can listen to Constitutional legal scholars:

[Kimmo]

Racists blubber in court as judge jails them for threatening black child's birthday party with shotgun

I’m super-liberal and super-privileged, so I’ve got the luxury of trying to muster empathy for these shitstains, and I can, and this is how it happens. I kind of can understand that. Getting caught up with the group. Not acting “like yourself” in a crowd. Struggling with the cognitive dissonance. Hell, we’ve all been there, most of us probably just haven’t pointed a fucking gun at a kid’s birthday party while being exorbitantly racist about it. I can see that under different circumstances, with…

[Kimmo]

Racists blubber in court as judge jails them for threatening black child's birthday party with shotgun

I think that their power should be limited more than they are already, surely. They are far too powerful, and that power is being abused. However, I have no problem with the idea of some form of leniency for those who, admitting freely their actions and the harm that they have done, spare the State the cost and the victims the further trauma of a trial. It shouldn’t be on the order of “You hit the guy and he landed wrong and died. If it goes to trial, we’ll charge you with first-degree murd…

[SteampunkBanana]

The US Patent Office just (in 2017!) awarded IBM a patent over out-of-office email

The US Patent Office just (in 2017!) awarded IBM a patent over out-of-office email No, it didn’t. (Disclaimer: I am a patent attorney - but I am not IBM’s patent attorney, I’ve had no role in this patent, and the first time I encountered any of this was 10 minutes ago in this BB post.) Here’s the part of the independent claim that you missed: in response to said determining that the current date is PRIOR TO the start date … attaching the extracted availability indicator metadata to the e-…

[daneel]

Uber CEO snaps at driver complaining of pay rates, later vows to 'grow up,' get 'leadership help'

Christ, what an asshole.

Hmm, looks like flagged posts don’t preview properly.

[Snowlark]

US border guards can't believe Nigerian man is a software engineer, google "questions to ask a software engineer" and give him a pop quiz

Gilliamesque?

Click through for context. Those who’ve seen Gilliam’s film Brazil will agree this term aptly describes many of the current political fusterclucks in the U.S.

ETA: And I am so using it in discussion from now on.

[Melizmatic]

70% of the benefits of Trump's childcare credits will go to households earning $100K and up

Yeah, I “paid less” out of pocket for my childcare. Because I had to get a government subsidy just to keep working. It was that or not work at all. I couldn’t get any government assistance on my rent, because the waiting list for subsidized housing was 5 years long in my county. I was just above the cutoff for food stamps. We had no health insurance; my kid got her vaccinations at free clinics. It’s not like you just show up and the government gives you free stuff. The childcare subsidy r…

[LockeCJ]

We are one RFID away from a dishwasher that rejects third-party dishes on pain of a 5-year prison sentence

“This parody of one situation by analogy to a different hypothetical situation is broken because it doesn’t describe a literally true situation” Sheesh.

[nimelennar]

After Trump, boys at her daughter's school Nazi-salute in the hall. Here's how a mom responded

Hi – I am the neighbor Tammy Weisenberger mentioned in her article. If you were shocked by the behavior of these middle schoolers, then I hope you will listen to what I have to say. (I don’t know anything about Boing Boing, I just happen to have a dog in this fight. My comment is long, but I believe very important if you care about kids and the adults they turn into.) When my son told me that some punk was trying to scare him with swastikas, I asked him if he felt like he was handling the situa…

[anon61221983]

Landmark ruling shows Canada has one of the world's worst DRM laws

Oh, no! Canada is catching American!

[Kimmo]

Jeff Sessions can't recuse himself from Colbert's monologue

Today I had a blast of lucidity about Russia’s involvement and I wasn’t dropping acid. Here are some starting facts that I’ve absorbed over the last few weeks: Putin was angry at Clinton for her perceived meddling in his election. Putin wants to discredit the west and open democracy in general in order to make conditions in Russia under his rule look good - a sort of “all forms of government are bad, so don’t complain about how bad you have it here.” (even in the US elections are “rigged” so…

[anon26304152]

TSA's new "pat-downs" are so invasive, airports are pre-emptively warning cops to expect sexual assault claims

Trump: “Grab 'em by the pussy” TSA: “Sure thing, boss!”

[LockeCJ]

TSA's new "pat-downs" are so invasive, airports are pre-emptively warning cops to expect sexual assault claims

Chillax. That is not what Cory nor anyone else here claimed. In fact, Cory pointed out that he too uses the system. I enjoy several forms of privilege that are off limits to many other Americans. It doesn’t hurt me in any way to simply acknowledge that I am lucky to have those opportunities.

Re: Privilege.