The alleged corruption, Donlon claims, was used to promote unqualified, politically connected cops and “triggered a massive, unlawful transfer of public wealth – millions of dollars in unearned salary increases, overtime eligibility, pension enhancements, and post-retirement benefits”.

I refuse to believe that the mayor who made a deal with Trump to scuttle an investigation would stoop so low! /s

The problem is that while Putin was servicing Donnie, he didn’t provide a courtesy reach-around. I mean, that’s just a manners issue.

Israel’s image is cracking. Let’s make it shatter. Keep talking about what they are doing to a captive population: it’s genocide.

Justice says it reviewed “more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence,” including “over ten thousand downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material.”

I refuse to believe that 300GB of material yielded no additional suspects.

Why I’d ever want to offer up my code to this asshat’s company remains a mystery.

Yeah, but they’re storing so much data only orgs with a lot of funding could participate, so it’d still be in the hands of wealthy parties.

IRC

And the person who definitely wrongly commented in the screenshot is a stupid fuck. Thanks for doing the math and sharing.

The AI didn’t do the math for you. It just made up a plausible sounding series of statistically likely words. Dumbass. But I don’t expect the kind of person who would say this to be smart.

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Techdirt has been killing it since they decided to start covering politics.

That’s an ok mistake to make that has zero chance of then ruining someone’s life and reputation. /s

“Hi, I’m a shitty person who has an opinion that is self-serving. Let me tell you what I think.”

This is 100% accurate.

This is the true answer, hence I don’t need to sarcastically form my own.

Tell her she has to work when she’s got cancer and see how much she celebrates her good fortune.

Heroes.

Mod kids and punk kids used to hang out. So you could ask a punk to put you in touch. At least, that’s what I gather after watching SLC Punk (which is really good, btw).

Our overseas military members are criminals. They mostly don’t get punished. I’m happy for that to change.

Open source software is a minor miracle. I consider the people who give away their hard work saints. That doesn’t mean they can’t also be assholes. We have a bunch of different distributions of multiple full-featured operating systems. Credit where credit is due.