Functioning as designed.

The system is broken and will continue to be broken until something fundamentally changes, but there are too many in power who only care about maintaining their power.

Try installing uBlock Origin if you don’t already have it. I’m on a Windows machine at the moment so I can’t speak to the OS, but it’s always a good idea to have a quality ad blocker.

What a stupid move, why not just use a googleplex?

They should be, it’s a spectacularly bad idea.

Fair enough

Is it less severe?

Same thing?

glances at Whoopi Goldberg

You mean Roman Polanski the famous child molester?

Yes, I understand (ignorance of a law is no defense at least in the US) that but it still may prove difficult to actually prove.

Better than nothing but it also seems like it might be kind of difficult to prove the company allowed it knowingly.

Punish regular users while completely failing to actually stop piracy, classic.

What a ridiculous take, tax payers ABSOLUTELY DID PAY FOR IT! WTF?

Please don’t be horrible

Dropped right after the election you say?

The gutting of the educational system is part of the far right extremism you’re describing: This is a systematic effort.

Being educated does not make you immune from propaganda (especially if your education was not quality in the first place) but giving everyone a quality education that teaches, among other things, critical thinking, absolutely does make people more resistant to disinformation.

This is what you get when you systematically sabotage and gut the educational system: Crazy idiots.

There’s definitely regulars I recognize, but still plenty more I don’t.

Spot Shotter has repeatedly been shown to not only completely miss gunfights but also to have false positives. It’s crazy how many bullshit devices that don’t really work end up getting used by the government.

Voice Stress Analysis is another, even more eggregious example: It is 100% bullshit but police departments all over the place still buy this bullshit and act like it’s not complete quackery that has been thoroughly and completely debunked.