Activity from NoxAeternum

For example can the 1996 National Champions sue for back payment? Well, we may just find out as ten members of the 1983 NC State team are suing over NIL rights. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - An hour ago

Welp, looks like Bozeman housing prices aren't getting any better anytime soon. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by eckeric, Skwirl, chavenet
MeFi comment - 2 ½ hours ago

Anyway, this is kind of like saying you gotta hand it to Isis, but yes, you gotta hand it to Alex Jones for being good at hosting a radio show. And as dril famously noted, no, you don't. You don't have to give credit to someone putting… [more]
favorited 22 times, recently by Suedeltica, Gelatin, filtergik, Devils Rancher, caviar2d2, rhizome, Scout405, maniabug, abraxasaxarba, symbioid, jzb, BlueHorse, Halloween Jack, May Kasahara, From Bklyn, wenestvedt, Servo5678, Neronomius, Pope Guilty, Brainstorming Time!, Foosnark, GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 2 ¾ hours ago

From my understanding, the families have forensic accountants who are hard at work giving Jones a financial colonoscopy. [more]
favorited 73 times, recently by Gelatin, stoneegg21, deludingmyself, fgdmorr, filtergik, camyram, pxe2000, RakDaddy, faceplantingcheetah, pearlybob, wowenthusiast, Scout405, Barbara Spitzer, tzikeh, kinnakeet, not just everyday big moggies, loquacious, Nanukthedog, birdsongster, ActionPopulated, abraxasaxarba, symbioid, KGMoney, bluesky43, rmd1023, zippy, photo guy, jzb, polyhedron, BlueHorse, superelastic, adrienneleigh, zardoz, From Bklyn, Fuzzypumper, condour75, wenestvedt, zekesonxx, spinifex23, Surely This, Space Kitty, Vek, rifflesby, rrrrrrrrrt, Neronomius, Glinn, cooker girl, macbot3000, hydropsyche, gladly, td2x10e3, Sparky Buttons, eviemath, nofundy, scottatdrake, JoeXIII007, kurumi, Orange Dinosaur Slide, Hairy Lobster, Jody Tresidder, cmfletcher, Kitteh, gauche, NoMich, snsranch, ishmael, BlahLaLa, 41swans, exolstice, supermedusa, MiraK, lalochezia, May Kasahara
MeFi comment - 11 hours ago

jwz is not arguing against having a privacy policy. Yes, they are. Because - especially in 2024 - being incredulous about the idea that any piece of software being offered to the public should have a privacy policy regardless of its… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by symbioid, Aleyn, Lenie Clarke, Going To Maine, plonkee
MeFi comment - 18 hours ago

A Day To Take Clarence Darrow's Advice
favorited 14 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi post - 23 hours ago

App development is something both huge companies and individuals do? In a sense, every mandatory step to do something will favor corporations that have endless resources to throw at requirements, over individuals. It's like handling DMCA requests… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Aleyn, krisjohn, JHarris, Lenie Clarke
MeFi comment - Yesterday

The answer to the question is simple - nobody would believe the women. I also think Krakauer's point is excellent - sexual assault is the only crime where we as a general rule assume that the victim is lying - something that needs to end… [more]
favorited 27 times, recently by thetarium, 41swans, teleri025, rosiroo, BlahLaLa, LegallyBread, tommasz, camyram, terretu, adrienneleigh, mmoncur, macbot3000, swerve, Scout405, GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - Yesterday

I mean, I’ve had a whole group of highly progressive women I respect talk about how it’s okay to go through their partner’s phone because of how common cheating is among men so it’s justified and understandable. They're wrong, they're… [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by neitherly, ichomp
MeFi comment - Yesterday

The Infowars Have Ended
favorited 29 times, recently by filtergik, Green-eyed grenade, Raellwyn, Scout405, LostInUbe, bindr, JoeXIII007, gamera, googlebombed, condour75, emf, spinifex23, Surely This, The Manwich Horror, ourobouros, brujita, eviemath, Aya Hirano on the Astral Plane, GenjiandProust, Hairy Lobster, snuffleupagus, snsranch, ishmael, Faint of Butt, caviar2d2, box, exolstice, star gentle uterus, jedicus
MeFi post - Yesterday

Why You Don't Let Rocket Scientists Get Bored
favorited 20 times, recently by TedW
MeFi post - 2 days ago

I'm a straight male, and I routinely get pedicures for fucking foot health. (eyetwitch) [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Don Pepino, JoeXIII007, Kitteh, brachiopod
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

The backlog of unsold Teslas is now visible from space. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by The Manwich Horror
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

This is the lesson from Amazon's ML resume screen fiasco - training on biased data sets (and everything we humans produce is filled with bias) will cause those biases to be pulled forward, because it turns out that ML is really good at… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Ryvar
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Also, it turns out that the "EV sales slump" is in actuality primarily a Tesla sales slump (with a little VW mixed in.) Which just adds to the upcoming drama on Thursday. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by The Manwich Horror, tofu_crouton
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Did Taco Bell win them too? Those were the Franchise Wars, and Pizza Hut won them in some countries. [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by Verg, otherchaz, Strutter Cane - United Planets Stilt Patrol, chinesefood, The Pluto Gangsta, genpfault, Servo5678, Surely This
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Being angry, expressing anger, is seen to be dangerous and something only harmful people do. You're supposed to deal with anger in private and not impose on anyone else, or that seems to be the belief. This is because our society vilifies… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Zumbador
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

My point is that people believe "all politicians are crooks" because people like you cynically reinforce that position, and that it does real, genuine damage to our system of governance. It is not a message we should be reinforcing… [more]
favorited 18 times, recently by PheasantlySurprised
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

It is surprising that it isn't a larger story in the news, given the set of problems Tesla is facing at the moment. Given that Tesla's "Technoking" has been accused in engaging in insider trading netting him $3B in profit and… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by From Bklyn, The Manwich Horror, hototogisu
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

And it turns out that the founder of Nostr (which Dorsey talked up and donated to) is a follower of a Brazilian fascist. It's almost like fucking clockwork. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

But the point is that there are other EVs that are a) cheaper, b) more capable, and c) less harmful than the Incel Camino. Cops are interested in the WankerTanker not because of TCO, but because it looks like something a dystopian government would be… [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by salix, armacy, superelastic, sarble, photo guy, Dysk, Mitheral, Neronomius
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

and a booster that still isn't running without losing at least an engine. Turns out that firing your chief engine designer for pointing out the stupidity of building unneeded engines has...foreseeable consequences. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by whm, bombastic lowercase pronouncements
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Police departments switching to EVs seems like it would be a good thing. Yes, but police departments switching to a vehicle that is designed to maim people (there was the Cybertruck that sent its owner to the ER before he got to drive it,… [more]
favorited 15 times, recently by armacy, jedicus, adrienneleigh, photo guy
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

wait, what, what are the details here? i feel like i should know the details here but i don't know the details here and i want to know the details here. So, remember a few years back when Musk was apoplectic about how SpaceX's production… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by bombastic lowercase pronouncements, mmascolino, rhamphorhynchus
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

And we have Tesla's board chair continue to demonstrate why the judge ruled they weren't independent with a fact free assertion that not voting for Elon's payday would cost Tesla money. The argument that he would sue the company is especially… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by Surely This, jedicus, AsYouKnow Bob
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Metafilter circa 2024, where self-impressed children dance on the grave of anybody who didn't have identical politics. Oh hey, it's a variant on the "X you don't like" bad faith argument, ignoring how people have been discussing… [more]
favorited 52 times, recently by AlSweigart
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I will admit that a Cybertruck owner finding out that Ford isn't just a truck brand the hard way is entertaining. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 4 days ago

other times it’s claiming that because men have so much power and privilege in society, they should not expect women to do anything to help them which includes in individual interpersonal interactions. Well yes, because they shouldn't… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 days ago

But many progressives do in fact believe that men should not burden women with their feelings regardless of the context or content due to the power and privilege they hold. Yes, men should not burden women with their feelings… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 days ago

We may see problems with that script, but do you see how it’s a step by step approach, that gives all the tools to get from the interest in the woman to the end of the date? And what happens when things go off script? Because the reality… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 days ago

I'm saying that it's a message that I have internalized by being active in progressive politics my entire life (and more fundamentally just trying not to be a jerk). There's an internal voice saying "no one cares that your job is stressful… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 days ago

all politicians are crooks This is a horrible position, and in fact is part of what enabled Trump's rise in the first place, as the argument that "all politicians are crooks" allowed his outright criminality to be dismissed. It… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 days ago

I'm sorry, but these sorts of pieces are feeling rather...trite. The simple reality that the article avoids is that privilege does not mean you cannot suffer - that you can still benefit from structural privilege while struggling in other… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 days ago

Mike Solana, the interviewer and founder of the site, also appears to have bylines in both Quillette and Reason. Maybe not every article from every website needs to be posted? More to the point, we already had a thread on this interview… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 days ago

On the other, so many of us tried to warn that this was a highly predictable outcome and sakes alive, people did not want to hear that. The thing to understand us that when Dorsey is saying BlueSky is "repeating Twitter's… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 days ago

Twitter, on the other hand, is sending me ads for Epoch Times, right-wing grift organizations, and Republican congressional candidates. Every time, and it's gotten very noticeable since about the first of the year. Really? Is that all you have?… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 days ago

How do tools like this jerk end up billionaires? I truly do not understand. They get lucky and manage to exploit a niche that nobody thought of. I don't think it's coincidence that a lot of these assholes - Dorsey, Musk, Thiel, etc - made… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 days ago

"Blockchain Rasputin over here is mad that moderation exists"
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MeFi post - 6 days ago

They are fundamentally people who are dishonest about their intentions so that they will get elected. This isn't true, though. Political scientists have done research on this, and in general they've found that politicians do actually push… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Remain Otterly Ungovernable
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MeFi post - 7 days ago

Do remember that Brooks is on his way out, as he lost his primary to the Trump-backed candidate. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 days ago

I'm suddenly lamenting the closure of the Newseum in DC, because they used to have a physical and virtual display of the front page of newspapers around the world for the day - and I wish we could get to see what that would look like tomorrow. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 days ago

As has happened before, none of this will make any difference to Trump supporters. And he doesn't have enough supporters to win (case in point - there's a reason he spoke at the Libertarian Party convention, as much of a train… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 days ago

If we haven't learned by now that the law doesn't apply to Donald Trump, we soon will, as he walks away scot free and continues on his inevitable path to become the first uncontested dictator of the United States. So, do you have some… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 days ago

Trump regularly denigrates people when they or their families came to the US via immigration, despite the history of his name reminding us that his family did the same. Which doesn't change the fact that attacking him in this manner… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 days ago

It’s not that they can’t understand the election fraud aspects, it’s that crimes have elements that are different from “everyone knows it” that you generally have to prove for conviction. Elements that the prosecution did, in fact focus… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 days ago

Intuit saw a $100 drop in their stock price this week. Also, you know that somewhere, Grover Norquist is crying over an ice cream cone. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 days ago

The piece also demonstrates how insulated from the world the ivory tower "law experts" are with their inability to understand the whole electoral fraud aspect of the case without it being explained to them like they're five - though at this… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 days ago

Eruption has happened again on Icelandic peninsula
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MeFi post - 10 days ago

We're uncomfortably close to the "we can't convict on the crimes he actually committed, so we're going to send him up on something else" approach that corrupt cops and prosecutors use, but it seems to be justified here. No, we… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 days ago

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