GeneralVincent

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[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a bankruptcy auction, and he's bankrupt because he was sued by Sandy Hook families. Some of those families gave money to the Onion to buy InfoWars so Alex Jones is losing his platform and his money.

It sucks for him more than it helps him really.

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hold on, is the straight person arguing for the gays, and the gay person arguing for the straights?? (I'm pansexual and I think we should all just get along)

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

No where does that source say Biden tried to shut down the Internet. The closest is this part

Donald Trump publicly advocated that “in some places” we have to talk about “closing up the Internet.” He got his wish, but it came after him personally following his election in 2016. The very free speech about which he made fun turned out to be rather important to him and his cause.

Also I can't take a site seriously when one of their sources they link to is the Twitter user "End Wokeness"

There are some parts I agree with, but there's plenty there that's right wing dog whistles for "I want to say hateful things and have no consequences" free speech

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I can only imagine it's rich people who use this argument to try to justify hoarding wealth. After all, minimum wage is $7/hour, so these lazy bums only have to work one hour a week to live and they're still complaining? They can easily save money every week. It's their problem, not the person with billions of dollars.

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah they do, I'm just pointing out that the law doesn't say a business has to. Sorry, being pedantic

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The people getting up in arms are upset because they see it as a slippery slope. First just the idiots pay for subscriptions, then it creeps into the lives of everyone. And eventually it's harder to avoid the bullshit than just pay, and the whole market becomes more predatory. Like if the idiots give companies an inch, they'll eventually take a mile

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sadly I think they're legally allowed to not serve gay people in certain states. The minimum is just hiring gay people :(

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, probably wrong. There's not a bunch of third party info on the environmental impact this factory will have, and no evidence anyone was bribed. If it makes you feel better, this isn't their first factory and I couldn't find any negative news about that factory either. Community leaders were supportive though, and a bunch of jobs were created.

I did find some articles about the positive environmental impact sodium batteries have from production, to relative ease of recycling, if that makes you feel better.

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can think of an America specific reason to not block all communication with the outside world in a school. Even if every room has a wired landline that worked and was accessible to students and teachers

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

We don't need evenly distributed emotions! They'll just trickle down from the most emotional to the rest of us

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nope, wife works at a hospital and they don't have a paper backup of everything. They were affected by the outage and it was apparently a pretty tough night.

They can still work, but there obviously will be a serious delay switching to paper everything. You might want to look into the legislation that you're thinking of to see what it specifically says.

And I'm pretty sure there are ways to prevent what happened that have nothing to do with having medical professionals chart everything on both a computer and on paper. That just sounds really inefficient.

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Wow, just looked into it cuz I hadn't heard about that. And yeah, it looks like that's exactly what he did a month after becoming CEO. In fact it looks like they closed the entire publishing side of the company and possibly laid those employees off. Super disappointed to hear that from the studio behind such a beloved game

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