The unimportant news thread

[Karl Henning]

U2.   Either too much red wine or you are getting old and decrepit   

Alas for me! I have quaffed no red wine!

[LKB]

My wine-quaffing days are pretty much over. I now enjoy wine/ whiskey/ whatever at a measured, leisurely pace.

Certain foods though, l quaff like hell...

Sipping,

LKB

[JBS]

Alas for me! I have quaffed no red wine!

White wine works just as well.

[Andante]

Alas for me! I have quaffed no red wine!

Aha so you must be old and decrepit... Join the club 

[Ken B]

This might be of interest,since we seem to be the target of DDOS attacks recently.
Notepad++ is a good text editor. https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/30/20940651/text-editor-notepad-free-uyghur-edition-china-spam

I doubt LeBron James has the coding skills, but ...

[Ken B]

Huh. I didn't know she was GMGer.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/10/31/greta-thunberg-calls-on-facebook-to-censor-her-critics/

[SimonNZ]

Huh. I didn't know she was GMGer.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/10/31/greta-thunberg-calls-on-facebook-to-censor-her-critics/

What is this supposed to mean?

[greg]

Huh. I didn't know she was GMGer.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/10/31/greta-thunberg-calls-on-facebook-to-censor-her-critics/

Awww, what a stunning and brave authoritarian.

[SimonNZ]

Death threats =/= "her critics"

But that's Breitbart for you.

Pick a different source and see how this story is being reported.

[drogulus]

     Facebook isn't a government that can take away a Constitutional right by upholding a standard of conduct.

     This is what she said:



     I don't see censorship.

[Florestan]

     Facebook isn't a government that can take away a Constitutional right by upholding a standard of conduct.

     This is what she said:



     I don't see censorship.

To see Greta Thunberg denouncing hate and threats is highly entertaining.

[Todd]

To see Greta Thunberg denouncing hate and threats is highly entertaining.

Ms Thunberg's prominence among mush-brained lefties and other gullible fools is the very embodiment of Mr Bernays' ideas.  The more things change, and all that. 

[drogulus]

To see Greta Thunberg denouncing hate and threats is highly entertaining.

     I'm sure it is. Her approach to climate activism is that of a young person who inspires other young people. Old people think there are flaws in how she does it. Even I, an old person, think so.

     The left has not gone far from what the science says. On the problem side, they stick to the facts as known. My old person criticism is on the solution side. The left thinks solutions will impose high net costs on the economy. I think solutions will confer net benefits. The left thinks it wants a poorer but cleaner and more equal world. I think a cleaner world will be richer by design.

     

[Ken B]

Street thug gets prison https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2019/11/baton-attack-during-june-protests-in-downtown-portland-lands-man-in-jail-for-nearly-6-years.html

Bien.

[greg]

Every time someone questions whether an authority should "allow" "hate speech," you just ask them to define what it is. It's far to subjective to be something that can be used to limit freedom of speech, period.

Also reminds me of the Carlos Maza incident. It's just the same trend of leftists trying to leverage the "compassion" of large corporations in order to attain power (what it really is is that they are scared of the backlash of doing nothing, which is provoked by the other leftist mobs, such as online journalists writing angry articles, fear of losing money, etc.).

The same can be seen with large corporations and their fear of losing money from China. Problem is large American corporations have no moral compass, except they fake whatever sense of morality will prevent them from losing money.

Also, literally everyone with a large following nowadays gets death threats, even if they don't do anything wrong. It's not even worth mentioning unless someone shows up to your house or something extreme.

[Todd]

Street thug gets prison https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2019/11/baton-attack-during-june-protests-in-downtown-portland-lands-man-in-jail-for-nearly-6-years.html

Bien.

The real crime there was that the ruckus prevented polite customers from accessing Urban Farmer for a brief period.

[drogulus]

Every time someone questions whether an authority should "allow" "hate speech," you just ask them to define what it is. It's far to subjective to be something that can be used to limit freedom of speech, period.

     It really isn't as a practical matter. The company where you work will enforce the same standards as other companies do, give or take. Do you have a theory of "shared subjectivity"?

[SimonNZ]

Theres nothing "subjective" about death threats. And if you're supporting them as as a freedom of speech issue...

[Ken B]

Ricky Gervais in the news! https://althouse.blogspot.com/2019/11/ricky-laughs-at-newsnews-of-huge.html

[greg]

Theres nothing "subjective" about death threats. And if you're supporting them as as a freedom of speech issue...

That was a side note, so nope. The people who go on about protecting freedom of speech as well can separate that as the limits, recognizing that threats to violence shouldn't be protected.

I was just pointing out that death threats are par for the course when you become internet-famous. They're not even worth of being mentioned unless it ends up affecting you IRL.