Very interesting read.! Always eye-opening to get the perspective of someone that is so focused on a specific angle. Like so many things lately, this takeaway at the end is both encouraging and simultaneously terrifying:

The irony of this remarkable month of antitrust activity is that it’s both astonishing, far more bigger [sic] than anything anyone expected, yet it’s also only a tiny fraction of what is necessary to reverse the damage monopolists have done to our society.

(emphasis added)

Clickbait has reached a totally new level with this headline.

But we don’t need blockchain to do any of that, someone still has to be trusted so might as well just use normal database tech.

This is great to see!

Biden may not be a progressive as an individual but his administration’s agenda is easily the most progressive of my lifetime–and I was old enough to vote for Obama twice. It would be even more so if Congress gave him progressive bills to sign, too!

So far the biggest positive story of 2023 is the massive increase in labor action across multiple industries.

I think it’s completely absurd to discuss this when we’re also dealing with the fallout from a literal attempted coup. Let’s get back to everyone agreeing that democracy is good before we worry about silly stuff like a dress code.

I think it’s actually a pretty good episode up until the final few minutes when the questionably sentient lizards show up. How reviled the episode is says more about how people react to that than the overall episode, IMO.

Writing a letter with the intent of reducing the sentence of a convicted rapist counts as a coverup in my book.

Also, individuals who continue to defend rapists are not good people. Doesn’t matter if they are friends.

Ever heard of context or hypocrisy?

I think it’s fair to judge someone directly involved with covering up a rapist when that person is also very vocal and actively involved in combating exactly that crime. That’s a pretty massive lapse in judgement and more indicative of his true character than someone that had a single instance of road rage or similar emotional outburst.

Not surprised at all by the hypocrisy. These are the same people that have continually voted against taking care of veterans and 9/11 first responders.

It was strange to read an article about something recorded on video and see so many uses of “alleged” and “appears to”. Then I watch the video–which, as a surprise twist, the article doesn’t even include–to realize it’s definitely not ambiguous!

Maybe Spanish libel laws are more strict than I’m used to, but that is some seriously cautious journalism!