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I’ll take “Streisand Effect” for $2000, Alex.

Technically they aren’t lying: their subjective experience is much better when they don’t have to deal with customers.

If you prevent the FDA from reporting on the bird flu then that means the bird flu doesn’t exist. Easy peasy.

Yeah, even though this is obviously politically motivated, the claim that they’re effectively running commercials isn’t that off base. It was one thing when they’d say “we receive funding from Company X: Their Slogan”, but now they’re reading sometimes paragraphs of ad copy, back-to-back.

Justice Department attorney Daniel Schwei argued that the freeze shouldn’t be put on hold because the plaintiffs hadn’t specified anyone who would immediately lose funding if it does go into effect.

I’m imagining the plaintiffs countered by motioning vaguely at the entire country.

Also fuck this guy. “It doesn’t count unless you specifically identify all the people we’d be victimizing,” is straight up bully logic.

There was that family in NJ that literally named their kid “Adolph Hitler”, so I gotta figure there may be some parents that have given their kids even worse names that aren’t any sort of Scunthorpe problem.

Do you genuinely think the government doesn’t have any trace of whether or not you have changed your gender marker?

Depends on how the state does it. California amends birth certificate in most cases by leaving the previous version of the document as an addendum to the current… except in cases of gender change. If any person or agency queries the document they see a single page that reflect the updated gender, no history.

(They also do this if your name has a slur in it that you want removed, which is nice)

I just remember when the ADL went after David Icke and the guy talking about 12-foot-tall Lizardmen seemed to have the more rational point.