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@realcaseyrollins Smith wanted him gone, so he's gone. It doesn't seem too crazy, just run of the mill showbiz stuff.

> It wasn’t really about asking him to be off the show. It was about the fact that we, together, as far as I was concerned, was not a great partnership anymore, and that was something that needed to change.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2021/09/10/stephen-a-smith-wanted-max-kellerman-off-espns-first-take/8271133002/

@freemo That's both of Bush's terms vs Trump's one btw. Republican presidents over the last 50 years have cumulatively taken more time off than Democrats. I'm not smart enough to accurately gauge what impact, if any, that has had on the well being of the country though.

@freemo If I stop and think about it, this doesn't even seem all that controversial. Every modern president takes more vacation time than the rest of us. It's almost like being responsible for 350M fickle assholes is a crappy, stressful job... One could make the argument that Trump's vacations were more expensive than his predecessors. Bush 2 took aprox 3x more time off and spent less, but if we want to talk about govt waste there are much better places to start.

@RTP I agree that there are issues with censorship, didn't mean to imply otherwise. From what I'm seeing Facebook is now banning references to mastodon which is patently absurd. Copystriking too... it's at the point where an accusation of infringement is equivalent to proof.

"Remember that time..."

@RTP It does sound like an Onion title but I'm thinking the law is probably on the side of companies, and I'm not sure that's a bad thing. The 1st amendment protects us from the government not from each other. I certainly wouldn't want to be forced to support a view with which I disagree. Reading more about it this just sounds like TX conservatives using public resources to poke liberals in the eye and get people riled up.

@Vextaur@mastodon.social So, police officials can sue individual members of the community with the full cooperation of the judiciary but it's nearly impossible for members of the community to sue individual employees of the PD? Nice little setup they have there.

@freemo yea probably best to cover all the bases haha

@freemo The logician in me doesn't know whether to laugh or cry...

@thor I would say most of the US thinks of dinner as the 3rd meal. The term supper is a little antiquated where I live now, but I know plenty of people from the South who still say Breakfast -> Dinner -> Supper. In both cases though anything outside those mealtimes is still the equivalent of a snack.

@thor Maybe somebody more clever than me should make one up... I usually eat at that time of night too. I call it a snack, but it isn't.

In American English the terms "dinner" and "supper" aren't even used consistently across the country though. In some places dinner is the 2nd meal of the day while supper is the 3rd. Other places dinner and supper are synonyms for the 3rd meal, and we call the 2nd meal "lunch."

@worldsendless CNAME cloaking is a fancy term for what's basically just falsifying DNS records. You still serve ads and tracking cookies from 3rd parties (i.e. doubleclick.net), but you use a CNAME record to make it look like it's coming from the 1st party domain (i.e. google.com). It makes browser add-ons or network level adblockers like pi-hole or adguard home ineffective because everything looks like it's coming from the actual site you're browsing.

@worldsendless I've been using a DNS based ad blocker on my LAN for years, but if the 'CNAME Cloaking' and server-side tracking techniques start becoming even more popular I have zero problem going back to text.

@freemo fair enough, I honestly didn't look into it much, just thought it was funny

Not normally something I'd post. The Nazi claim is almost always deliberate hyperbole, but there's no arguing the transitive property.

@kyle To put it differently, they'll only allow Microsoft's specific TPM implementation (BitLocker) and Microsoft's Secure Boot keys. Linux users still get the shaft altogether. Then again, we get rtorrent so I guess I'm good lol.