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winkwinkwinkon Paramount blacklists actors for pro-Palestinian activism

Do continue! And please be more specific which cases you're citing. The case I think you're referring to (Murthy v. Missouri) was decided this last June by the US Supreme Court. Even that resulted in a wash where plaintiffs didn't show standing.

Also, you're citing instances that were walked back or otherwise not implemented. That's very different to what happened with Kimmel. Or is that moving goal posts again?

winkwinkwinkon Trump wins presidency for second time

No it wasn't obvious that Trump was headed to a routine reelection. In 2019, the sense was the economy was slowing down. If not for the tariffs on Chinese goods, the normal business cycle had it that a recession was coming in 2020.

Trump publicly pressured the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low so he could campaign on the economy.

Had he not intervened inflation probably wouldn't have been so high in the years to follow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/business/economy/bonehead...

winkwinkwinkon Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

My home wireless network uses two SSIDs. One uses Pihole as it's DNS server and the other just 8.8.8.8. That's handy when too many domains are getting blocked and you could just swap over and back.

Then i use Noscript in Firefox. I also have a VPN server setup whose DNS uses the same Pihole too.

winkwinkwinkon System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop

After almost 10 years of wanting a computer from System76, I was finally able to afford one and bought a Galago Pro 5 (galp5) in 2022. Since then I've come to deeply regret that decision.

I've replaced the keyboard within the first month because it shipped warped. It recently started to "ignore" key presses and needs to be replaced again (according to support without any diagnostics). $90 for the part that saw minimal use? No thanks.

The machine doesn't handle undocking well so it stays plugged all the time. Image burn even with power saving enabled? You betcha!

I hate to gripe. I really want them to succeed but it's just been one disappointment after another. Before buying I had read the posts referencing build quality and should have taken heed.

winkwinkwinkon The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes

This would have been a crazy idea that I (would have) like to see happen. The fact that we're talking about Reddit content in Google searches is an indicator that Reddit should have improved search on their own site.