On Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:51:12 -0600
JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

In an apparent overture to the incoming Trump administration, Meta
announced sweeping changes to its content moderation, including no
more fact-checkers and a move to Texas.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ditches-fact-checkers-in-favor-of-x-style-community-notes/

Facts are so 'Last Year'.

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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In an apparent overture to the incoming Trump administration, Meta
announced sweeping changes to its content moderation, including no
more fact-checkers and a move to Texas.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ditches-fact-checkers-in-favor-of-x-style-community-notes/

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On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 21:54:06 +0000, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
wrote:

Facts are so 'Last Year'.

Calling women 'household objects' now permitted on Facebook after Meta
updated its guidelines

Then next comes, "he beat his wife because she "talked back"

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"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> writes:

On Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:51:12 -0600
JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

In an apparent overture to the incoming Trump administration, Meta
announced sweeping changes to its content moderation, including no
more fact-checkers and a move to Texas.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ditches-fact-checkers-in-favor-of-x-style-community-notes/

Facts are so 'Last Year'.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

-- Stephen Colbert, 2005

Facts have a well-known liberal bias.

-- Paul Krugman (title of column, NYT, 8 Dec 2017

--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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On Tue, 7 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

In an apparent overture to the incoming Trump administration, Meta
announced sweeping changes to its content moderation, including no
more fact-checkers and a move to Texas.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ditches-fact-checkers-in-favor-of-x-style-community-notes/

I find it funny, and a little bit disgusting how Z is now crawling in the
dust, on this knees, in front of Trump.

Before Trump, he was wokes and Xidens best friend. He has not self respect
and no principles.

On the other hand, that is probably why he is a billionaire and why I am
not. ;)

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On Tue, 7 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 21:54:06 +0000, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
wrote:

Facts are so 'Last Year'.

Calling women 'household objects' now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines

Then next comes, "he beat his wife because she "talked back"

Excellent!

What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?

NOTHING!

You told her twice already! =D

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On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 10:27:03 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

I find it funny, and a little bit disgusting how Z is now crawling in the >dust, on this knees, in front of Trump.

AI Overview

Yes, industrialists were expected to donate to Hitler and the Nazi
Party:

Meeting with industrialists
In February 1933, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goring invited German
industrialists to a secret meeting to ask for campaign contributions.
The meeting was held at the residence of the Reichstag president,
Hermann Goring.

Donations
The industrialists donated large sums of money to the Nazi Party. ====================

It's a largely forgotten piece of history, but in 1932 the German Nazi
Party was facing financial ruin. How did the Nazis move from being
broke to being in control of the German government just a year later?
The Nazi Party was bailed out by German industrialists in early 1933.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-big-business-bailed-out-nazis

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Mike Spencer wrote:

"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> writes:

On Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:51:12 -0600
JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

In an apparent overture to the incoming Trump administration, Meta
announced sweeping changes to its content moderation, including no
more fact-checkers and a move to Texas.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ditches-fact-checkers-in-favor-of-x-style-community-notes/

Facts are so 'Last Year'.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

-- Stephen Colbert, 2005

Facts have a well-known liberal bias.

-- Paul Krugman (title of column, NYT, 8 Dec 2017

Liberals believe in 37 genders and that men and women are interchangeable.

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On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:36:18 -0500, Anonymous <anon@anon.net> wrote:

Liberals believe in 37 genders and that men and women are interchangeable.

interchangeable - able to be interchanged.

AI Overview

An organ transplant is a surgical procedure that replaces a damaged or
missing organ in a recipient's body with an organ from a donor:

Donors
Organs can come from donors who have recently passed away or who
are living and donate all or part of a functioning organ.

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On 1/7/2025 5:54 PM, JAB wrote:

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 21:54:06 +0000, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
wrote:

Facts are so 'Last Year'.

Calling women 'household objects' now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines

Then next comes, "he beat his wife because she "talked back"

I remember reading a write up about strange old laws still on the books.
I think it was in Virginia or WV, but it is legal for a man to beat
his wife, so as long as it's on the court house steps at noon. I guess,
the purpose of that old law was to shame the man for what he'd do behind
closed doors.

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On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 11:26:49 -0500, Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net>
wrote:

legal for a man to beat
his wife, so as long as it's on the court house steps at noon.

South Carolina: It is perfectly legal to beat your wife on the
courthouse steps on Sundays.

This law is often quoted as an unusual law, but I still can't find
where this one is officially on the books. The urban legend goes that
a man can beat his wife only on Sundays on the courthouse steps and
only with a stick. Needless to say, I've never heard of this taking
place or being enforced in South Carolina.

https://www.thisismysouth.com/11-unusual-outdated-southern-laws/

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On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:35:27 -0600, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

beat his wife only on Sundays on the courthouse steps

AI Overview

While the phrase "rule of thumb" is often associated with the idea
that a man should not beat his wife with anything bigger than his
thumb, this interpretation is not directly stated in the Bible and is considered a misinterpretation of a passage in Exodus 21:20, which
actually refers to punishing a slave with a rod that is not
excessively harsh; it does not condone domestic violence against a
wife in any way.

Exodus 21:20:
The passage often cited in this context talks about disciplining a
slave with a rod, not a wife, and emphasizes the need for moderation
in punishment.

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