Still don’t care. Pantera is blight for many other reasons. People who believe in a binary morality strike me as having oversimplified life to an extreme. I would also caution against taking anything this band did or said seriously; after all, they started as a bad glam band until they figured out how to rip off Metallica and Exhorder. Life is more nuanced than people want, however. God is dead, but spirituality is alive, and the AFD is winning in Germany for some reason other than that people are “evil.”

I don’t care about his political beliefs.

I do care that he ruined speed metal by making it into groove metal, that Pantera is for morons, and that his music generally is dumb as ass.

This is a live radio play making fun of him in the style of Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” (and Dickens can make fun reading, if you have the time).

Most of metal is far more un-PC than the Nazis and far less tolerant of idiots. Pantera belong in the camps for being idiots that sell garbage music to idiots.

You know, like Opeth, Tool, Cradle of Filth, Korn, Stryper, Cannibal Corpse, and the like…

Eh, too simplistic an answer, I think, given the longstanding flirtation.

Probably a plea deal. Plead guilty to a few charges and others are considered closed. If you do not have the millions required to litigate this mess, it is probably the safest option.

I find it very dubious to conflate running a hosting service with piracy, even if piracy was all over it.

All of the people who need to be in jail to protect us from them seem to never go, and they are busy busting people like these guys and Ross Ulbricht who were actually advancing use of technology.

Google has never had a functional profit model. There is probably some way to make it a resource without making it a walled garden.

I disagree. If they cannot follow basic instructions to get into a system, and we are talking very low bar here, they probably are not going to be able to successfully operate any kind of discussion forum.

I agree that the current barrier to entry self-curates the content a bit but the same barriers will forever relegate it to the fringe.

It is the perpetual struggle: get too mainstream and you become Reddit or Facebag, stay hard to use and you get a buncha nerds but the content is better.

They have done this for years, unfortunately. Admins are the weak spot in Reddit, not the jannies (ironically). My sympathies!

Hamtramck is dominated by a Muslim majority. There is not one USA, but many.

Win 11 is a bag of crap and shit.

It seems to glitch a lot and slow down common tasks. I have never had an operating system drop typed characters in the modern era. It also seems randomly hostile to pre-win7-era software.

Are people just now discovering that Reddit has run on full censorship for a long time?

Boomers got to live through the boom of the 70’s

Might be a typo there. You probably mean the 80s and early 90s. The 70s were pretty grim.

Higher education is typically liberal leaning.

You can see why they would oppose it then.

The political system filters out the noncompliant, so the parties start to resemble one another.

Reddit is just going to demod everyone who wants to keep it closed and hand the sub over to whatever compliant stooges they can find. It’s what they did to /r/drones.

Allowing users to instance block also lets us filter out the simply irrelevant. Good thinking.

Usenet was a stream of consciousness and, short of blocking individuals, there was no way to separate the interesting topics from the dull.

Maybe this is the best it gets. Upvoting and downvoting invite abusive behavior once the userbase gets widely distributed enough. Upvoting alone seems superior.

No one owned USENET, therefore there was not much investment in it. The question is how to make USENET profitable so that our corporate overlords will adopt it without replacing it.