There were 53 million households in the US with cable when the fairness doctrine was eliminated in 1987. Cable and the Internet are where and why the people we have been talking about weren’t deplatformed. The Internet has been around since the 60s. I think you might be confusing it with the World Wide Web which is a 90s thing.

What if you could math the monkeys?

Trump has said that his favorite president is Andrew Jackson… the dude who perpetrated the Trail of Tears…

AFAIK the alert voices, like the ones for the NOAA, were automated already.

I can’t agree with you on the fairness doctrine specifically; first it only applied to over-the-air broadcasting, (so ABC, NBC, etc.) but not cable or the Internet. Secondly it was largely interpreted by these networks as forcing fringe views into the main stream. So they would have a faith healer on at the same time as a doctor, or a creationist on at the same time as a paleontologist. There are those who feel that this led directly to our current “my faith is as important as your reason” problem.

What kind of Mandela effect shit is this?

I’ve spent more time than I would like to admit trying to fact check this. I swear when the special editions came out one of the behind the scenes was about restoring the scene with the fur coat Jabba that had appeared in the first pre-title-crawl version. Now all I can find are references to it being rereleased at least 4 times before the special edition but nothing about scene edits.

I’m just going to leave this here.

I always took him asking Gandalf about the horn as him accusing Gandalf of having a part in the death.

Nobody is talking about the United States. This whole thread is about your quote from the Chinese government.

I didn’t compare anything to anything, I asked a question and have not gotten an answer. I have already explained how one possible answer of that question would be racist.

It’s not obtuse to point out that it’s racist to say that what the Chinese had 5000 years ago was a nation but what the Incas or Cherokees, for instance, had was not.

No. We are talking about China and I asked a specific question. Now you are bordering on being racist.

American people lived in America prior to Europeans too. That was my point.

So China has existed for 5000 years but America has only existed since white peoples decided to start a government? Or are you cool with Native Americans claiming 50,000 years?

In addition to what the other commenter said, it’s also a common misconception that NASA had anything to do with the development of the Fisher Space Pen.

Also, I’m adopted…

My name was changed in the decree and not on my birth certificate.

I came here to voice this opinion as well. It’s one of the only things I miss about the other site. I have found people on Mastodon attempting to fill that void with regional hashtags though. YMMV.

Supposedly that was one of a couple leftovers from a more R rated first cut.

I got curious; Seattle is indeed 100 miles further than Vancouver from Tokyo. That being said, bonded warehouses exist, so there would be no financial benefit to using separate ports or tariff penalty from using a single port.

I have had good experience preventing this from happening by disabling Wake-On-LAN, or enabling deeper sleep modes that remove that capability, on my systems that don’t need it.

My suspicion is that many devices these days are pinging the LAN devices around them, for instance other Windows machines looking for printers and network shares, and this is waking devices that are in higher sleep states.

Source?