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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I mean, I think he will ultimately fail to affront the first amendment.

    As has been eagerly demonstrated by for-profit companies and their lackies, many in the US are happy to self-censor. The chilling effect will be more than sufficient, as has already been shown, to subvert anything left of a “free press”, and individuals will have all the weight of the economic and political power imbalance thrown at them to make an example and this will chill speech, as the Columbia Student kidnapping by the brownshirts shows.







  • The article refers to “credit card balance”, which aligns to the standard industry statistic of whether a consumer carries a balance (doesn’t pay off their card in full each month, pays interest, gets hosed, is incredibly profitable for banks) or doesn’t (what the credit card companies refer to as a “deadbeat” as they don’t generate much profit and some even are a loss.

    That said, who cares about a selection bias volunteer survey with the sample size of an Elememtary school? 1,000 people, seriously? The hell is this 1925? Bullshit non-data and article.