kbin_space_program

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  • You’re looking at it from the wrong angle.

    He wants a tough sentence with jail time.

    1. As a technically “first offender” they can argue that it shows obvious bias and get a favourable appeal result.
    2. It plays to Putin and other autocrat propaganda. “See how the US actually is, we have the same democracy here” sort of thing.
    3. Most importantly, it plays to his cult and to his ego, he gets to stoke dangerous things which very nearly almost worked last time (only thanks to Pence and the few cops who stood up to the mob.) and he gets a ton of attention from his cult for it.








  • A Google spokesperson told the BBC they were “isolated examples”.

    Some of the answers appeared to be based on Reddit comments or articles written by satirical site, The Onion.

    But Google insisted the feature was generally working well.

    “The examples we’ve seen are generally very uncommon queries, and aren’t representative of most people’s experiences,” it said in a statement.

    It said it had taken action where “policy violations” were identified and was using them to refine its systems.

    That’s precisely what they are saying.