Disbarment doesn’t even qualify as a slap on the wrist.
This woman should rot in jail for the combined sentences of everyone she ever prosecuted.
It wasn’t just the one guy they know about that she framed, she had a habit of going around legal protections for defendants and it’s likely that there are many people serving much longer sentences than they deserved or sentences they never deserved at all.
Mine will likely never be eliminated unless it all goes away because I make too much, and that’s totally fine by me. I want as many people to get relief as possible! Public colleges and universities should be free, and student debt should not be a thing. At least not the way it is now.
I think it’s really worth noting that in the end, the most egregious abuse is the usury. Having to pay multiple values of the principle is the trap most people fall into.
Hey, Y’all Qaeda. Why aren’t you focused on that sin against Gaaaaaaawd?
If I go to college and get a better job, then the country is already benefitting from a larger tax base from me having a better job than I would otherwise.
So not only am I getting taxed on a larger tax base, but I’m also paying interest on a loan to get the better job lol
You deserve relief too. Maybe not all of it but just because you’re one of the lucky few that won the job lottery. Still, everyone deserves an education, especially those who will use it to their full advantage.
Another guy who won the job lottery here. I agree that in principle we deserve relief, but we should be at the absolute back of the line. We may deserve it, but we don’t need it. A lot of people need it. Those tax dollars are better spent on the less fortunate.
I mean, with that relief he could buy more stuff and help keep employment high, or invest his money in an ethical business to spur more job growth… which is more likely if that poster walks the talk. Regardless, college debt is just economic parasitism.
Small farmer here. Devoid the soil of nutrients by tilling. Kill all the soil biology by spraying chemicals. Grow only fast yield cash crops. Grow the same crop year after year for decades or more. Breed crops for appearance and yield over nutrition. What the fuck do you expect?
I’m not a farmer but I’ve been reading about the history of industrial farming lately and I’ve become convinced that we’re approaching agriculture completely wrong. We’re planting massive monocultures in soil that’s been wrecked for decades (via the things you’ve mentioned), surely that would have something to do with it?
If we completely flipped everything we’ve been doing for agriculture we’d be better off in the long run. Small farms have better yeilds, polycropping is better for the environment and modern pesticides create an evolutionary arms race that we will never win. We’ve got it all wrong and we’ve known it since (at least) the 70s. These outdated, expensive, impractical agricultural practices are only making things worse
Longer than the 70s, the fucking Dust Bowl was all about this. We’ve known better for almost an entire century and we’re STILL fucking the soil with mono-crops
Monocropping is vastly more efficient on a number of counts, especially labour input. I can’t emphasise enough what a big deal that is, it’s really the only reason anyone is getting fed.
Yes, there’s a lot of problems with agriculture - predominantly its scale and extent, but eight billion mouths take a lot of feeding. Topsoil loss should be our major concern, together with biogeochemical losses. Every other issue is fairly minor in comparison to those, really.
Again, that’s not really how food production works - although it is a problem. Production surpluses are an essential buffer to deal with both supply and demand shocks, the elasticity this provides is (and I’m repeating myself) the only reason anyone is getting fed.
Capturing that food waste so it can at least end up back in the soil, yes, that’s something that needs improving.
And religion + racism + fear of the unknown + social echo chambers can all be exploited. Remember that MTG floated a few years ago that space lasers caused California forest fires. Never mind the power requirements and ridiculousness that would require.
I think the woman is dangerous as hell, but I don’t think she’s stupid. I think she uses dumb ideas to mobilize an ignorant base.
Idk I think she’s stupid but I don’t think that makes her unwilling of a participant in her evil or less dangerous. She’s the voice of the bigoted idiots of America rather than someone selling to them.
When you’re trapped in the phantasm of conspiratorial thinking you’ll try to map any event that makes you feel something into that crooked framework.
It’s incredibly said when it’s involuntary, because it shows how damaged a person’s reasoning faculties have become. It’s infuriating when it’s done by assholes who use it knowingly to manipulate others.
There were conspiracies the morning of. I asked if anyone at work had seen it, about 9 California time, they hadn’t but soon after seeing pictures and video some of these guys were calling for a conspiracy.
So I leaned into it. Yeah Republicans refuse to fund infrastructure maintenance, so the conspiracy is get shipping companies to ram dilapidated bridges so their insurances fund the rebuilds.
The Key Bridge isn’t even that bad. There are WAY worse bridges. Just roll down the water a few miles and go after the Bay Bridge near Annapolis, for example. I’m still irritated that as bad as that pair of bridges is, there’s STILL no long term plan for replacement. We’ve been talking about it for at least a decade now.
One two lane bridge (circa 1952), and one three lane bridge (1973) with a lane that is often set to the reverse direction - without barriers! No shoulders at all. You break down, you’re in the lane. People freeze up from fear driving over it, and I really don’t blame them - I’ve never had an issue, but there is little to block your view of water almost straight down out the side of the vehicle. Don’t forget the metal grate section that gets nice and slick in any sort of wet weather. And they carry far more traffic than they were ever expected to handle. Oh and there are often high winds that add to the fun.
The Mackinac Bridge is exactly the same. Built in 1957, with one concrete and one metal grate lane in both directions, and in winter, it’s sheer ice. It’s so long over a strait prone to high winds, you can feel the sway. I’ve had panic attacks halfway over it as a passenger – and I’m always a passenger even if I was driving in the lead-up because it scares me so much, I was too terrified my first time driving across it and was shaking so badly, I could barely steer. Maybe I’m a pussy, and they say it’s well-maintained, but I’ve read Michigan DOT’s state-wide bridge health report, and it’s less than exemplary.
I have driven over that bridge as well and it’s definitely a scary one. Especially since part of it is that metal grating which gets slick in any kind of humidity.
But for me the Bay Bridges is worse (and I’ve driven the Bay Bridge many times, and the Mac only once - so you’d think familiarity would kick in). The Mac has the other lanes in sight, so it doesn’t seem as crazy small. Also, the Mac doesn’t climb as far over the water as the Bay Bridges do.
I actually compare the Bay Bridge more closely to the old bridges in Charleston, SC that connected downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The Grace and Pearlman bridges were quite exciting, the Grace was like a roller coaster. Like the Bay Bridges, the Grace had 2 lanes and the Pearlman had 3, one of which served as a reverse lane for trucks since the Grace couldn’t handle them. They didn’t have the height over the water that the Bay Bridge does (based on my memory), though. Those bridges weren’t replaced until 2005.
Human error is a far more reasonable explanation than complicated conspiracies, but I understand the thought. It really looked like that ship aimed for the bridge. Planning such a conspiracy would be far, far harder and more expensive to pull off than simple bridge failure, though.
People who dropped out of high school and think they never needed to learn physics are all watching the video and thinking, “why would a bridge fall THAT way?” and then blaming Biden because that’s what Fox and Newsmax keyed them into blaming.
For years, Uber relied on billions of dollars from venture capitalists like BlackRock and Jeff Bezos to offer low fares for riders and high pay for drivers. This allowed the corporation to undercut competition, sign up millions of customers and corner the market in major cities.
They didn’t even need to do that tbh, Taxis were (and still are) so shitty they could have just charged marginally cheaper than the going local taxi rate and people would have still flocked to them lmao
I tried taking a taxi about a year ago. There was one right there and I figured, might as well give it a try, won’t have to wait. It was over twice as much as a ride share. The price difference isn’t even close, they’d have to raise prices a ridiculous amount before I’d take a taxi again. Fuck not knowing how much a trip is going to cost ahead of time.
I only ask because where I live (Silicon Valley) taxis have become very competitive with rideshare. I doubt it’s true all the time, but I’ve had great prices leaving concerts in San Francisco.
Also! scheduling an Uber for pickup is absurdly expensive. I called a cab compay and they were a quarter of the price. Pro tip?
I’ve had too many bad experiences with the “cash only”, “I’m not going that way”.
I put my friend in a cab in London who was too drunk. I prepaid the cabbie and then he woke my friend up after he took him back and shook him down for cash.
I was kinda mad at Uber in 2019 (I can’t remember what reason it was… They have so many reasons) and needed a ride share from the airport to a conference. The bus runs every two hours on weekends apparently, a dirty ass taxi said he can take me for $15 each, if he can get three more people. So we waited and finally got four people.
The vehicle was a mess, there was coke cans on the floor, he drove like a complete asshole, and he was incredibly rude.
Taxis were always shit before Uber. But Looks like taxis are still shit.
Curb is the only app that ever double charged me, multiple times. I had to dispute the charges with the credit card company. It took like 3-6 months to be completely done with it. They literally kept charging me every month.
Ah yes, the taxi “Bare minimum effort” apps. Seriously, most of them look like they walked right out of the 2010 era of apps. I would say that they just asked their “techy teen nephew that knows apps” to make it, but that would be an insult to techy teen nephews everywhere.
I tried an app last year just to see how things are, the book a cab button just opened my fucking dialer with a pre filled number. In 2023.
The best cab app I ever saw still looked like 2016 (but better than the others stuck in 2009-2010 I’ll give them that) but that one would only give me an “estimated ride range” like fuck that. One of the best pros to a ride share app is that the price it tells you in app is the price you’re getting charged (excluded driver tip) leaving very little room for the driver to introduce shenanigans, like the classic cabbie trick of “oh this guys definitely isn’t local so I’ll take the LONG way around”
It depends on where you are, but I’ve never saved money taking a taxi over ride share from the airport, but I’ve had it cost way more plenty of time. It being the same cost has been the best case scenario for me.
Depending on where you are, you don’t have the option to take a ride share. It might have changed, but a few years ago when my wife and I flew into Orlando they had a ban on pickups from the airport.
That being said, we took a hotel shuttle and ordered the ride share from there because fuck taxis.
True. But they did that. Anyway. That is technically Anti-Trust. Thus in essense illegal. That is why uber tried shilling that they are not an employer but merely a service as to seem that they were skimming the Law that they knew they were breaking in Spirit. They aren’t stupid. But know many are, so why not exploit them? If we are smart, they thought, they could drive Taxis out of business, be the big dog in the sector and surge price their way into profit. At will. It is not like this type of shit has not been attempted before.
Also, Uber simply transfered the costs of running its fleets, upkeep, maintenance, including most liability and litigation to its drivers. Not to mention that love it or hate it Taxi drivers need to pass some basic level of proficiency, for uber you could be a blatant rapist and as long as you can click on a form for 5 minutes, you are good to go.
They do actually do a background check. Whether it works or not is another question, but I think it works pretty well at keeping out most crazies. Plus the customer reviews and GPS monitoring work decently for keeping drivers on their best behavior.
Those are not present in taxis, and there’s very little recourse against a creepy taxi driver. Some cities make Uber drivers get the same license as a taxi driver.
Moronic pro forced birthers didn’t understand that putting a ridiculously low time limit to decide means women will need to make a decision faster instead of having time to think it over.
That isn’t an oversight in their mind. The objective is to ban all forms of abortion. Legally, it’s a form of compromise, but in their view it’s a loophole.
I also like what I call the boomer addendum to hanlons razor, “never excuse to incompetence what results in profit” or put another way, “profit is never an accident”.
Yes, you should think about the poor owners who now can’t afford two solid gold toilets on their yacht and have to make due with one gold one and one silver one.
But, no, you lucky asthmatics just think “oh god I can’t breathe where’s my inhaler” like a bunch of selfish jerks.
I take a perverse delight in knowing that gold is actually a shitty material for a toilet.
Because gold is relatively dense, and has a remarkably high thermal conductivity… well, this is why rings usually always feel cool to the touch even when you’ve been wearing them for a while. Does anybody like sitting on a cold toilet? cuz that toilet is never not going to be cold.
Other people in the comments are mentioning incentives, low pay, crappy management, etc. I don’t want to work, but it’s not really about any of this, or it’s about all of this a little, sort of.
I want to do good work.
I want to make software that helps people, that does what it’s supposed to do, that is fast, non-predatory, and doesn’t succumb to endless feature creep or artificially rushed scheduling. Pay me enough to live comfortably, and I’ll do this basically on my own. I don’t even need all of these things.
I’ve found that most businesses prioritize between 0-1 of these things.
This is the real crux. Nowaday, I feel I can only do good through personal and community work. Professional work mostly involves being told to cut corners, mislead people and jack prices to grow the company infinitely.
While, frankly, I think infinite growth is one of the most damaging ideas in human history
Honestly, it took hard work to get out of my comfort zone but there are likely very nice people with welcoming organizations in your area. Donating time to library maker space is my extra activity for now
You have to take the first step and get in touch with people. It’s very likely there are one or more instagram (ugh) profiles of community work around your location. Failing that, the nearest church might be a good place to ask, even if you’re not religious.
I wish I could live comfortably on self-employment instead of that being a big risk. Income isn’t guaranteed but bankruptcy over a single medical event is.
I used to do IT for ‘digital advertising in healthcare’. I helped fix those accursed screens that sell you shit while you wait at the doctor or hospital.
When I did my job well, it made the world worse.
This conflicts with my basic sense of humanity, y’all. It broke me, and it was like the 17th problem on my list of shit to worry about.
Capitalism offers to sell me lame drugs and garbage to fill the hole in my soul it’s created.
Yep, you said it best. Nowadays in tech your either:
Making something that preys on the little guy
Or
Make tools for already rich and powerful, which they will use to prey on the little guy lol.
That’s why lemmy is so special, it’s like (to me at least) the only place left were people believe software should benefit everyone to be good, especially the user.
I work in IT for the health sector of my local govt (not USA). The pay is decent, but it’s a constant fight against medics’ egos, lack of programmers (there are decent systems, but not enough manpower to really keep them in top shape), political interference in the form of “great ideas”, budget constraints and private contractors wanting to charge more while offering less.
Seriously go look at a university. I manage two teams of students and about to move into a director role where I will also have a team of FTEs and a developer to manage. It never gets old and people are really nice. You will also never be the smartest person in the room since half the people have a doctorate in something.
I’ve been lucky enough to have a great job at the moment, and after being where I am for this long (without doxxing myself), I can say that I will never, for the rest of my life, work anywhere that chases profit. Unless I literally have no choice.
Look into government jobs, or NGOs/non-profits. I’ve found work to be much more fulfilling, less stressful, etc., when everything isn’t about quarterly earnings, and profit margins. That shit ruins EVERYTHING.
I don’t really care how much less my salary may be, as long as I’m making enough to survive (and have enough of a cushion that I don’t need to worry that one or two emergencies will bankrupt me), then I’m good to go.
Perhaps I’m just not an ambitious person, but I just have zero interest in pursuing monetary gain beyond what I need.
I am not defending Tesla’s actions, but I don’t think any sales were actually lost. After the press coverage, people started showing up en masse to buy from them.
I’m glad to hear the community has rallied around the business, but that doesn’t excuse Tesla from bilking them.
Exactly. Excuses like these are just a stone throw away from “You should pay Tesla to give your business work. Just think of the expose you get!” rhetoric. Tesla is essentially riding into the sunset on the back of the wonderful community that came in to show support for a local business. It’s a happy end only in spite of Teslas awful role in it.
Let me ask you this. Which would make you more upset: A business saying “We’re sorry but we can’t take any more orders at this time,” when you called in presumably weeks (or at least days,) ahead of time, or after having put in an order weeks or at least days ahead of time, getting a phone call the day before valentines day- the same day you were getting something special for the loved one; and that business saying “We’re sorry but we have to cancel your order.”>
I’ll give you a hint. one lets you place an order elsewhere, the other means your getting your pie or cookie or whatever from the grocery store’s pre-baked section.
Chances are the customers that are upset were likely to be repeat customers where it’s very dubious that Tesla will place another order there again. she may have in fact lost returning customers with that; or, at the very least provide something to make up for it, a discount for next time, or something.
Edit to clarify: a good way of dealing with being booked up is to offer them first dibs on reservations for another day. sure, they can’t take care of them on valentines, but Easter is right around the corner. it gets them to feel special; and a lot of times, even if they decline a different order, they’ll remember the effort and come back. the other response… not so much.
I’m not so sure. It solves a lot of issues, though they don’t effect the vast majority of us. It’d be great as a nationally operated utility for military purposes to more easily provide internet access and communication to navy vassels as well as operations near the poles. It’s also useful for very remote areas or mobile living. As a company operated for profit, sure I doubt it’ll survive if militaries don’t trust it, which I wouldn’t. As a utility operated for the sake of the utility it provides, it’s useful.
That’s why they form a gang, because the only way they can feel strong is if they outnumber you.
That’s why it takes fifteen fucking cops to “deal with” a single homeless person in a public park who isn’t bothering anybody.
If they do that during the day, with enough people around, people will whip out their phones to record the cops and the cops will give up and leave and stop harassing.
If they do it during the evening, and there’s not very many people around, and only one person whips out their phone… The cops will arrest the person who whipped out their phone, too, because they outnumber them.
Small engine mechanics
Fatal injury rate: 15 per 100,000 workers
Total deaths (2018): 8
Salary: $37,840
Most common fatal accidents: Transportation incidents, violence and other injuries by persons or animals
Yep, and this is just tracking mortality. You would think, oh hey maybe they look better if you included things like workplace violence…nope. Pretty much 80% of work place violence happens to healthcare workers and social workers.
So pretty much every healthcare worker has experienced more violence in their work than police officers. I’ve had patients take swings at me in my hospital, it’s a fairly natural response to being in pain, on drugs, or disoriented. But just because your occupation has the potential to introduce you to a violent environment, that doesn’t justify your own participation in it.
I’m a very nonviolent and nonconfrontational person, but I once had a boil in a sensitive spot lanced without adequate pain control, and it took all my self control to not FIGHT it. Stone cold sober, knowing it needed to be done, my body physically wanted to fight the doctor to make it stop. It’s nuts to expect someone who’s not completely there for whatever reason to be completely in control of that instinct, but it’s what cops expect people to do.
Only half the country is inundated and riled up to see her as an Enemy of the State and an Enemy of the people. There must be many thousands now who want to see her raped, tortured and killed. She’s been vilified. And she’s not really a political figure unlike Musk who controls a significant part of the worlds communication medium and is politically active.
Taylor Swift has enough money to protect herself, but imagine someone less wealthy would be similarly tracked and/or vilified.
I’m sympathetic to the perspective, but actually no, someone less wealthy couldn’t be similarly tracked. To be tracked in this specific way, you must have exclusive ownership of plane(s) with tail numbers.
If you fly commercial and don’t publish your itenirary publicly, then the public won’t know your association with the flight. If you charter a private flight, then again no one knows that chartered plane == you. You have to actually own a dedicated private plane for anyone to use these resources to confidently track you in particular.
So I’m broadly sympathetic to the plight of celebrities with respect to paparazzi and stalkers and such. But with the availability of charter flights, hard for me to be too sympathetic of someone afflicted by private plane tracking.
Ehh, she is still human. She is one of the most recognizable and sought after a celebrities we’ve seen in a very long time. It must be absolutely horrible to be 24/7 in the public eye. But you can’t fight it and she hasn’t learned that yet. Try not to blame her, just be glad we got a level of goodwill that you don’t find in most celebrities, and hope that it continues.
You don’t even need to fly commercial to avoid being tracked in this way. If you charter planes then the tracking strategy falls apart too.
Owning your own plane means that anyone who cares gets to know your rough goings on. For example, we get to hear Harrison Ford get in trouble for accidentally landing on a taxiway in his plane (he was quite reasonable about it)
No one is forcing her to fly around that much. And she’s by no means a new up and coming celebrity but has been dealing with this since 2 decades now.
So no, she doesn’t get a free pass to use her wealth to silence very deserved criticism of her disgusting global footprint! Heck, she could spend a tiny amount of her dragon hoard sized wealth to donate to environmental protection to offset this footprint. But no, she rather uses that money to sue someone who she knows doesn’t have the wealth to fight her legally.
I wonder why someone hasn’t started a Part 135 for celebrities that way they can’t be tracked per se. Rent out planes instead of being owned by any one celebrity.
That is such a short sighted and dumb response. Really, you can’t just see beyond your own prejudices? Oh, she is white so she must be the devil, she must love the system and hate her own child. Really now? Where you there? Were you watching her every move for the past ten years to draw that conclusion, or are you just writing down some dumb “hurr-durr evil white is bad” comment?
She is not the victim, her son is, and she abused her son.
It’s a plainly obvious fact to anyone with internet access and insight that the police are very obviously NOT there to help you, and instead of accepting the truth, she chose her delusions of a safe and just world, and her son paid the price.
We have the responsibility to know and act on the truth.
This perfectly demonstrates why there are no good cops. You try to be a good cop and you get bullied till you quit or just outright fired. It’s disgusting.
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