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DocMcStuffin , in People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently
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Just wait until someone dies in a self-driving car and it keeps going to its destination.

Mom: “Grandma is here!”

Kids: “Yaaa, Grandma is here!”

Everyone sees Grandma’s lifeless body

Mom: “AAAAAAAHHHHH!”

Kids: “AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!”

Dad: “What’s all this screaming!? … AAAAAAHHHH!”

Legendarylootz ,

I thought all the screaming was because they found grandma having sex in a self driving car.

SouthernCanadian ,

I was eating this girl out once and I tasted horse semen. So I said “Grandma, that’s how you died!”

whyNotSquirrel ,
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what

SouthernCanadian ,

I thought we were doing grandma sex jokes

sorebuttfromsitting , in People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently

park behind the bar in a 90s Grand Marquis, recline the front seats (with slow electric motors that kill the battery so you’re stuck there till morning), it was like that car was designed for getting in trouble comfortably on a couch next to a dumpster. bah this newfangled shit.

OkToBeTakei OP ,

I got into a lot of trouble in grand marquis in the 90s

Blamemeta , in Greg Abbott faces more backlash as migrant child dies on bus: "Barbaric"

I don’t see the problem. No one presented with symptoms before getting on, and as soon as there was a medical issue, they stopped and 911 was called. Everyone acted the way they were supposed to. Kid was going to die no matter what.

stillwater ,

Explain what medical history checks were made before loading these people on the bus, and how thorough they are.

What exact thing did this kid die of? You must know to make such an absolute statement about a pre-existing condition. What do you know about this child that you can be so sure they were going to die regardless?

Finally, why is it you seem more concerned with defending Abbott than you are that a child died at all?

Blamemeta ,

Article didn’t say.

stillwater ,

And yet you’re speaking as if you know definitively. Why is that?

If it’s not because you know for sure, it seems like it’s because this is the outcome you prefer: dead migrants and migrant children.

teh_bishop ,

I would not call this sufficient testing, but again, there is only so much that can be done and this sort of transport should not even be occurring. I however do know the process in and out.

Having said that, the process is that before letting them on the bus, TDEM does a temperature check for COVID or other ILI symptoms, and also ask the adults if they have any symptoms. There is also a medical review that CBP does prior to even having that release from time in custody.

Once on the bus, there is the driver, and the security guard, neither of which have medical responsibility.

Source: I know the person that created this process very well.

FlyingSquid ,
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Source: I know the person that created this process very well.

How many times have you punched them in the face for being a monster? Because if it’s less than one, you’re complicit.

teh_bishop ,

We moved away from Texas and that job due to exactly this actually. Put principle ahead of anything else.

girlfreddy ,
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@Blamemeta @HLMenckenFan

When authorities have lied so often before why would you believe, without quesion, what they say happened here?

I'll wait for the investigation to be completed first.

FlyingSquid ,
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A child dies on a bus where they shouldn’t have even been in the first place due to lying politicians.

You: I don’t see the problem.

Really?

Blamemeta ,

According to the article, everyone did what they could as soon as the problem was known. Are busses dangerous?

Maybe I could’ve worded it better, but Im not sure how.

FlyingSquid ,
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Maybe they could have checked the kid out before putting him on the bus rather than as soon as there was a problem. I mean if you’re going to illegally deport people from a state, something that states absolutely do not have the right to do, the least you could do is give them a physical before doing it.

Blamemeta ,

They are not forced to get on the bus, they are just given the option. Common myth.

texastribune.org/…/texas-abbott-migrant-buses-was…

newthrowaway20 ,

They are lied to. You can’t seriously be arguing that lying to someone is a valid option.

Blamemeta ,

Got a source?

cloudy1999 , (edited ) in 'Suits' Was Streamed For 3 Billion Minutes on Netflix and the Writers Were Collectively Paid $3,000

Gross. Writers should be paid fairly.*

Edit: Previously read “Shame on Neflix”. See thoughtful reply below.

AA5B ,

While I don’t disagree with the general state, I don’t see how it’s Netflix. They didn’t produce or create Suits, nor were the initial broadcaster, so the contracts were set long before Netflix

cloudy1999 ,

Ha, I didn’t understand that, but now I do. Thanks. And agreed that the general state is a shame. Writers deserve to be paid.

Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

How streaming doesn’t count as broadcasting is a tad too convenient for the studio to not be a deliberate loophole. Even when the language is tested in court the lobbyism favors the deep pockets asking to split hairs clearly in bad faith.

Drivebyhaiku ,

This is ignoring the history of how writers traditionally got paid. Residuals made it so that the longer the writer was in the game the more they were supported by the raft of their body of work similar to authors. Residuals were originally fought for by another strike ages past so that a writer was paid a little bit every time an episode was aired as a re-run .

Now re-runs barely exist because of on demand and writers for streaming get paid peanuts. Successful writers have to write like demons and face burning themselves out just to get by. All because the streaming platforms can technically say “it’s not a rerun”. We as a society respect creative IP… Until that creator is on the platform of industry content streaming because a narrow definition of what counts. If it were any other platform like a network it wouldn’t matter who originally contacted it- if you air it a writer gets a share. So Streaming platforms get a massive business advantage over everyone else by screwing over writers.

YouTubers get paid on a more respectable model for the content they produce on these same principles than industry writers.

MisterHavoc , in 'Suits' Was Streamed For 3 Billion Minutes on Netflix and the Writers Were Collectively Paid $3,000

Assuming the current all you can watch flat fee model is unsustainable, how do you think a model like videogame (Steam, Epic, etc…) would be perceived? Lower monthly sub. Originals are included. Wanna watch something else? You can watch 2 episodes to start. If you wanna continue buy the season. Sort of like videogames where there are demos.

johnlobo ,

Netflix got 3 billion from one show, plenty sustainable to me.

DosDude ,
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You know Netflix doesn’t work that way right?

johnlobo ,

enlighten me

Derproid ,

You said they got 3 billion as if they got 3 billion dollars. In reality Netflix paid for the rights to distribute a show and paid for the infrasture to stream 3 billion minutes of it in hopes that people keep renewing their subscription. It definitely made them a lot of money, but not 3 billion.

Sanity_in_Moderation ,

3 billion minutes watched does not equal 3 billion dollars paid to Netflix.

DosDude ,
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If those 3 billion minutes were watched non-stop 24/7 for the paying subscribers it would make at least $486,111.11 for Netflix assuming the subscribers paid for the cheapest subscription at ~$7. That’s still a lot of money, but they also pay for their own upkeep, servers and much more.

I know most people don’t have the cheapest subscription, and also that they don’t watch 24/7. But it puts into perspective that Netflix doesn’t earn that much on one series.

To add: they also make their own shows and productions and they pay to put shows up on their service that are not their own productions. I don’t know what a show like suits will cost to be put on Netflix, since they don’t produce the show, but I’d imagine that’s not cheap. And I guess the writers get a percentage of the money earned on the selling of those rights (depending on the contract they have with the original studio)

And the paying of the writers is in the hands of the studio selling the rights, not Netflix.

MixedRaceHumanAI ,

3,000,000,000 * $15 (assumed Netflix plan/user) = $45,000,000,000

Damn! Just for one show?!

MisterHavoc ,

Yes, I agree with you. I’m saying assuming. I don’t think they’ll go… You know what? You’re right… We’re gonna start paying more. Something will have to give. I’m saying is there a diff business model?

JustZ , in Fox’s Chief Legal Officer Will Depart
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Well I should say so.

JustZ , in Hawaii Officials Were Warned Years Ago That Maui’s Lahaina Faced High Wildfire Risk
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No shit. Everyone was warned. We all knew these fires were going to get more and more frequent.

Billionaires don’t care. They’re still destroying the planet.

PenguinJuice , in Greg Abbott faces more backlash as migrant child dies on bus: "Barbaric"

Keep those undocumented people down there, don't ship em up here!!!

WookieMunster ,

Ignorant mf

teh_bishop ,

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  • betterdeadthanreddit , in Southern California Marine charged with sex assault of girl, 14, who was found in barracks

    Hope he likes making big rocks into smaller rocks, explaining the circumstances of his dishonorable discharge and introducing himself to new neighbors.

    toastus , in Greg Abbott faces more backlash as migrant child dies on bus: "Barbaric"

    Jail.

    JustZ , in Native American Group Threatens National Boycott If Washington Football Team Doesn’t Change Name Back To ‘Redskins’ (The Daily Wire)
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    Asking minorities whether something is racist is really hit or miss. Some of the features of systemic racism are denying things are racist, obscuring racist intentions, and gas lighting minorities.

    Motavader , in Greg Abbott faces more backlash as migrant child dies on bus: "Barbaric"

    He won’t stop because the cruelty is the point

    TechnoBabble ,

    That’s disingenuous.

    The point is to seem like he’s got a plan for the migrant crisis by bussing them out of state.

    And if he sends them to Blue states where services are better for undocumented migrants, isn’t that better for the individuals? Or would they really be better off in Texas?

    Regardless, my point is, if you don’t try to understand why your political opponent is doing something, you’ll never be able to fix anything.

    JoYo ,
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    this is disingenuous.

    if abbot wanted to reduce the suffering of migrants he would coordinate with sanctuary cities to better allocate resources.

    suffering is the goal.

    FlyingSquid ,
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    Yes, his plan is to be cruel.

    Hitler had a plan to solve the financial crisis by oppressing jews. Is it disingenuous to say the cruelty was the point? Should we actually be talking about Hitler’s terrible economic ideas?

    flop_leash_973 ,

    To be fair, it WAS a pretty terrible long term economic plan to attempt to systematically murder huge swaths of your citizenry.

    It is just that the moral, ethical, humane, etc horrors of that direction are much more important.

    Eggyhead ,
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    Regardless, my point is, if you don’t try to understand why your political opponent is doing something, you’ll never be able to fix anything.

    I agree, but there’s not much more “understanding” necessary when we’re dealing with child death. If nothing gets fixed after this, then what’s left to try to understand?

    Zuberi ,

    Why won’t anybody think of poor Greg!!!

    betterdeadthanreddit , in Greg Abbott faces more backlash as migrant child dies on bus: "Barbaric"

    Mission accomplished from his voters’ perspective.

    girlfreddy , in Greg Abbott faces more backlash as migrant child dies on bus: "Barbaric"
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    @HLMenckenFan

    That's a murder charge if the parents did it so it should be the same for Abbott.

    Jayzuz America. What in the fuck are you doing???

    spacedance ,

    Murder??? What are you basing that on?

    quicksand ,

    The dead child, I would wager.

    spacedance ,

    In a perfect world no child would ever die, but in our world children die sometimes. Medical problems do not discriminate.

    FlyingSquid ,
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    If only there were some sort of way to ensure children don’t have any serious medical problems before you lie to them to illegally transport them over state lines…

    spacedance ,

    We have no information to say that they were lied to or that the transport method is illegal.

    FlyingSquid ,
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    Except for, you know, how that’s how they keep doing it.

    theguardian.com/…/migrants-california-left-outsid…

    www.npr.org/…/migrants-sent-to-marthas-vineyard

    wusa9.com/…/65-9e0cda60-5f12-4649-af5b-b8810a2034…

    But I’m sure they were honest this time.

    Sharkwellington ,

    Completely agree with you. It’s probably involuntary manslaughter due to gross negligence.

    spacedance ,

    Or just happenstance. People have medical issues sometimes, it’s unlikely that there’s any criminality involved in my opinion.

    Sharkwellington ,

    it’s unlikely that there’s any criminality involved in my opinion.

    Depends on the criminality of government entities coercing migrant families into cross-state bus rides to be dropped off on the street…Unfortunately, you seem to be right.

    Lexam , in People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently

    Why else would you have one?

    FuglyDuck ,
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    Napping.

    After the car sex.

    peopleproblems ,

    I mean, personally, it would be a step up.

    I’d go from nothing to nothing with a tesla.

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