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Whilst mutual aid networks can take the diversity that more people joining the network gives them and use it to offer more services to other people in that community.

at least in the US, and from the experience of watching that happen, the problem is there’s more people that focus on the “aid” part and forget the “mutual” part. This causes the people who were reciprocating to leave because the returns were largely unequal, leading to an over-all deterioration of the services that could be provided by the group- which in turn leads to fewer people joining in the first place.

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I’m sure he’s also taking some D,

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Around 2018, I built an 8” scale model of the flying saucer from The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Trolling alien buffs with that thing was fun. Also the cop that lined to sit in a park’s lot across from my apartment building.

(It had a stack of 4 175mm x 15mm EDFs that I printed inside. Attitude was controlled by counter rotation for yaw and bypass air being throttled pitch and roll. It had no external moving parts and the duct was all “hiden” inside curves

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Wish he’d just go home already.

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Interesting. I wonder how long it’ll last before people get used to it and start plowing through again

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is this where they teach them to steal surf boards and evade the authorities?

Cuz this looks like that… (okay sorry, but that story is otterly amazing.)(not sorry for that pun…)

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Does Tesla make minivans? Because that’s when you hit the XXX in cars…

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He doesn’t give a rats ass about tweeting about cars.

The about a company insider tweeting bullshit specific to manipulate that company’s stock price.

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If you want to play a hoax on people… there’s things that will actually make people laugh. Do those. don’t cry wolf and pretend something awful happened to you.

Where can I archive my past video content? (and get paid hopefully)

I’m in the process of divorcing google so YT is a HARD no for me. Google had demonetized my friend’s viral video (close to a decade ago) of his 5 1/4" floppy drives playing toccata & fugue in d minor over MIDI and it left a FOWL taste in my mouth. Most of my videos are 45-90 minutes in length. Night time videos are 2.5gb. My...

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I thought everybody liked fried chicken?

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No. The solution is to call their bullshitnout.

A company can’t hire you to work from one location (regardless if it’s WFH or not,) and then unilaterally decide to have you relocate.

“You can apply internally” or anything else that is a new contract doesn’t matter. They’re changing the terms of employment, and they can’t do that unilaterally.

The choices are to agree with their new terms, accept the “out” of taking another position in your area, or reject them. They can use what ever semantics they want, but it’s still a layoff.

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Well, yes. But then they trigger unemployment. The can’t here is that they’re trying to avoid that.

In the us, you have to pay unemployment if they’re not terminated for cause. And refusing to locate is not an “acceptable” cause, so it comes to be an at-will termination (ie “we’re firing you because we can.”)

Also, the jobs they’re talking about usually come with severance packages. It’s not the warehouse gig workers

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As another side, a strategy companies are using lately to keep their UI costs low is providing a severance package that pays all or part of the employee’s salary but paying it out over time. Depending on the state and the rules for that state’s UI program, that often counts against any UI benefit the former employee would receive, reducing the weekly benefit (sometimes to $0). It’s a thing I’ve only seen in the past 5 or so years. I would expect States to start to recognize this end-run around the system and adjust the rules accordingly in the near future.

this is an old strategy. It’s called “severance.” Many company will offer a severance package before going to lay offs that enhance retirement packages (especially for people close enough to it anyhow) or otherwise entice people to take it, instead.

As an aside, UI is an insurance product sold (forcibly, by the State) to the employer. The employer pays a premium which rises or falls based on the number and cost of claims that employer generates. Naturally, employers are incentivized to reduce the number of claims to keep costs low, but it’s not, as is commonly thought, the employer paying benefits directly.

It would really, really, suck if you had to rely on a former employer to pay unemployment. Just saying.

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Because Christian’s are so ethical. And not at all willing to sink the known world into a war for religious dominance… cuz that never happened, ever.

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that belly floof. probably a trap.

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Whelp. I just hate them a little more now.

Granted they’re an awful company and I hate the a lot. Because they’re an awful company.

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Not really. Not by any stretch of the imagination. He’s more of a Carnegie type. except Carnegie managed to convince people he was actually a good person. (his philanthropy is responsible for a LOT of the libraries. But also, he came down hard when it came to union busting, and a lot of his dirty work was done by Henry Frick.)

In any case, the reality is, his prior ‘good’ reputation- including for all things you’re saying he’s going to be famous for doing- is more the result of having a good PR staff keep him looking … like that. he’s not a founder of Tesla. he’s not a brilliant engineer (or a brilliant anything else.) he’s just a rich guy tossing money around to make it grow.

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Of course it’s a military target- they’re using it to bring in military equipment and supplies and people.

If schools and entire civilian population centers are legitimate, a dumb bridge is.

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office workers with trucks that never leave paved roads

Not true. They sometimes end up in the ditch after drunken driving.

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…

Okay.

…

That shit’s getting freaky.

(sorry. lol. Thanks for the informative comment though.)

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If any cop asks you if you’re doing something illegal… immediately ask for a lawyer. You’re not obligated to answer any questions or give them any information at all. this obligates them to either cease questioning you and let you go, or arrest you while they fetch a lawyer. they’re not going to do that over a traffic stop where they have nothing else.

Further, if they continue pressing or asking questions, or anything they learn (or “Learn”) from that questioning is tainted and inadmissible; and there’s a solid argument for “they didn’t have probable cause before asking questions, I asked for a lawyer and they said that gave them probable cause” will invalidate anything turned up from a search.

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20 hours… … …what were you doing?!

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Considering that’s what they mean when they say “make America great again”… they would pay themselves on the back with that take of yours. They’d make such nice slave-owning assholes, see

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This. And lets be honest, the reason Graphene only supports pixel devices is because you can re-lock the boot loader enhancing the security of the device exponentially.

FYI: if you have verizon, you cannot buy the phone through them (they …do things… that make it difficult to impossible to root.)

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They were dumb enough to share their firmware when asked.

Cyber security isn’t a concern they have. Either they’re just idiots, or they feel confident nobody is interested in exploiting things, and thought it might be “interesting” to see what they have to say.

I would assume the secret spy satellites and rods-from-god-dropper have better security….

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“Fine you don’t get to participate in the next election” seems like an appropriate response?

Naw, maybe not. But then that’s the kinda shot we go for here.

Grassley releases full FBI memo with unverified claims about Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine (www.detroitnews.com)

Lisa Mascaro Associated Press Washington — Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley released an unclassified document Thursday that Republicans claim is significant in their investigation of Hunter Biden as they probe the financial affairs of the president’s son and revive previously debunked claims of wrongdoing. “The American...

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These guys are obsessed with his dick. They’re never gonna let this go.

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It’ll grow to fit those amusingly doofishly beautiful ears.

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I really want to see your “nailed it” post for that learned-to-make-Netflix-in-a-day alternative.

If you could learn to build a 194-billion-market-cap company, or even just build such a company… you probably wouldn’t be here.

People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit... (www.theverge.com)

People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit…::People are dissatisfied with the technology in their cars, according to a new survey from JD Power. They especially don’t...

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when I got my current car, it had a stupid, dumb radio with a cd deck. I installed a cheap double dim with a touch screen on it and asked if they could replace the ashtray/powersocket thing. The piece they had that fit under the cover/door had a USB hub/charging station that I could drop a stack of phones in (including one connected to carplay/android auto on the new deck.)

that was worth the $20 to install it.

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physical buttons for the important stuff; stuff like setting interior RBG lighting color and intensity? that can go on soft buttons.

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EQ for the sound system?

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Yup. My car is old enough it has physical buttons for the enviro and stuff. The only virtual buttons control the entertainment deck itself.

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Not to mention, Russian forces have been using these types of munitions, but with much higher dud rates, already.

It’s their soil. They can do what they want to it.

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Dogs shouldn’t be fed junk food.

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To be clear, it wasn’t a “tourist sub”… so maybe the first regulation should be defining exactly what that is,

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Absolutely.

The issue is that the regulations that do exist allow them to skirt it by not offering a hard, and broad, definitions of ‘tourist subs’.

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Gonna need proof on that.

Amazon saved children's voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it's paying a $25 million fine. (www.businessinsider.com)

Amazon saved children’s voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it’s paying a $25 million fine.::“For too long, Amazon has treated children’s sensitive data as its own property,” Josh Golin, executive director of Fairplay, said in a statement.

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It just count loans as income for tax reasons.

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You don’t generally pay taxes paying a loan back.

What they do is take out more loans- specifically, on the increase of value their capital had.

You do pay taxes on the sale of the house when that comes, however, in proportion to the capital gains from its sale.

It wouldn’t be hard to carve out an exception for loans under a certain value (possibly, a net cap on total loans. Or some combination there of.) and then exclude mortgages under an appropriate limit, however

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Just tell them you’re collecting evidence of a potential crime.

They eat that shit up

(/s, mostly. They may not understand whose the suspected criminal there.)

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The 25 ft rule might be a way to “create a space” so that cops can “work”

“It’s about safety” is an argument morons like to obey.

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One of the things that annoys me about vegans… is they always try to convince me [this recipe] always tastes like the real thing.

And I think any one who eats meat on a regular basis is going to know an impossible burger is not beef- it might be the closest, sure.

Probably the best way to “convert” people- or encourage reductions- is to be less apologetic. Tofu is wonderful and delicious as it’s own thing- but as tofu-chicken or tofurky or anything of that sort, it sets expectations that can never be met.

Forgetting to mention a dish that stands in its own happens to be meatless… well, my parents were halfway through the second bowl of a tofu stir fry before they realized it.

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even if it’s shoe leather, you can still tell a difference in steaks just by looking at it. As for the nuggets… I knew a guy whose job was doing chemical assays and stuffs. had a mass spectrometer and some other interesting equipment in his office. Because it was usually locked under NDA’s and stuff, he would instead go out to mcdonalds and buy whatever new thing came out on the menu and run that through. YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW.

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fair enough. instead allow me to say all the vegans I’ve met. (or at least, know about.)

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Does…. Any one, actually, you know, subscribe for YouTube?

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This…. Is going to end well.

Okay, ai matchmaking might work sorta okay. Especially if they do a deep background check and scrub their social media.

But pick up lines? Oh yes. Make me some popcorn…. This is gonna be fun to watch…

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So… chatgpt is telling dad jokes.

…. Do you think… nah. That can’t happen…. Right? AIs can’t make baby AIs?

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