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A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock. (www.theverge.com)

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.::Reddit seems like a likely candidate for a meme stock. But the actual reaction suggests that r/WallStreetBets isn’t going to send the stock to the moon.

NateNate60 ,

Nintendo CEO cutting his salary in half to avoid laying off workers after the Wii U fails versus whatever the fuck Reddit is doing

Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)

Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

NateNate60 ,

Congratulations, you have repeated the same point as the parent commenter, but removed the quotation marks to make it seem like they didn’t do that, so to create for yourself an opportunity to say it again

NateNate60 ,

There is no such thing as unbiased news free from corporate fuckery. But you can subscribe to several well-known and reputable news outlets, public broadcast services, and other varied reliable sources, and hope that the combined fuckery cancel each other out. For now, that’s the best that you can do.

It’s not easy and it’s not cheap.

NateNate60 , (edited )

My home state of Oregon mandates a minimum wage of $13.20 in rural areas and $15.45 in the Portland metro area, and it adjusts to inflation. Oregon has been governed by Democrats for years. Thanks to these and other laws, I can go down to a McDonald’s and get a job that pays $16-17 an hour to start in my city. TriMet in Portland is always advertising a $28 starting wage for bus drivers (no CDL) up to $37 after three years. Rent in my city is $800-900 for a one-bedroom flat with excellent free public transit and fair bikeability. Fuel prices are reasonable. We have strong protections for tenants against abusive landlords. Strong anti-discrimination laws. Everyone has paid sick days. No regressive sales tax. Working-class people can afford a roof over their heads and decent food on the table.

Check out the neighbouring state minimum wages.

  • Washington (Democratic government): $16.28
  • California (Democratic government): $16.00
  • Nevada (divided government): $12.00
  • Idaho (Republican government): $7.25

But yeah, keep harping on about how both parties are the same and that Democrats don’t do more to help the working man.

NateNate60 ,

Arguments against electoral democracy by so-called socialists always boil down to “it’s not perfect so why bother”.

Okay, so keep complaining. Your vision of a better tomorrow isn’t going to magically come true if you complain hard enough. You can help make it come true only by participating in the political system we have today. Even if you think it doesn’t work, you have no choice but to participate anyway and hope you are wrong.

This is how I got banned from Hexbear. I told someone “You can either participate in the current system or plot to overthrow it. Are you working with the next Lenin or Mao, or merely fantasizing about it?”

So what about you? What are you doing to build the future you want?

NateNate60 ,

You use the word “liberal” like it is supposed to be an insult

NateNate60 ,

What you’ve said is that someone who agrees with you 50-80% of the time is as bad as someone who thinks you are the devil incarnate and doesn’t agree with you at all.

NateNate60 ,

I make these assumptions because the type of people who use the type of language that you do and espouse similar views to you tend to also do these other things. It’s called “generalisation”, and although I apologise if I’ve made an incorrect one, it is a part of human thinking and everyone does it, including you.

It is my belief that the terms “good” and “bad” are poor labels and not suitably descriptive, especially for most political ideologies. I can only say that Democrats tend to enact policies that I agree with more while Republicans do not. That is why I say that Democrats are “better”. Whether “better” means “good” is irrelevant. I don’t like the two-party system and I work to change it by circulating ballot initiatives to move us toward proportional and ranked-choice voting. But when we only have two choices, it makes sense to vote and campaign for the one you disagree with least, then criticise and exert political pressure as necessary to nudge them in the right direction. Note that political pressure comes only collectively as a voting bloc, and a voting bloc that doesn’t participate isn’t going to be effective at exerting political pressure and having their demands acceded to. I understand that you vote, but not everyone who thinks the way you do does.

NateNate60 ,

I think that’s why it’s important to encourage participation in the primary process. There are the neoliberals mixed in with the social democrats and actual socialists. We should be voting for and supporting the latter in the primaries if we want to influence the party in a leftward direction.

NateNate60 ,

Good news doesn’t spread as quickly as bad news and rage bait. “McDonald’s Workers Can Afford Flat on 1/3 of Income” isn’t a good headline but “Families Increasingly Priced Out By Red-Hot Housing Market” does.

NateNate60 ,

Yes, and that’s because the progressive and left-wing of the Democratic Party is losing a power struggle against the centrists and neoliberals. If you want to change that, be sure to vote in the party primary elections and to encourage everyone you know to do the same.

Register to vote

NateNate60 ,

For what it’s worth, the minimum wage in LA will rise to $17.28 in July of this year. I get that’s still not very high by LA standards, but I stress that progress is better than stagnation.

NateNate60 ,

Your other comment says—

So pathetic how you claim to support democracy but shit on anyone who criticizes your precious political party and then make juvenile excuses for doing so.

I don’t. But it’s undeniably true that one party is much better, in my opinion, than the other. They aren’t a perfect party but to equate them with the Republican Party simply because they aren’t doing a perfect (or in many cases, even a good) job is stupid.

Right now, the choices are “bare minimum” or “nothing at all”. These choices are not the same. One is clearly better.

If you would like a more nuanced opinion then read carefully the rest of my comments in this thread. I’m not going to repeat my points for every person who comes along with the same retort and insult thinking they’ve “got” me.

NateNate60 ,

In bankruptcy cases, a proposal is usually put forth by the end of the process that describes a plan with respect to how the debtor’s assets will be liquidated and the funds distributed to creditors. This plan is put to a vote before the creditors and if the creditors accept the plan, then the bankruptcy court will order that the debtor’s assets be liquidated in the manner described. When that’s all done, the bankruptcy trustee will distribute the proceeds according to the plan to the creditors. Any remaining debts are cancelled.

NateNate60 ,

This is how bankruptcy works. When someone goes bankrupt then it is intended to give them a fresh start. Some debts, such as those incurred as a result of fraud, are not dischargeable.

NateNate60 , (edited )

Edit: thought this was a reply to the Trump case. Edited to apply to Jones

Bankruptcy is not “granted”. It is a legal process and courts cannot decline to bankrupt a person. This is the law in the United States, and changing it would require an Act of Congress. Nobody has to “agree” to this. It is just as much a violation of the rule of law to unduly deprive Jones of the rights he has by law as it is to ignore the consequences of his actions prescribed by law. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is of him or his actions; these are his rights. Anyone who has a crushing amount of debt that they can’t pay off, due to no particular fault of their own other than bad financial management, can have their assets liquidated and those debts cancelled. Note that debts incurred by fraud or malicious intent, such as this large judgement, are still not eligible for cancellation in bankruptcy. The purpose of personal bankruptcy laws around the world is because it is recognised that citizens are more economically productive when they aren’t forced to pay a crushing amount of debt for the rest of their lives. It isn’t fair to them. Again, we’re looking at laws that apply to everyone, so your opinion of Jones’s case doesn’t matter. It isn’t about Jones.

Nobody “walks away” from debt. People get their assets liquidated, their properties sold off. and in many cases their lives upended by bankruptcy. Nobody will ever want to lend money to someone bankrupt. Since Jones declards personal bankruptcy then his business and assets will be sold to pay his creditors and he’ll be left with maybe enough to live an average life working an actual job. At the same time, the law stipulates that he, like everyone else, still deserves a decent standard of living even despite his debts. This is not favouritism, this is the rule of law.

Consider the case where a person, after getting into a serious car accident, is hospitalised for two months. When they get out, now they could owe hundreds of thousands of dollars in hospital bills, could be severely behind on their mortgage, was out of work for two months so they might also owe thousands of dollars on their credit card, and may have even lost their job in the meantime. All those things are possible in the US, so you have to understand that bankruptcy is the last resort for this person. Otherwise, interest and late fees on tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt will crush them for the rest of their lives, and we (Americans) as a society have decided that we don’t want people in that position.

NateNate60 ,

That’s probably some Ronald Reagan bullshit. Let me go look it up.

Edit: It’s not. Apparently it only started in 2005.

NateNate60 OP ,

Maybe this is not the case outside the USA but in America, I have never seen any in-person merchant that does not accept Discover. The only online merchant I know of and regularly buy from that doesn’t take Discover is TCGPlayer, but it is trivial to get around this by using PayPal.

Discover cards are also multi-network and can also be processed as Diner’s Club International or JCB in some countries. This matters more internationally, of course, but it is an option.

NateNate60 OP ,

I loved it when they had the “digital wallets” category last year. 5% on all mobile payments. It didn’t count PayPal payments but I still maxed out the $75 cash back with my normal spending. Easiest $75 of my life

NateNate60 , (edited )

“Emotional distress” is not “made me upset”. It’s “murdered my wife and kids in front of my eyes so now I have PTSD and need therapy for life”.

Edit: To elaborate, see Jane W. v. President & Directors of Georgetown Coll., 863 A.2d 821, 826–27 (D.C. 2004). You must be in physical danger to claim negligent infliction of emotional distress in Washington, DC.

The guy has no damages. He didn’t quit his job over this; he didn’t book tickets for a cruise around the world; he didn’t make an offer to buy a mansion with the money. He didn’t suffer any financial loss whatsoever.

Courts don’t decide whether someone deserves money because others were unfair to them. They decide whether someone deserves compensation for undue financial loss.

I expect him to either lose this case, win nominal damages (i.e. one dollar), or settle for a nuisance/PR amount.

NateNate60 ,

Lottery websites usually have disclaimers on them telling you that the numbers displayed are not official. Only the numbers that were drawn live on television are official.

NateNate60 , (edited )

Nope. See Jane W. v. President & Directors of Georgetown Coll., 863 A.2d 821, 826–27 (D.C. 2004), which sets the precedent in Washington, DC where this case was filed. The incident occurred in Washington, DC.

You must be in physical danger to claim negligent infliction of emotional distress in DC. This case is where the DC Court of Appeals ruled that if you were not in danger then you’re not entitled to damages.

Feel free to cite a relevant DC authority to the contrary if you think I’m wrong.

NateNate60 , (edited )

That’s not an authority. “Authority” means a court case or statute. It doesn’t matter what the case is in other jurisdictions because this case was filed in DC court and DC law applies. That’s why I cited the DC Court of Appeals. It’s not pertinent to this particular case what the requirements are to establish a claim of negligent emotional distress in other jurisdictions.

NateNate60 ,

I gave it some thought and you are right. I will edit my comments to remove the snark.

NateNate60 ,

Watch the so-called “Communist” Party leaders decry this and crush it violently. Marx is rolling so much in his grave that if they attached a generator to him they could power half of China with the electricity

NateNate60 ,

I don’t think they’ll be killed. Neither North Korea nor China are that stupid. I do think that they’ll be forced to work until they drop and paid nothing or paid a pittance, even by Chinese standards, with the bulk of the value of their labour being split between the company that they work for and the Chinese and North Korean states.

NateNate60 ,

People always fail to understand that high returns always correspond to higher risk. The reason why banks and other traditional financial institutions offer such low rates paid on products like CDs and savings accounts is because those accounts are free of risk (for the consumer). An 8% return is suspiciously high, and any smart investor would assume that such a return can only be achieved by making the product more risky.

This, coupled with China’s general lack of public knowledge about its deposit protection schemes, is a recipe for disaster. I have been inside Chinese banks and have never once seen any indication of coverage by deposit protection schemes, so it’s really hard to know what’s covered and what’s not. Meanwhile, in the United States, banks have plaques and stickers that say “Member FDIC” and “Your savings insured by the US Government for up to $250,000” next to every teller window and on every advertisement.

NateNate60 ,

From reading the article, it was approximately 1 million vehicles in violation, all pickup trucks. That works out to $1,600 per vehicle.

Don’t take this the wrong way—the fine is large, but $1,600 on vehicles that sell for fifty times that still seems… thin.

NateNate60 ,

People aren’t storing massive amounts of data on cloud storage. For text document storage or even a moderate number of images, 10 GB is enough for many people.

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NateNate60 ,

Smells like a scam

NateNate60 ,

There’s a difference between trying to get a bank loan for hundreds of millions of dollars versus hitting up your supporters for free money.

Trump is a well-known deadbeat in the financial world. Every bank in the Western world knows that he’s not good for it.

On the other hand, I would be shocked if he manages to raise $370 million from his supporters, who aren’t all exactly rich. The total raised by his 2020 presidential campaign was $774 million. So this bond would eat up nearly half of his campaign money.

Trust me, if Biden manages a 2:1 financing advantage, Trump is going to get steamrolled.

NateNate60 ,

It is a loophole in the current Federal Communications Commission’s regulations, where these kinds of deals are supposed to be forbidden. The Commission doesn’t seem to like it either and may close the loophole in the future, but the regulatory process takes time.

NateNate60 ,

This has some serious “only landowners should be allowed to vote” vibes

I will say directly that this model of governance is incompatible with the tenets of free software.

NateNate60 ,

I am not the parent commenter.

Apparently, the process of filming pornography is really messy, arduous, starts to smell bad quickly, and many of the positions are uncomfortable. Not to mention the fact that many scenes need re-takes. That’s just the reality of filmmaking.

It’s also quite awkward to have a director and camera crew staring at you the whole time and giving you instructions.

I read this on an AskReddit thread.

NateNate60 ,

I wagered $100 that he’ll be sentenced to at least a year in jail before the election.

Come on Merchan…

NateNate60 ,

No, this is a criminal trial. Read the article.

Democrats Flip Santos’s House Seat in Early Election-Year Test (www.nytimes.com)

Tom Suozzi, a former Democratic congressman, won a closely watched special House election in New York on Tuesday, narrowing the Republican majority in Washington and offering his party a potential playbook to run in key suburban swing areas in November....

NateNate60 ,

Unfortunately, these by-elections tend to be happening in uncompetitive constituencies. This one was actually a marginal seat.

It’s good, of course, but compare it to the UK where the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats have been overturning huge majorities in previously safely Conservative seats and the US Democrats seem to be the runt of the litter.

Neo-Nazis Swarm Home of New England Governor (www.rollingstone.com)

Comment on Headline: I don’t know if swarm is the right word, I think that implies they entered the home? I guess a group of insects is a swarm whether it’s inside or out. They had their Nazi party in the street, and the governor’s home is protected at all times by state police....

NateNate60 ,

The American constitution forbids the Government from banning it. It has in it one of the strongest protections for free speech and among the most liberal definitions of “speech” in the world.

It is a huge failure in communication to pretend that distro upgrades are entirely different versions of the operating system. It does nothing but make Linux seem more complex than it actually is.

The jump in distro versions, say, from Fedora 38 to Fedora 39, is not the same as the jump from Windows 10 to Windows 11. It’s more like the jump from version 23H2 to 24H2....

NateNate60 OP ,

Don’t misinterpret the post. I understand it perfectly well.

NateNate60 OP ,

From a user’s perspective, neither has the Linux kernel. The kernel’s version number may increase but the strict principle of “don’t break userland” has meant that old software is almost always compatible with newer kernels.

NateNate60 OP ,

You don’t know that it hasn’t stopped anyone from using Linux. The reality of large numbers is that with a big enough sample size, any minor frustration (or seemingly minor) has almost certainly stopped someone from using Linux.

NateNate60 OP ,

I think you are missing the nuance of the post. It isn’t that users think numbers are inherently scary. It’s that they think the number of versions available is scary because it lends itself to the belief that those versions are mutually incompatible. Add that to the fact that software installation instructions often provide different instructions to install on different versions of a distro, or articles have titles like “How to do ____ in Ubuntu 20.04” leaving users to wonder if it still works in later versions. Of course, the answer is usually “yes”, but they won’t know that off the bat, and the reason is the presence of the version number. Meanwhile, a guide will almost never have a title like “How to do _____ in Android 11”. It will usually just say “Android”.

NateNate60 OP ,

This isn’t about whether I think the version number confuses me.

I am arguing against the prominence of version numbers in Linux distros. Just like how users can go years without knowing what version of iOS or Android they’re using. In that case, upgrading Android versions is also presented as nothing more than a large update and not changing OS versions.

I explicitly want to avoid users drawing the comparison between, say, Windows 7 and Windows 10, and thinking an upgrade of that scale happens every six to nine months.

NateNate60 ,

There are many legitimate reasons why someone might need to make real robocalls. The issue isn’t robocalls in general. It’s unwanted robocalls and scam robocalls. There is no way to tell these apart at the time they’re made. The only thing that can be done is to make identification easier in order to prosecute those who make them.

You need to accept that the telephone network is not, was not, and will never be a privacy-respecting system. Whenever you place a telephone call, your identity is known to your phone company. They know who you called, how long you called them, when you called them, and in all likelihood, what you said. The Government can intercept and record your calls. Your phone by default discloses your identity to the caller. Nothing is end-to-end encrypted. Telephones as a technology date back to before encryption was a thing, and at this point, to turn it into a privacy-respecting system where that privacy is enforced cryptographically or otherwise would result in the need to replace almost every non-cellular telephone in the world (which is a lot!). The best we can do is to forbid eavesdropping, except by law enforcement, and control what can be listened to by law.

If you want to use a privacy-respecting system, look elsewhere. True privacy on the telephone network will never exist, nor anything close to it. The best we can do is take advantage of that lack of privacy for the common good instead of desperately trying to pretend it’s private.

The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes (www.businessinsider.com)

The White House wants to ‘cryptographically verify’ videos of Joe Biden so viewers don’t mistake them for AI deepfakes::Biden’s AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is “in the works.”

NateNate60 ,

There is, but only if you can implement a layer of abstraction and get them to trust that layer of abstraction.

Few laymen understand why Bitcoin is secure. They just trust that their wallet software works and because they were told by smarter people that it is secure.

Few laymen understand why TLS is secure. They just trust that their browser tells them it is secure.

Few laymen understand why biometric authentication on their phone apps is secure. They just trust that their device tells them it is secure.

NateNate60 ,

Yeah, almost nothing has good PGP integration.

Except Git, apparently.

NateNate60 ,

That’s not the point. It’s that malicious actors could easily exploit that lack of knowledge to trick users into giving fake videos more credibility.

If I were a malicious actor, I’d put the words “✅ Verified cryptographically by the White House” at the bottom of my posts and you can probably understand that the people most vulnerable to misinformation would probably believe it.

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