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Apparently the charge was related to blocking access to the hotel, which, climate issues aside, I don't think I can say is entirely unreasonable.

It's reasonable to arrest someone blocking access to a hotel. OK. But you didn't mean "it's reasonable to arrest someone inconveniencing anyone". I think you need to explain the functional difference in the specific vs vague interpretation.

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Ok, sure. You are on the side of law and order. But if protests can only exist when they don't impede the work of those they are protesting, protests will be ignored.

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What's the odds that this author is up to some heinous shit in his free time and this is just a philosophical cover?

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Confidential is a wrong way to label that. It's
PII: Personally Identifiable Information. So they must protect it so people don't forward it and expose stuff like addresses and SSN. But it's YOUR piiy do you can share it freely. And what you're paid isn't PII. Only other identifying information that probably goes along with it.

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It wouldn't be explaining it. It would be your teammates telling everyone where they are on the projects you all work on. If you aren't working the same projects, then you aren't on the same team. Or you need sub-teams. If your work is so independent you don't rely on anyone else's work and vice versa, then you probably don't need standups.

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Paddlin' is only for A+ work. It's a reward.

Feds slap fine on Kentucky warehouse accused of allowing child to operate forklift (thehill.com)

The Labor Department said in a press release that it fined Win.IT America Inc. for $30,276 in civil money penalties after violating child labor provisions in the Fair Labor Standards Act. Investigators found that the company employed two children, an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old, for months at its distribution center.

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It's child endangerment. Someone needs to go to jail.

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    If I don't constantly have music or podcasts playing I might be able to hear my inner demons.

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    I want to see it in his brain first.

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    Try lower decks. Definitely the most accessible. The new live series I've found easier as well.

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    That's absolutely the point. The goal of most marketing is to worm into everyone's brains so when they think of a need, the product is their default. This doubles down on that by trying to generate a need through action.

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    I don't know how anyone sits ergonomically. Your knees should be right angled as should your elbows. At this height I've found all desks too tall. I'm average height so unsure how others do it.

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    My keyboard tray is the only way I can get it right. I have a 2nd hand Herman Miller Aeron and it goes pretty low. They have good specs online as well to figure that out.

    I tried a gaming chair once and it was many inches too high. =/

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    You'd add one cube to cool down your tea and it'd blow up your house.

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    That's the only thing I bought from there in the last several years. A huge TV because I did not trust Amazon to ship it and didn't want to figure out how to send it back via UPS pop-up shop.

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    She wanted to be the next Kyle Rittenhouse. Murdering and blaming it on provocation while using the negative sentiments of the protest to dodge accountability.

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    she violated the recently passed city law that prohibits civilians from bringing firearms to protests, the police said

    One does not have just one right at a time, one has all their rights all the time.

    Rights have limits.

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    You will have Game Pass. You will only have Game Pass.

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    Look at how Epic was doing business. They threw around hundreds of millions of dollars to buy exclusivity. And Epic was small time compared to MS. What happens when they do the same but on a larger scale? They buy exclusivity to Game Pass forever? They're already buying gaming powerhouses, indie games are a drop in the bucket.

    This merger should be opposed by everyone. It's a dark sign of things to come. They've already shown they WILL cut out all competition once they buy competitors.

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    Eh, I'm not that hopeful. the FTC asked them questions but it was never really going to stop them. MS has the capital to buy Sony, if it was feasible to do so. I expect them to continue to buy stuff up until they are actually denied. They have the lawyers to throw at the government in perpetuity.

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    Kotick is retiring because he can't take direction. But will receive hundreds of millions to do so. Why would MS fire anyone else when Activision and King makes money?

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    “It’s about standing with the people of Gaza, and reminding the world that these are humans who deserve to live in dignity, to deserve to live free from occupation, free from colonial brutality, free from the violence that Israel constantly is constantly throwing at them,” she said.
    “Since Saturday, a little over 1,500 people have already died in Gaza, and a third of them are children. And yet that level of violence against Palestinians is very rarely discussed. Entire families have been killed.”
    Avila Chevalier said she did not regard the protest as celebrating killing but that the violence against Israelis did not happen in a vacuum.
    “No one wants violence, right? What people who are engaging in these protests are trying to get across is that this violence didn’t start five days ago, this violence started with Israeli occupation of Palestine,” she said.

    Desperate people being the victims of genocide and colonial atrocities for decades side with desperate people. More at 11.

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    Leading financial figures on Wall Street made a show of saying they would not employ Harvard students who signed the statement blaming Israel for the Hamas attack. A billboard truck drove around Harvard campus displaying the pictures and names of the students, and their addresses and other details were published on websites.

    That's some intense and coordinated propaganda.

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    Both governments (Israel and Hamas) are driven by an urge to seek more power by claiming land and killing their "enemies". The populace are witting and unwitting pawns of that. I am not surprised people back the Israeli government with the amount of propaganda being put forth and I'm not surprised that people who have been murdered and had their homes destroyed for decades are willing to tacitly support the only group that seems like it can fight back. Desperate people don't make rational decisions.

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    Wow. Look at you. Taking a stance supporting bullying. Brave.

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    It's really bad. This is all about Game Pass. MS wants to acquire enough of the industry big IPs to force people onto Game Pass. All of tech right now is trying really hard to get people locked into subscriptions because it's effectively free, easy money. You don't have to convince consumers to constantly buy new stuff. You just need to dissuade them from canceling a subscription, which is much easier.

    Then they just gobble up more of the market share until they've hit their theoretical maximum. Then they can raise prices because they've captured the market and driven competitors away. They've already made it so you pretty much need Game Pass if you own an Xbox. Long-term they could stop selling PC games on Steam, but they probably won't because the PC market is so much smaller than console and they can point to that as a "win" for consumer choice.

    Sony has nothing successful enough compared to Game Pass and as they fall further behind they'll likely abandon it entirely.

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    They don't need to do anything except weather some consumer backlash for a title or two. Eventually as publishers make their games compatible with Chinese regulations, they'll stop making games with content that offends China. Players may not even realize it's happening and publishers get to spend less money. So say goodbye to skeletons and such in massive games.

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    People keep thinking this is bad for Activision. Activision wants this. That should tell you all you need to know.

    Bobby Kotick might quit after the buyout because he's a power-hungry wannabe-murderer, but there's zero chance he doesn't get hundreds of millions in payout no matter what happens. He's happy about the buyout.

    This isn't going to affect much of how Activision develops games, except 0 of them will be on Sony hardware going forward, unless they actually honor that deal for Call of Duty, but that's it. All this does is ensure consumers have less choice.

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    Because your suggest requires federal legislation that requires all of the big carriers and cell manufacturers/importers to fundamentally change how their platforms share and control data. All of which are currently monetized by those companies and thousands more. It's definitely the right direction but that's not what this court case is about and is too big of an ask. The court case is trying to protect users by disallowing a state from banning entire platforms of expression.

    And besides, even if such regulation went through, that doesn't mean that apps like TikTok couldn't still weaponize the data you willingly give them: view history, engagement history. To do that you'd need to regulate apps wholesale and when someone like TikTok (and honestly, Google and Apple as well) say "no" the only answer would be to delist them from stores which gets us right back to here. And if something like TikTok were banned across app and play stores? A LOT of people would very quickly learn how to sideload apps, anyways.

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    To look like you're an impressive person with a big, strong truck that is so powerful it can't help but not spew lung-destroying emissions. They're just cosplaying truckers.

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    Ties spike my chronic neck pain no matter who tight or loose they are. I 100% understand this.

    For anyone who wears bras: my partner likes Tomboy brand a lot. More support and comfort.

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    Yep. It's all about helping people transition. So much of American food culture is centered around burgers, steak, BBQ, etc. It's really hard to just drop all of that on a dime, even if you want to. These products help people with that mental itch.

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    They were referring to the comma. Commonly used with a verbal pause. So like: "It's not...though?" As if the "though?" was its own thought and the only part of the sentence that had the question inflection.

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    B) something that isn’t naturally occurring

    1. Humans are natural. We are evolved animals.
    2. Humans created everything humans consider artificial.
    3. Therefore everything deemed artificial is actually natural.

    😎

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    If we check this image, use the 947' total size, we can estimate the rest of the dimensions. That would put the deck heigh at about 8'. The saucer widest deck lengths at around 450'. Definitely cramped but doable. There's only about 100-150 crew on this version as well. It's essentially a weirdly shaped cruise ship and nearly the size of our world's largest.

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    Religion is the excuse. Very rarely are conflicts actually driven by religious differences. Most of the time it's just plain power-hungry people trying to gain power over another group, seize land, gain wealth, etc. Religion is great for galvanizing the masses, though.

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    Just introduce monotheism, insist you are sent by god, and voila: almost unlimited power.

    Well about that...

    As a pharaoh, Akhenaten is noted for abandoning Egypt's traditional polytheism and introducing Atenism, or worship centered around Aten. ... This culture shift away from traditional religion was reversed after his death. Akhenaten's monuments were dismantled and hidden, his statues were destroyed, and his name excluded from lists of rulers compiled by later pharaohs.[16]

    It's hard to say whys on stuff that old, but a lot of historians consider this to be a move that was or became vastly unpopular.

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    You are in this meme.

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    They'll mince you once you're too old, broken, or inconvenient.

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    It was made by inventors and workers. The capitalists own the company. They don't create.

    You are not a capitalist.

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    Whoosh

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    Supersonic BOOM - WHOOSH!

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    It's like an HOA: The council is deciding how to divide up your backyard between your neighbors. The lawn owner is the only dissenting vote and then the neighborhood wonders why they are being so hostile.

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    We used to have a great independent pharmacy. It closed down a few years ago. :(

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    It's insane. CEO doesn't do work to earn 1.5m. They're just 1 person. No one can do ten people's work.

    Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately (arstechnica.com)

    John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, the company whose 3D game engine had recently seen backlash from developers over proposed fee structures, will retire as CEO, president, and board chairman at the company, according to a press release issued late on a Monday afternoon, one many observe as a holiday.

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    The solution is to tax the rich so a golden parachute mostly goes to the tax payer. Including stock options.

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    It would make sense for Netenyahu to want something big and despicable enough to wage total war against Palestine. Israel has been slow rolling invasion and genocide for decades. It's definitely a conspiracy theory since there's no real proof yet but I element be surprised.

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    That doesn't mean everyone living on stolen land gets a pass just because they weren't the ones to steal it. They have an obligation to make it right.

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