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dylanmorgan ,

Skip the psych exam. Restore the “public servant” aspect.

  1. All assets are sold and the cash is placed in a trust that earns 1% interest. When you leave office you get your money back.
  2. 24/7 audio and video coverage of your life as long as you are in office. The toilet is not filmed unless someone goes in with you. Other than that, your life is an open book.
  3. After you leave office, you can teach classes as long as your compensation is no more than the lowest-paid professor at the school that employs you. You can write books. Or you can enjoy your pension. No corporate jobs or partner positions at fancy law firms.
dylanmorgan ,

Bacon sausage eggs hash browns. Easy.

U.S. company found liable of financing Colombian paramilitary death squad to advance its interests (www.latintimes.com)

A U.S. jury in Miami has ruled that Chiquita Brands International is liable for financing the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a paramilitary death squad designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. during Colombia’s civil war....

dylanmorgan ,

The headline is missing “again.” Chiquita, AKA the United Fruit Company, has been abusing Latin American nations for the entire time it has existed.

The Curious Case Of The Underselling Arena Tours (www.stereogum.com)

“Who can afford to go to multiple shows?” says the anonymous tour manager. “Two tickets to a show, you’re talking probably about $200 with fees and everything. You go to a meal around the show, you’re talking at least $100 or $200 for a nice dinner. Then you got parking and babysitters, then you add the VIP stuff to...

dylanmorgan ,

This reads a lot like nuance trolling. The “mystery” seems extremely one-dimensional: most fans aren’t “pay a ridiculous amount to see a band from a half-mile away” fans.

dylanmorgan ,

If it’s “use my name a likeness, maybe my voice work,” I’m not mad, it’s people paying to do stuff the devs would need to pay someone else to do instead. If it’s “I have some ideas how this story should go” I’d be a bit more concerned.

dylanmorgan ,

If you’re referring to dollars given/promised to “charity,” a huge amount of that is done in a way that protects assets from taxes but primarily benefits the donor or the donor’s offspring.

Example: Warren Buffet has billions he has pledged to charity. However, when he dies it goes into a private charitable trust that conveniently employs his children and pays them millions a year for “administration” duties. The trust can donate stocks to charities, and there is a tax exemption for the “value” of the donation, reducing the tax burden of the trust further. Billionaire charity in the USA is a nearly-complete fiction which is actually more in line with the behavior discussed in this article.

dylanmorgan ,

Very cool that the Minneapolis PD I’d just outsourcing forensics to <checks notes> discount retailer Target?

What’s next, the state of Arkansas outsourcing public education to Walmart?

dylanmorgan ,

That was my exact thought. I wonder how long they’d been doing this prior to October 7.

dylanmorgan ,

I suspected as much. This kind of thing doesn’t materialize from nowhere.

dylanmorgan ,

I love the “you’d have to plant trees everywhere therefore it’s not possible” logic. As if silviculture/silvipasture were not possible. As if we couldn’t take vacant properties and plant there.

dylanmorgan ,

I don’t like the headline. Musk is scum, but the Internet is responsible for this. If Google’s loony “internet on balloons” project had scaled up, it’s just as likely these Amazon tribes would be using that service to turn into porn-and-social-media addicts.

dylanmorgan ,

Even better if you could build your own room in Roblox and arrange furniture until you figured out what pieces you wanted and where to put them.

dylanmorgan ,

Purge the infidels from the earth. God may forgive them but we never can.

dylanmorgan ,

Or, you know, a school. You know, where there are children? Maybe children who have physical limitations who have been called gimps?

Oh well, who cares about the educational environment and getting kids exposed to FOSS options instead of commercial software?

dylanmorgan ,

Pretty much everyone who’s discussed it agrees The Godfather (film) blows the Puzo novel it adapted away.

Runner up is Adaptation, an adaptation of the novel The Orchid Thief that expands its scope significantly.

dylanmorgan ,

I’m a death penalty opponent but cases like this remind me why a lot of people aren’t.

dylanmorgan ,

I 100% agree. I think it’s also good to remember that when people defend the death penalty, they’re thinking about people like this, or John Wayne Gacy, and not the thousands of people who are convicted with way more questionable evidence.

Private Equity–Backed Firm Bowlero Is Ruining Bowling (jacobin.com)

For the most part, Bowlero doesn’t build its own centers. Instead, it purchases existing ones and makes them over in the Bowlero style: dim lights, loud music, expensive cocktails. At Bowleros, bowling isn’t bowling. It’s “upscale entertainment.”...

dylanmorgan ,

“Private Equity Firm [NAME] is Ruining [INDUSTRY]” is going to be an accurate headline every time we see it.

dylanmorgan ,

It was always private equity. It’s amazing how effective owning the press is when you want to blame something nebulous like a generation of people rather than admitting to just squeezing every drop of money out of companies you took over.

dylanmorgan ,

I think there are different valid perspectives on what the terms mean, and the server side vs AJAX split pretty tightly correlates to the rise of social media as we currently understand it because the technology enables that use of the internet.

Erdogan: Netanyahu is a ‘psychopath’ and a ‘vampire that feeds on blood’ (www.timesofisrael.com)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashes out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling him a “psychopath” and a “vampire that feeds on blood,” following Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that triggered a deadly fire in a camp for displaced people.

dylanmorgan ,

Dammit, can we see criticism from someone who isn’t a monster and doesn’t refer to antisemitic tropes in their criticism?

dylanmorgan ,

I’d like to think that too, but I keep being proven wrong. There’s plenty of people who think that their expertise in one realm means they have expertise in many other realms.

dylanmorgan ,

I’ve known people who were vegetarian/vegan for a while and then ate meat and got sick from it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

dylanmorgan ,

Both major freezes in the last 5 years in Texas.

dylanmorgan ,

Materially supporting a fascist isn’t nothing.

dylanmorgan ,

They Might Be Giants

dylanmorgan ,

It’s always weird reading this as an anarchist because I fundamentally disagree with the insanity of claiming that some other set of laws applies, but I empathize with the argument that cops shouldn’t be able to arrest someone for not showing ID, or videotaping them, or really most things; and I frankly think that the existence of the state is predicated on force and the idea that the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force which is what is used to uphold property ownership.

dylanmorgan ,

I read this headline and my first thought is that someone will use it to depict a celebrity or politician in a porn or gore (or both) context. That’s my reason for being against it.

dylanmorgan ,

Jeez, reading how the people were killed makes me wonder what the motive was. I’m assuming that with a group doing the deed it’s not just a psychopath.

dylanmorgan ,

The content creators should work together to make a single bland “it’s fun 😶” video that all of them post. It would technically comply with the restriction.

How Zionism became a synonym for violence and oppression (www.theguardian.com)

For decades, Joe Biden has proudly declared that he is a Zionist, and he has repeated that claim since Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel. But for the student anti-war protests gripping the US, the words “Zionist” and “Zionism” have become a watchword – pejorative and emblematic of the violent state policies driving...

dylanmorgan ,

Is it because Zionists engaged in brutality and repression at every step of the project to create Israel?

dylanmorgan ,

Behind the Bastards dedicated their last Christmas episode to Aaron as well: iheart.com/…/part-one-christmas-hero-episode-aaro…

She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (www.theguardian.com)

Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi’s...

dylanmorgan ,

Jesus, where do you live so I can never go there?

dylanmorgan ,

Considering the woman: A) is legally barred from discussing the other families, and B) denies having sent anything to anyone, I think you might be making some pretty broad assumptions. What we do know is that the videos and photos weren’t faked, and they were evidence of misconduct by the other girls, who as of yet have experienced zero consequences and in at least one case may have benefited from the case going viral.

dylanmorgan ,

With that number of images he very likely paid for some and thereby directly contributed to abuse of children.

dylanmorgan ,

I once had a friend turn down an invitation because he “had friends coming in from Cleveland.” I told him he could just say he didn’t want to go.

dylanmorgan ,

If you don’t have a food processor but you have a kitchenaid mixer, there’s a grater attachment for that as well.

dylanmorgan ,

This is what keeps being ignored in these studies, and it seems like the only reason is that copping to the real reasons young people are showing higher rates of mental illness would require admitting that the status quo is unsustainable and frankly evil.

A report that said “gen z is profoundly distressed by the reality of global warming” means admitting we need to fix the climate or see our kids suffers deaths of despair in unprecedented numbers. The same is true if we admit that the economy won’t provide most of them a job that allows basic survival, much less a comfortable fulfilling life; or that these factors have combined to cause a turn to fascism.

dylanmorgan ,

If only for a little extra oomph in your scrabble game.

dylanmorgan ,

They said “do you own” a property that other people pay you to live in. That’s the upper-class part.

dylanmorgan ,

Depends on how you define “nametag.” I work at Amazon in an office, and we all have to wear badges, from the drones like me to the senior VPs. Same thing will be true at a lot of companies.

dylanmorgan ,

Do you a) Own a property b) that you don’t live in c) that other people who are not family members live in d) and those people pay you?

If not, you’re not the subject of that comment. If so, congrats on being in the very narrow overlap of the Venn diagram for waiters and landlords.

dylanmorgan ,

Okay, I’m not OP but a follow up question that occurs to me reading the explanations of what Wayland is, is are there any distros or spins of distros that use Wayland by default?

dylanmorgan ,

It’s a tv show from the same era, “Sledge Hammer!”

dylanmorgan ,

One aspect you didn’t mention is whether the person is a public figure or not. If I know that “@milton23789” is a secret alt account for Taylor Swift, it’s probably fine to state that in public forums because Swift is a public figure. If that account is actually an alt for just some dude, it’s not as okay.

dylanmorgan ,

No, one example you gave was of revealing someone’s alt account, and I was making the point that for that and some other pieces of information, whether someone is a public figure is relevant.

Another example where who a person is matters is libel: generally accepted precedent is that you cannot libel a dead person or a person whose reputation is already so damaged the libel could not damage it further.

dylanmorgan ,

“Well, we have police departments investigate themselves…”

Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefire (www.theguardian.com)

Protesters calling for Israel to cease fire in its war with Hamas who have disrupted US public events and infrastructure are practicing “leftwing fascism” or “leftwing totalitarianism”, a senior US House Democrat said, adding that such protesters are “challenging representative democracy” and should be arrested....

dylanmorgan ,

<Sees protests with popular support> “That’s totalitarianism, not democracy!”

Christ, what an asshole.

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