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funkless_eck ,

something something no wrong moves and still lose

There’s a reason that, were it ever to happen, I’d stop at SVP level and not jump to C level.

funkless_eck ,

you PAY for the WHOLE SEAT but you only need THE EDGE

funkless_eck ,

in these cases sometimes the insurance makes you sue even if you don’t want to because otherwise they won’t pay for any of the debt

My colleague has a situation where he’s being sued by his neighbor for minor burns after a firework accident a few years ago 4th of July. The neighbor doesn’t want to sue him but has no choice to get the medical services paid for.

California bill to have human drivers ride in autonomous trucks is vetoed by governor (apnews.com)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill to require human drivers on board self-driving trucks, a measure that union leaders and truck drivers said would save hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state.

funkless_eck ,

that’d be the dream, but the pessimist in me sees the boss installing Spyware, eye tracker software, a sensor in my seat, twice a day video call check ins and a series of beaurocratic tasks that turn it into an 11 hour shift 6 days a week, and in their downtown offices rather than WFH.

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Elon lied about the monkeys — and he shouldn't be trusted to put his Neuralink chips in human brains.

"They are claiming they are going to put a safe device on the market, and that's why you should invest," Ryan Merkley at the Physicians Committee, told Wired. "And we see his lie as a way to whitewash what happened in these exploratory studies."

Really heartbreaking reading what happened to the monkeys.

People quite rightly think of Elizabeth Holmes as a fraud for making false medical claims about what the Theranos machines could do. So why aren't Elon's claims at Neuralink being held to the same level of scrutiny?

https://futurism.com/neoscope/terrible-things-monkeys-neuralink-implants

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funkless_eck ,

is it possible and or legal to sign up maliciously?

funkless_eck ,

I did get all the hype but after a lifetime of experience working in live performance marketing and software marketing, my position is that all marketing is a lie, and with limited experience in journalistic criticism, that too is as subjective as whether you prefer chocolate or strawberry ice cream.

in the end you experience something — regardless of the overall quality, some parts are better than others. And that’s it. That’s experience. Sometimes you love it, sometimes you don’t. Your fave is someone else’s least and vice versa.

funkless_eck ,

that would instantly make me very dumb and require a lot of explaining on the phone. like “when I say hello mister Thompson and press down on your foot then you smile and nod, do you understand?” levels of dumb.

“I’ve used up all the vowels! there are only 5! this means the only password left is rhythm”

“no you can use the same vowels just they can’t be in the same place”

“like I have to do it in my kitchen?”

“no the same place in the word”

“so it has to be the same word with different letters?”

“no, it has to be a different word with different letters”

“well like I said I already used all the vowels”

funkless_eck ,

this whole exchange has truly saved me so much time and effort, thanks AI.

funkless_eck ,

subreddit

funkless_eck ,

“eh I’ll take a look”

first thing I see is a woman on her back with her legs behind her head, smooth skin where her genitals should be and nipples in the middle of her buttocks.

“alright then”

funkless_eck ,

our second car is a hyundai so we’ve gone back to The Club to prevent it from getting stolen with a thumb drive

funkless_eck ,

I am a purist and macaroni is only when a rider of an ungulate affixes a plume to their headgear whilst in transit to a metropolitan area

funkless_eck ,

it has a big red button that says “don’t speak to me” though

if I had to speak to them it wouldn’t have that button

funkless_eck ,

you can make it illegal to sell and only a fine for getting caught. Major retailers won’t do it, cornershops(“/bodegas” for the US) that sell under the counter will do it until they get caught, new ones won’t bother because they want their business to be a success, and honestly, probably make more money on chewing gum than black market fags

nicotine high isn’t worth the effort to a dealer to sell if you’re used to selling fent, coke, weed, triple sod, clarky cat etc

gone within a generation. if you really want it, go to France, smuggle it. it’s probably not worth it.

funkless_eck ,

fair comment but so is black market everything — from heroin to beanie babies.

funkless_eck ,

right but people still murder, even though murder is illegal

no one thinks that murder should be legal (except for the guys from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope)

‘Ranting, rambling, and paranoid’: Federal appeals court suspends 96-year-old judge until she passes mental exam (lawandcrime.com)

Judge Newman has threatened to have staff arrested, forcibly removed from the building, and fired. She accused staff of trickery, deceit, acting as her adversary, stealing her computer, stealing her files, and depriving her of secretarial support. Staff have described Judge Newman in their interactions with her as “aggressive,...

funkless_eck ,

if you applied this unilaterally you’ll end up with a lot of homeless old people

funkless_eck ,

I mean yeah you’d think so but also I was just responding to the top comment

funkless_eck ,

I always make a homely home for my character as respite from being a murder hobo

and then I make a weird creepy modern art sculpture type thing as thats what you’d expect from the murder hobo

funkless_eck ,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/1d51d838-75a9-46b7-9418-4b5b0da8dceb.webp

funkless_eck ,

the additional context being sour cream was difficult to come by in Russia during certain times so became a rare delicacy for the rich

funkless_eck ,

I mean we’re talking about Tesla opening a marketing department and me running it from scratch, you’d have to at least triple the industry average as I would likely be working 16 hour days.

funkless_eck ,

they’re not taking it from the teachers pockets. learn how your own country works. this is the one good thing the US military has done since the country was founded.

funkless_eck ,

no I have not heard of anything and I would like to keep it that way

funkless_eck ,

it’s invite only, which first makes you think, “oh cool - no spammers!”

but then you realize you just need one spammer to get in and now they only invite spammers, and control their invites… as a form of spam! Flooding the net with “cheap” invite codes (only $10!) and multiplying.

funkless_eck ,

and learn on the job if it doesn’t.

funkless_eck ,

totally different from every other joke and meme in history

kilroy was here he said you just lost The Game

funkless_eck ,

you’re telling me you slow down to 25mph on the freeway if you can’t see around the bend?

funkless_eck ,

gary stroganoff says its not ready yet

funkless_eck ,

even french dictionaries say the same

funkless_eck ,

using a bike or a train in America is the exact opposite of optimizing one’s commute.

now I WFH - thankfully - but looking up my old commute (10 miles)

27 mins by car

110 mins by public transit

105 mins by bike

215 mins walking

The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework. (www.businessinsider.com)

The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.::ChatGPT traffic dropped when summer began and schools closed. Now students are back, and they’re using the AI tool again more.

funkless_eck ,

as is the arts as well. there’s a reason humans excel at different things in different ways

funkless_eck ,

you can, though, at any time and (mobility permitting) take up any kind of bizarre hobby.

clowning, clog dancing, building box cars, collecting skulls, yodelling…

TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills (www.poolelg.com)

During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not...

funkless_eck ,

the same goes for the Dingos Ate My Baby woman

dingos did eat her baby.

funkless_eck ,

you were trying to be sarcastic, but instead you have revealed a major issue with the recidivism of homelessness and crime that affects every modern society.

if one of us is in chains, none of us are free.

funkless_eck ,

people on the internet told me to

funkless_eck ,

they need to do way instain with ceos> who kill thier own prodduct becuse the product cant frihgt back it was on the news this mroing a ceo in ca who kill his three prodduct. they are taking the three prodduct back to nationalization too ceo to rest my pary are with the end users who lost their social media; i am truley sorry for your lots

funkless_eck ,

it’s an old copypasta. 2007, so it even predates the Navy Seal pasta.

funkless_eck ,

I’m on the third Z axis of this chart

two screens same size to the front, laptop on a riser to my left, at a right angle, third, smaller screen to the left of that connected to a second laptop

funkless_eck ,

Do people call bean juice gravy?

Whole Foods argues it can ban BLM masks because the Supreme Court let a Christian business owner refuse same-sex couples (fortune.com)

Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market doesn’t want to be forced to let workers wear “Black Lives Matter” masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off....

funkless_eck ,

I refer you to Skunk Anansie, though.

youtu.be/mcaUer4fuU8?si=b8g5NIuCk3-1w2AT

funkless_eck ,

in the same way that everyone on the internet is an incel.

I say this as a person without a religious bone in my body — it’s very easy when slinging around /r/atheism levels of schoolboy humor to cross into xenophobia and racism.

What, practically, is the difference between, “all Muslims are pedophiles?” and "all Jews are pedophiles?’

The latter seems like something from Lauren Bobert/MTG/Palin/Alex Jones/Tucker Carlson. So why is the former acceptable?

It honestly makes me uneasy being on Lemmy seeing the frequency of which people are quick to jump to their Islamaphobic pitchforks. Weren’t we meant to be smarter than Reddit? Is it really that enlightened to suggest because someone comes from a culture they are child abusers?

funkless_eck ,

How many Linux users are pedophiles? How many guitar players? How many pickleball enthusiasts?

Its a silly metric to judge a huge population on.

Can you name a single activity that hasn’t had one person commit an unrelated crime? Can anyone?

I’m not here to bat for religion, but I am here to bat against thinly-veiled racism, no matter how “enlightened” it is purported to be, or how intentional on behalf of the author.

funkless_eck ,

If some members of a group are bad, all members are bad — does that mean you and I are both pedophiles for posting on Lemmy, which has had a large amount of CSAM posted to it?

I live in America, I grew up in the UK, my family are Polish and German. So presumably by the same token that all Muslims are pedophiles — I love putting the Japanese in internment camps, and injecting black people with syphilis; I love running slave plantations, committing genocide, inventing concentration camps, using concentration camps, causing famines as an act of war, and I want to invade myself because I hate the Jews — of which I am arguably a ethnic member of depending on how you interpret genealogy.

Doesn’t those arguments strike you as absurd?

funkless_eck ,

not my point. I’m saying the argument I was originally responding to is saying that is Torvalds came out as a pedophile then all Linux users or users of products with Linux on would be pedophiles by association.

that, I assert, is ridiculous and if I was to guess at it’s motivation I would say it’s certainly Islamophobia, likely xenophobia and probably racism.

funkless_eck ,

I dont particularly care about being downvoted, but I am interested in this discussion. I understand why it’s happening, I’m asking nuanced questions about a topic people think is open-and-shut. I’m half expecting to be called a pedophile myself at some point. I’m not. I hope we can continue to discuss without thought-terminating cliches. I know even writing this sounds pretentious, but I just don’t want to get side tracked into emotive yelling. So, with that aside.

If a single concept is part of a structure, why does that make all users of a structure compliant with the requirements of that single concept? Or is it only Islam? If only Islam, what makes that ideology different from other religions? Or is it only religion? And if only religion, what makes religion different from other ideological structures such as language, sports, genres of music, literature, video games… or education, preferred software choice, venues … ?

Is that not exactly the same as saying D&D == Devil Worship, Call of Duty == Being A School Shooter? By the same token, isn’t “having a bank account / money” showing support for “preventing children from having chemotherapy” or “evicting babies to be homeless” as both are parts of capitalism, because, as argued here: if one part of the structure is objectionable, and people use that structure they are necessarily in support of all forms and uses of that structure.

Does the pedophilia thing apply to Picasso? If someone from a religion taints that entire religion, what are the boundaries for Picasso’s pedophilia “ruining” art? Is it art only after Picasso thats bad? Is it only paintings? It can’t be “just liking Picasso’s work makes you a pedophile” (which I think is a silly argument, but that is what is being argued here) because otherwise the Mohammed thing wouldn’t populate to other areas of religion, but in this argument it does.

Same question with Woody Allen and movies etc

funkless_eck ,

I think that’s also a flawed argument. I think culture, heritage, religion are more intertwined than you think.

Assuming you’re American,l (but if not I’m sure you can extrapolate to a relevant example from your own country) isn’t celebrating Thanksgiving equally as morally bad? Genocide of the native people in the name of Puritan Christianity?

And what of the “Holiday Season” — are you telling me you don’t celebrate Christmas or Hannukah?, because the moment you do aren’t you celebrating all the awful things that happen in those Holy Books, which if I recall is a lot of incest and rape too. Does celebrating Christmas make everyone a rapist?

And yet all those are “choices”.

Kansas will no longer change trans people's birth certificates to reflect their gender identities (apnews.com)

Kansas will no longer change transgender people’s birth certificates to reflect their gender identities, the state health department said Friday, citing a new law that prevents the state from legally recognizing those identities....

funkless_eck ,

the constitution is a legal document and it’s been amended 27 times

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