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Fake News

Looked up the source it's not a real news agency and like... obviously isn't real "The Insider Paper" ... like seriously? the tweet has absolutely no link to the claimed fox news article. I found plenty of articles about fox TV hosts fawning over military tech but like. This is just right wing clickbait probably made specifically for someone to repost that stupid meme.

https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1936800210690408513?t=uqjNUwMQOOVuToYVgIv0yg&s=19

If you're going to critique DC or Media class liberals for supporting war causes for dumb reasons just look up the twitter feed of a random Clinton staffer please, at least get it from the source.

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I have a hard time talking about American law enforcement, because I have ptsd (like a therapist told me this and everything) from my own experiences with cops and because it's so balls quaking insane.

Like, a cop in the United States can pull you over for any reason. Which is a nice way of saying no reason, because literally anything can be used after the fact as justification. A cop can say its cuz you looked at him, or didnt look at him, or it looked like you were holding something, or looked like you were driving too perfectly for it to be natural. It's insane.

There are apparently no circumstances where a cop can't just kill you. The line the courts have applied is "reasonably believed" you were a threat, but that's such a nebulous nothing limit that people get shot for reaching for their license, having their phone in their hand, you're running away with no weapon, not being able to follow conflicting commands, like anything. And cops are almost never charged, because every court is going to believe he could "reasonably believe" he was threatened. Fuck, if you give me enough time, I can make any situation seem juuuuust plausibly threatening enough to pass that bar. It's insane.

A cop can just rob you. Like tell you to give him your wallet, take all the cash out, and just walk away with it. Exactly like you would imagine getting robbed in an alley would go, except no one can help. And he doesn't even have to hide it, he just drops it in a box at the station and they put it in their bank account. It's legal. You can't prove it wasn't drug money. I can't prove any money wasn't at some point drug money. It's insane.

If a cop just walks in your front door and says "I'm here to kill you and your entire family" YOU ARE GOING TO PRISON IF YOU STOP HIM. There is no positive defense for assaulting a police officer in the United States, and doubly so if you kill him. You have effectively no defense against a homicidal cop, which happens same as any other job. Unless for some reason you have cameras all thru your house and clearly caught the audio of him saying that he's there just to kill you, you have zero chance of not going to prison, probably for life. And that's assuming you aren't killed "resisting arrest" while being taken into custody. It is a crime, in this country, for you to defend yourself under any circumstances if the person you're defending yourself from is a cop. That's insane.

You don't have civil rights if a cop says so. You have the right to have a gun, right? A lot of states have open carry. A cop can shoot you if he sees you have a gun. Doesn't matter if you have a license and everything. So you effectively don't have the right to bear arms if a cop can shoot you for exercising it. You have the right to protest. Unless a cop tells you to stop. He doesn't need a real reason to tell you to stop. And if you don't stop, you can be arrested or shot. So you don't really have the right to protest, do you? A cop cant just search your car or house, right? Unless he claims he heard something, or smelled something, neither of which can be proven. So a cop can search whatever he wants, as long as he pretends there was a "reason". So you dont have protection from unreasonable search and seizure, do you? These are no longer rights- they're things the cops allow.. for now. But legally, those rights have already been found to not actually be rights, because any random cop can decide to take that right from you, for any reason. It's insane.

These aren't like crazy things that I'm just making up, these aren't some weird twisted way I'm looking at something, these are all very real things that we all just.. ignore? Police abolitionists and the media bring these things up all the time, and the overwhelming response to it is: so what? Don't break the law and it won't matter. Blue lives matter. More police funding. Cops should have tanks. It's insane. And I always feel like im just rambling and sound insane when I say this kind of stuff because if you wrote a book and had the dystopian government doing the stuff that the police in this country do every single day, those same people who "back the blue" would line up to say stuff like "*Books government* wouldnt have a chance before us real americans stopped them" on twitter and not even get a hint of the irony.

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Always a reminder when it comes to piracy. If the creator is getting screwed over by a company and not seeing a penny or is getting the poor end of the deal there is no longer the incentive to actually buy. If you love a specific author and they're still alive. Look them up, see if they have a different project you can support with your money that actually puts it in their pocket. hell see if they have a donation page. Email them to ask how you can support them better. Fuck Amazon. Take your illicit pdf and give that money to the creator of the labour not the hoarder of it.

Books on Libby have started disappearing.

My friend pointed it out first, and then I started noticing too. Why would books that multiple libraries definitely, 100% had digital access to a couple of months/weeks/days ago disappear?

Amazon is getting exclusive rights to them.

Ebooks that the public library once had digital copies of are now only available through Amazon. Audible boasts on their covers about Audible-exclusive audiobooks that did not used to be Audible-exclusive. Entire series and collections are disappearing overnight.

Keep your eyes on the privatization of media and your libraries.

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See that's the issue of responsibility and education. I know those kids who'd climb on their roof and jump off and I both knew and was told that its dangerous. When I was in elementary school our teacher to keep us from climbing trees told us about a child who was killed by falling out of a tree so the school doesn't allow climbing anymore.

You can't just let children go out into the world with the sheltering and sanitizing that perpetuates modern parenting not to mention the neglect. We all knew the soft rich kid with helicopter parents that we couldn't play sports with because if he skinned his knee or got hit with a ball his parents would sue the school.

When it comes to the subject of children's rights not enough attention is paid to the principle failure of modern parenting and likely an issue throughout time. Which is, do your parents, your teachers and your community actually prepare you to live in the world and engage with it?

A child being able to play unattended and unsupervised is a milestone and a measure of trust that gives them experience toward eventually living unattended and supervised.

It is a trap of the modern educational system that parents believe they can offload the responsibility of raising a child to understand the world they are in and the risks to be taken to a school system that increasingly out of both budget and outside pressure has cut all practical skills in favor of pressing children towards high test scores and higher education.

Children deserve to actually know the danger that they're in when they engage in activities and know about death.

Even if you're past the age of 16 or even in your 20s and you're considered an adult if your upbringing didn't teach you to work and live in the world unmonitored your going to get hurt and you're going to fall on your face, and to an extent, that is life and there will always be gaps. But perhaps the gaps would be cleared sooner if the Children were given the tools to go outside and play.

This is a legitimate and damaging cultural shift for all involved parties and it needs to be addressed.

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Listen I know people are relishing the whole it was actually people thing but like this company was pretty upfront that they had a staff of people to help with the process. Did they maybe lie about what processes were actually automated or AI? maybe but who honestly cares, I'll only trash their hiring of people if I see an article that states they were a bad employer. The company is going under because it lied about its books and got caught.

From glassdoor india it looks like the job paid fine and had good benefits but the management sucked, likely because they were embezzling money. 2.5 stars average is pretty good considering they just laid off almost their entire staff. I swear tumblr users look at overseas labor and just immediately jump to slaves these positions were mostly software developing, engineers are the some of the most pissy people on the planet when it comes to negotiating their wages.

In an incredible reversal, Builder.AI just declared bankruptcy after admitting that they were faking their AI tool with 700 humans

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Multiple Carpenters in my home town have their own special formulations of wood glue that they consider a trade secret. My friend apprenticed with a few of them and they wouldn't let him know the glue mixture they used. The live edge furniture people were probably the most protective over their process

Sometimes I have to remind my dad that he’s a master furniture maker and most people do not possess encyclopedic knowledge of European and American furniture styles and the history of wood glue

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People really get annoyed about hosting your own server, like nobody I know actually hosts their own IRC instance having self host infrastructure means you can if you want. personally I still like IRC better then discord but I also don't do voice chat on discord which is the main thing. For all it matters I think Element/Matrix looks kinda nice

discord is going public soon, so here's some alternatives for you to switch to before the enshittification hits!

[foss privacy-focused discord clone that will shut down in a year cause of not business model]

[foss privacy-focused discord clone that makes you host your own servers and thus no one will use]

[ancient discord precursor that makes you host your own servers and has a UI from the 90s and thus no one will use]

Roblox

IRC, never mind that it supports nothing but text chats

[discord clone that will go down the exact same path in a couple years]

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You can be pro therapy and say that the people that regurgitate therapy talking points to call someone a prick are hoping they've used enough big words to make you not clap back on it.

Also lets be real these people fish around for whatever therapist is going to validate them the most in their petty shit.

This is a reminder that many of the pricks and bullies from your high school have realized that talking like a pseudo emotional academic or a shithead positivity guru means they can get away with not caring about other peoples feelings.

Remember they are paying for therapy not you and if they are going to pull this shit on you maybe it's time you gave them more to talk about in therapy.

At the end of the day they need to pay someone to validate their unhinged behaviours and you don't.

brb gonna go on a spiral thinking abt this all weekend (bc i think its insanely true)

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Looking it up it's just an automated checkout window so the staff don't need to hand you the food. fully automating restaurants is going to be difficult and likely more costly then with traditional labour exploiting. I wouldn't be surprised to see staffing reductions to the point of one or two stressed underpaid employees crammed into a factoryesc kitchen if they go forward with this in other areas. Generally speaking companies will try this in very low population areas first where staffing is already an issue if you're a shitty employer. Its part of why the Walmart in parts of New Hampshire has almost entirely self serve checkout with roving bands of security staff to accuse you of shoplifting whereas moving to California there are still actual checkers at many of the locations.

Rich people silence their opposition by threatening to do what they're going to do anyway even if they get what they want. Bootlickers believe them.

Even if employees were paid $4 per hour, corporations would still be looking for ways to automate their labor and save $4 per hour per employee.

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i can never face my family again

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To the person who wrote that people need to just get better jobs in the notes: Soon enough, there will not be better jobs. The idea of the cushy middle class wage has dwindled to the point that many of the nouveau rich sell scams or influence. What jobs do remain and will remain are going to increasingly only go to people who could already afford the increasingly high qualifications. Trades and Service jobs are the core of what a person uses and will always use as a member of society and those positions should command a livable wage outside of begging tips. As manufacturing and Agriculture become increasingly automated (And where they aren't automated they remain the domain of rampant global worker abuse). those human jobs will increasingly become a larger majority of what it means to labour. With this action needs to be taken to both secure the rights of those who labour and wish to labour, as well as those who will increasingly be unable to do so as even these jobs become more unforgiving and sparse.

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.

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