orcrist @ orcrist @lemm.ee Posts 6Comments 662Joined 2 yr. ago
A few of those bullet points make the classic blunder of US election conversation, ignoring the electoral college.
For example, Democrats who realized they were not in a swing state and stayed home didn't actually make anything worse. They were using their brains. Maybe they didn't stay home, maybe they were actually going to their job and making money. So when you're looking at total national turnout, it actually doesn't tell you anything useful.
This is 90% hyperbole. As always, believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see. We live most of our lives responding to shit we personally witnessed. Trust your senses. Of course the other part is a matter for concern, but not like the apocalyptic crowd would tell you.
It is always a safe bet that the snake oil salespeople are, once again, selling snake oil.
Of course AI won't take over documentation. It turns out that precise and good communication works better if you understand what you're writing about.
That is how you get exploited. There's no reason to agree to such a setup.
If they have a signed contract, they'll sue and quickly win. If they don't, they won't.
Not "we". You. Many of us actively campaign against it.
And we all know that the university is just f****** around. They will withhold whatever documentation for a month or two, and then if he gets a lawyer they will quietly cave, because they never cared one way or the other, they're just afraid of Trump.
I don't quite agree. On the one hand, all of those companies that publicly caved to Trump are f****** terrible. On the other hand, a lot of DEI policies are actually basic common sense, because if you want to get skilled employees, it's pretty ridiculous to exclude everyone who's not white male. Which is to say, if companies have similar policies to what they had before even using a different name, it's probably good for them and their employees, even if their cowardice is bad for the nation.
Because there are multiple people in the GOP, obviously. They all have their own agendas.
That's the whole point of having a contract. You don't quit your old job until you have a signed new contract for the new one. I understand that many Americans don't believe in this basic concept, but it's common in many countries around the world.
Except what you're describing doesn't make sense. If the new owners purchased all of those things, then in reality they purchased the company. Courts are very likely to agree on this. It looks like a company-wide sale, therefore it probably is, even if someone tries to add a line saying "we aren't liable".
But imagine someone could "sell everything other than the liability". In such a case, the seller would be putting themselves on the hook to pay outstanding debts (i.e., the seller would be liable). And we know they have money -- they just sold the thing. So then the seller would pay... But they know that in advance, so they would not agree to such a sale in the first place, unless they were planning to steal that money through creative accounting of some kind... But both parties know all of that that in advance, so they would both be acting fraudulently.
I think a company like this is not planning to linger for years. The owners wanna make a buck for a year or two and then sell it off. If they can stiff their customers in the process, they just don't care.
For long-lasting companies the motivation would be different. But this is not a world-famous VPN company, not by a long shot.
You do realize the irony of telling someone else they cannot define a word while you simultaneously define it. You do realize that, right?
Some bureaucrats will decide what to cut. It is those offices and committees -- probably both public and private -- that are the death panels.
I don't think the claim to Christianity is particularly relevant. Organized religion has been abused for its entire existence -- one might reasonably argue that that was the point of it.
Yes, I also strongly dislike the very short video format you can find on multiple social media platforms these days. On the occasion when my friends forward me things, I find it somewhat manageable if the sound is off. Most of those videos have subtitles and if they're silent they feel less obnoxious.
Somehow I don't think the Qataris fund the people she thinks the Qataris fund. Also, I don't think she has any idea what she's talking about.
William Gibson wrote: The future has arrived, it's just not evenly distributed.
The herbal remedies / yoga / crystal gems people were always selling snake oil. No surprise that they'd get along with Trump. (Which is not to say all herbal remedies are worthless, but many are, and if you don't believe me, have fun getting scammed. And yoga can do a lot for your fitness, yes yes, we agree.)
Ask the article's author. They could have linked to a PDF court filing but of course they didn't, because they suck at journalism.
