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Something something “the average household income during the Great Depression when adjusted for inflation was ~$65k, and today it is only ~$65k-$54k depending on where in the US you live.”

The only thing you can do in court is file a lawsuit against him. The courts are split into two halves: Civil court, which is where you sue people, settle divorces, file evictions, etc… And criminal court, which is where the state files criminal charges against people. Any kind of criminal court action would need to be filed by the state. Or more specifically, it’s filed by the attorney general on behalf of the state. Regular citizens can’t file in criminal court.

You could potentially a restraining order or order of protection against him if you can prove that he’s harassing you. In fact, a lawyer may suggest you do exactly that simply to get him to chill out while the civil case proceeds. But that will need to be backed up by actual proof, and hurt feelings aren’t enough to justify it. You’ll need to prove a repeated pattern of harassing behavior, that you’ve asked him to stop, and that the behavior is negatively impacting your day-to-day life in a meaningful way.

Exactly. If your only defense is “the government can’t stop me from doing it” then you’re probably an asshole for doing it.

Also, “Freedom of Speech” is likely the last (or only) defense they have. When they say indefensible shit, it’s often the only shield they have. Because if you can’t justify your speech or back it up with anything substantive, it’s essentially the only thing you can rely on.

It’s basically the “God told me” argument that religious people use. It can’t be argued against, because nobody can refute it. But it also means that when you hear someone using it as their first and last line of defense, that they actually have zero defense for it aside from that.

And yeah, it’s often misunderstood. People scream about free speech when getting cancelled for being racist, but that’s not an actual defense because they’re not being arrested for saying it. It isn’t the government imposing restrictions on your speech.

At least Snowden could argue that he was releasing the coxs for ideological/moral reasons. That the public had a right to know about the spying.

This was just a loser trying to gain online clout.

Military couldn’t figure out how top secret info kept getting leaked. This was info regarding troop positions, equipment specs, etc… They were thinking that it was some top-level member of the military who was leaking all of these, because nobody else had enough access to be able to see all the different things that were being leaked.

Turns out, it was some dude in IT who had admin rights. He was playing games while on voice chat on Discord, and was getting roasted. He basically told them “y’all don’t even know how important I am. I have Top Secret clearance and could smoke any of y’all if I wanted to.” Naturally, they responded with “lol prove it loser.”

So he did. He started posting Top Secret documents in the discord. And someone else on that Discord started sharing them elsewhere, until it eventually made its way all the way to foreign intelligence organizations.

I just asked GPT4 to write a modern late-stage capitalist version of the pledge:

I pledge allegiance to the Free Market of the United States of America, and to the Corporations for which it stands, one Nation under Profit, indivisible, with liberty and justice for shareholders.

I could 100% hear this being in the background of some midwestern emo song rofl

Yeah, I actually hate that forums are being abandoned in favor of Discord. Especially since a lot of the moves are for tech support. Discord serves an entirely different function than a forum. A forum is for someone 10 years ago to ask a question, get it answered, and then have that question pop up as a search result for the next decade whenever others have the same question. You didn’t need to create an account and start your own thread to get your question answered. You just googled it and found it.

Discord acting as a replacement simply means that people constantly ask the same “how do I [x]” questions all day every day. It’s exhausting because every single question needs to be answered with it’s own reply, instead of simply having the answer ready to go as soon as the user googles it.

I get it. You’re a startup tech company. You don’t want to pay for server space for a forum. And Discord is free, so you might as well just start a server there. But that means your admins/mods are going to spend all day responding to every single “how do I update”, when it could simply be a google search instead.

Same. My country was Jordan. Took way too long to figure out, because it dropped me in the middle of an empty amphitheater with no visible road signs, license plates, etc…

If you use it on the same devices, wifi networks, locations, etc as your regular Facebook/Insta then you’re not fooling anyone. Meta still knows it’s you, and will happily link the data from the shadow account back to your regular accounts. They can track you across the web even when you don’t have an account at all, because all of those “share to Facebook/Insta” buttons tell them that you visited the page and loaded the button. You don’t need to be signed in for those buttons to load. And you think a shadow account is going to protect you?

It’s a common talking point for people who don’t believe in tipping. Lots of “it doesn’t matter if I don’t tip, they’ll still get minimum wage from the restaurant” justifications. It completely (and likely intentionally) misses the fact that the employee isn’t getting minimum wage adjustments on a per hour or per shift basis.

Hah, my app showed it at the top of my feed with a time stamp of “1m” so I figured it had been posted a minute before I refreshed, not a month before. My bad!

This article is from over a month ago.

In the occasional cases where tips are terrible or business is slow, the restaurant is responsible for making up that difference

This is commonly misunderstood. The restaurant is allowed to average it across your entire pay period, not just the one bad shift. So if you have a bad shift in a two week pay period, your other shifts (above minimum wage) during that period will likely balance out to above minimum wage, and the restaurant won’t be required to make up any differences. You still made below minimum wage for that shift, but the restaurant is able to average it against all of the other hours you worked for that pay period.

Let’s say you have 10 shifts in a two week pay period. For nine of those shifts, you make $12/hr. Then for one shift, you make $0/hr. Even though you literally made no money for one shift, you still averaged above $10/hr for the pay period. And with minimum wage being $7.25/hr, the restaurant wouldn’t be required to adjust your pay for that one bad shift.

Archive Of Our Own (commonly shortened to AO3) is basically the de facto fanfiction website. If you want to read fanfic, AO3 is pretty much where you’ll end up. A lot of fanfic is basically straight up LGBTQ+ smut. It’s a lot of “what if these two characters slept with each other” types of stories. A lot of LGBTQ+ people end up reading fanfic, because it’s often one of the few ways that they can find representation among popular media.

Russian hackers recently took the site down, and tried to blame it on Muslim hackers instead. They basically created a fake Muslim hacker group, and then took credit for the attack using that fake group. Except the hack was quickly traced back to Russian hacking groups who have done things like this in the past. The goal seems to be to stoke division between gay people and Muslims.

Lots of people have theorized that the ultimate end-goal is for all the gay people to start publicly hating on the Muslim hackers, so Putin can point to the anger and go “hey Saudi Arabia, the west sure does hate Islam. They have been a haven for gay people who all publicly hate Muslims. Maybe you should be more buddy-buddy with me (and raise your oil prices because these sanctions on Russian oil are bleeding me dry).”

Yeah, it’s estimated that each individual loses anywhere from $200-$2000 per year to wage theft. It’s absolutely rampant.

This is putting it lightly. By some estimates, it’s larger than every other form of theft combined. Literally over 51% of all theft.

It isn’t all as blatant as this, but it still happens. Timesheets getting subtlety adjusted/rounded in the employer’s favor. Not paying for breaks when they’re legally required to. Requiring employees to work through breaks, while still requiring them to clock out. Requiring employees to show up 15 minutes prior to their shift, to do a morning huddle before everyone clocks in. Mandating what employees can/can’t do during their breaks. Not properly paying for on-call time, or saying someone was only on-call when they should’ve been fully clocked in. Not paying overtime, or telling non-exempt employees that they’re exempt from OT.

The list goes on and on. When people complain about a lack of prosecution for white-collar crime, this is exactly what they’re referring to. Steal a $2 candy bar from a store, and you potentially face criminal prosecution. That same store codifies a procedure that steals $2 from every employee every time they clock in, netting the company millions of dollars throughout the course of the year? The company maybe gets a fine that is less than what it made via the theft, and the employees don’t even get back the full amount that they’re owed.

Yeah, the vast majority of AV accidents with motorcycles seem to be rear-endings or turning left in front of a motorcycle. The two exact same scenarios that human drivers cause all the time.

The protests are basically just pushing for a digital version of the “look twice” movement. Because there was a big push to remind human drivers to check for motorcycles, but the digital side of things seems to have been neglected.

It’s not even sound, because it doesn’t vibrate air molecules. If that were the case, it wouldn’t work in space for communicating with things like GPS satellites.

They use light. Because wifi/radio/Bluetooth/etc are all just electromagnetic, which can be converted directly into light that is outside of the visible spectrum. The same way that a lightbulb works. And it only works because in higher bands most solid objects just sort of look like they’re made of glass. They don’t block those bandwidths, so the light is able to pass through them like a window. That includes things like your body. They’re just shining light directly through you.

It’s akin to your phone and router flashing Morse code at each other with invisible flashlights.

Yup. There are definitely bad ways to go about scraping reddit posts. But if it’s done properly, there’s no reason to be upset about it. We get the content without needing to actually visit the site, and we also get the (generally much more friendly) comment sections.