PickTheStick @ PickTheStick @lemmy.world

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Sure, that's hilarious, but I'm pretty sure I remember actually being taught to turn on a computer (and monitor) when we were being taught about them in general. What do you think these kids should do, just know things?

"They're pretty open about that" doesn't quite cut it, when I've seen examples in this lemmy post alone of people discovering the fact. We need removable batteries.

Half the fun is seeing how people try to fuck with you, and fucking with them back. Burner phone, though, never a real connection that you care about.

I have little doubt that apple still uses things like wi-fi and bluetooth even if they are completely turned off. I complained when they made the change to the control panel. If I want bluetooth or wifi off, no button I push should turn it off partially or for "24 hours."

I'm sick of slightly-not-threats in general. I'm always amazed at people for listening to a few interactions between police and crooks and figuring out exactly what they can say and get away with while leaving the victim with no uncertainty that they'll be targeted. It seems like a majority of the population will happily scream at someone over something small. It's no surprise that we are seeing escalations into real death threats, regardless of intent or seriousness.

This whole fucking handbasket seems to be in flames already.

Same. I would see the advertisement for them and think it was cool, but never heard anything about the actual story. Apparently there have been video games and comics.

I remember another story as well, where the journalist actually walked up the hill that blocked the view of the facility and saw the construction. It had about the same focus, but didn't go into as much detail on the computing side of the NSA, just their storage capabilities.

The knowledge that a government agency is recording everything is one of those existential horrors that slowly fades and just quietly lurks in your mind, hidden beneath the daily struggles and interests.

There was something that just felt wrong about the sync app thread in one of the lemmy.world communities. Just post after post of "yay, it's like having reddit back again." Reddit can fuck off. I like the novelty and slight roughness around the edges.

It doesn't look close enough to a real bill for the bank/Secret Service to care about. I've seen someone charged with counterfeit money when they had the movie money that literally says "This is not real money, it is for cinematic purposes only" on the back. Cops and DAs can fuck you twice over.

For the most part, state laws specify 'public roadway' for traffic crimes. My state has two specific laws that apply in private areas like parking lots: no insurance and unsafe backing.

Zip-tie surround it with carts.

Nutteman! Hey, Nutteman! Race war? Nutteman! Hey, Nutteman!

Turns out, I would download a person. Take that, record companies!

Even in the very, very conservative places in the US that I've lived in, topless is legal. While it would definitely attract staring, women have the same ability to show skin as any male. Legality hasn't lessened the sexualization of the breasts.

I doubt medics really want to bankrupt anyone. They're usually the lowest paid out of any emergency service. Police and fire departments are paid way higher.

My area: ~$56k - Average police starting salary

~$59k - Average fire starting salary

~$32k - Average basic EMT

~$34k - Average advanced EMT

~$39k - Average paramedic

Blame the big pharmaceutical companies and corporate takeover of hospitals and small clinics for the insanity of medical costs. The absolute shitshow that insurance has become is also a large contributor. It's bad enough that doctors are finding it much simpler to work for corporations instead of owning their own practice because it's easier for the big company to fight the other big company.

Put the rest into growing your businesses

That's what they currently do. All of them. That's the whole point in them owning/investing in a business. That's how they sidestep so many taxes. Aside from a few (relatively) toys and houses, do you really think Musk or Bezos keep billions on hand in liquid form or physically owned objects?

I have a friend with parents that owned their own business that wasn't really all that large. It had a net profit of maybe $450,000 per year. They paid themselves enough to do whatever they wanted to that year, and the company "reinvests" the rest. It's all a shell game to avoid taxes. They did it by buying real estate for the company to 'eventually' grow on, but just put five cows on and got themselves agricultural exemptions on taxes, then sold the land later. Repeat x100. That money from the sale could be shuffled into other 'company' assets. That's super small time. They didn't have fancy lawyers or investing agents to help.

Big, rich, asshole business does it by buying back stock, diversifying (do you really think the big contractor company wants to own a grocery store chain, or a bank wants to own restaurants?) into assets that can just be sold later to recoup the money, etc.

Owning a business is all about tax avoidance. An individual doesn't have many ways to pump up deductions on taxes, but businesses have so many different avenues that even the IRS throws up their hands at some point. Requiring an individual to "put the rest into" their business won't change anything, and god knows the economy improving is only going to help a small portion of society. That portion isn't the portion that needs help.

Also, truthfully, I'd lower your number to $10,000,000. It's enough to live on even in the ritziest of areas, in the fanciest of houses that aren't mansions, and is still more per year than the highest of the middle-class will earn in their lives.

I personally prefer the pastafarianism-ism about global warming and Caribbean pirate prevalence.

Which, sadly, these days is a one-way ticket to you being in the alternative school. With your bully. If the bully, who is probably a football or basketball player, even makes it to the principal's office instead of being given the royal treatment for having a student oh so randomly attack him!

Sheesh, one of the conspiracies about 9/11 was that the location of the pentagon hit was where they had just failed an audit. It's a gigantic pit we've been 'losing' money in for decades, if not a full century.