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Ooo, I like Market Basket's ecodiversity initiatives! 😆
Good ones with Costco and Valve too. I wish it was more valued for companies just to provide good products or services. With so much income disparity though, many are left supporting dollar chasers as opposed to actual nice companies.
Nice example! 😜
I was just thinking about this today. Any corporations big enough for us all to know have likely done more bad things than praiseworthy things. Patagonia is the closest I can think of to a good company we may all know.
The things with the Musk companies that drive me crazy though, is that everything Musk is head of are things that I should be excited about: spaceflight, EVs, green energy, public transportation.
But now thinking about any of those companies reminds me of a less funny version of when Mr Burns opens the recycling plant, but uses it to kill large numbers of sea creatures.
He just sucks the life out of so much exciting tech. While I don't use any of his stuff, it used to feel aspirational. There's at least other viable alternatives for just about everything now, but spaceflight is a big disappointment, as that is the most "future" feeling thing to me that there is. It was so exciting to see someone accelerating space travel, but now I hate he's got his fingers on all of it. Am I supposed to root for Boeing now? Ick!
230 is important for online free speech, and just like free speech is used in real life, such as protesting against racism, it also protects those protesting for racism. It sucks in some cases, but people of all perspectives have found this a worthwhile compromise for 30 years.
With 230, we protect our online places of assembly. Without it, our right to gather online is greatly endangered.
Say you record police committing abuse. You want to share it online so people can learn about it and spread the word. Host takes it down to avoid being accused of threatening the officer, liable, inciting violence, etc. If the host doesn't take it down, now you are both open to civil or criminal penalties if they so choose to go after you. If it's legal or not, do you have the means and will to fight them in court?
Yeah, some Nazis get to dog whistle and push misinformation, but 230 also protects you and hosts that let you tell them off and that they aren't wanted. Lose 230, and now you could be the one in trouble or getting your favorite site shut down.
I think it would put more websites into the same whack-a-mole situation that piracy sites deal with: moving to domains out of US jurisdiction, mirror sites, etc.
It should be a wake up call to get people more involved locally. We still need to preserve what online protections we have, but many of us may need to work on our ability to rally people in person.
This week, Durbin will join U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to introduce a bill that would sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in two years. Section 230—and the legal immunity it provides to Big Tech—has been on the books since 1996—long before social media became a part of our daily lives. To the extent this protection was ever needed, its usefulness has long since passed.
Here's a less biased source from the Judiciary Committee.
Debate on 230 has been going on for years. The Left wants it gone so they can hold people responsible for crimes like CSAM and revenge porn and other things like spreading hate speech.
As for why others may want it gone, here is a quote from last year from Lindsey Graham:
“However, the real prize will be to make sure social media companies no longer enjoy absolute legal immunity under Section 230," Graham said. "I am committed now more than ever to continue to advance my legislative efforts to ensure that those harmed by social media outlets have the ability to seek justice in American courtrooms. Without repealing Section 230, nothing major will change.”
For the "harm", think if the recent Supreme Court cases where the plaintiffs' harm turned out to be fake but the case was still found in their favor to protect their ”right" to discriminate.
All those complaints about "right wing opinions being suppressed", consider your site illegal.
Organize a general strike, illegal.
Make a "threat" against a politician or CEO, illegal.
Site owners in addition to the person "breaking the law" are now liable, in what I am sure would be uneven enforcement.
Check out the History section of the Section 230 wiki entry to see things that have been tried in the past and imagine those protections gone.
Cutting your ability to receive credit card payments if something against the rules occurs in your site, shielding you from liability if someone uploads their manifesto and commits a crime, someone catfishes a minor in your site, and much more would change.
Dang.
I've been wondering if a measured pourer for bartending would work or if the detergent is too viscous.
I got to try it last year (in Wash. DC, not Georgia) and really liked it. They brought it out all pretty like in your picture, but then table side they stirred up all the egg and cheese to make a more homogeneous filling. Good stuff!
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I had my home before I met my ex and my current gf. Like you, I was used to paying for everything, but contributing makes people feel like they're an active part of the whole home situation, so my thought was always:
- They get the groceries. They will have different tastes than me, and it's the only bill that really doubled as soon as someone else was here every day.
- They are the main provider of outside the house activities. Going out to eat. Buying gifts to bring to parties. A bigger chunk of vacation budgets. I've already got the home expenses covered. I got to pick the home, so they get to pick the outside of home experience for our life together. It splits up the choices instead of just the money.
Both people were making significantly less than me when but relationships started, though but eventually evened out. This split of things also let them ramp spending up or down with how well our overall financial picture was at the time without any worries of actual bills being paid.
Also as I said, I already had picked the home itself solely on my own along with all the furnishings, so letting them spearhead the non-permanent aspects let them feel they contributed an even amount to the relationship and let them put forward their personalities in unique ways. Both people are very different in who they are, and both really enjoyed the way things were split up, so it seems I struck on something.
We got the twin cams, and with the vehicle we put it in, everything tucked nicely right under the trim. The initial plan was to hardwire it to get images while parked as well, but now the car doesn't go to the sketchier area it did then so we never got around to it.
I believe this is the same one we have. App is kinda slow but works, and for most stuff we'll just put the sd card in the computer at home.
Front and back cams have been very clear during day and night. Watched a lot of comparison videos beforehand, and viofo was better than most expensive ones and reviews were all mainly positive. We've had it for over 2 years now.
Altman noted Monday that SSA "has data on everyone who has a Social Security number, which is virtually all Americans, everyone who has Medicare, and every low-income American who has applied for" SSI.
"SSA has comprehensive medical records of people who have applied for disability benefits. It has our bank information, our earnings records, the names and ages of our children, and much more," said Altman. "Older people are disproportionately susceptible to scams. The data at SSA leaking would make the number of scams skyrocket. And, if there is an intent to punish perceived enemies, someone could erase your earnings record, making it impossible to collect the Social Security and Medicare benefits you have earned."
I had to go to a meeting with my SO to apply for SSI/SSDI and they take a craaaazy amount of info including retirement accounts, your car and its value, who you live with, and a bunch of other stuff along with private medical info. This is an insane and irresponsible amount of info to have in private hands.
Republican judges have shut down Trump before and will hopefully continue to do so at least some of the time.
Republicans have a slim Senate majority, and if any Rs decide to become their party's Manchin or Sinema, things can still be blocked. There's also bound to be infighting among Rs after conflicting things.
The ACLU and other groups are filing lawsuits. If they win or not will be seen, but they will keep trying.
One thing I feel I don't see talked about enough on here though, is what we can do as individuals. Are you getting involved anywhere? If not, why?
Every community has groups looking out for the poor/homeless, discriminated groups, the environment, immigrants, labor unions, etc. If you don't trust your leaders to solve things, that leaves us all to step up to fill those holes.
I've already applied for one volunteer service, and am looking into others depending how the first one goes. We can't just sit and wait to see what happens. We need to get involved and take personal responsibility.
There is method to my madness! 🤪
Also just works well when putting my phone down random places or near someone else's phone. I can always spot it much faster with a louder color case. Then I have the dark one for when a neon color phone would look too out of place or just draw unwanted attention like an event or nice dinner.
It just adds a layer of flexibility that I find worth the price of a cheap case.
From what I can find, it seems that just brings more unnecessary hardship on themselves for no benefit to anyone.
Getting fired costs them their earned benefits, their unemployment benefits, insurance for them and their families, being fired makes it harder to get another federal position, and fighting it has legal costs they'd need to absorb. With people getting barred from their places of work, it doesn't seem to make sense to think they can't just lock you out when you go home anyway. With everyone above them being part of team Trump, they're just spiting themselves. They already spilled the beans on everyone.
They've put up more resistance than almost anyone else has so far. They're lawyers, not revolutionaries. Their responsibility is technically to be anything but revolutionary.
They resisted the bad orders they were given, they publicly talked about the improper things they were being asked to do, they called out everyone doing it to them, and they said they had enough evidence to convict Adams of not only what he is currently charged with, but also had enough to bring new charges, despite possible evidence of him destroying more evidence.
To me it sounds they did what they could within boundries of the law, which they are there to uphold, up until the last moment they could. They're also pointing out that the charges have not been dropped, just put on hold and how that can be used to blackmail Adams into complying with more criminal acts.
What do you feel they should have done that they didn't do?
Agreed. I wouldn't call it flush, but it is 99% of the way there. A little bezel around the lens is probably helpful to limit getting a scratch that being totally flush anyway.
I have a few cheapy cases. I have a dark one for when I need to look nicer so the phone doesnt stand out. I've got a clear one (white phone) and I've got a bright red one as well. The red one is extra grippy and the brightest color and I use that one when I'll be in the woods or taking a lot of pics so I don't drop it, and if I do it will stand out. All cases around $10 and have kept my phone looking nice. I've also printed out cool backgrounds like a Samauri Jack one that I threw under the clear case on my old phone, but the ink eventually stained the case.
This is why I've stopped reading much of the content I had been reading before. Unless an article is about what someone is doing to stop what is happening, what is the point in reading it? I don't care so much about the bad, rather in how the rest of us are preventing it.
For all the people complaining, I haven't seen many talking about what steps they are taking to change the momentum. I get why I've may not want to announce what protests they are attending, but I haven't noticed much new talk about mutual aid or volunteering efforts. I know the recent political climate globally is motivating me to be involved in both.
I'm waiting to hear back in a volunteer position helping local wildlife, and once I get that schedule worked out, I've already started looking into local food aid opportunities as well.
If our society is leaving gaps unfilled, as you said, it's up to us to fill them ourselves before we all fall through.