People believed them. That’s why there are documents detailing various agencies’ research into Epstein & co.

If no one believed them, no one would have looked into it.

Now, the Trump admin and captured agencies are trying to cover it up, redact abusers names, release victims names/info/pictures, cover the whole thing up, etc. But that’s a different story.

I’ve literally had that problem. More than once.

“acting in shareholders’ best interests”

That is from the loyalty section. Shareholders best interests are achieved by balancing the various duties, as I said.

That is why I said that it isn’t about short term profits necessarily. The best interest of the shareholders is not short term profit seeking that destroys the business. It is long term profits and a company that can continue to generate them.

It would be very difficult to argue that decisions damaging profitability in the long term are in shareholders best interests.

In this case, union busting, clearly executives think union busting is in the best interests of shareholders. If that isn’t because of profitability, why is it not in their intersts?

https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/fiduciary-duty-to-investors

They owe a fiduciary duty of loyalty to shareholders - they (named executives) must act in the best interests of shareholders. So that doesn’t necessarily mean doing everything possible at all times to maximize profits/share price in the short term, it does mean they need to attempt to do that in the long term while balancing that duty against other duties they owe (like to act lawfuĺly).

Since Duffy only had a passport onhand, he was categorized with a “non-ID group” before being handcuffed and detained.

“Only”? WTF… that’s the most official ID you can possibly have.

I think it’s neat. I’ve not seen builds like yours before - so it’s been cool to see your style. Thanks for posting OC

True! Co-ops are great

It also depends on the state the company is incorporated in, but yeah that’s true.

And it is a duty to the corporation (legal entity), notably not to the workers themselves; so while the interests of workers and the corporation may align sometimes - you don’t have to do what’s best for the workers if it isn’t best for the company.

You still need to operate lawfully, and you can’t pay so little that you can’t hire/retain anyone, and you need to pay enough that you can hire people skilled enough to do the job, but you need to pay (ideally) only that amount and no more. Anything else takes away from profits and, you could say, makes the company less likely to succeed - if the company doesn’t succeed, then no one would have jobs. Or so they’d argue.

The same as for goods, the price of labor is treated by employers as “what the market will bear”. For goods, that means higher prices, for labor it means lower prices.

The reason for this is pretty simple: necessity.

Companies Corporations have a fiduciary duty to maximize profits for shareholders.

If no union exists, that means depressing wages as much as possible while meeting staffing needs.

If a union is forming, it means spending as much as you need to stop it since, if you don’t, you’ll be unable to depress wages over the long term.

When a union exists, well then they have to negotiate to continue operations and so workers get paid more fairly.

Join or organize a union if you can.

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Oooh “Domestic Terrorist Fucking App”? A dating app for people who ICE thinks are “domestic terrorists”? Sounds like a pretty big improvement over the current apps

I’m not saying it’s rational, it just feels like more money.

Many are. It’s been going on since the 1950s. And it’s a private event that politicians choose to participate in - so it isn’t like it’s state sponsored, technically - even though it politicians attend in their official capacity. It isn’t something that can just be easily shut down on constitutional grounds and is a complex issue. I think lawyers would have to prove that government resources are being used and that it creates an unconstitutional breach of the 1st amendment.

Here’s what the freedom from religion foundation has to say about it

Little different for me:

$1 - 5 = $5

$6 - 12 = $10

$13 - 20 = $20

$21 - 50 = $50

$51 - 70 = $100

>$70 = $1000

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“West African” Peanut Stew, which is an Americanized version of various groundnut stews/maafe, is super nutritious and cheap. It is quick if you put in 1hr in advance to make like 3kg of soup, ~8 servings, for ~10 bucks. I think it’d freeze OK too.

Look up a recipe, but basically: 1 onion, garlic, 6c broth (vegetable in your case), 2lbs sweet potatoes (maybe 3lbs if vegetarian), 1 bunch greens (collards, kale, mustard greens, whichever you have/like/are ceapest), can diced tomatoes, peanut butter, 2-3tbsp vinegar, optional spices (cumin, turmeric, bay leaves, chili powder, paprika, cayenne pepper/red pepper flakes, oregano, minced ginger, msg, etc), optional garnishes: peanuts, cilantro.

Sautee 1 diced onion in a pot until translucent, add garlic and spices & sautee 30s more, add 6c broth, 2lbs cubed sweet potatoes, chopped greens, can of diced tomatoes. Bring to a boil and simmer for 20mins. Take off the heat and add 1c peanut butter and 2tbsp of vinegar (recommend adding 1tbsp at a time and tasting so as not to add too much), stir to combine. Serve.

I add 1lb chicken to mine and it makes like 3kgs of soup. Calorie dense, nutritious, very tasty. I also add a small amount of soy sauce, fish sauce, and/or worcesteshire when adding the liquid - imo this mimics some of the fermented sauces used in West African foods. Apple cider vinegar added at same time as the peanut butter really improves the dish. Salt and pepper throughout cooking, of course - but even without spices this is a tasty soup. Spices do help though.

I am genuinely curious why people are so angry and are jumping to conclusions, willing to boycott a company that has done great things for media preservation over an inconvlusive statement about something that will likely have minimal or no effect on them, GOGs employees, or the user experience of their platform.

AI assistance is a tool. Why would they ban their developers and maintainers from using Windsurf, for instance? Or their design folks from using AI tools to help make mockups? It doesn’t make any sense. If their workforce wants to make use of AI tools responsibly… why is that a problem?

AI use does not mean they will start churning out slop. And, frankly, GOG is a software distributor/vendor… they don’t have creative control over the games they sell. The AI would be in the behind the scenes development of their platform, not in the products. The only way it’d affect users is if they put it in the user interface somehow (but… how and why would they?)

Because he was an (likely intelligence-affiliated) influence broker with a huge social circle. Doesn’t make associating with him less scummy, but it does not mean someone was necessarily a pedophile. Though, statistically speaking, it does dramatically increase that probability.

Why does he look like methhead Mr. Bean in profile

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