One of my good friends about a decade ago had this very argument.

The right swore to everyone that hospitals can’t turn you away, they have to treat you and if you can’t pay for it they’ll let you out of it.

I was working healthcare adjecent at the time, I’m telling him Fuck now, that’s not how this works. It is a possible outcome.

If you walkin homeless, they might get you to the point where you’re stable and set you free, but as soon as you have a kid there and you have to give them an ID and a name, your chances of being fucked go up 10x

It’s simple what they were sold

You vote for Trump, he’ll remove all those violent criminals. What they couldn’t see is in the administrations eyes, anyone not white, or white and not complying are painted as criminals.

How could one forget?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSfCwfesmVk

Cartel Drones is their call, Notam was recinded

California v. Greenwood, 486 U.S. 35 (1988)

The Supreme Court held that trash placed outside the curtilage for public collection is abandoned. But the ruling explicitly notes that trash on private property remains protected and is not automatically abandoned.

Courts repeatedly cite Greenwood to show that location and owner intent matter.

This is why workplace trash is not public trash.

The real trick is we need the governments to back down and just make sure we have the power to allow/deny our kids access.

Ok, honestly with some caveats, this might have legs.

What most of us want: to use our services anonymously and privately

What some of us want: to keep youtube/discord/roblox from enabling pedofarms. yes i get the obligatory people should just raise their kids

What companies say they want: to keep kids safe

What companies really want: to appease some users and farm as much data about someone as they can and to comply with the growing trend of places that require age verification.

So, what if they provide an offline model for age verification? download the model, phone in airplane mode. verify yourself, get a digitally signed certificate, expunge the app so shove that verifiable signature as proof that you’re an adult.

From the corporate standpoint, It’s no different than signing into their account and giving them your face. we keep our privacy, they can fuck off about it.

Just roll all this back 40 years and sue TV broadcasters instead :) Nothing ever changes.

start a large company, force all the employees to use the cheap venture driven tokens now to get more done with less talent then fire everywhere when the bubble pops.

and they’re packed with Olestra ™

Alternate title:

Ancient GOP Senator says there is enough visibility now for it to affect her career so she is considering acknowledging and maybe at a future date having something meaningful to say about it.

And it’s only below 17k feet. They literally just grounded planes to/from the airport. Traffic’s been flying directly overhead all morning.

And rarely.

that’s because they didn’t have my relatives :), I pine for the ice floes

‘scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value’

Checks corpo-speak to English dictionary:

Lasting value is cash: Scale plan: First down, drastically, then bisect as many times as possible, then sell off the chunks to the highest bidders.

Don’t go to work in a corporate enterprise :) You’ll end up sorely disappointed in most places.

For sure, a company could do that. Waste and shrink are problems that growing companies universally experience at some point. When they expand to the point where they have departments dedicated to reducing those losses, they end up with varying levels of strict policies to combat it.

My current company is a few hundred, which is a child company of many thousands. In my companies initial incarnation, before my time, they issued work credit cards to people to deal with software subscriptions and hardware needs. They ran a skeleton IT staff who just knitted everything together that people bought.

until;

People start buying their groceries on the cards. It was ‘snacks’. Before long it was out of fucking control and they had to pull everyone’s cards and slap the hands of even some of the management.

By the time I got there, I had to be read the riot act to get a card with enough space to provision basic equipment.

Our parent company takes weeks, requires seperate accounts and PO’s for any transactions what-so-ever, I’m not sure what they faced, but I suspect it’s kind of like those youtube videos where you see the guy throw the basketball overhead backward and full court and it goes in and everyone in frame absolutely loses their mind, you have to assume they had been at it for hours for the reaction to be that insane.

It could happen, but think of the poor cliffs, they stood for eons just to witness such violence and be unable to partake in it themselves.

The uneducated are far easier to control. You take their cookies, then tell them it’s the foreigners. You tell them they’re as smart as anyone need be, and that those highly educated people are smug assholes who are stealing their cookies. If they just vote for you, you’ll make sure that they get their fair share of cookies. (Narrator: They did not get any cookies)

The government / project2025 crew is driving plans to do this, but it’s largely being worked at the state level.

https://hdpulse.nimhd.nih.gov/data-portal/social/map?age=081&age_options=age25_1&demo=00006&demo_options=education_3&race=00&race_options=race_7&sex=0&sex_options=sexboth_1&socialtopic=020&socialtopic_options=social_6&statefips=00&statefips_options=area_states

As far as I’m aware of, no.

and because capitalism

Heh, I used to sell computers. If you spent 5 minutes with them explaining Mhz, MB, GB, in terms they could understand and how to go to each tag and understand where they stood in the lineup, I wasn’t on commission, I told them they could go anywhere and take those numbers and compare prices and make an informed decision apples to apples, they almost all immediately bought.

We did NOT generally have the best price, but would price match. They wouldn’t even look elsewhere. You know what you’re talking about, we’re sticking with YOU!

That one does 120 million things a second, this one is the newer chips, it bascially does two things at a time, so they’re both 120 but this one gets 240 million things done. This is the hard drive, it’s your file cabinet, this is the ram it’s your desktop. The file cabinets are huge, but you can only get a couple things out at a time if you don’t have enough desktop space. All these systems have 3 basic options, low, medium, high. Buy medium. It’ll last another year or two longer than low and the price isn’t that much more. If money is no concern, buy high, it’ll last the longest.

They all just made a quick decision and got the hell out.