You’re still affected by this as nearly everything you buy was transported on a truck.

Also, Californians pay 3x the national average for electricity too.

They care about their own money, but they couldn’t care less about pissing away taxpayer money on settlements.

No. Debian on the server. CachyOS on the laptop OPNsense / FreeBSD on the router-firewall appliance.

I don’t really feel like I need a single OS across everything. The lack of that has never been an issue.

The claim is from a lawyer’s description of events in a legal complaint seeking monetary damages. It’s hyperbolic, and mostly bullshit.

They stop went as you described. They told him to get out, he didn’t. They threatened to break the window and remove him. He still refused. Then they broke the window, opened the door, and removed him through the open door while he resisted, all the while barking about talking about how they were gonna pay for it. They didn’t drag him through glass, and didn’t drag him through the window. He had a small cut on his arm. There was a small bit of visible blood on his arm. if he didn’t put that spot of arm in front of the camera lens, you wouldn’t know it was cut. His physical injuries were visible, but negligible.

The worst part is that this worthless cunt got the working end of what he voted for, and now he’s probably gonna get a judgment or settlement that we all get to pay for. Sadly, the faces getting eaten here are taxpayers’.

Most Americans don’t understand the distinction between partisanship and politics. The phrase “I’m just not political” usually means either “I don’t want to hear your partisan bullshit right now.” or “I hold objectionable views that I can’t articulately defend.”

It’s the new Ice Barbie.

This is an interesting bit:

The women who work as courtesans at Sheri’s are hired as “independent contractors” by their employers (Jeremy Lemur, the brothel’s marketing director, provided a statement to Mother Jones that emphasized that specific phrasing multiple times). However, the terms of their actual jobs may not pass the “ABC test,” a legal framework used to determine whether a worker should be considered an employee.

And it’s not just the employer saying that they are independent contractors, the courtesans themselves say it several times. Such as:

“A lot of us are artists,” explained courtesan Paloma Karr, who is also a writer and activist. “We have all sorts of other jobs."

There’s a lot more to it than just a few quotes, but at least from the article, both sides seem to think they are independent contractors.

Its a disingenuous argument based on the implication that the stuff you want to hide is criminal or immoral.

The reality is that everybody has stuff to hide. Anyone that makes this statement… ask them for their bank login and password.

If you didn’t know that Chevron used to be Standard Oil, and if you didn’t know that its been the most prominent company in the Richmond area for about a century, the connection might not be that obvious. But if you know any of the history, its not hard to figure who runs “The Richmond Standard.”

I’m here to learn and gain perspective. I’m not in the “fuck ai” camp. In my view, problems arise from how people use the tools they have, not necessarily the tools themselves.

I did delete my openai account., but it wasn’t a paid account, and I hadn’t used it in years, so no real loss for them. I do still occasionally use local LLMs. I like to be informed and aware of what’s happening in the world around me, and AI is definitely happening, like it or not. Society doesn’t ever go backward in technology.

What better way to signal progressive policy than make Liz Cheney your hype man.

Due process always has exceptions. Prosecutorial discretion being a relevant one in this context.

We’ve had hydroelectric, wind, and nuclear energy for a long time.

sounds like he means “a great deal of good” as

He fancies himself a great businessman; a deal maker. There is no chance he meant a great deal of good for the world.

Classic false dichotomy. He’s got a “both” button in real life.

For starters, I have plenty to hide. No honest person uses that fallacious argument.

The fallacy of the argument is that it presumes anything I have to hide must be illegal. But of course that’s not true.

If he’s that out of the loop on news, the poor bastard probably doesn’t even realize he dies in a fire locked inside it every time he drives.

Probably pretty soon we’re going to get the evidence that he fucked his own kids too, and the MAGA world will still defend him on that one too.

Cops ain’t really buying anything. More probably they are directing the spend of taxpayer money on some vibe-coded garbage ass app one their friends made for a100x markup along with a long-term training and support package.

Relatable… I had an apartment in Studio City right on the LA River. It wasn’t even the cool part of the river you see in movies. I used to jokingly call it my waterfront property.