Don’t give them any ideas 😆

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Freedom OF religion also means freedom FROM religion.

“All of this is about one thing. Shutting down the local art scene. Shutting down creativity, shutting down free expression.”

“Nice try, kiddo, but you’re still grounded for coloring on the walls. Also, that’s three things.”

Edit: Turned it into a Calvin & Hobbes comic

It’s for defying a subpoena, not contempt of congress.

Oh yeah. I was thinking contempt of Congress was the penalty for defying a subpoena.

He also verbally threatened multiple people in Congress, dared them to arrest him

I must’ve tuned that part out, but it does sound like something that POS would do.

Because it’s only for contempt of Congress.

He was facing criminal charges for defrauding people during a scheme to build a border wall, but the orange turd pardoned him before those went anywhere.

https://www.axios.com/2021/01/20/trump-pardon-steve-bannon

This is more like a new, third tier altogether.

If most of us get Justice Standard Edition and rich people get Justice Plus, this is like Justice Platinum Rewards.

Strands #110
“We do”
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Please make more of these.

Off work today, so I have a to-do list I hope to knock out:

• Finish last round of testing and release 1.4.0 of Tesseract
• Update my Nginx + ModSecurity WAF and test/deploy the new build.
• If not finish, then at least continue moving stuff off of an old server I’m decommissioning

There’s more I need/want to get done, but just those 3 things are ambitious for one day where I’m supposed to be relaxing lol.

Rumor That Donald Trump Is Launching His Own Crypto Inspires Countless Similar Scams

Their summer home, owned by a trust, is situated directly behind Gorman’s home, farther up the hill.

Poisoned someone else’s trees, their property, and the beach and it was just for their summer home. :smh:

Throw the book at them.

Maybe, lol? Depends on the context, but I feel like that’s generally more sticking it to yourself.

Ha, thanks. It’s pretty much my only “sticking it to the man” story, so at least it’s a good one.

The ending is a little less infuriating when you realize the old miser lady probably called back to get those account fees refunded (I reversed the refunds I did‡) and was told by someone else (who wanted to keep their job) that she was out of luck (those were legit fees). She most definitely would have said something like, “well, the other guy I talked to said he was going to refund two of them” (as if we don’t hear that all the time) and then still being told no.

I’d like to think she reflected on that and realized that her entitlement caused her to get nothing, but people who complain like that usually don’t do that kind of soul searching.

‡ Not really reversed, just didn’t finalize the process after she went on her tirade.

This is probably the exception, but I bought a bunch of smart bulbs from there 4 years ago (all pre-flashed with Tasmota). They’re still going strong and get used daily.

Yeah, they’re isolated on a separate, no-internet VLAN if you’re worrying about my security posture lol. That said, I’ve never noticed them trying to make any suspicious outbound connections.

That totally sounds like something I would do. Oof.

Hey, nothing wrong with small and petty. Everything, everywhere generally sucks these days, so take joy when and where you can, I say.

I’m totally on your side with regard to the word ‘hack’: Context matters, and in that context, ‘hack’ pretty much always means a kludge of a fix that works but could be better. It’s also a signal to whoever looks at the code later to take a better look / improve it. OTOH, auditors are the worst (though I would not personally want their job lol), and I can’t say I’ve never had to do similar pedantic things to appease them.

Hell yeah! Working “for exposure” is a crock of crap. Good for you for knowing your worth.

TL;DR: I worked at a bank call center, the bank was super shady, and I went on an overdraft fee refund spree my last week.

In college, I worked at a call center for one of the worst Bank of America (oops, meant banks in America 😉). That bank, which will remain unnamed, was doing all kinds of shady stuff (probably still is). For brevity, I’m going to focus only on one specific shady thing they did: processing payments out of order in order to maximize overdraft fees (OD fees from here on). Each OD fee was $34 ($51.50 adjusted for inflation).

There were guidelines for refunding OD fees, and they all had to be the bank’s fault. That said, you weren’t expected to give out many, if any, per month.

After about 7 or 8 months of dealing with customers that the bank was kicking while they were down, I couldn’t take it anymore. I went in on a Monday just knowing it was my last week.

First call of the day was this lady who overdrafted her card 6 times at a fast food place. All of the offending transactions were all $1-4. I didn’t really ask why (irrelevant), but looking at the transaction history, yep, they were processed out of order. She had a big payment go through later the same day which overdrew the account. Had the transactions been processed in order, only the big payment would have overdrawn (1 fee instead of 6).

However, according to policy, none of those were technically the bank’s fault because in the super fine print somewhere it said that the bank processed transactions largest to smallest and it was her fault.

That’s when “this is my last week” went from a “probably” to a “definitely”.

I said I could only refund one as a courtesy (the bank did let us do that occasionally), but just made up something about her being my 1,000,000th caller and I was gonna refund all of them. And I did. She was fucking ecstatic.

From Monday to Thursday mid-morning (more on that below), every caller that wanted an OD fee waived got it. Some guy even called in with a question, didn’t even mention the OD fee, and I was like “Oh, I see you have an overdraft fee last week. Lemme take care of that for you”. Bam, refunded.

My goal was to Robin Hood until Friday and quit, but some lady’s arrogance and entitlement on Thursday morning absolutely broke me. She had like $175K in checking and was complaining about three tiny, $3 yearly fees. I was all set to refund them (not that she needed them, but hey, I’m sticking it to the man here). The system wouldn’t let me touch one of them since it was over 2 years old. So I let her know I knocked off 2 out of 3. That wasn’t good enough, and she went on a tirade.

So I undid the refunds, apologized, and said I’d check with my manager. I put her on hold, left my badge on my desk, and just left.

I wonder if she’s still holding trying to claw back that last $3.

Have they actually proven this is a good idea, or is this a “so preoccupied with whether or not they could” scenario?

It’s businesses “throwing AI into stuff”, so I’m going to say it’s a safe bet it’s the latter.