brambledog

So a man whose wealth has largely been built off lying to investors and consumers about his products told you that his father only gave him $28,000, and you just believed him?

Honestly, I believe it.

I have worked at an amazon warehouse. Bezos was never referred to as anything but Jeff and every day during the stretches we would be told how impressed Jeff was with how well we were doing.

At Costco, we would have daily meetings. At least twice a month the assistant manager would interject to remind everybody that they had once had lunch with the original CEO. There was also this strange creation myth of how the company was able to dominate the grocery industry within less time than everybody else. It involved the CEO inventing a new way to filet a Chinook salmon or something like that.

Cult behavior is surprisingly strong within corporate America.

If you are over the age of 39 I highly reccomend against this. There is really no possible way yo meet your caloric needs without massively overdosing on salt when depending on ramen and Mac and cheese.

It's honestly probably just as cost effective and slightly better for you to just buy a premade cold sandwich from the nearest bodega for at least one of your meals.

I truly thought shittymorph had come to lemmy.

You are angry and you deserve to be, and you should talk to somebody about it, but not like this.

I'm beginning to feel like the Republican plan is use Donald as a distraction and have Biden and Harris taken out in a terrorist attack. Mike Johnson pardons Trump and begins the reign of puppet tyrant.

Your favorite painting was likely commissioned by a rich person, and the person who received credit for it probably had most of the work done by an apprentice of theirs.

Rich people don't like fine art and wine because they are so much more intellectually advanced than we are, they like them because they are a great tool of the wealthy. These people can't tell the difference between a $7 wine and their $25,000 wine in a blind taste test, and if you tell them so, they will smile and nod, because the taste isn't the point.

Your grandmother's knit sweaters would be considered fine art if it could be used to launder money.

Pretty sure corporations running their own subreddits has been.a thing for awhile now. Fairly certain Costco's subreddit is fully modded by their advertising department. Threads written by employees during COVID were getting nuked constantly.

The people communicating with each other need a way to ensure that they are communicating with who they think they are; and for most people, they are trying to hide what they are discussing, not necessarily who they are discussing it with.

When I first got into open source I downloaded every app I saw that could make me feel like a spy, but I quickly deleted 90% of them because I had no use cases for them. I did find an app I believe based off the signal protocol which had no names or numbers and the only way to initiate contact between two people was by scanning each others qr code, but good luck ever meeting somebody to download the app.

It's been hard enough convincing anybody over signal. Americans are pretty locked into SMS and everybody else seems unwilling to leave WhatsApp.

This isn't a resurfaced interview though, the full audio containing the unpublished material was released. I believe the text has been online for about a decade at least though.

Is Robin actually Banksy is no longer even the interesting question. It's why the art world has pretended this is some great mystery for about 20 years now.

There is no one person we can ever point to and say without fail they were at these events on these dates where Robert Del Naja or Damien Albarn performed. But clearly the art world is aware that Del Naja and Albarn are the ones funding the creative operation of Banker, which is why every article will make sure to mention one or the other as a wink but never actually pull on that thread. Pretending there is some great unsolveable mystery is probably the only legitimate money fine arts based media congloms are making. It would be a shame to lose that.

Edit: I apologize for the spelling mistakes.

I haven't had a single complaint in my few months if using it.

That being said, I have 3 people to use it with so on average have only gotten about 20 minutes per week.

I will say that the WiFi calling on their app is far superior to the samsung's drag down buttons.

How could it not?

You buy one 20 pound bag of rice and one 20 pound bag of beans and then canning supplies and you sell limited edition holiday dried and rice bean mixes. When you sell out, you buy 40 poinds of each.

Within 5 generations you have now become the rice and bean king of New Hampshire and have only spent $40 of your initial stimulus seed fund.

I think you are being optimistic.

If you are old enough to remember AIM chatbots, this current generation is maybe multiple times more advanced, not exponentially so. From what I have seen, all the incredible advancements have been in image production.

This leads me to believe that AGI has never been the true commercial goal, but rather an advancement of propaganda media and its creation.

I'm not surprised some stock photo companies are selling AI work. I imagine this is an industry not easy to make money in if you are one of the few remaining firms not owned by Getty.

If you are expanding the deep state to include regulatory bodies, you are just talking about the state.

Can you provide an instance of the state ever hiding the fact that they regulate businesses, or did you just find out that was one of their powers?

Really hoping google loses here.

An AI data center acting as a rogue state will just be sunk the moment they actually become a legitimate problem.

The nation wasn't developed by the people who escaped. That's an ahistorical way of framing the issue

Taiwan was developed by the overthrown proto-fascist military junta who just lost the civil war. After taking the island, they didn't tell the people of Taiwan that the war had been over and they were no longer China until 1991. The first labor laws outlawing slavery were introduced to the people of Taiwan in 2006. The people of Taiwan still consider themselves China (it is afterall the name they go by, not Taiwan) and full Taiwanese independence is still a minority held belief on the actual island.

Just to be clear, I am a supporter of their independence, but this is a very messy situation in which the political party who comrade the country is the same fascist party who lost the war in the first place and still maintains to the UN that they are the legitimate government of the mainland. Full separation is convenient for the West, but neither side actually wants that, they just don't want to be ruled by either fascists or communists, and I think that is incredibly fair for all people actually involved to want.

I wouldn't really classify Ruby ridge as a rail-roading.

This is a guy who uprooted his family to move across the country so he could hang out with terrorists who shared Hitler-loving beliefs.

He then sold a sawed off shotgun to a man he believed was one of those terrorists.

We can definitely criticize law enforcement for every single they did from the inception of the case, but Weaver was not innocent.

Antennapod is good enough and has a widget, but to be honest, it needs to be a lot better.

They need to implement podcast discovery. Just showing 20 separate podcasts with nothing else is clearly not enough.

Mistyping a word on a phone is a much different thing than reading comprehension.

But I agree I should be better at doing a quick scan before I press post.

You don't see why the Democrats are running him again? Really?

No democrat can beat him in a primary and the closest person capable is basically a pinko who is treated with more respect by trump voters than typical Democrats.

My understanding is it is made from reconstituted powdered milk.

We store a lot of dairy products in caves throughout this country I have been told.

My understanding is that Boebert and him have grown close, since nobody else talks to them.

This comment has been posted from a Windows 11.

I'm not sure I understand the cultural reference to alphabet stickers. Maybe it's not a thing in my location.

If you look at Polynesians, the women often tend to be bigger as well, maintaining the size disparity seen in other races and cultures. Wouldn't this suggest that evolutionary pressures which will give preference to larger stature bodies are affecting the sexes equally?

If so, then the innate size disparity between sexes was written into our genetic code before we branched off.

I'm not an evolutionary biologist though.

It tends to be in upscale hotels, generally around the holidays, but isn't incredibly common anymore.

If I think back on it, I'm not sure I have heard it since the 90s.

I guess I don't really understand how this helps Newsom or the Dem party for 2024.

Articles this inflammatory in nature generally are highly fabricated. A notable example is the Ken Waks "I quit Google in two separate occasions because I'm that brilliant."

I think I misunderstood you the first time. I thought you were a musk fan boy claiming the regulators themselves were the deepstate.

I was using innertune and will go.back to it when I can convince my wife to stop paying for youtube, but I'm definitely not looking forward to going back to it.

Innertune had issues communicating with Bluetooth and would have loading issues when not on wi-fi.

Also, the app fully breaks and has to be redownloaded if you attempt to use a widget maker for it.

I think they assumed you were libertarian because you were giving off irrationally angry vibes while sucking up to a corporation.

Many fake libertarians behave that way. It truly was an honest mistake the other person made.

If anybody can patent it, it's the W3C who holds it.

Aaron Swartz was working on self hosted social media before ycombinator merged his product with what became reddit.

Facebook is a little too late to the game to get any credit.

Is this photo taken at a high school basketball court?

Catch-22 or Gravity's Rainbow, if my memory of books I've read once is still accurate.

Really?

Please show me in which of Orwell's writings he suggested that economies should be based off allowing financial criminals to commi their crimes against citizens, unimpeded.

The thesis of 1984 is that when totalitarianism takes hold, we will turn on those we love to protect ourselves. Which specific portion of that novel do you believe told you that true freedom is getting your money stolen with no recourse?

This is primarily the issue with libertarians. You guys are constantly applying a book you haven't read to every situation you don't like. It's weird and I think people see through it.

Except he appears to be running the company at a loss currently, being over half a billion in the hole after making close to 5 billion (largely in government contracts).

https://archive.ph/2023.08.17-224420/https://www.wsj.com/tech/behind-the-curtain-of-elon-musks-secretive-spacex-revenue-growth-and-rising-costs-2c828e2b

I'm not saying the rumors are true that Joe Rogan has been pumping him full of ketamine to get him to sign over his fortune, but Musk is clearly starting to lose his ability at what he was good at: making money.

The link you gave said this was a military policy used.on military, not civilians.

It also appears they stopped doing it a decade ago, according to your source.

I think we all here for each other, not the articles.

Indian curry is a gravy while Thai curry is a soup and the flavor profiles of their curries largely have no overlap.

They both are amazing.