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The REAL airline security benefit was 2 things:

Locks on cockpit doors

Vigilant passengers.

That's it. All the security theater is exactly that - it's a theater production.

The TSA can't even detect guns reliably. In 2023, they failed 95% of gun tests. https://www.travelcodex.com/tsa-misses-95-of-weapons-in-its-...

Or different sites require laptops in separate boxes, but this site is fine. Or shoes on, or shoes off. Porno scanners. Basically the TSA was a big corporate donation to security appratus, and a huge worthless make-work operation.

And if they're really worried about terrorism, it's still beyond stupid. There's still long lines BEFORE security that they could target.

But you know, that person with a small pocketknife is a "REAL DANGER" so the government thieves those evil weapons or how dare they bring 2.5 ounces!

Its stupid idiot theater all around.

Or the 1990s Beanie Babies.

Or hell, 2 years ago with "those fucking apes", aka NFTs.

Or, the Meta-Verse. Yeah, that really took.... Off.

They actively campaigned and defended Trump in 2016 2020 AND 2024

Who you associate with is absolutely up for discussion. And the WMF is OK with hiring staunch Trump defenders.

> At the very minimum, the company acknowledges the union and negotiates with the union for working conditions for union members.

By federal law, if a company has a union, the union must represent ALL non-management workers, even those who do not pay dues.

This is obviously fucked up. But this has been union law at the NLRB for a long time.

The fair response: a union should only legally be responsible for representing its members. But these sorts of terrible union laws are the consequence of attempting to destroy them since their creation.

And for those of you who think unions are terrible (capitalists and ilk), what we had before was 'firebomb the business or the bosses house', and basically waging war between capitalists and labor. Unions and legal representation WAS the compromise.

Labor history has always been a bloody and murderous affair. Go look up the history of the pinkertons.

> This is incorrect. Voluntary recognition, which is what this article is about, means that an election is not done. Wikimedia Foundation is asking for an election to ensure everyone actually wants this.

Misinformation.

Voluntary recognition just means that there isn't a 120 hard fight against union elections to decide if there CAN BE a union.

Dark Horse comics just voluntarily acknowledged their union. After that is union elections, to decide who the union elected is.

Just because the game is pirated DOES mean it will work in the future.

True. But check out Ebay right now. Networking gear is CHEAP.

I just bought 2 switches, 48 port 10GbE with 4x QSFP+ at 40Gb fiber. $110 each.

You can even get 24 port QSFP+ @100Gb networking devices for $350.

Yeah while ram and gfx is $$$$$, networking is rock bottom prices..

GEE GOLLY.

Energy drink company slyly changed energy drink policy! Hell, I figured the wall on the White House would be a ~~Brando~~ Red Bull logo, but even in Idiocracy, that president took advice from real experts.

I wonder if Defcon fucked over THIS YEAR'S badge creator (Bunnie Hwang) too, like Defcon did in 2024?

https://www.404media.co/def-con-badge-maker-pulled-off-stage...

This country is a cybertruck.

The wastefulness is akin to having multiple private jets on standby, or workers coming in to a fishbowl office to be gawked at, or massive datacenters to be used as social "proof".

Its all a fucking capitalistic farce to display to other rich elite that "Look at how much clout I have! I can make these peons dance around and do my bidding! Im a slave-owner!"

https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116991627711001827

He noted that that Silicon Valley doesnt really want to SOLVE problems. They want to find already-solved problems with problem matching. And of course, we just throw more people and more compute instead of optimization and understanding.

The Chinese are being actively constrained with bullshit politics around a second Red Scare moment. And, well, they're winning. A lot.

And that's a perfect description for how the USA has fallen.

This place IS the supposed '3rd world shithole' that Republicans say. That the libraries, the legacy from the early Carnegie 1900's billionaires, are now the climate refuge and place to try to succeed for the homeless.

We (royal) fail so many humans, prey on the absolute conquest of 'make more money at all costs'.

Inordinately loud, reflective rooms. They just encourage drinking to excess, absolutely no talking (or hearing), paying, and leaving.

Let the idiot CEOs figure this out when they fire 3/4 of their OPs and dev teams.

Im sure it'll be FINE.

I wish I could follow people on HN. Because this is worth a follow:

"For the Epsteinth time, class unity is only for the upper classes"

This article is barely even legible, and chains unrelated papers in some big scare.

Regardless of slop, it's definitely no/low quality and a bunch of breathless garbage.

Flagging and warning others.

What about us average humans, or is it ONLY the corporate LLM token dealers who get access?

Either way, I'll pirate.

This is kinda disgusting but I think applies to this discussion.

Blue cheese. Its living mold. I think it tastes good.

BUT.. when I eat it, I notice a few days later that my excrement smells more like blue cheese as well. My guess is that I'm inoculating my own digestive tract with blue cheese molds.

Another mishap happened with my cat too. I gave her some beef from our supper. Some of the gorgonzola blue cheese sauce got on it, but I thought I cut and kept the blue cheese off. Nope, I didnt, not enough. She had diarrhea for the next 2 days cause it wrecked with her digestive tract.

Maybe this will help a microbiologist.

Thats why I said to make up something mildly embarrassing and completely average normal happening.

Unless you admit it, you wont be caught in a lie. And you seem "normal" to whatever litmus test of sharing something.

Make shit up. Don't talk about your personal life at a company function, ever.

Hell, lie and make an embarrassing but completely legal story. Or something stupid like you were totally embarassed in HS or college.

But, never ever share your actual personal lives in a corporate setting. Not one time.

Its bullshit that a terms of use can "agree" to what amounts to unconscionable terms.

Mozilla with their Thundermail just tried saying in their ToS that if you're mentioned at all in anything legal, you agree to pay their legal fees.

This is bullshit.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-says-man-cant-su...

"Disney is trying to have a widower's wrongful death lawsuit dismissed and sent to arbitration because the man had signed up for a Disney+ account several years ago."

Now what happened was that Disney quit fighting over really bad PR. But the court challenge would have liteky succeeded.

You misunderstand. I didnt need an explanation of how they worked. Im refuting that they are a good practice.

I was complaining of the "cleverness" of them, when working or analyzing a codebase with people swapping from if/else loops to trinaries.

I prefer clarity and a bit more verbosity than a per5-ism. If that means a 5 line loop that I can easily follow, then so be it. 1 liners that effectively say "lookie at me im a l33t developer" are a very bad code smell, and make maintenance harder each cycle of more cleverness.

This is all just manufactured hype and lies (oh wait, marketing speak).

The more humans are afraid of losing their jobs, the more management sees it as a signal to make them lose their jobs. And the techbros plans of lying and deceit work.

While, actually learning how these things work is effectively verboten. The LLMs lose their mysticism and turn into the tools they really are. But the techbros can't have that happening.

I've never liked cleverness in scripting when clarity costs effectively nothing.

This is one of those clever things, similar to people using perl5 use trinary expressions. Like, are you TRYING to make this obtuse and hard to read?

> It's obviously a difficult problem to write rules around

Bull-fucking-shit

Companies claim all the time that "if you give us a 10 year abatement we will bring X jobs to the area"

Well, time to quantify that, asshole.

We pay for it. And if you can't, I want C level blood. Id be OK with 100% of all taxes, with a 30% yearly interest, payable, to prevent jailing of the whole C level board.

That should be relatively easy to prove.

Was a position (and tax revenue) hired for this position?

Were there no candidates qualified for this position?

Ohhhh, there were? Why didn't you hire them?

Many job ads are simply scams. And companies faking job ads can rie in a fire, or fined out of extinction.

The real answer is that many jobbads are fraudulent.

And fraudulent job ads should be handled the same way a fraudulent advertisement for a good is handled: you either make good and prove hiring, or you're tried for felony fraud.

So, uhh, fuck windows and use Linux if you value your security and privacy?

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

Goodhart's law.