thewildginger

The e-veirfy website says it validates a SSN, but by default that is not a valid means of verifying employability.

Meaning you can use a social security number of a dead person. A common form of immigration fraud.

It adds to the isolation, a common adjustment limiting factor. This is pretty evil.

Almost everyone in the age group in question is aware of these problems. It doesn't seem like a moral panic. It is a truly radical change in human life to have so much information in one place, so accessible, all the time. The newspaper changed society, the telegram changed business and war, but none systemically changed human behavior and thinking for every human it comes in contact with like a smart phone.

It has changed childhood behavior, and parenting behavior as well.

I really don't think this is a standard fear of something not understood, it's pretty clear it's affecting people and there should be a change.

I vape daily and use disposables (yes, I am the baddie.)

You'd be surprised. A lot of people go out drinking, do not want to bum cigarettes off of strangers or smell bad but still want to use nicotine and drink. Single use vapes you throw away the next day are great for that. Women buy disposables a lot, according to the personnel at the vape shop I go to which specializes in disposables.

I think vaping even disposables is better than smoking cigarettes. I would ban cigarettes before banning disposables purely due to the litter from butts. It does not help that in the US public smoking areas do not exist so people often throw it on the ground.

Nicotine is not a nice habit but there are certainly lesser evils in the spectrum and disposables are a far lesser evil than cigarettes.

It's more than most war-culture beneficiaries do so yeah most people are okay with that.

These numbers are for enlisted recruits. To wash out of basic training/boot camp and be enlisted there has to be serious problems. Bed wetting, serious violence, egregious disciplinary problems or major integrity violations, Maybe being overweight or failing physical standards at the very beginning / end of training. With most of these things you just get rolled back and stay longer in training. The most common drops are early, often for integrity problems like lying to a recruiter about a criminal past or failing the initial drug test. After that if a person is kicked out of recruit training it's for the issues mentioned above and there doesn't seem to be any "fixing it"

These decisions are made by training commanders pretty much on a case by case basis, often with the armed service's needs in mind. Everyone who's at enlisted basic training is needed, because it's about volume.

Polygraphs are based on principles beyond junk science. Any person who has been in a cult organization and has successfully exited can testify to convincing yourself something happened or is true even if the evidence is overwhelmingly the opposite, even under a polygraph. People are not reliable sources of fact, period. They are an interrogation technique based on scare tactic strategy to get people to confess to something regardless of if it is true or not.

Polygraphs only do one thing, enable lazy investigation into claims of fact. That's why police love them so much.

Take a deep breath. The US endowment for the arts wrote this article to preserve the history of a person who impacted the arts in the US. No one is worshipping him. He had known problems, took criticism for it and it is a known fact by those who enjoy his music.

No one is here to dismiss the damage he caused to the condor population. I do question why you wanted to bring this up though. While it is interesting and important, I don't know if it's commentary relevant for this thread specifically. Wishing you well these holidays

At what point is saying "it's two years away, trust me!" Not just naive optimism but false advertising or market manipulation? He publicly said this for like four years, and then he walks it all back.

I just don't get it. Any other little person does this and they would be big time side by investors and shareholders, and yet people want to trip all over each other talking about how awesome he is.

Reminds me of another cult of personality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_of_Joseph_Smith#T...

Everyone

This is an anecdote, and maybe it's just coincidental timing, but these kinds of operational choices do not work well in a company focused on a single product across multiple devices. Losing so many workers so quickly means a loss in productivity on the issues the platform has, and Spotify has many. Since November there has been an issue on PS5 where any podcast over an hour will not play on PlayStation(so, basically all podcasts). People have figured out the issue, and Spotify has not moved on it.

When you offer a single service and the benefit is being device agnostic, "cutting costs" by wasting time hiring people you probably didn't need to hire only to fire them a year or two later means an amplified disruption that will lose customers.

But hey, board members who jerk each other off once a month in a conference call who are already rich made a little more money by hiring a bunch of people only to fire them later and at a huge operational waste.

This is how our world works and it's bs.

I wish there was something like a data sinkhole you could add to a car. That would be cool.

Nothing like finding a webpage you can read from Lynx. IDK about the pictures though

https://lynx.invisible-island.net/

Also benefits like healthcare which was mentioned. The squeeze of mandating private corporations as healthcare insurance providers and being so deeply involved in a matter so private means it is a field ripe for customer/client exploitation.

The Lords of the land that are large business owners and corporations have had an economic shift, where the laborers have a tiny edge compared to the recent past in the form of less laborers and more wage competition, and they're not even organized in the US! The fact that this alone can disrupt the ecosystem of capital so drastically that a labor secretary became a bartender and the largest unionized workplaces have to give record concessions to the labor unions speaks to this systems glaring flaws.

Availability. The third portion of the cyber security triad. Confidentiality, integrity, availability.

If you cannot get to your stuff, or you stuff is harder to get to, then there has been a form of compromise in your service. Is it sexy like wannacry or technically advanced? No. But like most things IT, most of the time it is not.

You have to be in a really.safe place to feel comfortable walking around with your laptop and a bunch of other stuff just out in front of you like that. Having a standing desk with a small treadmill I could understand. This? It's a silicon valley bit.

These were characters I thought a lot about, as I was playing the game through my exit out of the military. Leaving your gang behind while trying to stay positive and be the best you can in a quickly changing world made me feel human after years of never feeling like I could be myself. That game is a 10/10 story and video game experience. Anyone who thinks that a game couldn't be that compelling as a story has a bias against games, and should give games like this a try.

If your company execs are basically bragging about ignoring fundamental principles of a healthy capital based market due to total control of said market, in an anti trust hearing, then yeah that's some pretty solid evidence you are breaking the law.

Sometimes I use the other searches just to see how different they are, and they are pretty good. There are less ads on DDg and brave which makes the experience at least a lot better.

That's why other lawyers call them ambulance chasers. Their ethics are notoriously questionable.

Relax himmler

You should really read anything about how the railroad companies operate in the US. An "anal retentive" safety inspector is exactly what they should have, and firing them for doing their job is exactly what the railroad company would do, based off of recent and historical evidence.

Try "leaders eat last mentality" maybe that gives less of a weird vibe.

Being Established not meaning specifically wealth, I like that

When you control the most common way to buy and sell goods personal goods in the western world, you control a lot more than the internet. You control everything else.

I hate this argument. Business owners don't say "40% taxable gains? Guess I will never make money again" It may surprise you but no matter the restrictions put on size of profit, people will still attempt to make a buck. All that changes is the strategies used and the amount of time REQUIRED to strategize. All of these things sound so horrible, but when most people all over the world won't ever be in a position to think about it, I'm less sympathetic.

When you're at work you're not a human being, duh. You're company property.

In the US? It's an incredibly slow process with a designated separate court system with seperate labor laws. Oh yeah and solidarity strikes are illegal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_action

The police can't be defunded but the US National Labor Relations Board had to resduce it's staff by 50% from 2002 to 2022, with bipartisan support!

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/civil-rights/37839...

Putting banks out of business? Woah weird conclusion but I like it. This whole windfall tax sounds even better than I thought!

The world of money existed before banks, it will exist after.

To me, and the clear answer given by other commenters to this question (thank you all for the succinct answer) are the reason why the current government finger pointing from Dr Kirkpatrick at AARO, the testimony from Grusch this last week, and the lack of willingness from other government officials to acknowledge the known evidence and it's inherit difficulties is alarming. It leaves for more speculation, opaqueness, and indirectly lends credit to the claims of a misinformation and disinformation campaign made under oath by Mr Grusch. People just want clarity, not contradiction. American citizens, including veterans from fifty years ago, are still being treated like morons and charletons. This could stop if the IC and civilian agencies just were honest and did what congress asked them to do, and yet they refuse. Call your representative, call your embassy in the US, and voice your concerns please. I'm tired of seeing senior citizen veterans who have scary accounts from the cold war be treated like whackos.