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Some forms of antidepressants can be related to lower libido. If your prescribing doctor doesn't talk about this, get a new one.

My psychiatrist was very open about this and we tried different medications to see which impacted this the least. But, you know what else is related to lower libido? Depression. So let's not act as if the antidepressants are only to blame.

I'm not sure who the 'people' you reference are, but if your prescribing doctor doesn't talk to you about side effects, get a different one.

The idea is internal teams should be no bigger than what can be fed by 2 pizzas.

Yes, it is a reason to trounce on Texas. Texas wouldn't have to go around paying bitcoin miners not to mine if it was integrated into the rest of the power grid(s). But Texas is gonna Texas. Lifelong Texan here.

No. It also doesn't run into fire trucks, killing the driver and hurting the first responders just trying to do their already dangerous job.

Early Access also doesn't attempt to run a red light because 'cars are supposed to go straight' when they're taking a protected left hand turn.

100%. It feels as if some people can't turn off that SDE switch in their brain. If you have a bug in your microservice, fix it and deploy a new container. That doesn't work with actual bodies.

I still don't understand how some people think it's reasonable that car malfunctions are hand waved away as "it's a beta." We're not talking about an Early Access game on Steam here. We're talking about death machines that weight thousands of pounds.

Beta software shouldn't be on the road where other people can be impacted by it. Want to run into the back of a fire truck? Fine by me. Just do it on a track (and record it). I'll laugh from my computer chair rather than being potentially exposed to it on the road.

With Lovense you can. Don't know about other internet connected toys.

No response != nothing being done with the report

I'm not suggesting that at all. Putting on a badge enhances assault legal protections. Assault on a peace officer is an upgraded charge from assault on a civilian.

Being a cop enhances your chances of being in a volatile situation. But you also have more leeway in how you address that violence, and have the backing of legislative branches (via legal enhancements such as assault on a peace officer) and the judiciary (via qualified immunity, among other things).

If you think that the left and marginalized groups don't also have firearms, I think you'd be rather surprised. Check out the John Brown Gun Club, for example. You can be for sensible gun control and still have firearms as a pragmatic measure.

Safe spaces aren't a new thing. It's just now there is a vocabulary for it. 20 years ago, before people talked about safe spaces, I would hang out at comic/gaming stores because I could be my nerdy self while playing Magic: the Gathering.

When I would go to bars, I'd go to gay bars. Because I could just be myself and not worry about running into the violence in the clubs that catered to teens.

A safe space is about finding a place where you find yourself comfortable to be your authentic self. They've always existed, even if they weren't called safe spaces -- or castigated as part of a culture war.

As an aside, I probably wouldn't use dicta from Plessy v. Ferguson, one of the worst decisions in US history, to buttress any argument. The constitution was never color-blind. It didn't explicitly reference color, but it didn't have to--everyone knew what it was talking about.

> Why wouldn't police officers be afforded the same kinds of protections from microagressions that are given to other people in this country.

Microaggressions are one thing. Criminalizing microaggressions is quite another.

> Doesn't a police officer have a right to a safe working environment, and aggression free interactions with 'customers' (citizens), and laws saying as much?

No. No cop goes into the profession expecting puppies and rainbows. Going into potentially unsafe environments with potentially aggressive people is what they signed up for.

As a retail employee, you have to put up with microaggressions from customers. It's just part of dealing with the public. And those microaggressions aren't criminalized. Why do cops get to criminalize their feelings getting hurt?

> "Many states have passed hate-speech laws that protect the police from verbal or symbolic abuse, such as stomping on a “Back the Blue” sign while “smirking in an intimidating manner” (the crime for which a woman in Utah was prosecuted)."

Wow... this is just... The police have a monopoly on the legalized use of violence. Police carry at minimum one deadly weapon (a handgun), but usually have multiple so-called less-than-lethal weapons such as tasters and batons. And often more lethal weapons such as a shotgun or assault rifle in their car. But they are so fragile that a smirk can intimidate them?

I'm not sure how someone wearing body armor and carrying multiple weapons that can incapacitate or kill someone can be intimidated by a smile.

Who's the class and who are they suing?

If someone at a DSP (which is an Amazon contractor technically) records or otherwise mishandles these videos, how is Amazon legally responsible?

Amazon has some pretty deplorable practices, especially on the delivery side of things. But the law doesn't even recognize Amazon drivers as Amazon employees. IANAL, but you have contractors working for various third parties. And it looks like the third parties (the DSPs) are leaking footage. Doesn't seem likely an individual would have a case against Amazon, much less a court actually certifying a class action.

I grew up in a large city without a car. Public transport was my primary form of transportation until I got a car in my late 20s. I can't remember a time wherein the lack funds for a fare was used as a pretense to kick 'troublemakers' off of public transportation.

The underlying 'trouble' that makes someone a 'troublemaker' (e.g. aggressive panhandling, disruptive behavior, public drunkenness, etc.) are still reasons to be kicked off public transportation irrespective of how much the fare is.

I think a lot of what you're speaking to is the result of people undervaluing liberal arts degrees.

I work in a technical role, but I have a liberal arts degree. Liberal arts helped me learn how to think, learn new things, synthesize different things into a coherent argument, and more. People ask how I RCA problems so quickly. It's because I'm used to taking a set of facts from pile A, another from pile B, etc. and bring it together to a cogent argument.

Meanwhile I'm interviewing people with CS degrees who can't even explain the difference between symmetric and asymmetric encryption.

They buried the important info in the middle of the first page: "Moreover, this guide is written for experienced, back-end leaning engineers – interview processes are usually different for juniors, but we won’t be getting into those differences." There are multiple jobs out there are very technical positions pay 6 figures with no coding required. It's not interviewed for. It's not required at work. In fact, I can't give code to customers even if I wanted to.

Companies operate on more than just code monkeys.

Disclosure: Work for AWS. My only experience with Prime is as a customer (and the odd beta for new types of programming).

I wouldn't read much into the internal names of things at Amazon. They're picked at random by nerds. I've seen apps internally named after space, Dragon Ball Z, Lord of the Rings, coffee and candy, etc. I'm pretty sure I've used another, completely different thing that's also called Iliad.

It's not malicious. It's just one of those Amazon things that make working there sometimes a chore.

Whether they are hired legally or illegally doesn't matter. Their mere existence in the state of Texas means that they pay state taxes. Texas doesn't have an income tax.

You can't live in Texas without paying sales tax. And you can't be housed in Texas without paying property tax (whether directly in the case or property ownership, or indirectly via rent).

Kidnapping

Texas penal code title 5, chapter 20, section 20.03:

KIDNAPPING. (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person.

Abduct is defined in section 20.01(2):

(2) "Abduct" means to restrain a person with intent to prevent his liberation by: (A) secreting or holding him in a place where he is not likely to be found --snip--

Per reports, the alleged undocumented immigrants are induced with imaginary benefits (such as expedited asylum claims) and are sent to destinations unknown by them. If you don't know where you're going, you're not likely to be found.

At the very least it'd be unlawful restraint.

Sec. 20.02. UNLAWFUL RESTRAINT. (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly restrains another person.

Restrain is defined in section 20.01(1):

(1) "Restrain" means to restrict a person's movements without consent, so as to interfere substantially with the person's liberty, by moving the person from one place to another or by confining the person. Restraint is "without consent" if it is accomplished by:

(A) force, intimidation, or deception --snip--

The alleged undocumented immigrants are being induced onto these bus and/or planes by false promises (e.g. expedited asylum claims elsewhere). Which means they're being trafficked somewhere else via deception.

> Why are El Paso or Brownsville expected to incur the negative externalities of people who illegally cross into the US without any comments/concerns from national media, but a tiny fraction of that number in a northern city suddenly elicits an outcry?

Given that the Texas state government is funded largely off of sales tax and property tax--and undocumented immigrants are ineligible for most social services--undocumented immigrants are a net positive to Texas' revenue.They are subject to sales tax whenever they buy things and pay landlords' property tax via rent. All while being unable to use most social programs.

The reason Texas and Florida's political stunts elicit an outcry because is because those states are kidnapping and trafficking people--who may or may not be in the country legally--to make a political spectacle. People are commenting on the political spectacle that Abbott and DeSantis are knowingly and willingly creating.

No there's not.

If I were elected officials in Texas and Florida, I'd be much more worried about kidnapping and similar charges. Because, well, moving a person from one place to another by means of fraud seems seems to be pretty much the definition of kidnapping.

Disclosure: Work for AWS in a non-related capacity.

I understand the desire (and need) to post a postmortem as a part of responsible disclosure (which the authors of the article did). But I wish that these sorts of write ups made it clear that the security issue was fixed in the headline.

Just saying 'We reported something' creates a lot of FUD as end users of a service read the headline and lose their shit thinking that their infrastructure is still impacted. Even though this issue has already been fixed.

Posting vacation photos to social media when you're actually on vacation is a bad idea. You're signaling to people you're not at your residence or job, which is bad security anyway.

Save all the cute pictures to post when you get home.

> What happens when govt. goons tell you to write down a list of your cloud accounts (email, storage etc.) and their corresponding security credentials and threaten you to not leave any out?

That's why you uninstall all apps and delete your browsing history. They have no way to know how accounts you have, or where they are. Unless you leave those traces on your devices.

If you're super paranoid about it, you can create a few cloud accounts and seed them with innocuous or otherwise fake data. That way you have something to provide, but it's nothing of interest.

So you gonna show me where the law carves out specific countries?

  (4) Foreign election interference

  The term “foreign election interference” means conduct by a foreign person that—

  (A)

    (i) violates Federal criminal, voting rights, or campaign finance law; or

    (ii) is performed by any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of, or in coordination with, a foreign government or criminal enterprise; and

  (B) includes any covert, fraudulent, deceptive, or unlawful act or attempted act, or knowing use of information acquired by theft, undertaken with the specific intent to significantly influence voters, undermine public confidence in election processes or institutions, or influence, undermine confidence in, or alter the result or reported result of, a general or primary Federal, State, or local election or caucus, including—

    (i) the campaign of a candidate; or

    (ii) a ballot measure, including an amendment, a bond issue, an initiative, a recall, a referral, or a referendum.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/2708#k_4

It's illegal for foreign nationals to fund domestic elections. Don't participate in a conspiracy to influence domestic US elections by funding or directing them. It's pretty simple.

It's rather hard for the government to make these charges stick, which is why there are so few prosecutions for this. So if someone's formally charged, they done goofed. Presumption of innocence aside, the government isn't going to move on this case unless there's compelling evidence it happened.

The question isn't whether there are rights guaranteed by law. It's whether or not those laws are actually applied. That's why it's national news that Amazon was found to have violated labor laws... in a single warehouse in New York.[1]

And that's before we get into intentional understaffing and industry capture of the US Department of Labor.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdejj/amazon-repeatedly-vio...

I dunno. I like being able to go to work in a t-shirt and shorts, make really good money, and not look over my shoulder wondering if today is the day one of my co-workers fucks up their opsec and gets me caught up.

Phineas Fisher can look down their nose at me, but I got clean money and avoided the drugs and gang culture that took out so many of the associates I had growing up. If working for the man is losing, give me another L.

Both UFC and WWE athletes are already independent contractors and have to privately buy stuff like health insurance while participating in a literal combat sport (UFC) and wrestling over 200 days a year (WWE). It's already a race to the bottom.

The UFC and WWE have already vertically integrated their respective niches. They're pretty much the only game in town. If no one cared when WWE bought ECW and WCW--and no one cared when the UCF bought Strikeforce--nothing is gonna be done now.

I'm assuming by AWS 'experts' you mean third-parties? Because every SA I know at AWS will proactively tell you when to not use AWS. Half of my job at AWS is reviewing architecture diagrams and determining whether workloads are a good fit for AWS.

I've never met any AWS expert at AWS who isn't quick to tell you when an AWS service isn't a fit for your needs.