Preaching to the choir much? I already told you I’m not the one to convince, but no-one’s gonna want to sub a community modded/admin’ed by someone who glosses reading comprehension and gets defensive for no real reason like-so.

Congratulations, you were asked for your new community’s “Pro’s” and put yourself squarely in the “Con” column instead, but at least you can squat the community name until you upset your instance admins…

Were you trying to make a more-specalized community? Make a post to one? Somehow thought the thing to do was create the community to post to when it doesn’t already exist on your instance.

I’m genuinely asking and I joined your new one because I’m not here to dictate other’s usage-patterns, but others are going to want the same answers and more.

TF did I just read? Is that for real?

You had me until “out of office” … “from a great height” was right there!!

I’m happy with days when reality lets me pretend I’m gonna get to start, let alone complete, the thing. Perfection? What’s that?

I mean, the effort-level here is at least as gross as the normiest-of-normies finds the concept. AI?

Any company that sent me this far-into the weeds for them ghosted me or replied with un-reasonable terms when I came up with something appropriate. Usually they replied with a whole boiler-plate they had on-hand, but apparently wanted to pretend it was a negotiation, until they didn’t. A couple times, the legal department on the other end got shitty with everyone and tried to act like their company had never and would never interact with a contractor who hadn’t already signed terms I found exploitative and walked-away from when they wouldn’t budge.

There are plenty of licenses out there that would work, but when you’re two-companies removed from the legal offices of the company with the ultimate say, its never as simple as trusting your friend. That said, my limitted experiences with similar situations never involved an insider I was close with, so I mean it when I say I wish you the best of luck.

You’re always gonna need to be ready or at least able to stop and ask yourself, were the favors that big, or did they just tell you they were? It’s the middle of the weekend and you’re fretting over this instead of spending your own time how you see fit or coding for profit.

A company that’s asking you to figure this stuff out for them isn’t necessarilly going to sign-off on anything too reasonable, but I’ll agree my advice was more suited for after that happens.

Real serious reply right there. I don’t have time for your non-sense, let alone to engage with it by way of an alt. This Orange man method of confession-by-way-of-accussation is pathetic.

“My lawyer will need to talk to your legal department, he charges $xxx per hour…” If you think I’m being snarky, I’m really not. Your entitled client is hoping to force you to, or let you, do something stupid so they can hang you out to dry or wring you out for free or discount labor, maybe even a “small guy like you should be willing to pay us for the oportunity to do this work”.

I’m not saying to pretend you are a lawyer, I’m saying to get one, and if its all above-board, things will work-out. If it ends up a “missed opportunity”, then it was never really an opportunity in the first place.

Maybe I’m just cynical, but I’ve always made double or triple the $$-per-hour as a contractor than I have as a W2. Some “clients”, head-hunters, and would-be “lead-finding services” would try to interact with me as though being a contractor just meant I was jobless, which, maybe they would have been right, in a world where I had or made the time to interact with people set on wasting it like so…

Read that last sentence again; By entertaining their non-sense, their assumptions about how they can get-away with exploiting you become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Hire a lawyer or become one. You can be out some money paying the lawyer(which becomes overhead expense to factor-into what money the client should owe you, in beautiful black-and-white contract/invoice form that let’s you sleep at night), or you can be out time, near-infinite amounts of time, doing your client’s homework on-top-of the programming they ostensibly are paying you for. Everything you care about suffers in the second version, including your code quality.

… and now we’re talking about your previous comment getting more positive traction than it deserved. Seriously though, you don’t think the meddling in Oceania involves China? I gotta see this…

That’s the thing that’s got me wondering what the problem could be here. Oh no, they might switch-out their ICBM launch rockets and use the old ones for boosters to get other payloads to orbit? THE HORROR

Congress and Mexico not helping to kill or deport enough brown people from Central and South America? Kill them while they’re traversing Guatemala, or fishing peacefully in international waters!

I see you, fucking Nazi terrorists.

Shame on Guatemala. You don’t even share a border with Orange man!

No question about other countries’ actions was asked, answered or even mentioned in the article. I stand by my assertion that the headline was misleading garbage and should have been called-out in the post.

That’s a funny way to say “…doubt America and the West …”.

Up-skirt photos are the one area where this gets me caught-up; Either a hypocrite or a shitty person. For the sake of consistency, I tend towards shittiness - the only real reason there’s anything like an expectation of privacy in public is so shitty (powerful)people can get-away with shitty things, when really, being in-public is being on-display.

Then there’s my stance on getting “caught” having sex on a park bench in a secluded forest by way of a trail-cam. I’m far from convinced that video evidence should count as evidence of an otherwise truly private, victemless, “crime” that otherwise wouldn’t be. We should only be jailing public officials caught-out in conflicts of interest/corruption like-so, and almost never the camera-man.

Instead, its the opposite. We are surprisingly far into all of this deep-fake and leaked-video shit for the average person to have any qualms about saying “whether that video is real or not is none of your business”, as if significant resources will be spent validating all but the highest-profile of images, but I get there are people who are generally embarassed and not just wrapped-up in their personal “sin” of having been portrayed or caught in a compromising position.

None of it upsets me so much as former strippers or adult film stars losing their jobs over shit that’s years-behind them, while genuine pedos escape notice for decades. I’ll say it again: society and the law are laser-focused on the wrong shit, and from the wrong-end of the turd at that.

Just a thought: politicians should not be allowed to use such apps. This right-to-privacy shit has gone too far, in the wrong direction, protecting ONLY the wrong people.

Just a thought: politicians should not be allowed to use such apps. This right-to-privacy shit has gone too far, in the wrong direction, protecting ONLY the wrong people.

Are people confusing Telegram for offering anything like privacy or anonymity now? It’s been wide-open five ways from Sunday since inception, by the standards of this community. I am NOT watching a goddamned video about it in 2026!!!