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jpreston2005

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  • Reading about this conference really brought to mind the bright and well lit corporate boardrooms of Robocop.

  • Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies

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  • Christina Marie Chapman, 49, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, raised $6.8 million in the scheme, federal prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed Thursday. Chapman allegedly funneled the money to North Korea’s Munitions Industry Department, which is involved in key aspects of North Korea’s weapons program, including its development of ballistic missiles.

    Part of the alleged scheme involved Chapman and co-conspirators compromising the identities of more than 60 people living in the US and using their personal information to get North Koreans IT jobs across more than 300 US companies.

    Dey Terker' Jerbs!

  • Jerry Seinfeld’s Teen Girlfriend Saga Resurfaces After Duke Walkout

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  • additionally, these have been some of the most carefully worded comments of my life lmao

  • When Texas jails issue tablets, it comes at cost for inmates and families - A handful of Texas jails have issued electronic tablets to inmates. Counties can make money off their use.

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  • Unlike prisons, which house convicted Texas felons, the majority of people in county jails are being held pre-trial, meaning they have not yet been convicted of the crime they were arrested for. Still, the amount of time people spend in jail can be significant. In Harris County, the average length of stay is nearly 200 days.

    As the federal government clamps down on inmate phone call costs, the tablets provide prison technology companies with new sources of revenue from a captive customer.

    A captive customer that hasn't been found guilty of a crime.

    Dystopia ain't gonna dystop, I guess

  • Woman accused of neo-Nazi plot to attack Baltimore's energy grid pleads guilty

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  • terrorists gonna terrorize

  • Jerry Seinfeld’s Teen Girlfriend Saga Resurfaces After Duke Walkout

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  • If it’s legal, and she was mature, why would it be wrong

    Well a thing being legal does not make a thing right. Emotional maturity is subjective, and thus is not what we use for determining whether a person is considered an adult or not.

    would it be wrong if I had sex with “a fully formed adult” when she is emotionally immature?

    Maturity isn't the guiding rod by which we can determine adulthood. I'm suggesting that age is relevant to this, because it's the best we have at determining brain formation. Intellectual disabilities in an adult would mean that engaging with them sexually is wrong, showing that it is the functionality of the brain that determines adulthood. If there was never a need for a draft, I think we would naturally have concluded adulthood starts around 22-25, instead of the arbitrary designation of 18. For the purpose of having a hard rule to stop children from being taken advantage of, age is the best we have (for people without intellectual/developmental disabilities).

    With that in mind, we really can say definitively, that no, Seinfeld isn't wrong for finding her attractive, but he was for having a sexual relationship with her.

    That being said, arguing that the urges behind the wrong act are "natural," seems to argue for a relaxation of our attitude towards these relationships, which is also wrong. which is why other Lemmineers got the "ick" from your previous comment.

    Because nobody is upset that he found her attractive. We're upset because he was a fully formed adult, with super-stardom and all the trappings of power that come with it, engaging in a sexual relationship with a not fully formed adult.

  • Jerry Seinfeld’s Teen Girlfriend Saga Resurfaces After Duke Walkout

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  • Jerry Seinfeld’s Teen Girlfriend Saga Resurfaces After Duke Walkout

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  • prime reproductive years

    girls enter puberty so much earlier than boys, their capable of reproduction anywhere from 10-12. When you talk about "prime reproductive years," know that it includes girls as young as 10. So... stop using that term. I am giving you the benefit of the doubt and inferring that you actually mean girls that are on the very cusp of womanhood, like, ages 17-19, but others may not.

    Women are hot, girls are not. Some girls can appear to be older than they are, and it's confusing when confronted with a genuinely attractive woman that is not yet 18, because we're caught between the confusing notions of "I am attracted to this person" and "this person is not yet old enough to to be engaged with in a socially conscious manner." It's not wrong to find the person attractive, it IS wrong to engage with them in a manner reserved for those that are fully realized adults. For my purposes, I'm putting adulthood at around age 22-25, when your brain is pretty much fully developed.

    So with that being said, No, Jerry Seinfeld didn't do a bad thing by thinking a 17 year old girl attractive, he DID do a bad thing by engaging with her as if she was a fully formed adult.

  • University of North Carolina to divert $2.3m DEI budget to safety and policing

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  • the vice-chair of the board’s budget and finance committee, Marty Kotis, indicated that he considered the DEI programs to be disharmonious to the campus atmosphere. “I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination,” Kotis said at the meeting during which the vote was held. “We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”

    And the way they go about promoting unity and diversity of thought is more police?

  • Ocasio-Cortez: State of US health care is ‘barbarism’

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  • when we have to rely on private companies to "pretty please don't bankrupt me" for health care needs, we're truly fucked.

    I was a part of my local rotary club for a minute (local clubs for small business owners), and we had a guest speaker from the drumpf white house. It was at this forum she touted a new plan that would allow companies to get together, and pool their collective employees, so as to get a better bargain on health care from health insurance companies. I raised my hand and said "that's fantastic, is there anything stopping every business in the area from doing this? We could potentially get everyone in the state, heck the nation, to pool together and IMAGINE the savings!" They ignored me.

  • Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says

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  • not everything at subway is healthy, but it's easier to eat healthy at Subway then at other places. For most of the sandwiches, the main contributor to calories is the bread. Just go with the wheat bread or a wrap to cut the calories of a sandwich in half.

  • How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion

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  • I’d kill for something forcing airbnb, vrbo, etc to actually cooperate.

    I'll go one step further, I'd pay taxes to the government that actually regulates shitty business practices. How is it easier to have a 12% increase in homelessness last year than it is to regulate fucking airbnb? Airbnb is not northrup grumman. It's not allied steel. it can go the fuck away.

  • Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says

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  • Well Subway, just about the only place you can get healthy fast food, only raised their prices 39%, in comparison with Popeyes and Jimmy Johns, whose prices rose 82% and 62%, respectively.

  • Cruise ship docks at New York City port with 44-foot dead endangered whale caught on its bow

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  • Has there ever been a good news story about one of these ships?

  • Back to the studio!

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  • notice the clear lack of a "controversy" section on Kendricks wikipedia. Drake is the only shitty person in this rap beef

  • Boeing forced to scrub first crewed Starliner launch to the space station

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  • The Kennedy Space Center has this flight reset for 10May2024, this Friday! Can't imagine how the astronauts feel, having the mission scrubbed whilst all strapped in, told to go home and maybe they'll shoot you into space in the next few days 😅

  • ‘Everything’s just … on hold’: the Netherlands’ next-level housing crisis

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  • Ever since I visited, I've wanted to live in the Netherlands. I hope the situation eases so I can follow my dream without being seen as an asshole immigrant taking up space ☹️

  • Florida workers brace for summer with no protections: ‘My body would tremble’

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  • Unless those federal protections don't include heat protection...

    There are currently no protections in the US for workers from heat. Only a handful of states such as California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Minnesota have passed any heat protections for workers.

    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) is currently reviewing federal heat standard protections and issues fines against employers citing the general duty clause in cases where workers die due to heat stress, but worker groups have advocated that heat protections which include water, rest, shade, breaks and acclimatization are needed to save workers from heat illnesses and their lives.

  • Employer of visiting nurse who was killed didn't protect her and should be fined, safety agency says

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  • Remember when conservatives were all about "corporations are people?" Yeah, when someone's gross negligence results in death of another, they don't usually fine the negligent person. They charge them with mansluaghter.