I asked my sister-in-law who worked for the VA (retired a few months ago) about the end of the road emails, literally I asked "Hey I heard that a bunch of crazy emails went out to all federal employees, did that happen to you at the VA too?" and she went off on how everything has been nuts since trump took over and how people are being removed from W2 and made all gig workers with 1099 so they don't have to pay out insurance or benefits or earn time towards a government pension / retirement, and how lucky she is she gets to retire before that fully takes affect and how its "all Elon's fault". Saying it was all Elon, and Trump had nothing to do with it, is some serious mental gymnastics... This was August of last year.
I can see them try to place it "under the protection" but the states need to have a chain of custody for every vote, and whoever signed that custody chain is responsible for it. I dealt with this in the Army as an MP. And it would require the state to be complicit as well and I don't think most states want to just hand over all their authority to the federal government and turn themselves into puppets. But we will see...
even if he starts a war, he can't avoid the midterms. The president has no authority over elections, the states have that authority, overseen by congress. And if states don't elect new congressmen and congresswomen and senators, then when the currently elected people have their terms end, then the states will not be able to just keep them in position, when their term ends they are out per the constitution, and won't have a representative until a special election is performed.
Also... I distinctly remember something from my history classes about how Americans react to being taxed without representation... Or at least they did in Boston in the 1773.
Obviously he's saying 160 hours is what he works in 2 months, so that's 80 hours a month, or 20 hours a week on average. Shit, I didn't know being the president is a part time job, with those benefits? sign me up!
I have blink outdoor cameras, not the best out there, but very usable video, indoor work the same, you can put a USB flash drive in the sync module and use it on the local network, i use my 2.4 band for that and my home automation. Recorded clips stay on my flash drive locally, and I just say no to the subscription if it asks. All cameras connect to the same sync module. Have no complaints.
I worked at Fort Lewis in the RCF (Regional Correctional Facility, aka prison) and we had an Army soldier who got 3 years for 1st degree murder because he mercy killed a combatant after they got covered in white phosphorous. Literally everyone was like "how the fuck do you only get 3 years for first degree murder?" and then when they read his court documents were like "what the fuck, you got screwed and obviously everyone knew it..." They legally determined that at the moment they were no longer fighting back they became non-combatants and to kill a non-combatant instead of rendering aid is murder. Since the judge and jury agreed that it did violate the law, but hoped that if they were ever in that combatant's shoes, they would want someone to do to them what this soldier did, so yeah, guilty, but sentenced to the bare minimum allowed.
I know for 100% fact there is precedent already. But that is rules for thee, not for them, so I highly doubt we'll see anything happen. I'm sure they'll claim they need immunity because they were operating under special rules of engagement or some bullshit, and it will take years and lots of lawyers and in the end it'll drag on until its forgotten about and gets quietly dismissed somewhere.
Yes, actually, I betrayed the client by preparing lots of paperwork and examples of the system working so when they went to court they would actually have to defend their position.
It didn't help me not get laid off though because losing 4 months of payroll in a chargeback is pretty brutal for a company's books.
And that company never came back from it. A subdivision of the company, survived, but the company lost its building, and most of its employees during the bankruptcy and restructuring. And it happened right before Christmas, so the entire company got laid off for the holidays, it was a lot of fun /s. Fuck predatory self-help companies...
Yes, Nedry owned his IT company, but Hammond was withholding Nedry's final paycheck until debugging was done. Which had already gone over budget due to feature creep, so Nedry was doing it himself because he didn't have money to pay his people because Hammond wouldn't give him the money they agreed on. Hence why Nedry was looking to make some side money, he's literally doing all that debugging and final system fixes for free on the promise that he won't be screwed again by Hammond. IIRC anyway, its been like 30 years since I read the book... And a lot of my perspective changed as I got older and I got more experience in the industry. As a kid, I thought you took the job you should do the job, but as an adult I understand a lot better the dynamics of the situation and while I still think if you took the job you should do the job, I completely understand the feeling of getting Fucked by someone who would rather throw money at lawyers than just pay what they agreed on.
I have been in his position, and while I didn't betray the client and get killed, I really understand his mindset and "Fuck-it" attitude. Hammond is wealthy and using his position and power to spare as much expense as possible and step on as many contractors as possible. Kind of like an Orange Cheeto I know of. I had a company I work for that had to file bankruptcy because a half-billion dollar a year company hired us then charged back their initial payment and refused to issue final payment unless we did a ton of extra work, and when we did that, they just said "thanks" and vanished. Apparently American Express lets you contest a payment 6-12 months after it was issued and their stance is if you want your money you should sue.
they don't need the welfare to get by, but supply/demand and economies of scale, if their sales volume drops, their prices certainly won't be rolling back to make up for it. They will be laying off more workers, automating more positions, and raising prices. They didn't make the system, but they definitely positioned themselves to take advantage of it.
Considering that the states that Trump won in 2024 cover a majority of the SNAP participants, its quite likely that quite a few people on SNAP literally voted for this. And next month there won't be any backup funds for SNAP. Its going to be a very interesting, and hopefully eye-opening, Holiday experience for a lot of people... I know it will hurt a lot of my neighbors and relatives who voted for it a lot more than it will me.
I used to flatten coins that way all the time as a kid. Did it on dates, worked really well. First time I heard that was on a date and I laughed a bit too hard I guess, didn't work that time.
its a bash script (bash is a linux shell, like an advanced command prompt). Similar to a very advanced batch file (.bat) on windows, or more in line with the functionality available with windows PowerShell, but with better tools and less stupid, for Linux instead of Windows. On Linux file extensions aren't necessary, you can set permissions to whether a file is executable or not as an attribute to the file, so you can download this text script file that's been renamed to be a .exe, and it won't work on windows at all, nor on linux, until after you either give it permission to execute and then run it, or run it by piping it into the bash shell, which is what their one-liner copy/paste with the tinyurl would end up doing.
Honestly, after looking through it all it does is go through some jokey menus with some jokey responses, and feels very reminiscent of code written by chatGPT, which is pretty much the only place I ever see those unicode character icons being used in actual code.
I used to work for the company upstairs in the same building as the inspiration for this diorama. There was a video where he went out and let a lady in after hours and I was like holy fuck I know those stairs... and that door... for about 6 months I walked past that door and never saw the guy, the blinds always closed. But eventually I found out they discovered a tenant filming porn in the building and they kicked him out. And I was like I fucking new it!
but you forgot, Elon didn't diddle little kids because Jeff was out of town that weekend, so he's in the clear! (sarcasm if its not obvious)