no don't you remember that's against the (totally enforceable) contract you sign when you buy the thing

admittedly, end of the school year means they only have so much leverage for so long. But this seems like a paper "win" just to make people feel better and send them home without getting arrested. I think this is the tactic most schools are using "oh well admin can't do this unilaterally we have to go to xyz board/committee with it" and then the students stand down with just a handshake promise that they'll propose it at the next meeting. On paper, it seems miles better than what they've ever gotten before (the lead organizers of these events have mostly all been involved before oct 7th and gotten used to being shut down and ignored,) and if they can get amnesty from reprisals/prosecution to boot...

Honestly I don't know what the right answer is though (this ain't it obviously, but still), they only have so much support, and the supporters are only willing to take so much risk, especially seems to be more of a thing at smaller schools with less eyes on them. Basically any city in the country has enough swat teams and riot cops they can call in to clear something like this unless mayyyybe if the group was very organized, militant, and dug in. The reason they don't is optics but the harder the students push, the easier it gets to just paint them as violent rioters or whatever and come in and mass arrest, which with how disciplined cops are would probably turn into another kent state. Just staying indefinitely doesn't work because kids leave for the summer, and once the numbers wane its a lot easier to just come in and sweep them.

dhs is for like, big tent coordination between the different ghoulish agencies, iirc. It was created after the failure to put the pieces together in the leadup to 9/11

NSA is specifically signals intelligence, like mass data gathering at the telecom level, and crypto shenanigans, CIA is foreign espionage (and whatever the fuck they want tbh), FBI is domestic law enforcement/espionage. But each of them is so big and unaccountable that there's a lot of overlap in practice. They are genuinely different, but they all serve the same purposes really. CIA is the only one that really stands out for its brazen disobeying of the civilian government and complete unaccountability, since they fund their own shit via trafficking, etc. in addition to the normal budget process

I wonder if the NACS thing is set in stone yet (are cars coming off the assembly line with it yet, mainly)...

Because elon somehow killing that adoption by making it useless would be very on brand.

"I am one of tens of thousands of people participating in one of dozens of protests around the country" isn't exactly doxxing yourself. I mean fair enough, be careful, but I think we're all capable of judging our own risk level here and not posting about anything too cool-zone

video clips (or photos or any file that isnt a virus or illegal content) up to 200MB can be uploaded to catbox.moe

no ads, can get direct links to the video file

https://www.ebay.com/itm/294622706259 I guess

thiel beat you to it (basically) with palantir

huh. Yeah I've noticed that with my work. I can technically be flexible with my hours to some extent, but in practice I am expected to always be available during normal business hours, so its hard to justify ever really deviating from that schedule too much, I just end up working more after hours and can't really detach during 9-5.

I do have one coworker with explicit boundaries that are just like "I don't work x weekday and I'm off x morning until noon" and it seems to work well for her, but she may have explicitly negotiated that (used to be an independent contractor).

Offering this flexibility is one thing but yeah, keeping it vague and pushing people to work more by aggressive deadline and such are definitely shitty management tactics.y

At least for me, the circadian rhythm thing isn't as set in stone as I thought (not that I have total control over it but recently it shifted to where I always wake up at 6am, when I used to struggle to get up at 8 or 9)

sure looks that way

your car most likely has a black box of sorts if it's new enough to have OEM backup camera and bluetooth. https://rislone.com/blog/general/does-my-car-have-a-black-box/

However it's not remotely operated and not going to kill you, but it could rat on you to the police/your insurance. Its just as likely to exonerate you though I guess. Far less scummy overall

It's the death penalty only if she does not return some large percentage of the money. The death penalty here is the incentive for her to actually try to claw back the money. Though western outlets are speculating she'll never be able to recover the 27bn they are asking for. (44bn in damages overall)

I would argue life imprisonment is actually significantly crueler than death, assuming the conditions are anything resembling a US prison, or even most european ones. Either actually work to reform people and treat them with human dignity, or you might as well kill them, really.