throwup238
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Comment · 3 hours ago
One man’s hacker is another man’s sexual freedom fighter.
I wonder how this goes over in conservative countries like Egypt. Is it a scandal of some sort with ample pearl clutching or is it mostly a non-event?
Comment · 16 hours ago
An extradition treaty is just a formalized process for extradition, it doesn’t prevent countries from extraditing someone when they want to. China doesn’t extradite Chinese nationals as a matter of principle, but they’ll extradite other people to the US if it’s politically expedient.
Comment · 22 hours ago
It’s not all bad. When I was there, the Washington campus had a restaurant with a three course menu for $15, designed by a Seattle celebrity chef.
Comment · 1 day ago
I misremembered! It was 4-AcO-DMT not 5-MeO [1].
[1] https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR25-024.aspx
Comment · 1 day ago
Some family recently visited from out of state and we went to Venice Beach, where there is now tons of stores selling “magic mushrooms” along the boardwalk.
To my knowledge shrooms haven’t been legalized in California so I was curious what they sold (but not enough to try it). Turns out California state regulators have been surreptitiously testing the product from time to time and most of it is 5-MeO-DMT… and they don’t do anything about it despite being schedule I.
Venice Beach, leading the way in “medical” research!
Comment · 1 day ago
I’ve been burned by this so many times that I’ve pretty much given up on open models for general use.
Comment · 2 days ago
> This seems like sloppy reasoning. If a person's rights are being violated, they ought to be able to make that argument in court without reference to disparate impact.
Where does that leave the equal protection clause?
Comment · 2 days ago
Yeah that’s what everyone says, but no one wants to pay for it. That’s why California voted for Prop 22 instead of our courts forcing the rideshare companies to treat their drivers as employees.
Comment · 2 days ago
My nephew is currently doing UE/DD/Instacart to make ends meet and if their experience is reflective, most of their customers deserve shitty service. I helped them write some scripts to analyze data from Gridwise (delivery+mileage tracking app) and the tips average around 3-5% of the gross. Even in California with Prop 22, that's not going to add up to a livable wage.
Don't be surprised when the permanent underclass you depend on doesn't give a shit about your moldy strawberries.
Comment · 2 days ago
> I'm also unsure how they even keep their 501c3 status
There’s a special carveout in the law. As long as they’re only selling donated items, they can remain tax exempt (or to be precise, that income is not counted as “unrelated business income” so they can keep it under the nonprofit).
Comment · 2 days ago
I have several difficult projects that are very amenable to the whole automated agent swarm nonsense.
Comment · 2 days ago
This is (still) happening to three of my four 20x Max accounts and by all accounts it seems they’re getting short changed on total weekly quota.
They’ve got that IPO coming up so they’re turning up the fraud in preparation.
Comment · 2 days ago
The train in Spain derails mostly on the plain.
NOTICE: My religion forbids me from recognizing any terms of service that haven't been given the three blessings of the matriarch