It’s been pretty incredible. He started from absolutely nothing, just ground the everliving hell out of the game, and after a year he’s… good.

A friend’s kid brought home Covid and they didn’t catch it because they masked up for a few days in their house.

I had actually bought masks in 2018 because I was tired of getting sick every third flight. And then chickened out and didn’t wear them because it just wasn’t done at the time, at least outside of Asia.

Ended up donating that box to my primary care when supplies were short at the beginning of Covid.

It does both. Others more than you, yes, but it does help both ways.

I was traveling recently and got so many dirty looks for wearing a mask, only one at O’Hare.

And then I didn’t wear it enough and caught covid for the first time. (I should have known better in cramped tourists spots). Then I had a reason to wear it, especially while temporarily homeless.

A drag queen? I bet he was a drag queen. I’ve been told they’re corrupting our kids.

Just because of the whole murder thing? It was legal!

We’re already too late. We need to be doing both.

It’s time for active measures.

Yes, The DNC famously doesn’t care how maybe Republicans are in Congress.

Remember the name of this commenter, because he constantly posts the same shit.

Anyone paying will use a VPN. Or find less legal avenues.

So first they were Nazis, but now they were doing it to make a home for Israel?

Not a very consistent story.

I have to say, “you’ve been unpardoned” would be a great line.

It depends on how much lawn you have, too. If you’re sitting on a quarter acre (1000 square meters), then just mow it. You don’t want bug habitats literally on top of your house.

If you have five acres, you can probably leave a good chunk of it as natural. Mow the stuff closer to your house, and whatever you want to be able to use, and leave the rest. Maybe take a scythe to it every once in awhile.

Maybe they should take it to Russia with them, instead of trying to bring Russia here.

Turns out journalists still need to eat, though.

WaPo got bought out and just ran quite a brave article on how they’re about to be hollowed out.

I saved the authors names for when they get fired. Maybe I can follow them wherever they end up.

Are you saying the point isn’t to catch CSAM because 95% of the CSAM people will find a workaround within a week?

Then what would be the point?

There are different types. The “financial duty” of corporations is generally overblown, however that is more or less what happened with Twitter. Elon made such a dumb offer that they had to put it to their shareholders. There’s some mechanism where shareholders can vote as a whole to sell, and if the vote passes then you don’t get a choice.

But generally corporations absolutely aren’t required to do whatever makes the most money. They’re allowed to put other values above pure profit, as long as they can justify it being in the shareholders’ interests. The shareholders may disagree and vote them out because of it, but as long as it was plausible, it’s legal. For instance, I believe the board of an Oil company could decide to shut down their wells and fully pivot to renewables, and I don’t think the courts would hold them accountable. Preventing climate change is easily arguable as in the shareholders’ interest, even at the cost of significant money. However that board would likely quickly be voted out. (And it’s unlikely they would have gotten there if they didn’t love oil money.)

If you own 51% of shares, public or not, you can’t be forced to sell afaik. And if you’re private, you’d have to do some pretty big illegal defamation or something to be forced to sell your property. Or you could die and your descendents could decide to sell.

One issue is that we’ve set up our tax system to encourage cashing out asap. For the most part in the US, you’re going to be taxed at 37% whether you sell now or whether you have the company pay you out for the next twenty years. So why not get out while the gettin’ is good? In the past, with a 90% top marginal rate at a higher income, it was often better to keep your money in the company and in the reputation, and just have it pay you out at a medium tax bracket for the next fifty years. All you really need to do as your job is make sure the company stays stable anyway. You can do that while spending four days on the golf course.

Do you use websites? They can also track your IP.

Heh, P2P absolutely does not minimize security concerns, especially of your IP being revealed.

Remember how people got DDoSed all the time because of Skype?