You'd think we'd be getting wiser, but that's clearly not the case.

The NY Times has a good summary: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/business/media/reddit-moderators-api-protest.html Highlights: 65% of the 9,000 subs (message boards) went "dark" for 2 days, in protest Protest is over Reddit charging large-scale companies for access ** like Google, OpenAI (ChatGPT), Microsoft...which uses Reddit content to train its AI models ** The protest concern is more about how it could kill off 3rd party apps, such as Apollo that is used on iOS to be a user-friendly Reddit interface (would cost Apollo $20 million annually), and how it would hurt tools that moderators use to manage freewheeling discussions on their sub

@Jon said in Hey Lard Ass, you're next.: Patreus was a willful retention case? https://www.justsecurity.org/82623/lessons-from-petraeuss-guilty-plea-for-trumps-classified-docs-investigation/ Petraeus reached a deal with the Justice Department to plead guilty to one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material, in violation of a federal statute, 18 U.S.C. 1924, which then provided, in relevant part:

It's when they fall asleep during, not after, that I get slightly irritated

No doubt about that. I was speaking from a legal perspective.

When you start with a predetermined outcome….

Well, they're indoctrinated. What comes out of their mouths isn't from themselves. That's never healthy for anybody.

Well, sapphire, we've been making sure that we took one of the most cutting edge medical systems the world has ever seen, nickel and dimed it to death, regulated it to death and cut reimbursements to death. There is nothing left to stop the inevitable decline. In a finite system, everybody can't have everything.

@George-K Don’t know. National standardized exams don’t exist here. Education is strictly a provincial jurisdiction. Feds have no input or jurisdiction whatsoever. Provide no funding either. There are standardized provincial achievement exams for high school graduation in some provinces of which I believe Ontario is one.

TDS is real, and it is spectacular.

Popcorn please

@Jon said in FCC proposal to require TV providers to disclose “all-in” costs …: Seriously? Did you purchase your pressurized air for the trip? Don’t be surprised

The clickbait article says "6 words" but he says 8 in the phrase "you could just feel evil in the air". Really, he says more than that, which is interesting, but still... stupid clickbait.

I think Mammy might be gramma…

Doubt it. Putin has coveted Ukraine in his imperial ambitions since at least 2004. It’s not about US domestic politics. It’s about Russia’s imaginary historical mission and Putin’s legacy in fulfilling it.