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or if they are, they get their house firebombed.

For those unfamiliar, this isn’t hyperbole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendlyjordies#Firebombing_incidents

Assuming you’re in the US, I 100% would’ve done a credit card chargeback. Bank would’ve taken your side on that one.

Nevermind abroad. A lot of them would do well just to get some actual exposure to larger cities in their own states.

Part of the urban/rural divide is fueled by the pervasive belief that cities are lawless hellholes because they’ve never had real exposure to it.

Worth noting that ATC is unusual in that there is both a maximum age that you can start (30) as well as a mandatory retirement age (56).

The transmission in those things is an amazing level of suck, too. It’s this bizarre automatic manual thing that’s just awful to drive.

Stakeholders are people with any kind of interest in the company doing well

Corporate social responsibility as a concept is even broader than that – it’s not just anyone who has interest in the company doing well, but broad consideration of anyone impacted by the decisions of the company.

A company might be able to save operational costs by dumping toxic sludge in a river, but within a CSR framework, people living downstream would be considered stakeholders and the potential negative impact of the decision on those people is supposed to be taken into account when decisions are made. The corporation is supposed to have a responsibility to do right by anyone impacted by their actions wherever possible.

At least that’s the theory. It shouldn’t be surprising that the language of CSR gets pretty commonly coopted by companies looking to whitewash what they’re actually doing.

it took me way too long to realize that i can tell my boss to eat shit.

I think the difference in upbringing you’re describing is a huge part of it.

Millennials went through spending our entire early adult lives being gaslit about how all the ways we were being abused were ultimately somehow our fault because our parents refused to recognize the systemic issues we were facing.

We may have come to the realization late, but we can certainly make sure younger generations know that they can and should call bullshit when they see it.

“Canceled” is a term assholes came up with to rebrand “consequences” to make it seem like something that isn’t their own fault.

Not sure I agree with this particular take. My recollection is that this usage of cancelled started in progressive internet spaces and was absolutely used to describe consequences for being an asshole.

It’s the exact same trajectory woke took – it was language used by left-leaning people that got co-opted and intentionally diluted by conservatives.

Refusing to cooperate with Democrats is what sank him.

He needed support from Democrats to keep the Speakership. He’s spent the entire year giving them no reason to trust him – including going on the Sunday shows this week knowing this vote was coming and trying to blame Democrats for the near shutdown.

This AI ruling is also actually completely in-line with existing precedent from the photography world.

The US Copyright Office has previously ruled that a photograph taken by a non-human (in this case, a monkey) is not copyrightable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute

It’s SEO-optimization nonsense.

Look at the Netherlands and how it’s often done there, you walk around with a scanner so you can scan as you go and quickly pay at the end.

Walmart and Sam’s Club have this with their Scan & Go app in the US. Scan the barcode with your phone, add it to your cart, pay from your phone, and someone at the door will scan a QR from your phone then scan a few random items in the cart and you’re done.

I pretty much wouldn’t shop at Sam’s if it didn’t exist. The checkout lines there have always been long and a pain. It cuts a ton of time standing around waiting in line out of a trip.

It’s why all the appeals to “what would Aaron think” with the whole API thing were really off the mark.

spez and kn0thing were college buddies. Swartz was kind of pushed onto them by YC. I’ve never had the impression that they felt any particular attachment to him; he was a business partner that became involved at the behest of the people funding them, who left in the first couple of years.