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Comment Re: Time to grade on a curve (Score 1) 282

Rabbit hole starting here: https://www.vox.com/platform/a...

Your bodyâ(TM)s hormones wonâ(TM)t allow you to have a net energy deficit daily if it can avoid it.

Iâ(TM)ve âoeprovenâ this casually for 30 days trying to reach nerds not to be obese and have worked with hundreds of folks if not thousands.

You canâ(TM)t outrun the kitchen unless youâ(TM)re in a rare 1-2% of people who can.

Everyone else? The gym builds muscle but doesnâ(TM)t burn fat.

Comment Re:Poor prediction of inflation last time around (Score 0) 83

by dada21 (#63203190) Attached to: US Inflation Cools Again, Giving Fed Room To Downshift on Rates

This is mindless.

Companies have to raise prices during fearful times in order to profit now so they can cover the potential losses later.

I jacked my prices up BIG TIME in early COVID because I didn't know if I would be out of work in 2 years. I made a fortune in 2020 and half a fortune in 2021 as things equalized and nothing really bad happened.

I deserved that profit for taking a risk, tho. If things would have gotten shut down for me, I would have had enough cash to weather 2-3 years of outage and rebuild my businesses.

To wit, fuck you for your collectivism.
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Submission + - Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk (theintercept.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Elon Musk claims to be “fighting for free speech in America” but the social network’s new owner appears to be overseeing a purge of left-wing activists from the platform. Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had their accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing operatives appealed directly to Musk to ban them and far-right internet trolls flooded Twitter’s complaints system with false reports about terms of service violations. As the Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin noted on Twitter, the suspended users include Chad Loder, an antifascist researcher whose open-source investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot led to the identification and arrest of a masked Proud Boy who attacked police officers. The account of video journalist Vishal Pratap Singh, who reports on far-right protests in Southern California, has also been suspended.

Among the other prominent accounts suspended were the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, an antifascist group that provides armed security for LGBTQ+ events in North Texas, and CrimethInc, an anarchist collective that has published and distributed anarchist and anti-authoritarian zines, books, posters, and podcasts since the mid-1990s.

All four accounts had been singled out for criticism by Andy Ngo, a far-right writer whose conspiratorial, error-riddled reporting on left-wing protests and social movements fuels the mass delusion that a handful of small antifascist groups are part of an imaginary shadow army called “antifa.” In a public exchange on Twitter on Friday, Musk invited Ngo to report “Antifa accounts” that should be suspended directly to him.

Submission + - Musk suggests bankruptcy for Twitter is a possibility (nytimes.com) 3

Submitted by quonset
quonset writes: As Elon Musk attempts to impose his will on Twitter, the problems keep piling up. First he fired a ton of staff, then asked many to come back. Next, he announced that all workers must work from the office at least 40 hours per week. As a result, several senior members of Twitter's privacy and security teams left the company while offering ominous warnings of the trouble Musk is getting the company into. Now comes word Musk has said Twitter might have to declare bankruptcy as more and more advertisers stop buying ad space because of the hate-filled screeds Musk has allowed to permeate Twitter. From the story:

At the meeting on Thursday, Mr. Musk warned employees that Twitter did not have the necessary cash to survive, said seven people familiar with the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The social media company was running a negative cash flow of several billion dollars, Mr. Musk added, without specifying if that was an annual figure. He mentioned bankruptcy.

Mr. Musk added that he had recently sold Tesla stock to “save” Twitter. He has sold nearly $4 billion in Tesla shares recently, according to regulatory filings this week.

Even so, Mr. Musk said Twitter remained over-staffed after mass layoffs of half of the company’s 7,500 employees last week. Remaining workers needed to be more “hard core,” Mr. Musk said.

His statements echoed messages he shared in two emails sent to workers late on Wednesday. In those notes, Mr. Musk said “the economic picture ahead is dire.” He added that he planned to end Twitter’s remote work policy and wanted employees to renew their focus on generating revenue and fighting spam.

Comment Re: More like... (Score 1) 183

by dada21 (#62903147) Attached to: Florida Brings Battle Over Social Media Regulation To the Supreme Court

I am no conservative nor MAGA fan but I do believe Facebook etc acted as State actors during Covid and should be regulated as a State entity.

I have only registered and voted Democrat in my entire life and I am serious about putting some of these social network barons up in front of the Nuremberg courts version 2.

Submission + - Tesla demands removal of video of cars hitting child-size mannequins (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Tesla is demanding an advocacy group take down videos of its vehicles striking child-size mannequins, alleging the footage is defamatory and misrepresents its most advanced driver-assistance software.

In a cease-and-desist letter obtained by The Post, Tesla objects to a video commercial by anti-“Full Self-Driving” group the Dawn Project that appears to show the electric vehicles running over mannequins at speeds over 20 mph while allegedly using the technology. The commercial urges banning the Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta software, which enables cars on city and residential streets to automatically lane-keep, change lanes and steer.

The commercial led to a surge of news articles and criticism of Tesla’s software, which is being tested in an early-release version by more than 100,000 users on public streets in countries including the United States and Canada. It also triggered blowback from Tesla supporters who said the test could have been manipulated. Some of them sought to re-create the demonstrations — sometimes involving real children — in an effort to show that Tesla’s software does actually work.

Comment Re:Wow...people did this? (Score 1) 27

by dada21 (#62822415) Attached to: Google's Waze is Shutting Down Its Carpooling Service

I tried to do it, actually.

1. I have no need for extra money.

2. I drive an oddball 2 door electric so Uber and Lyft said no.

3. I would love to help someone get to a destination cheap or even free if I'm heading that way.

I scheduled rides (even to the store, etc) way in advance and never had a single bite -- even though I live in a very busy area and drive to very busy areas.

I would LOVE for Google to connect me to riders, even if it was free, just so I could help folks out.

I have zero fear of someone kidnapping me. I'm armed anyway.

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