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Comment Re:Why the ruse? (Score 3, Informative) 51

In California, it's not a felony if it's under $950 the first time you do it, but it's still a misdemeanor. However, if you steal $700 twice from the same company, then it rises to the felony amount because $1,400 is more than $950.

With that said, this happened in Florida, and I don't really know the laws in Florida.

Comment Re:Capitalism (Score 1) 463

There doesn't need to be a population collapse.

In some parts of Africa, only the rich have reliable power generators/power storage.

Ted Cruz is the perfect example of this. When shit goes sideways, Ted Cruz will fly to Cancun, or turn on the generator in his garage.

And a few of the poor people in Texas died, sure, but it wasn't a population collapse.

Comment Re:Apples to Oranges (Score 1, Interesting) 192

The Tesla web site is a bit scummy thought.

The base Tesla models are so stripped down, they're not worth buying. Everyone I know who want to buy a Tesla either abandon their purchase midway through, or feel the need to add an extra 10k to 25k in unforeseen options (that they thought came standard with the car).

Comment Re:What's not being said? (Score 1) 148

Probably, also cashless stores don't make too much sense when local cities are creating laws to force them to accept cash.

https://abc7news.com/consumer-...
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/...

Don't get me wrong, this was just before the pandemic. During the pandemic, many stores and restaurants were allowed to go cashless even in those cities.

Comment Re:Did she get her assigned work done? (Score 1) 167

In the summary, it says "it installed employee-tracking software called TimeCampon Besse's work laptop after it found her assigned files were over budget and behind schedule" so is seems like she wasn't getting her work done?

That's one possible interpretation.

But at the same time, it's convenient that they don't have any log data on the other employees and on the managers to compare with.

Comment And if I catch you recording me for content... (Score 4, Insightful) 161

And if I catch you recording me for content, I will smack your phone away.

If you hit the phone out of their hand, you're just inviting the clip to go viral.

Think it through. Instead of giving them what they want, do the opposite of what they expect.

Say "You're filming this? Good. I'm going to film this too." or in other cases, just ignore them and walk away. Some trolls hate it when you just ignore them.

Comment Re:Police State (Score 1) 110

...it's very clear that you don't understand international politics even a little bit.

Am I naive about international deals and alliances? Yes, most likely.

But even I can see that there was an attempted insurrection on US soil and that its main leaders still haven't been punished yet. And that these people (and the people who support them like Putin and the Saudi prince) represent an existential threat to democracy in the US.

And if that sounds like I'm moving the goalposts, then so be it. But in my mind at least, this concern was always in the back of my mind when I started this discussion and it is not going to change simply because you call me xenophobic, a colonialist, or an hypocrite.

Even if I'm an hypocrite, it's not going to change my mind about wanting to defend myself against Saudi Arabia.

Comment Re:Police State (Score 1) 110

If you really want to be so insanely xenophobic and colonialist as to pretend that their meager efforts are even in the same ballpark as Western efforts to influence them to become more secular, I have bridge on the Moon to sell you.

I'm not part of the elite. I never was. I never will be. Talking to me like I endorsed those decisions is silly. I never did.

Do I wish the US stopped invading and messing up other countries? Yes, I absolutely do. Just like I wish Saudi Arabia stopped messing with Yemen and US politics, I wish the same for the US and the countless countries it has done this to.

But here we are.

Comment Re:Police State (Score 2) 110

But it's their nation, their land, their laws. I'm not a colonialist, and I don't believe that I have the right to dictate to foreign people how they need to live their lives in their country, as long as they grant me the same courtesy.

On that point, Saudi Arabia is meddling in US politics. It's an investor in many US corporations (including 2 billion dollars which it gave Jared Kushner). It's funding terrorism throughout the world. In addition to that, the US has been training their troops, propping up their monarchy, and sending them weapons so they could attack Yemen.

In other words, we are far from neutral where it comes to Saudi Arabia. And personally, I just wish they would leave us alone. I don't want them interfering in our politics anymore, just I'm sure you would like the US to stop interfering with the politics of Saudi Arabia also.

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