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Upvoted for speaking your truth.

I got banned from /r/LateStageCapitalism for stating that we shouldn't be ripping on people for having a Coexist bumper sticker. OP getting their post rejected there doesn't surprise me in the least.

I used to write tests for a cryptocurrency trading platform. I regularly talked to the auditors, as they were the ones who made sure that the crypto we transferred into external wallets made it back into internal wallets after the test.

I wouldn't say that I knew a bunch of accounting practices from talking to them, but I _did_ learn that the CTO and director of QA both lied to me during my interview. Sure, we made _some_ money from the spread as claimed in my interview, but in truth, the bulk of our money came from loaning our customer deposits to 3 Arrows Capital. I knew we were fucked _months_ before the company suddenly went under.

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What's the right way to ask, "is my manager or supervisor taking Adderall?" I need a manager that can listen for two minutes, not one that's on a drug that compels them to speak in ten minute long stream of consciousness rants.

The advantage of betting on a horse is that the next race is in 10 minutes. You buy a call on the price of MSFT, for example, and you're going to be waiting a while before you can place another bet.

And there are notoriously betting groups around the world that have made fortunes off of betting on horse racing. I'd bet that they feel superior to people betting on commodities and productive assets when they could be betting on horses.

So, how could one manipulate differences of opinion in order to turn a profit on a site like Kalshi?

> IDK if the left is as tied up in it as the right

Democrats dominate the legislature in California, and they are deep in the pocket of Indian gaming.

Concern trolls will ask who's going to pay for the free buses, and wonder if they'll be overrun by the homeless or other vilified residents of New York.

I think it has something to do with using a 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 DNS server. I'm using my ISP's DNS server and it's loading fine for me.

> Gambling is a real addiction.

> Gambling is not inherently addictive.

What do you reckon makes gambling go from not inherently addictive to a real addiction?

> This is what government is for

In my home country, the people building the robots and job destroying AI have captured all three branches of government, and have been saying for over 40 years that they'd like to shrink government down to a size that they could drown it in a bathtub. The government can't be relied upon to do more than move its military into our cities to violently stifle dissent.

> They'd probably do it happily even without a warrant

I'm old enough to remember when companies were tripping over themselves after 9/11 trying to give the government anything they could to help them keep an eye on Americans. They eventually learned to monetize this, and now we have the surveillance economy.

> There are no entry-level jobs, because "entry level" now requires years of experience

This was my experience leaving college in the dot-com bust 25 years ago, and I heard it was similar for graduates around 2008-2012.

Bill Maher rather famously lost his job on ABC 20+ years ago related to his comments about the 9/11 hijackers. I don't think conservatives cancelling people in the media for speech they don't like is anything new within the last 5 years.

Mini PC seemed to be the term that was being settled on, though I do see mini computer used where I'd expect to see nano computer as well. This is the first time I've seen anyone in tech use the term mini computer instead of nano, however.

Perhaps they're not teaching the under 40s what a mini computer is.

I grew up in an era of lawn darts, leaded gasoline, and Oxycontin. The end user is a test subject of all products.

I've been unemployed for months. In the last couple of weeks, I've been rejected for jobs as a pool cleaner, shelf stocker, and a state job requiring me to check multiple email accounts and watch security cameras. I've also recently been rejected as an overnight courier and software tester.

Whatever you imagine the job market to be like, I assure you it's worse.

I suspect that the current administration isn't concerned about winning the hearts and minds of Angelenos.

> I don't think he wrote a single song worth listening to.

Thank you, bigstrat2003, I'm going to throw out all my Nirvana CDs based on your authoritative statement.

What, pray tell, should I be listening to instead?

I'll never understand why they put the jobs on land surrounded by a moat on three sides. I had a supervisor 10 years ago who had a then-new 2 bedroom apartment in Mission Bay with her husband and child for $4900/mo. That's great if you're earning engineering manager money and your spouse is _also_ an engineer, but for those of us with children less than $200K household income, it's unaffordable.

What I want to hear about is startups surrounded on all 4 sides by affordable housing and decent public transit dropping you off within two blocks of work. Waking up in the morning and getting on that screeching BART train sucked away my will to put in 100% every day.

How does this differ from thought policing?

Broetry.

> What's the plan here?

The plan is to sell off the Crown Jewels to fund Trump's sovereign wealth fund.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trump-quietly-plans...

> very rich people that want to siphon off profit

Tax preparation is a huge industry in the US, they're going to fight tooth and nail to make sure the government doesn't cut into their business.

As long as the tyrants hurt the right people, the gun owners will use their guns to protect the tyrants.

[The revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it to be](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/04/leader-of-the-pro-t...).

> Anyone advocating against Tesla is letting their emotions hurt the fight against global warming

The capitalist class is driving climate change. If hurting one of the capitalist's brands by criticizing its CEO is the difference between success and failure in the fight against global warming, then the fight is already lost.

BTW, we're not going to consume our way out of global warming. We should be getting away from a two cars in every driveway culture if we're going to get serious about addressing the climate emergency.

I am Jack's irradiated spleen.

> not sure why it has become verboten to say

It's not. In California, we've been discussing forest management for at least 25 years since a series of wildfires broke out. There have been plenty of discussions about how we should be managing forests, trying to build consensus around best practices, and building the political will to implement them. It's been a maddeningly slow process.

If anyone is coming into the conversation out here saying, "California has bad forest management, they need to rake the forest floors" or whatever, it shows that they're entering the conversation with at best a 1990s mindset of what modern forest management is like. Yeah, we know, that alarm has been clanging for 25+ years. Come at us with solutions, not problems, we know the problems.

Years ago, the announcement came out over IRC that one of our providers demanded to audit our machines for "PCI compliance," and would be in the office the next day in our server rooms. I immediately replied that we needed to have someone keep an eye on them at all times. I was dismissed as paranoid, and the "outside auditors" were allowed unsupervised free rein with our machines for the day. These machines contained all of our users' credit card, personal, and travel information.

I was convinced after that incident that protecting users' data just wasn't a priority for startups, and that Mark Zuckerberg's money quote about users being "dumb fscks" for trusting him with their information was the norm in the C-suite and not an aberation.