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AmazedSeal · 2022-04-25T19:08:40+00:00

Will he now ban that guy who tracks his plane?

ioncloud9 · 2022-07-02T10:57:19+00:00

The metaverse is where you go to spend real money on fake things that cost nothing to make.

WingsOverWars · 2022-07-03T01:43:09+00:00

No, thats stupid. Because people will stop working for them if they do, and go elsewhere, especially the top performers. Plus it becomes bad press for the company.

Youre not a slave or a prisoner to a company, but it is your responsibility to choose your own destiny. If you dont like how your employer is treating you, find a better one. If they wont hire you, thats a problem you have to take responsibility for.

fonaphona · 2022-02-12T02:10:12+00:00

I was a CS player and a competitive one. Our team signed up for a big national AA tournament as a joke just to have something to do with our down time as we were there for the CS tournament. None of us had ever even seen the game before. Literal first time any of us saw it was booting up the game on the tournament machine. And we got matched against the top seed who were supposedly heavy favorites to win it all.

They played like Army guys - sneaking around, being careful, hiding in the dark, securing the objectives etc. Everything so slow and calculated like you’ll actually die if you get shot almost roleplaying it.

Well we didn’t know how to do any of that so we ran around like maniacs and just deathmatched them. No objectives but kill. And doing CS stuff like 5 man boosts or bunny hopping - can’t really remember much about the game.

And we slaughtered them. They’d never played a team with such good aim and playing that reckless. Our tactics were completely unpredictable because we didnt even know where we were going or what we were supposed to be doing but we were real, real good at doming dudes.

Anyhow they got so tilted they were just full throat screaming at each other. And we were kids and dicks so we were rubbing in it yelling shit like “More like France’s Army!” and “When do we go live?” and whatever else. This was in the days before huge stages and stuff just a hotel event space and you were close enough to hear each other if you were loud.

Well we continued CS-ing our way through these teams making them feel real dumb just making a farce of the tournament until the championship. And they had reps from the military that were involved with the game there too so they were getting real annoyed with us.

By that time all the other teams got together with our final opponents and came up with a strategy to beat us that basically involved hiding and using our compete lack of map knowledge to just avoid us or just camp useless areas in groups until one of us blundered by. Good on them for not letting us buzzsaw through their whole community.

So we didn’t win we got second. But damned if we didn’t make it fun. It was like a battle of communities for the finals. A bunch of the CS guys cheering us (we were maybe a B+ CS squad and no other CS teams signed up) and all the AA guys on the other side cheering them.

And man those AA kids went ape shit when their guys finally got the win so I bet that was a fun moment for them. Hugging each other and the military guys were like giving them nodding looks like they saved the honor of the US Army.

Of all the CS I played I think about AA quite fondly because of that. Even though it sucked.

That’s my AA sorry. Thanks for reading. Sorry it was long.

EnglishAintBeTooGood · 2022-07-01T09:58:10+00:00

ONCE AND FOR ALL!

thetruthteller · 2022-07-01T11:13:41+00:00

As a manager we all know 80% of a team is brain dead and maybe 1 or 2 people carry the whole Team

A little blow up- to answer the question why high performers are leaned on so heavily- work has to get done and people who work can work more, better, faster. They are just better at getting things done. The brain dead’s are around because its too hard to fire people and one lawsuit can destroy a company’s revenue stream and reputation.

So, lots of mediocres they can’t get rid of and never leave because they know it’s a free ride.

Edit edit- for Illuminati level management practices, know that most managers are trying get up to the next level fast, and they know the best workers are always about to leave, so they will dump work and try get a big win and move up and then when the best leave it’s someone else’s problem. They’ll exploit the worker as much and as quickly as possible to move out of their current role

PO0tyTng · 2022-06-30T04:28:13+00:00

They just want to know what you do in the bedroom. They’re asking for a friend. The same projecting GOP that said pizzagate existed and at the same time brought you Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore, and alllll of the following:

Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals after prosecutors alleged Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 and attempted to compensate his victims and subsequently conceal the transactions. Hastert eventually admitted that he sexually abused the boys whom he had coached decades earlier, and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.

Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Kentucky, pled guilty to child sex trafficking and on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison. Republican state Senator Ralph Shortey was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. In November 2017, he pleaded guilty to one count of child sex trafficking in exchange for the dropping of the other charges.

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, a notable racist, had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter. Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography. Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy. Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison. Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

Pixieled · 2022-06-30T11:40:51+00:00

Republicans love to misuse language in order to diminish the validity of actual outcry and to warp the general sense of what's true and accurate. We need to hold on to our language with a death grip before they drown every word with weight. They have done it with so many phrases and words. BLM being turned into ALM, my body my choice, calling protests insurrection, and so many more.

On a darkly funny connecting thread, I'm made to think of the episode of South Park where white people keep stealing black language to try and sound cool. And black people had to keep creating new words and phrases until house = flibbidy flobbidy flu.

We need to all go back to being shitty know-it-alls and constantly police their use of language. Don't let people crush the reality of the true suffering of others through misuse of language. Language is a really shitty thing to lose control over.

I know language changes and adapts, every generation alters it to some extent, but this is egregious and intended to further oppress minorities while those in power cosplay at being victims.

SPNKLR · 2022-06-30T03:40:33+00:00

If women don’t have a right to privacy then neither do these assholes.

NurRauch · 2022-06-30T03:47:06+00:00

Something else that has been lost to the historical revisionism that is "originalism" is an important role of courts as a third branch: to be the de facto protector of the minority, to establish protection for groups that are not popular enough to win protection from the legislature or the executive. There is supposed to be an inherent presumption that the judicial branch will expand rights. When it's a toss-up between curtailing rights and expanding them, the courts should attempt to error on the side of expanding rights.

Every time originalists spout off about how the function of a court isn't to make law, I just sit back and wonder what they think the purpose of any court is in the first place. It's the third branch because it supposed to fix problems that are un-solvable through the other two branches. Expansionist rights through the courts are not a bad thing when a court is protecting groups that are otherwise helpless against the onslaught of a majority.

This isn't explicitly stated in the Constitution itself, but the reason why is that the founders assumed it was so obvious that it didn't need to be said. It's the same reason the Court justified Marbury v. Madison -- the very notion that the Court had the power to overturn the government's will wasn't explicitly stated in the Constitution, but logical reasoning required that the Court have that power to function whatsoever. The literature of political discourse at the time is rife with debate over the purpose of courts, and a special role as a bulwark against tyranny for the little guy was an important facet of America's conceptualization of the judicial branch.

erixp · 2022-06-30T11:28:50+00:00

The actual paper is a good read and it talks about PoS and PoW blockchains.

cbbuntz · 2022-06-30T02:29:21+00:00

Thoughts and prayers

theTenebrus · 2022-06-30T10:44:07+00:00

The China data harvesting is actually why I added the quotes early on. I know that the FCC thing isn't the real reason. Though, the timing sure does make it seem like a convenient time to act on it.

That is, when the right argument doesn't work to convince people to act, sometimes one can be more convincing by making the wrong argument. it's basically a weird flavor of Ends Justifies the Means.

For the logicians: (P∨Q)⟶R and P∧–Q are true, so it should just be (P⟶R)⟶R but the people deny that (in disbelief) and instead find (Q⟶R)⟶R (technically, logically true) the more believable implication. Either way, R is the conclusion, but people usually don't follow all the rules of logic, hence the argument for Ends (R) Justify the Means (Q⟶R) here.

Chainstinker · 2022-06-30T09:58:40+00:00

Sounds like a Hitchens razor to me. Seeing the statement of the FCC commissioner and thinking that he’s just protecting people is basically missing the forest for the trees because there is an actual issue with China.

There is the insane data harvesting that’s taking place by government-sanctioned companies like Tencent bytedance etc, and their 2049 initiative stands as the end goal.

Before people start with the whataboutism on US apps like Facebook, Google etc, keep in mind that China doesn’t allow western apps in their country, yet the west allows. China doesn’t allow western companies to gather data on their populace, yet we allow them to milk us dry. It’s a one sided relationship.

Also, TikTok’s algorithm is straight propaganda at this point, and it’s breaking up western society. It’s a joke that people don’t see it.

https://youtu.be/9j68gYP57EE

fatal_Error777 · 2022-06-30T05:49:40+00:00

No like most political zealots they feel justified in their actions. Even though they are insane.

vizzyq · 2022-06-30T05:02:23+00:00

‘Member when a bunch of rednecks drove near Biden’s campaign bus on a public highway and Reddit was in shambles over what could have happened in some alternate reality? Most of the people here operate on pure emotion when politics are involved.

Videoboysayscube · 2022-06-30T03:29:22+00:00

Reddit is the biggest cesspool of hypocrisy you can find anywhere. I don't pledge allegiance to either political party. The entire U.S. populace has been played for a bunch of fools. How do you distract from the core issues of our government and the economic crisis? You turn your citizens against one another. It's nothing more than two sides claiming their team is better. This way no matter what goes wrong, no matter how deep the corruption runs, you can just point your finger at the other guys and blame them. This ensures nothing will ever improve within the government because every problem is always going to be the other guy's fault.

valuldemarul · 2022-06-30T04:56:02+00:00

Imagine the outrage if republicans did this. Pure leftist hypocrisy 👌

RudeIBegYa · 2022-06-30T04:58:52+00:00

Amazing how everyone is suddenly okay with doxxing when it’s someone they don’t like. Either it’s always okay, or it’s never okay. Quit moving the goddamn line to suit your hypocritical bullshit. Both sides do it and it’s fucking pathetic.

Edit: all of your replies are just proving my point, thanks. Special shout-out to the weirdo who got triggered that I said PewDiePie, you really proved my point. I hope you guys keep the same energy if you get doxxed. Following your own behavior, you’re not allowed to complain about it. You “deserve it after all.

Capthowdy951 · 2022-06-30T03:06:05+00:00

I try to make this point to so many people on so many topics these days. They are only in favor of all of these terrible and overbearing ideas because they currently favor them, or a group they identify with, but times change, power shifts, and all they are doing is creating the regulations and precedent to allow themselves to be victimized eventually.

plague681 · 2022-06-30T03:01:37+00:00

Reddit is such a strange place.

I wonder if some of you folks are going to be okay with SCOTUS judges being doxxed when the court is stacked in the the other direction, politically? You want a liberal judge being threatened with assassination on their doorstep when they help put Roe or its equivalent back in place? To quote you short-sighted morons: ahh yes, how sad, lolololol.

hur dur

Smarten the fuck up.

numairounos · 2022-06-30T03:28:42+00:00

Not to be a party pooper but I highly doubt it will be this. If it is, I’ll eat my shoe and film it for Reddit

DHvn14 · 2022-06-29T11:50:34+00:00

Ban it, there is nothing good about Chinese government

mkicon · 2022-06-29T16:07:46+00:00

The difference is we know China has a database tracking their residents and Tik Tok is in their governments pocket.

Imagine a China dominated future where you're social credit score is already bad by denouncing them online years ago


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