@YFIHQ I wonder how the auto insurance claims process works in China. 😬
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Lance Miller
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@TheProjectUnity Most humans can't even fathom what you're referring to.
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Humans:
"I'll believe it when I see it!"
The Universe:
"lmao"
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@SeanWSkelton It's actually the opposite of dangerous. NEC 210.23 and Article 645 explicitly allow listed PDUs like this in rack setups as long as total draw stays under ~24A continuous. It's a factory UL-listed enterprise PDU. Way safer than cheap alternatives on Amazon. Thousands of home-lab folks use them daily without issue.
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@davepl1968 Notice how they all say, “not for external load”?
Thats because it’s not safe, nor legal, under the electrical code to have a bunch of 20A plugs on a 30A circuit, unless they’re dedicated for use in a complete product, engineered w/ extra protection.
You’re playing with fire.
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These old DEC power centers are great - they plug into a NEMA L30P outlet, provide two full 30A circuits, a full breaker, switched and unswitched outlets, and a remote trigger.
They sell for $100 or so on eBay and are way better than a regular power center, especially in a rack!
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@_GunRunn3r_ @elonmusk EFF champions free speech while keeping 𝕏 users they don't follow from engaging their 𝕏 posts. 💀
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@MidLifeVirus @alphafox Turn the TV or phone off and stare at the screen for 2 hours. That's what the bulk of us are doing for hours on end, every day. Staring at hunks of refined plastic and glass. There's so much more.
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I appreciate the pragmatic approach, and you sound like an excellent father, but the analog world absolutely exists and remains the bedrock of everything. Digital stuff doesn't float in a vacuum. It's an abstraction layered on top of meatspace reality. Balance is key. The planet has endless natural worlds with rewards to behold and explore.
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Employment is consensual in the US. Unhappy with the pay or conditions? Find an employer that appreciates your work and pays a decent wage. Gain skills and knowledge (with a helpful, can-do attitude), ask for help when needed, and set yourself apart from your co-workers / colleagues. Anger and resentment will only harden your heart and lead to miserable outcomes. You're capable of so much more than you currently realize.
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@lmilsfsd @davepl1968 @ZacksJerryRig How? If he's paying his crew a livable wage how is that the same it's literally not lol
This company made BILLIONS in revenue and stop ass kissing these folks they won't PISS,spit,look in your direction if you were on fire dear God don't tell us you've bred?!
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I'm not saying what this guy did was right - I'm just statistically pointing out that the company leasing this warehouse, Kimberly-Clark, has a CEO named Michael D. Hsu that made $16.4 million dollars last year.
That is $7,884.62 an hour.
Food for thought.
Power to the People ☭🕊@ProudSocialist
A worker in Ontario, California sets his company’s warehouse on fire and has a message for the CEO: “There goes your inventory. All you had to do was pay us enough to fucking live.” Expect to see more of this as people struggle to survive under our decaying capitalist system.
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@nikitabier @EFF @EFF publicly laments low impressions and claims "X is no longer where the fight is happening," all while tightly restricting who can engage on their posts. Front group? Controlled opposition? Seems that way. Thanks @nikitabier.
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Whoever is advising @EFF on social strategy should be fired.
Their reach on their X account is 13.3x larger than on their Instagram account—and on 228x larger than their TikTok account.
If they want their foundation to have an impact on the global conversation, the only place is on X.
EFF@EFF
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)
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@ZacksJerryRig How about you post your YouTube revenue so we can decide if you make too much money? And then that way, if some calamity should befall you, we'll know whether to empathize with you or not.
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@DocFintech @WallStreetApes In-N-Out is the literal king of burgers in the US, by AUV (average unit volume). In-N-Out locations continually outperform rivals in the fast-food industry, with AUV estimated around $5.8M. Their formula is successful and they have zero need to alter it.
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@WallStreetApes This is stupidity. A golden ticket to their competitors.
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The CEO of In-N-Out says the fast-food spot will not offer or work with any online food delivery apps
She says In-N-Out will always remain unavailable for delivery, citing reasons like freshness
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@TheBlind_Duck @joeroganhq Subway has been freezing dough prior to shipping to stores since the 1980s.
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The latest Google AI definition of “Cultural Marxism.”
The term antisemitic was added since I did the same search more than a year ago.
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Not true. Apple and Meta maintain a rather contentious relationship with limited cooperation and direct competition. Apple's ATT (App Tracking Technology, 2021) severely impacted Meta's ability to collect cross-app data for precise targeting, costing the company upwards of 10 billion dollars.
Apple does not share Health app or HealthKit data with third parties without explicit consent. Darpa, DoW, and CIA do not need Apple derived data for their programs.
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@ShaneFrakes Thank apple with their ekg watch monitoring system apple is in business with facebook and facebook with google/YouTube and they all share date back to the government.
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You don’t build a 40-mile heartbeat detection system to confirm one person in a desert. You build it because you want to identify specific individuals, and to do that, you need their cardiac EM signatures stored. How long have they been maintaining a database of people's heartbeat signatures, and how many people already have theirs stored?
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: The CIA used a secret tool called "Ghost Murmur" that uses AI to find heartbeats to rescue the U.S. airman who was stranded in Iran, according to the New York Post. The secret technology was allegedly used for the first time in the field, according to the Post. "The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise," the Post reported. "It’s like hearing a voice in a stadium, except the stadium is a thousand square miles of desert," the source said. "In the right conditions, if your heart is beating, we will find you." "The name is deliberate. ‘Murmur’ is a clinical term for a heart rhythm. ‘Ghost’ refers to finding someone who, for all practical purposes, has disappeared..." "Advances in a field known as quantum magnetometry, specifically sensors built around microscopic defects in synthetic diamonds, have apparently made it possible to detect these signals at dramatically greater distances." CIA Director John Ratcliffe appeared to hint at this technology on Monday, saying the CIA possessed "unique capabilities" but said he couldn't "tell you everything that you want to know." President Trump also revealed during the press conference that the CIA spotted the officer from about "40 miles away." Insane.
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Major platforms can easily reduce the number of bot accounts and their overall influence. Algorithms are very effective at identifying these accounts.
Unfortunately, ad revenue and positive usage metrics are more important. Any major reduction in bots result in a significant decrease in revenue. Institutional investors are aware, but don't want the boat rocked.
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Most people have no idea how bad the bot situation is now.
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As someone paying off a substantial medical bill, and well aware of the corruption pervading the healthcare industry, I also care that people should be able to get quality medical care without going bankrupt. We probably agree on many of the symptoms. The real disagreement is the fix.
I argue, we in the US have never truly treated healthcare as a negative right. Heavy regulation, tax-favoritism for employer-sponsored insurance, massive government programs (Medicare, Medicaid), mandates, and third-party payments (where the patient never really sees the cost) have distorted the market.
The question is which path actually increases supply, reveals honest prices, and reduces the cronyism. More government obligation? or removing government barriers to voluntary exchange and prosecuting those that commit fraud and game the system?
1,800 hospices in LA county receiving federal dollars? 27% of all hospices in the US? Over 700 determined to be completely fraudulent. This is but one small example in the industry, rife with fraud, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. I suggest we first start by eliminating corrupt opportunities and demand US and State authorities take legal action against all parties who are profiting illegally (false claims, over-billing, deceptive treatments and drug efficacy, etc.). In my opinion, much of the problem is a lack of accountability, not a lack of resources or regulation.
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@lmilsfsd @realpaidesanto @davepl1968 @ApexImperialist Frame it rhetorically however you want, I care that people can go to the doctor without paying more than a car costs, even if they get laid off, and that the healthcare supply chain is divorced from “shareholder value”.
no need to be pedantic if we want to get to the same place
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Fun fact: Despite the Libertarian theology claiming otherwise, babies have a human right to the care and labour of their parents.
edelnougat 🐿️@edelnougat
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🤦♂️ Judges and public defenders aren't compelled, they're employed professionals who consent to the job and get paid. Their labor is voluntary exchange, not forced labor.
The gunsmith isn't compelled to create arms to satisfy the right to keep and bear arms, nor is the government directed to purchase a gun for anyone.
Healthcare workers voluntarily exchange their labor to heal others. That doesn't create a "right to healthcare" (or to health itself). The only logically sound version is the negative one: the right not to be impeded by government from accessing healthcare services on mutually agreeable terms.
This is exactly why the Bill of Rights was framed around negative rights (protections against government interference) and rooted in natural law, not positive entitlements that obligate the state (and thus others) to provide goods or services.
Once rights become claims on someone else's labor or resources, they shrink to whatever the government decides they are. "...literally no social contract" Ahem.... ever consider The Constitution a form of compact or contract?
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@lmilsfsd @realpaidesanto @davepl1968 @ApexImperialist That’s just an absurd way to order human society that will absolutely never work; we compel the labor of jurors, judges, public defenders, etc, in the justice system, and these are good things. You’re talking about a world with literally no social contract. Talk about low-trust.
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A motivated reading indeed. The Constitution's Bill of Rights was framed around inherent negative rights. (protections against government interference) and rooted in natural law, not as entitlements the state must positively provide. If any required government action (police, courts, taxes) turns a right positive, then rights shrink to whatever the state decides to enforce or budget for and dissolves any principled limit on government.
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@lmilsfsd @realpaidesanto @davepl1968 @ApexImperialist That’s a pretty motivated reading of their roles, frankly, and a big hole in your system is the possibility for such disparities. The criminal justice system explicitly requires the action of people, not their inaction, and is therefore a “positive right” under this regime.
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@araujota97 @realpaidesanto @davepl1968 @ApexImperialist The core function of the police role is negative rights protection. For the courts, negative rights adjudication and due process.
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@lmilsfsd @realpaidesanto @davepl1968 @ApexImperialist Police/courts/etc fall categorically in the realm of “positive rights”, though.
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@Cranstonio @UAPxUFO @KimKatieUSA If a person voluntarily quits or their employment ends, they generally have a discretionary grace period of up to 60 calendar days to take action while maintaining lawful non-immigrant status.
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Ontario, CA: 29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim livestreamed himself committing arson at a warehouse where he worked.
Police initially thought he was a Kimberly-Clark employee, but he actually worked for NFI Industries, a third-party distributor for them.
Bro, all you had to do was find a better job if you felt you weren’t “paid enough to live.”
Now you’ll be carrying soap on a rope for the next several years.
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@araujota97 @realpaidesanto @davepl1968 @ApexImperialist Positive vs. Negative rights. There are contradictions with negative rights frameworks, but they are the least-awful way to protect the system. Police, courts, etc. There is substantial debate and critique in this area.
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@realpaidesanto @davepl1968 @ApexImperialist Same with our right to a speedy public trial, arguably this requires an “involuntary” mobilization of talent on the same scale as healthcare, should we take that away full-cloth?
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