Spooky23

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by Spooky23 3mo ago
The standard of both investigations and the effectiveness of mostly part time police were pretty low. Most police were elected or appointed officials with deputized staff. The levels of training and professionalism were poor. Why do you thi
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
Individuals don’t require exoneration in court. The prosecution, regardless of unethical grandstanding, have a duty to prove the case without any resaonable doubt. They hold the burden of proof. I would, of course, agree with them as physic
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
Not always. I found myself in a job with golden handcuffs that made it difficult to leave, which went from the best job of my life to a nightmare on earth when a key leader passed away and replaced by someone whose sociopathy was one of his
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
> So far I don't think any proposal for stronger ID requirements has tried to address this. That isn’t some accident of circumstance. The entirety of the purpose of voter id initiatives is to disenfranchise these very people.
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
If you pointed out any of the many problematic aspects of Snowden in those days, you’d be shouted down and voted into oblivion immediately.
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
That’s a fair point that I didn’t consider, thank you.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Don’t assume that. There’s a MAGA bro movement advocating against direct election of senators. The Supreme Court will do backflips to make the determination that they’re paid to make.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Yeah, it’s basically cheap operators pushing problems down. My wife was in this business, and worked for a company that gave them full control. Basically they paid like $2-3/hr (15-25%) more and fired people who called out twice. Their
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Your fortunate. If you’re adjacent to operations or power, after hours comms is a common experience.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
These issues are really complicated because they aren’t left versus right. Conservatives and progressives both tend to be ideologically skeptical of enhancements/sharing of ID. From a state perspective, there’s a lot of benefit to exch
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Totally legal. The operating theory of all of these cameras is that anything happening in public sight is by its nature not private. The federal government is dumping millions and millions of dollars into grant programs for municipalities t
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Nah, it will be triggered by a debt crisis. Remember the plurality of the rich are working off asset loans on paper wealth. Those credit lines get cut by an event, that triggers an asset sell off which creates a vicious cycle.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Mythos is extreme hype. We are at a combo of authoritarian politicians peddling fear for power and tech bros trying to extract maximum investment returns. We’re going to have many LLM/toolset combos that do what mythos does.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
It’s billionaire people pushing the bounds of their enclosure, Jurassic Park style. The similar behavior in the west coast are the people who create various hoops to deny the public access to the shore. NYC grants significant concessions to
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Competitive intelligence and customer info is one thing. Do you block your business competitors associates and family from accessing public venues? Dolan does.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
According to the World of Coke in Atlanta, all positive memories that you possess are associated with Coke.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
There’s like 100 episodes+ of clone wars, which make the rest of it make sense.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Very marginal changes in consumption have large impacts on profitability for oil industry stakeholders. Only an idiot would say “solar makes oils and gas go away”, which is why I didn’t say that. Conversely, subsidizing pickup trucks so ins
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Bryan wanted to solve the same problem that we solve today with central banking and fiat. Basically, the gold standard limited money supply and the interest of the big money interests was to gather all of the wealth. There were no taxes or
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
It’s also a clue as to why there’s such serious political opposition to wind and solar and to some extent nuclear for electric generation. Point of use generation is disruptive to many industries… not just petroleum but automotive, trucking
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
My parents bought the home we grew up in, which is located middle of Queens/NYC for ~$30k around 1977/8. It sold most recently for $3M. Rents were typically well under $300mo. $150 in not so great areas. That was a high inflation
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
They make AI crap. The future is Mars.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
School is also an arms race. They are fighting for rank, once people use it for that purpose you have to keep up.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Shitty companies usually outsource to Indian or Filipino call centers, but the AI is a chirpy fake white person.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
It is hilarious that they are the punchline so consistently. My old dentist had $3 million embezzled over 4-5 years by a bookkeeper.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
He was a bystander who stuck around and tried to do the right thing. The people charged decided to go to trial and now he’s on the hook to show up and answer stupid questions under oath. The objective of the defense is likely to have him no
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
4 doesn't really happen, unless you're a mandated reporter and don't report child abuse. I used to have to testify in civil and criminal proceedings a few times a year as part of my job. If you aren't trained to talk to
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Agreed.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
It definitely gets used as a tool to get attention, but let’s be real, nobody is getting rich selling cheap paperbacks in 2026. If you’ve ever been around a school district targeted by the moms for liberty or whatever, it’s a very real thin
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
That’s a ZIRP problem. You didn’t have massive sprawl communities until the investment was there to build systems to keep Nazis and trolls away. Slashdot really highlighted this for me - if you followed the site and the core forum of founde

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