Isn’t it an international human rights violation to make somebody stateless?

The US is one of the only attending countries that refused to sign during the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

He literally said it’s because they are still paying for the building and feel it’s being underutilized.

He’s just saying the quiet part out loud. That’s always what RTO mandates were about. Companies were trapped in long rental contracts with office buildings, and wanted to use the space they were renting. And office space owners had zero incentive to actually release those contracts, because they saw the writing on the wall and realized their land value was going to plummet if office space demand dropped.

So it’s Docker with extra steps?

Malicious compliance would be the chatbots regurgitating some sort of canned “I am legally obligated by {court case} filed on {date} by {AG Andrew Bailey} to state that Donald Trump loves Jews the most” response whenever the topic comes up. Or hell, even if the topic doesn’t come up. Just treat it like a censorship canary.

I’d argue that specificity is crucial here. “Kill” could be any number of methods, many of them relatively quick or accidental. Maybe he was shot in the head or hit by a car and killed instantly. But “beaten to death” is a pretty gruesome way to go out by most standards, and it isn’t something that just happens by accident. It makes it clear that he didn’t just have an accident; it was an intentional act, committed by people with blood literally on their hands.

The sanitized version would be the same kind of passive voice BS that cops use when issuing public statements.

Yeah, I never got an early adopter invite, and by the time it launched to the public, someone already had my name. Apparently there’s some middle aged programmer who shares my name, and he got an invite.

That’s my guess too. Roseanne Barr got into some hot water after posting some racist BS, then blaming it on her Ambien. The maker of Ambien actually responded to her excuse with something along the lines of “being a racist is not a known side effect of ambien.”

I remember someone in a copaganda show once saying something along the lines of “whenever someone writes a manifesto, it’s either insane ramblings, or pseudo-intellectual ramblings full of big words that they picked out of a thesaurus and misused.” And sure enough, every single time I’ve seen a manifesto, it neatly fits into one of those two categories.

the fact that the White House Communications Director has communication skills on par with a snotty middle schooler is really quite funny.

It’s a strategic thing too. A significant portion of voters can’t read above a fifth or sixth grade level. Politicians sound like middle schoolers because that is what appeals to their voting base.

Trump recently met with the president of Liberia, and complimented him on his good English speaking skills. English is the national language of Liberia.

There’s a long tradition of sending candy in tech repair packages. It harkens back to Swedish Fish Theory. In big retail “GeekSquad” types of stores where many repairs are done off-site, some techs realized that repairs and RMAs were completed much faster when they included a bag of candy in the box. The idea is that if you treat the RMA receiver as a human instead of a faceless entity, you actually get prioritized service from them. They’ll expedite your shit even if you didn’t pay for it, simply because you were nice to them and they want to return the favor.

I mean… It’s a white power group. I’d be more surprised if they didn’t do racist things.

I own the same model of car, and it tells you the car will shut off after an hour. As soon as you open the door, you get a big “car will automatically shut off in one hour” warning and cabin chime. It even pings your phone if you have the app installed.

This guy either a) did something else to trigger the ban, b) bought a bootleg cart somehow, although that doesn’t seem like it’d be particularly profitable to sell on Switch, or c) hit a seriously weird bug. Or, I guess d) is lying about it?

There’s also option E) bought a used cartridge that was ripped. Those pirated cart rips have to come from somewhere, and rippers have no incentive to hold onto the game carts after ripping them. If Nintendo sees multiple identical game carts online at the same time, it knows the cart is a pirate rip and could easily set up an auto-ban for it. Catching the occasional “I bought a used cartridge and suddenly got banned” complaint would be a drop in the bucket for Nintendo. For all we know, this dude was playing a BOTW cart that was previously owned by a person who uploaded it to thousands of users.

The reference, cuz it makes me laugh every single time.

Isn’t that standard procedure though?

No. After the first 24 hours, the chances of live rescues plummet. After 72 hours, the chances are basically 0. SOP is to deploy ASAP to rescue as many people as possible.

Katrina hit August 29th, 2005. Bush signed the relief package 9/2, 4 days later. And that was just approving the money to be spent, not actually spending it.

You say this as if it’s supposed to be a good thing. I’m going to assume you’re either too young to remember it happening, or old enough that you were already in the conservative bubble. Katrina was one of the largest fuckups in Bush’s political career. He waited four days to deploy because he thought the death and damage reports were being exaggerated. He saw the official reports on his desk, and basically went “fake news! It can’t be that bad, can it?” His aides had to compile live aerial news footage for him to even begin to comprehend the level of damage that Katrina had caused. And they only had easy access to aerial footage because the 20’ deep floods prevented ground footage. Bush’s delayed response to Katrina is widely cited as one of the single worst emergency responses in American history. Basically second only to Trump digging his heels in and denying the pandemic.

I mean, if the area is actively being destroyed, how do you even get people in to help?

Logistics takes time, and that’s why rapid response is crucial. If it takes 8 hours to get boots on the ground, and rescue ops are most successful within the first 24, you can do the math on how rapidly the deployment would need to begin.

One of the hardest parts of a veterinarian’s job is the fact that your patients can’t tell you what’s wrong. They may try to communicate in their own way, but oftentimes they’ll actually go out of their way to mask discomfort or hide pain. This is especially true for pack animals (like dogs) where standing out too far from the norm can mean being excluded; From a natural selection standpoint, downplaying discomfort means you still fit in with the pack and can continue to benefit from them. Luckily, the vet immediately knew something was wrong in this case because the patient kept exploding into piles of gold rings.

The truly diabolical way is to add an image to your resume somewhere. Something discrete that fits the theme, like your signature or a QR code to your website. Then hide the white text behind that. A bot will still scan the text just fine… But a human reader won’t even see it when they highlight the document, because the highlighted text will be behind the image.

Trump is a master of the Dead Cat Maneuver. Basically, if you’re losing an argument and can’t recover, just throw a dead cat on the table. Now everyone is talking about the dead cat, instead of the argument you were just losing. And you can deflect any kinds of “why did you do that” types of accusations back around to the fact that a dead cat is laying on the table, and someone should do something about it.

Trump always has a dead cat in his coat pocket, ready to flop onto the table at a moment’s notice.

I wasn’t in IT, so my hands were tied. If I tried running a network scan, I’d have been able to hear the screeching all the way from city hall.