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Fair enough. Subordinate is the term I’ve always heard used. Direct reports just sounds like the sugar coated version to me.

It really saddens to me see how many managers out there treat their subordinates terribly, and then act surprised when their subordinates do the same - as though employees are meant to greatful for their terrible treatment

The Internet Archive is currently fighting in the courts to maintain free digital library access to over 500,000 books they own from their own collection, yet Meta uses a pirated dataset of nearly 200,000 books to train their proprietary AI and is just allowed to get away with that??

Publishers will go after a charity making fair use of their content, but not the corporation outright stealing from them. What utter bollocks.

Cows, sure. Just don’t startle them or go near their calfs. They’re mostly just curious.

Bulls, only if you have to, but make it quick and stay as far away from them as you can. They’re fiercely territorial and not afraid to show it.

Pretty sure later updates for Windows 10 started doing this too, or at least it did on my PC.

Had to completely uninstall OneDrive to get it to stop - which Microsoft sure do make quite difficult to do.

That’s hardly even a story - house repairs cost a lot of money, and NASA’s equipment (by their own admission) caused the damage.

It’s only the police that get away with ruining people’s things without paying.

Trump’s lawyers are expected to argue that none of the memos should have been given to prosecutors on the crime-fraud exception, which allows prosecutors to see privileged communications between a defendant and a lawyer, if their legal advice was used in furtherance of a crime.

They’re expected to argue on the basis that these memos didn’t amount to using Corcoran’s legal advice.

But surely that’s a moot point, because while Trump didn’t use of any specific legal advice, he absolutely abused the privileged information obtained from Corcoran (such as the date of the inspection and the date of his return) in obstructing the return of classified documents to the whitehouse.

The memos make quite clear that Trump abused attorney-client privilege in furtherance of a crime. Plain and simple.

And I severely doubt Corcoran didn’t know what Trump’s intentions were with that information - and if not before, he certainly should’ve known afterwards when being “asked” to pluck out documents.

I legitimately have to wonder how it can be legal for Trump to be trialled by judges he put into power, and that have shown such clear and demonstrable biases in his favour - even going so far as to deliberately delay cases as far as legally possible.

As @ptz@dubvee.org put it, it’s like he’s got an extra special justice system especially for him - who knew all you needed to do was appoint your own judges.

I’m in no position to tell you to stay or go, after all it’s your life to lead, nobody else’s…

Having said that, I can’t help but notice from taking a rather cursory glance at your post history that most of your posts are pretty well up-voted.

The only posts where you seem to be heavily down-voted are political posts, which by their very nature will invite disagreement - this is especially true when the posts you’re making touch upon rather controversial/inflammatory topics.

And if that’s what you’re complaining about being down-voted for, then you’ve really only yourself to blame for inviting that disagreement into your life.

Just having read the README, even if it’s a little faffy, the idea of being able to converse with someone and have it be translated back in near real-time is awesome!

This is the kind of application I was looking forward to seeing come out of open source AI - I think it’d still be a little too clunky to save you in an emergency, but probably less clunky for most people than learning a new language or having a human translator on retainer haha

Hugging and play fighting, sure, but can’t say I’ve snuggled with the lads (or girl friends either for that matter) - feels more intimate, like something you’d do with a loved one (or a pet).

Drunk me might lean a bit more towards leaning or pushing against the lads, but that’s always playful and jokesy rather than sincere as your post implies

“Schools just stopped buying books from us because they didn’t want to have the appearance of supporting controversial literature”

It’s upsetting to see these words uttered in relation to a bookstore just trying to help LGBT+ access literature that better includes and represents them.

“If only the pesky government would stop intervening in the free market, we mega-corps would’ve all signed up years ago to voluntarily fix the pollution problems we’ve spent decades covering up… But because you’re telling us to, we don’t want to.” /s

Paraphrasing of course, but this is basically their defence - which is just a tad bit shoddy if you ask me. If they didn’t need this law to get their act together, then why is this law having to be made because they didn’t get their act together?

Hamas trying to lead peace talks while Israel shuts them out is nothing new.

Israel almost certainly won’t accept any peace talks, because they don’t want to coexist with Palestine - the whole “war” always was and continues to be a farcical cover for a genocide.