Can we fucking not.

Also:

“He is spending a lot of time thinking about this,” one source said.

No he fucking is not.

So you’re saying wildfires are women‽

Upton Sincalir supposedly said:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

I find this to be a general principle. In this case: “It is impossible to find the ‘energy’ to communicate a court order when a department’s entire budget is predicated on the effort of ignoring them.”

Cardboardception!

“half joking”

“half joking”

/hj

My brain always reads this as “/handjob” and it breaks my brain for a sec. :)

My investigation into Alpha School also reveals that the massive amounts of data the company collects on students, including videos of them, is stored in a Google Drive folder that anyone with the link—even if they’ve left the company, or if it was sent to them—could access. In turn, that sensitive material is viewed by more Alpha School employees than students and parents may realize.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I’m gonna stop you right there with a huge huge WHAT the FUCK. That is an incredible decision to have made. Stunning.

I saw that Alpha School maintains a spreadsheet which contains a list of student names, their grade, and an archive of their recordings which shows what’s happening on their screen, their remote tutor, and a video of the student taken via their webcam. This spreadsheet is not only available to anyone at the company, but is also shared in such a way that anyone on the internet who has the link can access the spreadsheet and the videos of students.

“If I wanted to, I could go there and just watch students. Anybody who worked in this capacity could watch the videos of students working on their laptops,” one Alpha School employee told me. “So many hours of just students’ faces […] I’m not sure parents understand exactly what’s going on with that data […] I don’t think that this is clearly communicated, because I’m sure there’d be a lot more opt outs if it was.”

Wonder how many pedos work for the company.

https://archive.ph/XO6Pn

Dunno if that’ll be better, but I created it to see if it helped :)

I did more skimming than reading of the linked article because I don’t care that much abou tthe topic, but I just want to say: We need more of this journalism. THIS is what journalists should be doing so much more of. Calling out lies and specifically this is a great format for that.

Ahhhhhh, gotcha. Well, something like that can indirectly hurt because lower wages means shittier employees who care less and make crappier food slower. Many fast food locations across all the brands suffer from this. But if you have a good one with good service and food quality, it’s more likely you’ll patronize them.

For a long time I didn’t eat Burger King because the only ones near me were crappy. But we’ve moved to a place where we have one that’s decent, so it’s something I get very occasionally.

But yeah, most of fast food’s problem is the larger problem of companies in our country: Nobody can afford to buy anything. Or rather, at all levels, budgets are tighter. :)

The saddest part about our descent into fascism is that this story is no longer shocking, but merely infuriating.

There’s a joke in here about some Hispanic chief of transporting goods on the Enterprise. Someone points at all the boxes of snails and asks, “Should that be here?” and he says, “¡Si! ¡Es cargo!”

It shows you how insular these people must be. That ad was the result of meeting after meeting, plan after plan. They had convinced themselves that the public would eat it up. We would be like “Holy shit that’s amazing, let’s give you ALL our data and video and privacy!”. They actually thought we would go for it. lol.

When I want to reply and tell someone to fuck off because I disagree with them, I try to remember the pleasant results of NOT doing that, so a reply like this helps me be a better person, thank you <3

Yeah, why are you two still here on my lawn‽ ;-)

Richard Simmons.

Y’know, I grew up making fun of him, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that homophobia isn’t funny, and the more I read about him, the more I realize he was generally a pretty sweet and caring dude trying to help people. All the hate he got was really unjustified. Our society sucks sometimes.

I’ve upvoted you, but it worries me that one might lose that much humanity. Fascists are our enemies, but I don’t wish torture on any human. Punish them - take their freedom away permanently, or even execute them if society agrees the death penalty should exist and apply. But causing harm to people only truly harms the people doing the torture.

Text truly is a difficult medium. It doesn’t help that many statements that would have definitely been sarcasm a couple of decades ago are legitimately said by fascists these days.

I’ve been on the internet since 1994, and I was on BBSes before that from 1987, so that along with my ADHD means I tend to over-use emoticons to indicate the light-hearted tone of most of the things I write. heh.

Also I also overuse “lol” and “heh” and “meh” for those purposes, too.

I know some rail against the usage of “/s”, but really, it’s no bad thing. Sure it may identify some jokes that the author intended to be subtle, but in the days where these things are said by some people… it’s just necessary, alas.