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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In some states if you refuse a field sobriety test before they arrest you, you could lose your driver’s license, potentially.

  But once they’ve arrested you, I don’t know of any state that would require the field sobriety test. Some states would require a regular test which would be done at the station or the hospital. Field sobriety tests are not reliable, so the cops are going to want to do a proper test that is more reliable. But whether these latter tests are required depends on the situation. And it’s possible that the cops will get a court order requiring you to take one anyway, should you refuse.

  In other words, field sobriety tests are designed to establish probable cause so that they can arrest you. But they aren’t designed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you’re DUI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware Beans!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Beans did not steal anything. The chicken always belonged to Beans, though you were unaware of that basic fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Web search was the last big innovative thing they did. The other good shit since was bought up, lol, easier to buy than innovative. Capitalists hate competing because they might lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this absolute bullshit from reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And the garbage finished taking itself out. Wonderful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Define “village”. Lol, seriously though. What exactly do you mean? I’ve seen hundreds of ultra local train lines in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, of course there’s no way to build more train tracks. Can’t be helped, oh well, tough luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodnight mum *shakes hand*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol the folks are high too … That’s why they shake back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s ironic is that he’s making a sales pitch for society outlawing his job. He’s telling us that he’s not worthy of being a member of our society as clearly as he can, but he doesn’t even realize it.

  Because look if AI is going to make everyone’s life go to hell then all we need to do is change our governments and change the laws and get rid of those evil pieces of s*** who destroyed our society. In the end it really is that simple. Which doesn’t make it easy.

  But actually it’s all a bubble so it’s not going to happen anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it’s fine to point out hypocrisy, but more importantly, these billionaires (all billionaires) are really fucked up people. Their brains are not OK. They have horrible values. They are happy that people starve and die every day, because that makes them richer. Don’t think that copying them will get you anywhere good.

  (Of course you still might want to shield your kid from shitty products. But don’t do it because Thiel does.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d think he’d have learned his lesson from the Knicks game. I mean no, obviously he didn’t learn his lesson, but other people should have predicted what would happen because he destroys everything he touches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I said meow!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t freak out, but they want me to wake up when the sun comes up, for no good reason (in my head, that is). So they meow, and leave, and return every thirty minutes, two cats acting like a snooze alarm.

  They get food from the automatic feeder. It’s not a breakfast thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like victim blaming, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically, costs over the last few decades are because of pointless administrators and corrupt spending on pet projects by those administrators. Also, the cost of living in the US is fairly high compared with Romania to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I swear it won't hurt you if you use it for like a second⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol many of us have to use Windows at work so we actually have current knowledge of the shittiness… But the other way around is not true, and here in the memes it seems the accusation is a confession, meh. :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you do if you lose an argument, but it turns out that you were actually right?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends. But usually the important thing is that you got your position out there. The opposing party won the argument, but the other listeners may have filled in the blanks and realized you had the better take even if you did not clearly express it.

  In other words, truth seekers don’t worry too much about who won. They worry about what’s true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course! Google would say that. Doesn’t mean it’s true. They aren’t under oath and they have every reason to lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the US so into Israel?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your simple question has a simple answer. The answer is that different people and different companies have different reasons for supporting Israel.

  Some people are racists, some people sell weapons, some people want money for their political campaigns, some of those groups overlap, etc.

  So obviously the answer is that it depends who you’re talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets scammed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Pirate Bay doesn’t have ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  National level fixes almost never work. Give schools and teachers and districts money and power for the win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's gonna take lots of chain falls and smooshed fingers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on your situation and on the work you’re doing. If you have a project that you honestly care about that you think is really good then you usually want to see it get done. So you might make the decision to overwork yourself even if you objectively shouldn’t. And bosses love to set that up, so they’ll give you a bunch of annoying crap that you don’t think is valuable. But they make you do it and then you end up having to work later in the evening to get done the stuff that you actually care about. Of course, that’s something that we all need to be very careful about, but in the short run it’s hard to stop.

  And another situation that’s even worse is that you might lose your job. Sometimes telling the boss no means that you will be unemployed and if you need to make that money to pay the bills then you might be f*****.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you imagine if tech workers decided they might want to unionize? That would be an exciting day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finding employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you fight abandonment issues when people keep abandoning you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not asking for details, but first you said the issues were nasty and then you said they were fixable. That’s a sharp contrast. Regardless, once one person checks out, the potential doesn’t matter any more.

  Another thing, perhaps more importantly, is that your worth is not derived from your partner. If it were, all the single people would be worthless, and we aren’t. But you might have grown up being fed that value, that you have to get married or whatever, and if you don’t then somehow you messed up, or some bullshit like that. It takes time to let that kind of bullshit value go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is cryptocurrency good for anything?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the distant past I used to pay for my phone bill with Bitcoin that I earned through various side jobs. That ended up being convenient because my VOIP company was based in a different country as were the side jobs. But later the transaction costs for Bitcoin rose and it didn’t make sense.

  You wrote that money is money because everyone agrees it’s valuable. But if I go to a pizza place in New York City and try to pay in Thai baht, they probably won’t take it. Therefore, it’s not money… But of course it’s money. It’s just not the right kind of money for that place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually more complicated than you think. Here’s the starting point of the complexity. When do you tax someone’s investment earnings? When do you tax someone’s business? When do you tax someone’s income from abroad? If they live part of their life abroad, how much of their income does your country tax? … If you think the above have simple answers, then you don’t understand the actual situations that people are living.

  It’s great to say that a flat tax is simple and it will work but in reality actually it’s not simple at all because there are always ways to gain the system and you have to find those and keep working on fixing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well no. They said “technically there might be a way to sideload, but only if you jump through incredible hoops like doing it all by USB on your computer or some ridiculous thing, and you definitely won’t be using F-Droid, hell no you won’t.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, it’s not wishful thinking. Second of all, many of us have been doing this for decades. And most importantly, if you only try to express power through your vote, then that will definitely not be good enough for real change. It’s incredibly important that you get out there and do other things at other times, however you reasonably can given your situation in life.

  There’s an old saying that everyone is equal on election day. Actually that’s not true because of gerrymandering and the Electoral College and disenfranchisement. But even if it were true, then everyone would not be equal the other 364 days of the year. Or non-election years. So don’t rely on voting to solve problems, but do it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pam Bondi Suggests Culver City Has a Crime Problem. Culver City Has a Problem With That.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Times is so bad. Why not … uh … Go look at the crime rate and tell is which is true? That would be real journalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the garbage takes itself out, marvelous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, the story is full of deceit. If crimes were committed, they would have called the cops, right? Or posted pictures and video. Of course they would have … unless the perpetrators were rich Japanese folk. This is common sense.