DrBob

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Shame on me. It's a jaw controlled interface. Like speech. Not brain controlled like... telepathy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

You can tell it's bullshit right away because it's not anywhere near the brain. How do you pick up brain signals from the jaw? Compare this to what you need for an EEG and all of that gear is there to just record responses to pulses of light.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

And removed founder after that. Because it was going hurt monetization.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Basically no change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

"Haven't we put up with enough shit?"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Insider threat. My organization archives our town halls with the President. There are hours of video available on the internal site.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're not wrong, but that doesn't make you entirely right either. The "crabs in a bucket" mentality comes from attacking people who are doing slightly better than you. It might seem like they significant wealth, but they can still be bankrupted by a chronic medical diagnosis or any other of a million things. I choose to focus on the real issue - the 0.0001% and not people making 4 or 5 times the median income.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”

Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

It is difficult to comprehend how staggering wealth inequality is. Minimum wage earners have more in common with her parents, then her parents did with the truly wealthy. I have always liked Pen's parade (which is about income rather than wealth), but there are other aids. One pixel wealth might work in this context because they provide a marker for median income in the visualization.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

They worked mid-level jobs in finance, which pays well compared to most careers, but it's just on the higher end of middle class. I know several successful people in the music industry and that's honestly a pretty common story. They all had high end instruments and gear at a young age. One band I know had a dedicated jam space at one of their father's warehouses. They could leave their gear set up in a secure location and play loud anytime for as long as they liked. Things like that really contribute to success.

The Kid Laroi is another example of it. Both parents were in the industry and he had a development contract at 14. At 17 he was living with Juice Wrld and doing remixes with Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. That doesn't happen by accident.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It's an interlocutory appeal. It's not like she has a choice in the matter.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That line appeared in "To Live and Die in LA" in exactly the same circumstances two years before "Lethal Weapon". TLaDLA also had the first wrong way car chase that's now a staple of every action movie. It's funny how it was so influential in the industry but has so little lingering cultural impact.

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