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Las Vegas staff say MrBeast should be blacklisted, cite OSHA, setting medics for failure
  • I get that, I think the difference is Mr. Beast never admitted to being a dick and presented himself as "fun and kind", whereas Louis expressly and repeatedly says "I think I'm doing a good thing, verify if you want, fuck you if you disagree, I don't care about your opinion."

    I've had both kinds of people as bosses and employees, and I would absolutely work with the second kind again.

  • Las Vegas staff say MrBeast should be blacklisted, cite OSHA, setting medics for failure
  • Louis is self-admittedly an asshole, but he's a fair asshole and his people stick by and swear by him, even after they leave.

    I respect him and truly feel he's honest, especially when he has so many receipts.

    I'd rather an honest asshole than a kind manipulator.

  • Ohio sheriff suggests residents keep a list of homes with Harris yard signs
    1. Trusting YouTube and TikTok over... Hmmm, I don't know, the US census, US department of Labor, dozens of scholarly studies, hundreds of reputable modern American sociologists, anthropologists, and other educated people who've come to a general consensus, seems like a bad start to form an educated opinion.

    2. The average human is sorrowfully terrible at understanding scale. "It's not just a few people, it's many" is a vague statement. What is many? Compared to what? "Almost 500 THOUSAND cases of cholera were reported last year!! Half a million people!! It's going to kill us all!!" Yeah, but that's 0.0000625% of humans. More than twice that many people die from accidents while playing sports for recreation. It doesn't mean we don't help people with cholera, and it doesn't mean we ban sports globally; to use that as an example of a greater issue is just disingenuous or ignorant.

    "Many" doesn't mean most, it doesn't even mean a considerable percentage. Many could just as easily be an insignificant percentage.

  • 'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians
  • I like your question! To me it starts with a real apology without excuses. Real apologies are generally short and put one in a vulnerable situation, like

    "I'm sorry for spreading these lies, they aren't true and I did it from a place of ignorance"

    No "I didn't mean to," no "I'm not racist, I'm mixed," and so on.

  • 'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians
  • She's not expressing remorse, she's selfishly scared for herself.

    Remorse requires accountability, not excuses and projection.

    She made a racist, hateful, hearsay statement and now that it might affect her she says she can't be hateful because she's "gay and biracial." That's the definition of dodging accountability.

  • The dark arts
  • This is the problem.

    I needed a car battery the other day and just wanted to know if it was in stock because it's a little uncommon. I went online, it said they did, went to the store, they didn't, told me to call and verify because online updates overnight.

    I called 4 different stores, nobody answered the first 3, 4th one rang forever, then an auto answering thing kept me for 5 minutes and when no option helped me it said "try again later, goodbye."

  • Jet Fuel
  • You didn't misremember, it was a scholarly discussion point that spread too far before it got debunked, like how some people still believe the "gum stays inside you for 7 years"

  • Oh no, not again
  • I was talking with my girlfriend and Tar Shampoo came up, and I said "I don't even know exactly what that is used for other than dramatically killing off a horse" and she hung up on me.

  • Starlink is refusing to comply with Brazil's X ban (Update: Starlink will comply)
  • It's a common thing in many countries. It's, among other things, a liability issue.

    If your "country #1" company does business in "country #2" then what laws apply to them?

    In order to distinguish clear lines what "country #2" requires is a representative for the company to be in the country. If the company breaks "country #2"'s laws then the representative is liable for it.

    Generally to be a representative you have to have a measurable stake in the transaction, you can't just be a random Jimbo, so it usually falls to a law firm (or an entity that works with one), mainly because if you need people to help your company follow the law, then they should know the law.

    If the company breaks the law, the firm has to deal with that, so it's a risk for them.

    In this case, X needed that representative, either they couldn't or wouldn't find one, therefore Brazil said "we can't hold you accountable to our laws, so get out of our country."

    I'm super, MEGA, oversimplifying, and I'm no expert, but this is my best understanding.

  • Starlink is refusing to comply with Brazil's X ban (Update: Starlink will comply)
  • They require a representative in order to establish a chain of responsibility that deals with crime, censorship, social health (lol), public relations, etc.

    It does come down to a combination of size, influence, services rendered, and other factors.

    He could put a random kid in charge but it would make it worse, like putting a busboy in a chef's hat during Rush hour.

  • Starlink is refusing to comply with Brazil's X ban (Update: Starlink will comply)
  • I mean, you're being facetious, but no, the law being "your company must have a legal representative to be within our borders"

    X was told about it, given a deadline, they missed the deadline, they can't be in Brazil

    Actions have consequences

  • I miss my life [OC]
  • The beauty of poetry is that it can be whatever it comes out as, because it's you sharing your inner art, outward.

    This is a poem, and it made me feel things. I think that's just how art works.