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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Well. That’s not changed by anything in your article …

    It’s interesting and all, but it’s more about how the people they were investigating under pseudonyms were eventually installed over the efforts to get investigate themselves…

    Like, that’s fucking huge. And definitely implies they were really involved in it, but it’s not a smoking gun

    Edit:

    To be clear the most likely explanation has always been the same as Cheney and 9/11…

    They knew it was coming, in general if not specific, and they choose to let it happen because that was what was best for their interests.

    That’s a billion times more likely than the CIA taking explicit actions to lead to the assassinations of a US president. It takes a lot to make something like this happen, very little to know it’s gonna happen and intentionally let it happen.





  • I mean. They’re FBI agents…

    They all have already had to take at least one to get in, even though they all would have looked into them first and know they don’t work. That’s still not as bad as the guy having to administer the tests who definitely knows it’s bullshit.

    It’s my favorite example of what happens when we let politicians set rules to govern bureaucrats.

    The only reason it’s still given is no one high enough in the FBI to be listened to has managed to explain to a president why it’s stupid.

    A lot of our government is shit because high ranking bureaucrats are shitty are explaining things to idiots



  • In an actual free market all the corporations would act like this, because shit like this is what people want out of a business they patronize.

    You will recall that there was a bit of a fuss a month or so ago when an undoubtedly-harried GameStop employee stapled some customer receipts directly to Nintendo Switch 2 boxes—and through the boxes, and into the Switch 2 units themselves. It was all quickly resolved, without lawsuits or fistfights, and with the ugliness now behind it GameStop is looking to make some proverbial lemonade by auctioning off the Switch 2 killer for charity.

    No lawsuits, no fight required by affected consumers

    The company made it right and turned a bad situation into a PR move that helps a charity.

    I really thought we’d see some kind of ethical capitalism out of the whole GameStop thing but it never really spread.









  • Not so. The Tesla safety operators appear to always have their thumb on the “Open Door” button of their door, which is sort of weird to see. It’s like every safety operator is getting ready to say the Irish goodbye to their passengers at any given moment.

    Turns out, Full Self Driving disengages if you open the door. So that is probably being used as a janky, factory-standard kill switch for the autonomous driving system that causes the vehicle to come to controlled stop.

    There is absolutely nothing stopping the human employee from sitting behind the wheel except optics…

    Like, if there’s three passengers, does the employee keep shotgun?

    Does a passenger get the driver’s seat? Or do they all have to sit in the backseat so people can see it’s driving itself?

    Is the plan for highspeed situations really just opening a fucking door at speed?

    The level of stupidity is, as always, fascinating…