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I highly doubt that Amazon is dumb enough to ask people to volunteer their time for free. There are way tooany ways that ends in lawsuits. HR and the lawyers would put a stop to that faster than you can say “wage theft”.

I’ve worked jobs where, at times of peak business, office staff were asked to volunteer for paid shifts rather than hire more people for a very short time. It’s not weird or malicious, it’s fairly normal.

“Volunteer” doesn’t always imply “work for free”.

So, NYC gets about $100B in federal funds annually. I wonder how much they pay in taxes to the federal government. I’d bet they pay more than they get.

I’m 90% sure that when they said “you yourself”, they actually were referring to Newsom, not to the commenter. I can see how the comment could be taken either way though.

In case it’s not obvious to those of you who are stoned right now, his sleeve is empty and his hand is in his pants.

Thank you for providing the extra context. That’s very helpful.

I aliased cd to a custom funtion in my bashrc to do this at one point, but cd ../../../.. is too engrained so I never rembered to use it.

Everything about this seems dystopian… That banner, though is icing on the cake…

I agree with you about what the real issue is. That said, this kind of article is important. Remember that MAGA can’t empathize with someone unless they identify with that person. To MAGA, the struggles of immigrants are unimportant so focusing on them is targeting the wrong audience if we want to change minds. Highlighting the struggles of people MAGA can identify with might actually be able to change some minds.

I used fakespot a lot. It used huristics to attempt to determine how authentic a product’s reviews are. It analyzed the reviews for things like repeated phrases, odd review activity like bragading, and other things. It then gave a letter grade to the veracity of the reviews and an “adjusted” aggregate review score after removing any reviews that it considered to be suspicious.

I’m going to miss fakespot. I don’t know how accurate it was but it definitely informed my decisions.

Ah, I guess I missed that part when reading. So, they’re likely cooperating with investigations of other cartels.

I have a few questions:

• Why?
• How long will they be here?
• How big was the bribe?

That just seems like good advice for any law enforcement interaction. If that is grounds for arrest, we’ve fallen even farther than I thought already and I thought we’d fallen pretty far.

I think the disagreement here is semantics around the meaning of the word “lie”. The word “lie” commonly has an element of intent behind it. An LLM can’t be said to have intent. It isn’t conscious and, therefor, cannot have intent. The developers may have intent and may have adjusted the LLM to output false information on certain topics, but the LLM isn’t making any decision and has no intent.

I felt like Austin was trying way too hard. The city felt like 20% over the top hippies, 40% normalish but traumatized people trying to live their lives, and 40% right wing nut jobs.

That’s still much better than most of Texas which seemed like 40% normalish people and 60% right wing nut jobs, though.

I lived in Texas for two years. The number of times I had the following conversation was staggering:

Texas is the best place in the world!

Oh? Where else have you been?

I ain’t been anywhere else… Why would I go anywhere else? Texas is the best place in the world!

Sometimes there was legitimate confusion on their face. Sometimes it was delivered deadpan. Sotimes it was more of a challenge or threat. It was always flabbergasting…

I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. You are 100% right. Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadorian national who is here under a legally protected status and who is married to a citizen.

He shouldn’t have been deported without due process, but he also isn’t a US citizen.

Marriage does not grant citizenship. It is an expensive and complicated process to get citizenship for a foreign spouse.

Ummm, no, he is not a citizen. He was here under a legal protected status because a judge recognized that he was in danger if he returned to El Salvador.

Garcia is still a citizen of El Salvador.

He shouldn’t have been deported without due process, but marriage to a citizen does not automatically grant citizenship.

Thank you, that was very helpful.

Can someone explain this for me? I’m tired and the article is both missing context and full of double negative legal filings and rulings. I’m not sure what actually happened and who is on the side of ending qualified immunity.