Bellevue schools spokeswoman Amanda Oliver said the district has a great relationship with Bellevue police and doesn’t see a need to alter anything.
Of course she doesn't because she doesn't have to worry about getting electrically tortured whenever some thug with a badge decides that they haven't heard someone screaming recently enough.
It's my understanding(that admittedly might be wrong) that a prerequisite for being able to carry pepper-spray in the military and/or police is having it used on you first so you know exactly what it feels like to be on the receiving end of what you're being handed. Whether or not that's actually true at this point I'm of the opinion that anyone that supports the use of the electric torture gloves, especially on kids, should be required to experience exactly what that feels like, with the gloves worn by someone who cares just as much for them as they do for those they are willing to see tortured, and just to keep the memory fresh so they can't convince themselves it wasn't that bad it should be done at least once a year at random.
It's one thing to support a program when you know you will never face the negative aspects of it, something else entirely when you know that not only will you but you'll be first in line.
She added, “Too many productions are at a standstill, which means Angelenos are out of a job and they’re not getting paid. As mayor, I cannot stand by as the job security of thousands of hardworking union members is being put at risk. That is why we are calling on Paramount, Attorney General Rob Bonta and all relevant parties to come together, engage directly and in good faith and work urgently to find common ground and keep our vital industry in Los Angeles.”
The 'common ground' under discussion is the merger, something that historically does anything but benefit the people she's pointing to as being 'harmed' and in fact has a predictable tendency to see a bunch of them lose their jobs as a newly merged company 'trims redundant employement' in a scramble to recoup costs and cut ongoing expenditures.
For all the faux outrage over people not being able to temporarily go to work she sure is being played like a fiddle to get a whole bunch of them fired for good on top of handing republicans even more control over the narrative.
It's easy to use your religious book to defend anything and everything you want to say or do when you not only haven't read it but do not and would not care what it says even if you did.
“This ranks as one of the top three dumbest ideas in my four decades of being in this industry,” said Earl Lum, the founder of analyst company EJL Wireless Research. What’s currently unclear is SpaceX’s precise definition of a small cell, but a typical outdoor small cell would come with power output of 5 watts per channel, in Lum’s book, and be difficult to install at residential properties.
I'm reminded of the 'saying' about how someone thought that Elon was brilliant because that's what everyone had been saying and they weren't knowledgeable enough in the field being discussed to say otherwise, only for the heiling loser to comment on a field they were knowledgeable about and exposing that in fact he's a blithering idiot just bluffing as smart.
Loathe as I am to see Elon get any richer anyone stupid enough to jump on one of his scams at this point deserves to be left wondering what happened to all that money they handed over.
If they actually wanted to help kids and social media-related problems then there are plenty of things that they could be putting that time and energy into that doesn't involve just kicking kids off social media(or more realistically making is slightly harder for them to be on it and more primed to bypass rules as bogus even if they were put in place for good reasons).
Off the top of my head...
Programs to educate and help parents to talk to their kids, explain potential issues with using social media and how to avoid them or handle them if they run across them.
Funding for programs to de-stigmatize mental health, both having issues and getting treatment for them.
Paired with the above fund subsidies so that it is both easier and more affordable to get mental health treatment.
It's not hard to come up with ideas that would almost certainly be vastly more effective at addressing the claimed harms, so either those pushing for or passing these bills literally spent no time actually thinking about the problem, or it's nothing more than fearmongering for fun, PR, power and profit.
The New York Times report doesn’t contain anything specific Trump’s lawyer claimed was defamatory in the threat letter he issued on behalf of his boss. It’s safe to assume Brito provided no specifics, but relied on intentional vagueness in hopes of making the legal threat stick
Any claim of libel or slander that doesn't specifically point out to what exactly is claimed to be libel or slander might as well start with a header of 'THIS IS A SLAPP THREAT' at the top of the letter/email.
If the Buc-ee's legal team or execs had any sense they would have cut and run the second the Oliver segment went up because this has become a national if not global issue and the longer this goes on the worse the company looks.
Companies spend lavishly on PR and ads because they understand that getting people to have a positive perception of your company/service is just good business and more than pays for itself, nation-wide negative publicity is very much on the other end of the spectrum and you'd think they'd understand how important it is to avoid it but I suppose they've gotten away with their legal thuggery for so long they figure they will here too and aren't thinking about what it's going to do to the brand going forward.
'The CEO of the company filing the trademark lawsuit admits publicly that they don't believe that there is a possibility for customer confusion' does rather seem like a fatal blow to the case given that's one of the core pillars of trademark lawsuits, yeah.
I’m genuinely curious how Republicans who strongly support free-market capitalism justify the government taking ownership stakes in private companies.
Two ways to explain that really:
1) They don't actually believe it, they just claim they do because it polls well with MAGAt voters.
2) Like everything else 'Anything is acceptable when a republican does it, nothing is acceptable when a non-republican does it'.
Oh they might be willing to overlook a potential goon with a brain if they're cruel enough, the real deal-breaking is having a working set of ethics and a conscious.
These days, its masked officers storming hardware store parking lots to grab day laborers, hanging around immigration courts to pick off people just trying to follow the naturalization process, leveraging surveillance tech and government data to find people with un-American surnames, and generally terrorizing entire neighborhoods — if not entire cities — just to satiate this administration’s bigoted bloodlust.
And by their choice in targets neatly demolishing the lie that republicans-now-MAGAts said for years that they were perfectly happy with immigration/immigrants, they just wanted them to do it the Right Way(tm).
So very many 'parents' undeserving of the title or job doing their damnedest to maim and/or murder their kids, a good many I'm sure because they fell for the debunked and moronic claim linking vaccination to autism and they'd rather their kids be dead than autistic.
Assuming every “no comment” is an admission of guilt is as fatuous as assuming everyone who pleads the Fifth is guilty of whatever they’ve been accused of.
In normal circumstances? Sure.
In this case, where the government has bent over backwards to do everything it can to prevent the release of the files even after congress passed a bill requiring them to do so? No, they deserve no benefit of the doubt here and a 'no comment' should be seen and treated as a damning admission of malicious and/or illegal intent or action.
When it comes to democrats a credible accusation of sexual misconduct or worse full blow assault is enough to get voters against a candidate or elected official and calling for their removal from office or campaign.
When it comes to republicans those same accusations are seen as a positive character trait for republican-now-MAGAt voters, and if anything get them to like the candidate/office holder more.
In 2022, the company called it a “weapon” in Instagram posts. Since then, though, it’s downgraded the language to “a Conductive Distraction and De-escalation device,” branding the technology on its website as “humane.”
'It's not torture, it's enhanced interrogation!'
I might be more inclined to believe he claim that the intent of sneaking the prompts in was to 'audit' the system had it not been done in a way to bias any potential AI summary in their favor and they doubled-down with 'jokes' when caught, that said I do agree with the general idea even if I'm iffy on the execution.
If a judge is going to be lazy enough to offload their work to an AI like that and let it do the reading and summarizing then that's a judge that by their own admission should not have the job, because they're not doing it. When the position granted to you gives you insane amounts of power and authority over the lives of the people that come to you the bare minimum that should be expected is that you do the work to make sure that if challenged you can defend your judgements by pointing to what work went into them rather than having to default to 'the AI told me X so that's what I based by ruling on'.
If the company's going to play it like this then any decision to no longer use the cameras should include a 'Flock has one week to reclaim the cameras and physically remove them, after which they are consider abandoned and the public can do whatever they want with them up to and including taking the cameras or smashing them on the spot so long as they clean up the mess afterwards' clause going forward.
'I'M not getting tortured so what's the problem?'
Bellevue schools spokeswoman Amanda Oliver said the district has a great relationship with Bellevue police and doesn’t see a need to alter anything. Of course she doesn't because she doesn't have to worry about getting electrically tortured whenever some thug with a badge decides that they haven't heard someone screaming recently enough. It's my understanding(that admittedly might be wrong) that a prerequisite for being able to carry pepper-spray in the military and/or police is having it used on you first so you know exactly what it feels like to be on the receiving end of what you're being handed. Whether or not that's actually true at this point I'm of the opinion that anyone that supports the use of the electric torture gloves, especially on kids, should be required to experience exactly what that feels like, with the gloves worn by someone who cares just as much for them as they do for those they are willing to see tortured, and just to keep the memory fresh so they can't convince themselves it wasn't that bad it should be done at least once a year at random. It's one thing to support a program when you know you will never face the negative aspects of it, something else entirely when you know that not only will you but you'll be first in line.
The chicken arguing that the fox deserves a door to the henhouse
She added, “Too many productions are at a standstill, which means Angelenos are out of a job and they’re not getting paid. As mayor, I cannot stand by as the job security of thousands of hardworking union members is being put at risk. That is why we are calling on Paramount, Attorney General Rob Bonta and all relevant parties to come together, engage directly and in good faith and work urgently to find common ground and keep our vital industry in Los Angeles.” The 'common ground' under discussion is the merger, something that historically does anything but benefit the people she's pointing to as being 'harmed' and in fact has a predictable tendency to see a bunch of them lose their jobs as a newly merged company 'trims redundant employement' in a scramble to recoup costs and cut ongoing expenditures. For all the faux outrage over people not being able to temporarily go to work she sure is being played like a fiddle to get a whole bunch of them fired for good on top of handing republicans even more control over the narrative.
Principles make for some strange 'allies'...
Legal threats made against the catholic church and for once I'm rooting for the church. Strange and terrible times indeed.
It's easy to use your religious book to defend anything and everything you want to say or do when you not only haven't read it but do not and would not care what it says even if you did.
What do you get when you spend your entire life surrounded by 'yes men'?
“This ranks as one of the top three dumbest ideas in my four decades of being in this industry,” said Earl Lum, the founder of analyst company EJL Wireless Research. What’s currently unclear is SpaceX’s precise definition of a small cell, but a typical outdoor small cell would come with power output of 5 watts per channel, in Lum’s book, and be difficult to install at residential properties. I'm reminded of the 'saying' about how someone thought that Elon was brilliant because that's what everyone had been saying and they weren't knowledgeable enough in the field being discussed to say otherwise, only for the heiling loser to comment on a field they were knowledgeable about and exposing that in fact he's a blithering idiot just bluffing as smart.
'Thanks for the hundred million investment, annnnnnd it's gone.'
Loathe as I am to see Elon get any richer anyone stupid enough to jump on one of his scams at this point deserves to be left wondering what happened to all that money they handed over.
'Something must be done(so long as it allows us to scapegoat socia media)!'
If they actually wanted to help kids and social media-related problems then there are plenty of things that they could be putting that time and energy into that doesn't involve just kicking kids off social media(or more realistically making is slightly harder for them to be on it and more primed to bypass rules as bogus even if they were put in place for good reasons). Off the top of my head... Programs to educate and help parents to talk to their kids, explain potential issues with using social media and how to avoid them or handle them if they run across them. Funding for programs to de-stigmatize mental health, both having issues and getting treatment for them. Paired with the above fund subsidies so that it is both easier and more affordable to get mental health treatment. It's not hard to come up with ideas that would almost certainly be vastly more effective at addressing the claimed harms, so either those pushing for or passing these bills literally spent no time actually thinking about the problem, or it's nothing more than fearmongering for fun, PR, power and profit.
If you have a claim you make it, not vaguely nod in it's direction
The New York Times report doesn’t contain anything specific Trump’s lawyer claimed was defamatory in the threat letter he issued on behalf of his boss. It’s safe to assume Brito provided no specifics, but relied on intentional vagueness in hopes of making the legal threat stick Any claim of libel or slander that doesn't specifically point out to what exactly is claimed to be libel or slander might as well start with a header of 'THIS IS A SLAPP THREAT' at the top of the letter/email.
Contrary to the saying not all publicity is good publicity
If the Buc-ee's legal team or execs had any sense they would have cut and run the second the Oliver segment went up because this has become a national if not global issue and the longer this goes on the worse the company looks. Companies spend lavishly on PR and ads because they understand that getting people to have a positive perception of your company/service is just good business and more than pays for itself, nation-wide negative publicity is very much on the other end of the spectrum and you'd think they'd understand how important it is to avoid it but I suppose they've gotten away with their legal thuggery for so long they figure they will here too and aren't thinking about what it's going to do to the brand going forward.
'The CEO of the company filing the trademark lawsuit admits publicly that they don't believe that there is a possibility for customer confusion' does rather seem like a fatal blow to the case given that's one of the core pillars of trademark lawsuits, yeah.
I suppose 'woke' isn't working to fearmonger as well these days?
I guess we can add 'communist' to the list of 'Empty buzzwords that are just shorthand for 'something republicans don't like'.'
I’m genuinely curious how Republicans who strongly support free-market capitalism justify the government taking ownership stakes in private companies. Two ways to explain that really: 1) They don't actually believe it, they just claim they do because it polls well with MAGAt voters. 2) Like everything else 'Anything is acceptable when a republican does it, nothing is acceptable when a non-republican does it'.
Oh they might be willing to overlook a potential goon with a brain if they're cruel enough, the real deal-breaking is having a working set of ethics and a conscious.
Turns out they meant 'be white' the whole time, who knew?
These days, its masked officers storming hardware store parking lots to grab day laborers, hanging around immigration courts to pick off people just trying to follow the naturalization process, leveraging surveillance tech and government data to find people with un-American surnames, and generally terrorizing entire neighborhoods — if not entire cities — just to satiate this administration’s bigoted bloodlust. And by their choice in targets neatly demolishing the lie that republicans-now-MAGAts said for years that they were perfectly happy with immigration/immigrants, they just wanted them to do it the Right Way(tm).
Out of all the industries to do well 'Child-sized coffins' should never rise in the ranks...
So very many 'parents' undeserving of the title or job doing their damnedest to maim and/or murder their kids, a good many I'm sure because they fell for the debunked and moronic claim linking vaccination to autism and they'd rather their kids be dead than autistic.
These are not normal circumstances, this is not your regular case
Assuming every “no comment” is an admission of guilt is as fatuous as assuming everyone who pleads the Fifth is guilty of whatever they’ve been accused of. In normal circumstances? Sure. In this case, where the government has bent over backwards to do everything it can to prevent the release of the files even after congress passed a bill requiring them to do so? No, they deserve no benefit of the doubt here and a 'no comment' should be seen and treated as a damning admission of malicious and/or illegal intent or action.
One side sees that as undesirable, the other loves it
When it comes to democrats a credible accusation of sexual misconduct or worse full blow assault is enough to get voters against a candidate or elected official and calling for their removal from office or campaign. When it comes to republicans those same accusations are seen as a positive character trait for republican-now-MAGAt voters, and if anything get them to like the candidate/office holder more.
Where have I heard that sort of argument before...
In 2022, the company called it a “weapon” in Instagram posts. Since then, though, it’s downgraded the language to “a Conductive Distraction and De-escalation device,” branding the technology on its website as “humane.” 'It's not torture, it's enhanced interrogation!'
What would you say you DO here judge?
I might be more inclined to believe he claim that the intent of sneaking the prompts in was to 'audit' the system had it not been done in a way to bias any potential AI summary in their favor and they doubled-down with 'jokes' when caught, that said I do agree with the general idea even if I'm iffy on the execution. If a judge is going to be lazy enough to offload their work to an AI like that and let it do the reading and summarizing then that's a judge that by their own admission should not have the job, because they're not doing it. When the position granted to you gives you insane amounts of power and authority over the lives of the people that come to you the bare minimum that should be expected is that you do the work to make sure that if challenged you can defend your judgements by pointing to what work went into them rather than having to default to 'the AI told me X so that's what I based by ruling on'.
'Either you remove the cameras or we're telling the public they can.'
If the company's going to play it like this then any decision to no longer use the cameras should include a 'Flock has one week to reclaim the cameras and physically remove them, after which they are consider abandoned and the public can do whatever they want with them up to and including taking the cameras or smashing them on the spot so long as they clean up the mess afterwards' clause going forward.