I was about to say …

Vox can speak for itself. Big sections of the public knew they were being sold a bill of goods.

Nothing is stopping them from doing it, which is why when the cops get a report of someone pointing a gun at people they have no choice but to assume it’s real (unless it’s obviously shaped like a super soaker). If the person training their gun-shaped object on passersby points the gun at the cops they usually get shot because the cops aren’t willing to bet their life that it’s not some asshole who put orange acrylic paint on the tip of a real gun.

There are some hobbyists that paint their guns to look like a Nerf gun or a Nintendo gun controller. The general consensus is “it would be stupid to take this out anywhere other than the range”. This is much less common than the opposite: toy or pellet guns that look very realistic.

Get the (werewolf in) London look.

Proof that if a system or technology exists, nerds will try to run Doom on it.

The ones in their imagination.

I am outraged that - let me check my notes - the EIC of The Verge has published an article partially generated by AI.

And then everyone clapped

I’m ignoring that situation because we’ve had laws on the books regarding CSAM and ferocious enforcement of them for decades.

Canada was not available to be blamed.

It’s down to parenting, or lack thereof. No politician can say “parents of America, quit giving your children unrestricted internet access and being surprised when they see horrible shit” and keep their job.

Kids don’t need smartphones.

Sites can be blacklisted on home and school routers.

Strict parents can be blamed by kids if they catch flak from their peers for not being on social media.

It ain’t rocket surgery, but you need to be willing to spend time with your kids instead of slapping a phone in front of them to keep them quiet.

I’ve got a kid that’s magnetically attracted to any screen. I get the temptation but I don’t need a study to tell me that unrestricted internet access is fucking horrible for kids.

Has anyone set up an equivalent to r/rimjobsteeve yet?

This feels like an SCP.

Thank you and I hope you have the same.

An IPO is an initial public offering. It is when shares of the company are being sold for the first time. This allows a company to (potentially) raise an enormous amount of money to expand their business.

When people buy and sell stocks or you see stock prices being reported on this is more or less a secondary market, people or investment firms trading stocks amongst themselves. The company doesn’t get any money when a stock trades hands in this fashion.

An IPO is different. The company is selling little pieces of ownership and the money from those sales go into their coffers. To raise the most funds the company wants to convince potential buyers that the company is valuable and is now or will soon be profitable (and will pay a dividend out for each share owned). This assessment of value (called valuation) is often complex and can take a long, long time.

Reddit’s recent effective shutdown of third party apps to force mobile users onto the Reddit mobile app was almost certainly an effort to get a better valuation. It shows potential buyers of shares that the content on Reddit can only be accessed on mobile devices via an app that the company would get the ad revenue from.

All the kerfuffle and shakeups at Reddit have been leading up to the big day, the IPO. The big news scoop is that that date has been set for March.

Eventually they will be held accountable by their shareholders. Companies that renew expensive (and now unnecessary) office leases will have a worse bottom line than those that embrace work from home.

In theory the amount of work for people doing HQ level administration (executives, accountants, etc.) doesn’t change when they work from home. The work is different because face to face communication is replaced with telecommunication, but the same tasks that were done in office are still being done.

My observation is that the people who want to see a return to office have one or more (but not necessarily all) of the following traits:

1. They think short term or buy into the sunk cost fallacy and want to justify long, expensive commercial leases that the company is locked into.

2. To understand that work is happening they need to see work happening. This can be driven by difficulty dealing with abstraction or generalized trust issues.

3. They don’t have a good home life. For a lot of people home is unpleasant and work is a respite. That respite has been taken away by a large, sudden societal shift.

And furthermore it was said in true frontier gibberish!

Relatively new parent here. I regret to inform you that your hypothesis is incorrect, at least for my kid. He’s still an infant, though and I don’t know if you include kids under 1 in “small children”.

My wife and I only use our phones to track his nap times, take a picture of him occasionally (once a week or so), and make phone calls. He is still magnetically attracted to them. If you leave one sitting on a surface he can reach he will go for it and start trying to get it to light up on the lock screen. This is especially frustrating for my wife and I as we intend to restrict screen time as much as possible through early childhood.

Even removing social pressures and constructs around phones they are little boxes with moving lights on one side that respond to your touch. That’s inherently interesting to children even before they can meaningfully interpret writing or abstract images.

You wouldn’t download a car computer.

As long as you don’t have the wrong opinions, of course.

Think of a guilty/not guilty plea as the defense declaring their stance rather than literally saying “I did this” or “I did not do this”. After all there are circumstances in which a person absolutely did the thing they’re accused of but are not actually guilty (self defense) or extenuating circumstances need to be considered (insanity plea).

Perjury requires that a person lied under oath in a specific, provable way. That’s why defense attorneys will sometimes have their client not take the stand or assert their fifth amendment rights in response to certain questions. Making the prosecution prove that the defendant did a thing is fine. Saying “I didn’t do thing X at all” and then having evidence being presented that you did is no bueno.

TL;DR: A not guilty plea basically says “prove it”. Perjury is lying about specifics and it can later be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that you lied about those details.