I read it wrong at first and thought it was an actual irl theme park based on mars attacks, which would be a strange ip to choose for such an endeavor but I would still welcome it

No the rest of the comments commentary on noncompetes applies regardless of whether or not their is validity to a noncompete. Maybe that was unclear?

I don’t think you read past the second sentence of my comment in your rush to tell me I’m wrong. The rest of my comment underlines why the theory is useless. The opening is just defining why they might define a loss of noncompetes as causing irreparable harm.

I also don’t think it’s an effective strategy to solely paint the picture of the oppressed worker with hyperbolic statements and zero nuance. The worker is the oppressed person in this case and needs the advocacy for sure but you don’t win by being disingenuous

Well in theory it would, wouldn’t it? Isn’t that the point of the non compete? I have you sign it because if you utilize the skill set I gave you in the specific geographic area then my business will be harmed by you poaching clientele that would have otherwise come to me.

It’s another way of saying “fuck new small businesses, established businesses should be allowed to continue to consolidate power at the expense of everyone who comes after them” though. Aka fuck you, got mine.

It undermines capitalism. I’m not a capitalist but I thought the whole point of capitalism was to let the services and products duke it out on merit and let the best one win by letting the market decide. This is just another way we subvert capitalist ideals. we let the players who already have capital cheat to entrench their positions further and give themselves even more of an unfair advantage over anyone entering against them.

If I’m “New shop” going up against “5th generation store worth 8 million dollars with 10 locations” the odds are already hugely stacked against me, but now if I work for them and sign a noncompete I basically am barred from playing before I even try. Let alone that metaphor barely even works anymore because 99% of the time “5th generation store” is actually “global conglomerate worth 5 trillion dollars that has an army of lawyers who will either acquire you or sue you into oblivion the millisecond you become a threat”

I worked in a setting where we had to use them because people had to get audio prompts but still needed to be able to hear for situational awareness. They definitely work and work pretty well. You can even use them underwater. They can’t match the sound quality of actual headphones though. But for voice stuff or if you’re not super picky about audio quality they’re great, you can easily hear everything going on around you much more clearly than any of the “transparency modes” that modern noise cancelling headphones have because they don’t block your ears at all

This exists, kind of

There’s bonded connections in several senses

Bonded ports but this doesn’t increase throughput in the way you’re thinking. eg if I bond 2 1 gigabit Ethernet ports I can’t connect at 2 gigabits, I can connect 2 users at up to one gigabit each (or several users totaling 2 gigabits but no 1 user at more than 1 gigabit)

bonding routers can take two internet connections and combine them, which is closer to what you are probably imagining. They combine throughput, eg a 100mbit connection and a 100mbit connection become a 200mbit connection although realistically it’s not that perfect and you have to get the right services for it, not just any connection will work, it’s a rabbit hole and generally much slower and worse latency than if you just got a traditional connection. Think people using starlink and 5g internet in rural settings

There’s also something called speedify, which is software that claims to do the above in software alone, bonds two connections to combine throughput. Never tried it, reviews are mixed. Some say it works, some say it’s spotty, some say you only get the speed of the one connection, etc.

heating built in. They make the kind that have mixing but as you said the hot water is contingent on your homes supply. In my house that’s like 90-120 seconds and that is a lot of time and wasted water for bidet usage. Plus I have a vanity instead of a pedestal sink so running the hot water line would’ve meant I had to cut a hole in the vanity and get a pretty long line.

this one was a decent bit more expensive but circumvents those issues. It also adds some features like a heated seated, a blow dryer to dry you when you’re done, and nozzle adjustment to make sure you get the right spot. Downside of this is that it needs electricity but I was much more comfortable running a new gfi outlet to the toilet than I was tapping the hot water line of the sink and cutting the vanity (or running a more permanent hot water line). Outside of the outlet the install is simple, install the mount the same way would any toilet seat, slide the seat into the mount (the seat can pop out of the mount with a button so you can clean it easier, which is nice), turn the water off and drain the lines, install a t adapter, reconnect the lines to tank and seat, turn on water, check for leaks, plug into power, done

It’s definitely some bougie shit but I don’t care, I love it. I got an open box and saved about $225 (mine is a toto washlet, I paid about $275). I’ve had it for about 5 years and it’s been perfect, reviews suggest they’re bulletproof and I plan to use it basically forever. there are more brands now though that are significantly cheaper with the same exact features though but not as clear as to whether they will last as long. toto is built super solid but I don’t know if it’s worth the price premium over some of the chinese brands that have popped up on ebay and amazon

bidet with warm water hookup. the toilet seat kind, I don’t have the space for a whole extra thing

they’re almost all owned by the same parent network (iheartmedia, which was clearchannel) so it’s stupid easy to coordinate

That shit goes back way before reddit. It was a problem on digg, on 4chan, somethingawful and other vbulletin forums, Usenet, etc. it will be a problem here and every place that comes after

It’s easier to just agree with the group than do critical thinking. It’s easier to just repost the same stupid tired joke someone else just made than to be clever. etc

Watch it happen and complain after the fact based on historical precedent. Perhaps they will later appeal to the judicial system that will not care because trump spent his term fairly efficiently jamming it full of shit. Then instead of escalating the issue they will just let it go, because “decorum”

but my (not really my) conspiracy theory for this is the opposite of open source: when someone is good at cracking games companies like denuvo track them down and offer them jobs to harden their product and take another cracker out of the scene. like I bet denuvo is just filled with nerds that spent their teenage years in sketchy irc rooms with handles like -DooMSlAyEr- and used to actually be members of razor1911 before they realized they could get game companies to pay them 200k a year

She is kind of a shithead tbf and fwiw it’s more like she’s the only person who is willing to do it. granted cracking denuvo is something that is extremely difficult and only a small subset of people can do but it’s not like she’s literally the only person on the planet who can. There was that guy who would just release the yearly update of football manager, for one.

It’s far more likely the people who have that skill set just don’t really want to bother with cracking videogames and the potential legal issues that come with distributing them online.

I think it’s spelled “anime”

Technically this is necessarily true, for any licensed psychiatrist or psychologist in the USA at least practicing under the scope of the APA ethical framework

The interesting piece is why

In 1964 when Barry Goldwater was running for president a piece was run on him that polled a number of psychiatrists regarding whether he was fit to be president. He was compared to dictators by many of the respondents and described with very unflattering language. He successfully sued the magazine that ran the article, Fact, for the modern equivalent of about $630,000.

In response the APA created the guideline (section 7) which states the need to contribute to improvement of community and betterment of public health. Specifically section 7.3 considers commentary on public figures:

On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed information about himself/herself through public media. In such circumstances, a psychiatrist may share with the public his or her expertise about psychiatric issues in general. However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.

Thus, commentary by psychologists and psychiatrists on political candidates and such is generally not okay. Debate on this specific issue was widely renewed over the past 8 years, for obvious reasons

The interesting part is the debate is changed, quite a bit, in the modern era. In goldwaters day there was a more valid argument that his public persona and personal self were very distinct. But now you have trump, who lived on twitter for years and shit out every thought he had relatively unfiltered. Is that the same? Not at all, but at the same time from a clinical perspective it’s still a public persona trump puts forward and not necessarily indicative of who the man actually is

but the other side of the debate is the freedom of speech issue. this becomes interesting in the trump era because new issues become relevant. In the goldwater era the issues were primarily about if the guy was a fucking monster, basically. But now we also have concerns about cognitive capacity. Barry goldwater was 55 when he that article came out. Trump is 78. There are cognitive decline issues that can be observed from video that while not definitive are at least huge red flags for further screening and warning that this man shouldn’t be put in charge of the United States for the next four fucking years as he continues to decline, because unfortunately age and time do not reverse.

Essentially one can argue it is my opinion that trump is a sociopathic narcissist, for example, because I have not met him and cannot actually say for certain that these views are truly his or if this is just pomp that he is using to curry political favor. As such I should not use my licensure and standing to harm his because I cannot be sure that it’s not just an act. But on the other hand I can be pretty sure that I am seeing an increase in repetition in phrases, decreased vocabulary, flight of ideas, tangential speech, and most worrying is a few instances of word salad. I cannot publicly comment on this, ethically.

Biden had similar issues to be fair but he stepped down, thankfully. Biden is also harder to evaluate because he had a known history of speech issues.

The Goldwater rule is not inherently bad though. It’s actually a good rule. It’s a good reminder that we don’t know the person behind the tv. But on the other hand one could argue evaluating the presented persona is still somewhat valid. If John q president comes in to run in 2028 and puts forth a persona of being a total jackass Warhawk narcissist but it turns out they’re a total soft hearted lovable guy in their personal life, does that matter if they run shit like a total jackass Warhawk narcissist? Does it even stop being true if they actually act that way? Etc.

I’m not a younger person but I used to collect vinyl and had to quit because the younger crowd got really into it and the ensuing popularity led to prices going nuts. 10 years ago it was crate digging for $1 records and new releases for $10-15 and now it’s crate digging for $5-10 and new releases for $40-60. Fuck that.

That said before I bowed out I saw plenty of artists also release on cassette and cd as well as vinyl. Those formats weren’t as popular as vinyl but still were popular, likely for one of the reasons I originally got into collecting physical media for cheap. The vinyl releases would be $40 but the cd would be $15 and the cassette would be $9.

Of course, you lose the other main reason which is the vinyl often has superior mastering to cd/web sources but I honestly don’t think a lot of the new releases are being listened to anyway. But that starts the whole diatribe about the new generation buying up vinyl to either never listen to it or to spin it on a shitty $40 record player that will wreck the disc over time. And people always looooove hearing about that lmao

The whole thing got really scummy too. The price rises were initially because the popularity caught labels off guard and pressing plants couldn’t keep up, especially during covid. But more have opened since then and they can press crazy amounts. They have just recognized they can gouge fans for $50+ dollars plus shipping for a single disc LP because they got away with it for a brief period. Plus then they quickly learned the hype tricks and now that shit is everywhere. Every album is “limited edition, only 1/3000” except then you look on discogs and there are 4800 registered. And then there’s 20 variants of the album for you to collect, show your support to Taylor or king gizzard and buy them all. It’s like funko pops except music. Don’t forget that there’s a limited run of 1000 signed copies! They’re not actually signed, they come with a little art card that’s signed and it’s probably signed by an intern but whatever, $75 for the album that’s normally $40 because you believe Olivia Rodrigo touched it for 3 seconds.

Totally gross consumerism but that seems to be what zoomers get shoved down their throats at all times. I thought us millennials got it bad because we had like constant product placement and advertising everywhere and boy bands and shit but man, they really fucked the zoomers even worse

Medium rare? Wuss.

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which means if you’re impacted after a ton of paperwork and emails you’ll get a check for $200 6 years from now to make up for the fact that your $650 processor was a lemon. justice served!

I don’t know how people don’t get this. It’s utterly transparent, they didn’t make any secret of it. Their megadonors pulled donations, pelosi went and had a secret chat that was probably along the lines of “i have spoken to the oligarchs that fund us, if you insist on running your war chest will be paltry and the rest of the party will suffer in kind. Congressional races, local elections, etc will all be vastly underfunded because you decided to stay in the race. They are holding the bag and they want you out.” and then a few days later he announces he’s out after they coordinate things. Maybe he had a day or two where he had a pipe dream moment thinking he could grassroots fund it like Bernie and someone shot him back down to earth

The specifics of their conversation are secret so that’s conjecture of course but the fact that the dnc’s large donors pulled their donations until he dropped out and that pelosi spoke to him about that fact are not. And then she gets spun as some “boss dealmaker” when really she’s just the mouthpiece of the elite ruling class, sending a message that their money dries up if they don’t get their way. Some deal making that is

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