When I was in sales, I would tell my customers not to just believe me and buy immediately. They should go home, look up what I’m telling them, and then come back after verifying if I was offering the best product at a good price, because I was a salesman and you should never trust someone in sales.

Of course, that made them instantly trust me immensely, and they’d insist on buying on the spot because they wanted honest Chilie to get the commission.

What they should have done is gone home and looked things up. I was a salesman and I shouldn’t have been trusted.

2015

Or just photos of random people or celebrities

Or AI slop photos. Or AI slop fake IDs.

The important takeaway is they won’t be restricting AI bots from participating.

That’s a horrible plan for a start-up.

How do your investors cash out?

Yeah. I loved playing football, but knowing what I do now I have a very different perspective on the game. I was very good, and probably could have gotten a full-ride scholarship prettu easily if I hadn’t quit for stupid reasons, but now I think my juvenile self may have accidentally made a great call.

A phone can upload automatically, so even if they take it the video is out there.

Just use a burner phone bought with cash.

This is at least an area where I’ve seen improvement in many denominations. The Episcopal Church in particular has gotten pretty hard-nosed about its sex abuse training. I was volunteering for a food drive and they made me take a 6-hour course along with any other volunteers who hadn’t been through it because children may be present and they have instituted strict rules.

The training had video confessions of people who had used church activities as a way to become “trusted” sonthey could abuse children. They talked about what they did and how they used their positions of trust to grrom their victims (e.g. “accidentally” touching kids while playing to gauge their reactions).

They then make crystal clear that the rules they have are not optional, or meant as an attack on the adults either. An adult roughousing with kids or talking with a distressed kid alone is most-likely not a rapist. We all understand that, so when someone says “hey - make sure to leave the blinds open with talking to Kelley” or “Steve - we can’t play flag football with the kids” it isn’t an accusation. It’s a reminder that we’re there for the kids and we all follow the rules so that if someone evil does show up they can’t engage in probing through “harmless fun”. If anyone can’t respect those rules they’re not allowed to participate.

The one exception we had for the “no touching” rule when I worked for a Methodist church was for a specific teenager who was usually very sweet but had developmental issues that would occasionally lead to extreme behavior, including occasional violent outbursts. For him we had a few specific adults that had special training (and waivers) that were allowed to restrain him. We also made one of his parents accompany any activity he was involved with. I only had to physically intervene one time when we were bowling and he took a ball into the parking lot to attack cars.

I work in municipal development and we have 20 new “developers” a week trying to get us to buy their permitting apps. All of them are willing to offer us an exclusive discount as an early adopter, and the few I’ve had meetings with haven’t even been able to tell us what backend databases the apps use or understand that there’s a difference between an Amending Plat, Site Development permit, and a Building permit.

And I have to fight the mayor every time because he’s all aboard with the AI hype. He tried having all the city ordinances and decelopment manuals re-written by GPT to make them easier to understand, and we had to get the city attorney to explain that not only was it idiotic, but that it would cost a couple hundred grand just to have his firm go over everything and explain the specifics of how dumb it was, and that if a code re-write is needed (and it is), they should spend that money hiring a firm specializing in code review.

The slop apps are out there - they’re just all being pitched to governments and CEOs that have infinite faith in anything that will make people more expendable.

The perjury charge was a stretch due to a perjury trap set up be the Republicans, which is why 10 Republicans in the Senate rejected it along with the Dems.

However, the blowjob was the bigger issue. It’s unethical for a retail manager to get a blowjob from a floor associate because consent is more complicatedwhen there’s a power imbalance. I don’t understand how people can defend the President of the United States getting oral sex from an intern.

9-5 isn’t really a thing anymore.

It’s more likely to be 8-5 or 9-6. You get an hour for lunch, but you’ll be so busy you usually skip it and work that extra hour for free.

I’ve been popped by 120 volt a few times.

It hurts like a motherfucker, but should throw a breaker or GFI before it kills.

Did you just make the Avocado Toast argument?

I think they should treat US athletes like the did clean Russian athletes.

Allow them to compete, but not as representatives of the US.

I work near downtown Austin, where both Waymo and Robotaxi operate.

Waymo cars are some of the best drivers on the road because they actuallyt ested their product, use multiple Lidar sensors instead of just cameras, and have remote driver backups for unusual situations.

Teslas drive like maniacs and will end a ride and tell the driver to get out in the middle of a lane.

Surely you’re not saying we have the resources to save the poor from their lot? There will be poor always, pathetically struggling. Look at the good things you’ve got.

Think while you still have me! Move while you still see me! You’ll be lost, and you’ll be sooo sorry

when I’m goonnee!

This is why when my city installed them (with a 3-2 vote from Council) they required them to all be installed in the Right-of-Way, which gives the city more authority to remove them if the contract is terminated (which it likely will be soon).

Sometimes Outlook will list an email address in the proper name field in the header too.

For instance their email address may be “suspectedpedophile26@maga.com” and the header will sometimes say:

suspectedpedohile26@maga.comsuspectedpedophile26@maga.com

I’m not familiar with everything at the federal level, but I fullfill a lot of Open Records in my state (Texas), and it’s illegal to release certain private information about living people in an open records request. Things like social security numbers, DL#s etc, and email addresses are specifically prohibited from release.

Lots of my responses look similar to this if the person’s identity in the header is just the email address.

For instance, if the header says John Doe johndoe@domain.com the redaction would black out the email address and leave the name. But if Outlook doesn’t have the name saved in the header it would black out everything.

My father was a firefighter, and his go-to quote every time someone wanted a cat rescued was “How often do you see a cat skeleton in a tree?”

They eventually jump down. They can generally survive terminal velocity falls without injury so long as they land well, which they generally do when they jump out of the tree. But it’s still scary, so it may take them a bit to build up the nerve for the jump.

I used to be clergy. Now I work in government.

So I feel like I’m a decent authority on how the separation of church and state makes both institutions better.