[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

Except that Biden is in no way evil. Being old is not evil, and his administration has done a lot of great things.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Are you saying the point isn't to catch CSAM because 95% of the CSAM people will find a workaround within a week?

Then what would be the point?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

There are different types. The "financial duty" of corporations is generally overblown, however that is more or less what happened with Twitter. Elon made such a dumb offer that they had to put it to their shareholders. There's some mechanism where shareholders can vote as a whole to sell, and if the vote passes then you don't get a choice.

But generally corporations absolutely aren't required to do whatever makes the most money. They're allowed to put other values above pure profit, as long as they can justify it being in the shareholders' interests. The shareholders may disagree and vote them out because of it, but as long as it was plausible, it's legal. For instance, I believe the board of an Oil company could decide to shut down their wells and fully pivot to renewables, and I don't think the courts would hold them accountable. Preventing climate change is easily arguable as in the shareholders' interest, even at the cost of significant money. However that board would likely quickly be voted out. (And it's unlikely they would have gotten there if they didn't love oil money.)

If you own 51% of shares, public or not, you can't be forced to sell afaik. And if you're private, you'd have to do some pretty big illegal defamation or something to be forced to sell your property. Or you could die and your descendents could decide to sell.

One issue is that we've set up our tax system to encourage cashing out asap. For the most part in the US, you're going to be taxed at 37% whether you sell now or whether you have the company pay you out for the next twenty years. So why not get out while the gettin' is good? In the past, with a 90% top marginal rate at a higher income, it was often better to keep your money in the company and in the reputation, and just have it pay you out at a medium tax bracket for the next fifty years. All you really need to do as your job is make sure the company stays stable anyway. You can do that while spending four days on the golf course.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago

Were you as good in English as you were in math?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

And then you get to be extra sad when you can't get out of the 1960s fridge.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

You need to take advantage of code switching, similar to how you'll use curse words in some contexts, but not in others. Or retail language vs casual.

They should have some intuitive idea of when to speak Portuguese and when to speak English. If you're mixing within the same context, that will be difficult.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I was semi-related to a guy who would drag his oxygen tank to the kitchen so he could smoke by the window.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Can't watch Amazon anymore. They added ads.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I get what you mean, but nearly everyone is allergic to mosquito bites. That's why they itch.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

a screenshot of a text message conversation. The text messages are from an encrypted app conversation between Roman Semenov, the defendant, Roman Storm, and CC-1.

He's taking a fee in order to launder your money.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He can write the code. He can release the source. Nothing is illegal until he takes currency.

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