Thanks for sharing the link in the interest of fact and transparency.

Plus, you get the added benefit of smell, in case your hearing isn’t great and a nice snack to enjoy while you’re watching the firefighters.

Reminded me of the following for some reason:

https://multimedia-english.com/print/preview/german-coastguard-44

The sadists in HR are never going to let you go. They’ll threaten, but you’re going to be pounded by improvement plans for as long as you can stand it.

Partnership is a very grassroots thing. It predates modern humans, and it will persist long after. An organization that fails to recognize self-defined partnerships is self defeating. I might as well argue that my own feet don’t exist.

This is important and highlights some problems with trends in the modern world. At one point, we had an agreement that the average family would sacrifice 40 labor hours to the economy in return for enough resources to sustain a family. Now it’s 80.

Parents should have plenty of time to engage in childish pursuits alongside their kids. It’s natural, traditional, healthy and constructive to multi-generational, extended family households. I know that’s not what everyone wants, but I feel like it should at least be an option.

It should be okay for a person to work 20 hours per week. We have the technology to make that sustainable. If someone wants to work 80 to accumulate luxuries for themselves, I think that’s fine, too. What I hate is observing people being forced to live in poverty while working 40+ hours. I am aware that almost no one working full time is below the federal poverty limit, but that’s because it’s a nonsense metric. It’s unconscionable that anyone should have to live in poverty in the modern world, but it’s insane that full-time wages don’t necessarily cover the cost of living.

I believe this creates a situation which raises children without a sense of community outside of work, and now we’re watching them burn down the village as 70-year-olds. There’s a saying about how bad times create strong people, strong people create good times, good times create weak people, and weak people create bad times. I don’t believe it for a second. Strong people and peoples are those with strong social bonds. They needn’t be biological. Screwed up families exist and it’s okay to get away and find a real family elsewhere.These communities create good times, which create even stronger people.

So therefore, go and do silly things with kids. Play Minecraft or Fortnite or kick-the-can or hide-and-seek, sing baby shark, or watch Bluey. Not just because our future depends on it, but because it’s fun. We are supposed to be happy as a minimum standard. Not all the time, but at least as an average. It’s not even the goal of life; it’s the method. We’re supposed to enjoy doing constructive things. That’s how positive reinforcement works, and the current system is not only failing to acknowledge that, but it’s diverging from it.

Go and be childish.

I think that’s probably the best option for most people. Those are much easier to use. I like the butter bell more because it can take me a couple of weeks to get through a stick of butter. It wouldn’t go fully rancid in a butter dish in that time, but I don’t like the oxidation layer that forms on the outside. Regardless, room-temperature butter allies unite!

Everyone should try a butter bell at least once.

I was trying to point out that this feature may be even worse than that because it doesn’t even require a formal law enforcement request. If this becomes what it looks like, even private contractors will be able to access it without raising any alarms, further lowering the bar.

It’s a combination of two things, the subversion of expectation, which is a common device in jokes, and the criticism of authority, which is another, similarly common, one.

In my comment, I’m pointing out that these cameras are a risk for even broader abuses than just subpoenas, and compliance with law enforcement requests under the guise of finding lost family members.

The responder humorously twists my words to claim that it’s not a problem because the lost family members have already been swept up in an indiscriminate drag net, such that the cameras can not find them.

The joke is on the DHS, and not it’s victims.

I hadn’t even considered this aspect. I guess we can kiss goodbye the witness protection program.

First it was subpoenas, then it was complying with law enforcement requests. I think the new development is that just anyone can do it.

There’s the unexpected dark humor FTW.

No kidding, and the feature is on by default. It’ll be lost human family members next.

Like a true warrior hero, tragically born to an age of peace.

Agreed, and furthermore, it shouldn’t matter at all. If the worst Russian Intelligence can do is use real evidence to prove a crime was committed, that’s an easily solvable problem both by not committing crimes and by prosecuting crimes committed with transparent, due process.

It really is a very silly argument.

“Your honor, in my defense, the guy who saw me shoot the victim, called the police, and submitted some of the damning evidence to them was a known mafia member, untrustworthy, and had committed crimes against me in the past.”

“Okay, and what do you have to say about all of this other corroborated evidence from trustworthy sources?”

“Well they wouldn’t have found it if he hadn’t pointed it out!”

I don’t think he was a Russian spy, but I am also sure that it’s irrelevant.

And instead went after Snowden for pointing out the scale of their illegal surveillance, too.

Thanks. That puts me on the right track.

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