I would never hire a company that had a clause like this. Just find someone else. There’s a reason they felt it necessary to include that.

It is funny that in Piefed this topic is classified under “Chilling”

Man, some wild shit is going to happen before 2032. All of this is one scenario, yes, maybe, but this stuff is like weather forecasting on the Titanic at this point.

Paul Manafort was just one of the names we heard.

Who were the others?

I bet Zelensky himself do see him as a major threat for his reelections.

I get your point. He’s popular and at some point when the dying stops, it’ll be relevant. I would say it would be relevant if Vance was able to replace Zelensky with this guy before the war was over, but I don’t think Vance is competent enough to make that happen, fortunately enough. I feel like people in that part of the world have a lot stronger civil immune system against disinfo.

Further, if Ukraine survives and everyone gets to go back to normal life, my guess would be that Zelensky wouldn’t give two shits if a competent military commander got to take his job with his biggest concern being losing the election, but who knows.

Others in Ukraine see him as a potential political figure.

Which others, though? Specifically who in Ukraine sees him as a potential political figure? The only one named in the article is Paul Manafort.

There is so much vigorous disinformation in this space that I want to read pretty critically anything that sounds like this, and I saw plenty of stink lines crop up more or less instantly when I held it close to my face. For all I know it’s legit, it just ticks a few of the disinfo boxes.

Zaluzhnyi declined, but also pledged loyalty, up to a point. He promised Yermak he would not criticise Zelenskyy in public while the war continued

What in the loaded bullshit

What is the point of this type of innuendo?

So far, Zaluzhnyi has not communicated that message, although there is an increasing belief in Kyiv that he is readying a political run. The general is coy even privately with close associates about his plans, but many assume he is just biding his time before entering the fray.

So… there’s no particular reason to think he might have any interest in politics at all, but The Guardian is real enthusiastic about painting it that he’s just “biding his time.”

That’s all it’s ever been. These nations rise and fall like villages in the Ice Age. We just have media and systems to make it look like everything is all organized and “professional” now, and it kind of is sometimes, but at the end of the day we’re still living on the same uncaring planet by the same rules.

Do they? When did this happen? I know they arrest people for “Plasticine Action” T-shirts.

Germany’s been doing fucked up stuff for a while. People have literally had the police visit and gotten citations for what they said online (for example calling a politician a “penis” on social media.) It’s fucked.

You seem to be assuming that the volume is immediately replaced by the external atmosphere, which I doubt is valid

No, I was assuming your volume decreases. I don’t actually know that to be the case, but my assumption is that there isn’t “extra” space inside a person, and so if you lose material from a part of your body that isn’t encased in anything rigid your volume decreases slightly.

So maybe I did have my terminology wrong. When a hot air balloon deflates, it falls. The density went up, but that’s not what’s directly relevant. The weight went down, I guess, but the “number on the scale”, weight minus buoyant force, went way way up, because it lost some lower-density volume that was making the whole thing float. The weight (in a strict physics sense) went down, sure. But the number on the scale (which I was incorrectly calling “weight”) went up. Same thing for a farting person.

Boo Sailboat

Fart gas is warmer than the surrounding atmosphere, therefore less dense. Your digestive system is under very slight compression (10-20 mmHg gauge pressure according to the internet), which I would guess does not equate to enough pressure to be more significant than the temperature gradient. Fart gas is also less dense than air at a given pressure by a pretty significant margin (1.06 g/L compared with 1.20 g/L).

When you fart, you’re releasing gas that is less dense than the atmosphere, which means you get slightly heavier. Think of yourself as a hot air balloon with a very tiny chamber, and when you release a 90 milliliter fart, you lose a little buoyancy and sink a little. You get heavier when you fart.

I haven’t done the math, but I looked around on the internet at some numbers, and that’s what I think. I also ignored this because it is clearly AI slop, which is a little upsetting.

Partial plate matches and fuzzy matches exist for this reason, I don’t think this would protect you if you were genuinely doing serious crime. I looked into the guy a little more, he’s standing up against corruption of the NYPD which is a pretty important defense of the social contract (and apparently he’s gotten cited and threatened for it, because the NYPD doesn’t feel like it should have to follow the law.)

Apparently it’s true:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/nyregion/license-plate-vigilantes.html

Presumably, what was happening was that NYC cops and city employees just didn’t get tickets, but then with the automated cameras, the computer didn’t know that it was supposed to give free passes to cops, and so they started bending their plates so they could keep their above-the-law status. Which is what prevents them from getting in trouble for having a defaced plate.

Fuck the NYPD, in other words

Citation?

My first thought was “that might not be a bad idea the way things are going, just so the feds don’t know where I am going at all times.” My second thought is that I’m genuinely a little bit surprised that Flock cameras don’t auto-flag this stuff and send a notification for the person to be pulled over.

If you defaced your plate into another plate that was also in the DB, then maybe you’d be fine, at least for a while.

Yes, how dare they invade a sovereign nation and have their state TV call for exterminating every single one of its population, and threaten people with nuclear weapons, because those countries committed the sin of maybe joining a defense alliance which would make it more difficult for them to do those things without getting their nose bloodied for it. Or, wait, that was fine. You were talking about the other guys? Yeah, those guys. I get it.

Russia had no choice, at the end of the day. It’s from the “I didn’t mean to break her arm but she said she was gonna call the cops on me and you know I can’t have that shit” school of enlightened statecraft.

You may be right, but I don’t think he’s even as organized as that. I think he’s just wandering around playing big boy and pooping on himself, as he usually does.

I feel like they’re pretty ahead of you. I doubt that anyone in Ukraine or EU is taking Trump’s opinion on the “peace deal” or the war all that seriously. They can’t just openly ignore him, just because the US is still providing a ton of weapons, but I would be very surprised if they’re taking him seriously.