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chaorace, 9 months ago

Yes, but only on motorcycles. That’s because there’s no such thing as an automatic motorcycle[^1][^2][^3][^4][^5], so you have to learn manual if you want to ride one. Unfortunately this skill doesn’t transfer well to manual driving because on bikes you operate the clutch with your hand and the shift with your foot. I’m not terribly worried about that, though… I’ve literally never even been on the inside of a manual drive car before!

For context: I’m mid-20s from the American south.

[^1]: No, electrics don’t count. [^2]: No, semi-autos don’t count. [^3]: No, three-wheelers don’t count. [^4]: No, the 2006 Yamaha bikes don’t count because that line was a sales failure. [^5]: Ok, fine. Honda’s DCT bikes do count, but holy shit are they expensive!

chaorace, 9 months ago

I always keep watch history turned on, because the recommendation system has always sucked if you kept it turned off. It’s more honest to the user now that they give up instead of intentionally sucking – “we can’t give recommendations if we don’t know what you tend to watch”. That basically makes sense to me and I accept the tradeoff this poses.

I know a lot of people think Youtube recommendations always suck and are therefore not even worth trying, but I beg to disagree. You can cultivate good recommendations, even if your interests have no overlap with the default front-page. It comes down to two basic ingredients:

1. Use the “Not Interested” button on bad recommendations
2. Click on the like/dislike buttons after watching videos

By default Youtube is going to try feeding you lowest common denominator junk. This is because it starts out knowing very little about you besides broad demographics. The more feedback you give it the less it falls back on this crutch until eventually you get solid recommendations. Every single bad recommendation is a hidden opportunity to tell Youtube to get that garbage out of your face.

And, yeah… in my experience this really works. If you click the buttons and make it a habit, you can get some really great stuff! As encouragement, I’ll share a selection from my home feed full of fresh videos relevant to my tastes. Even the topic bar is on point:

A mobile screenshot of the Youtube home page showing three videos: “Islamic Denominations Explained” by Useful Charts, “Popular Misconceptions About Mythbusters” by Adam Savage’s Tested, and “Ranking Anime Denny’s” by hazel

I’ll probably watch all 3 of these videos at some point, which I think indicates a pretty successful outcome. In fact, over the years, I’ve found hundreds of channels almost exclusively using the recommendation system. Even if you primarily stick to your subscription box, improving your recommendations can help you with building that out little by little.

(Note: I am deliberately avoiding the question of whether or not one should want an algorithm to intimately understand their interests because that’s a hard conversation and my soul has already long since been sold)

chaorace, 9 months ago

Yeah that happens to me too, but I’m often happy with that because it fits well with my personal tendency to hyperfixate on new topics for a while.

What I like to do is ride out a trend until I lose interest and then start Not Interesteding them. It doesn’t take long for them to fall out of my feed and from that point on only surface every once in a while if a particularly strong video is currently making the rounds.

Don’t hesitate to throw out negative feedback even for stuff you feel lukewarm about. Youtube can take the hint without going overboard and forgetting that interest too completely.

chaorace, 9 months ago

The story is more interesting than the title suggests! This guy was arrested for hacking two telecom companies, got released under investigation, then immediately hacked Nvidia before being put under house arrest. After that, he was relocated to a hotel (due to being doxxed) where all he had to work with was a Fire TV stick, which he promptly then used to hack Rockstar.

All in all, he’s believed to have stolen $14 million+. By the way… he’s 18, autistic, and enrolled in a special education school.

chaorace, 9 months ago

Well, between getting doxxed and annihilating any chance he had at getting a lenient sentencing, the more sensible decision would have probably been to sit on his hands and bide time for a couple months lol.

chaorace, 9 months ago

Counterpoint: he got caught. Whatever his offensive capabilities are, his security posture is evidently lacking. Recruiting a glass cannon like that might not work out if you’re looking for help with security hardening.

chaorace, 9 months ago

Well in that case I guess he’s been cursed by fate in an uncaring world 🤷

chaorace, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Unlike a traditionally managed system, you manually keep an install list of all used system packages (including current version). It’s conceptually similar to how conventional package managers might have a mirror configuration list. Within this list, you’re also sprinkling in individual package options which Nix will automatically apply for you (the options that Nix “sees” are manually coded in by whoever did the bundling of that particular Nix package).

In other words: you’re treating packages as if they were configuration and bundling that in with the actual configuration under a unified framework. This basically means that you can think of Nix packages as wrappers bundling the base software plus instructions for a config file generator. That’s effectively the “gimmick” of Nix: config files are routinely regenerated, so in everyday use they’re conceptually equivalent to an abstract interface between the Nix package manager and the software proper.

Worth mentioning at this point is the fact that the core Nix ecosystem is all about managing system-level software; Nix handles sudoer stuff and steers clear of interfering with user-level dotfiles. Using the hyprland wayland compositor as an example, you can see that the module only provides flags for things like NVIDIA patches and allowing xwayland – options for shadows/colors/animations are omitted entirely because they should (under the Nix philosophy) be configured with user dotfiles.

Now with that being said, Nix itself is merely a package manager, so it’s entirely possible to splash in as a companion to your distro’s main package manager (similar to how you can globally install npm/pip packages). This is handy because Nix’s ecosystem is highly invested in enabling users to write their own packages (i.e.: Nix Flakes). In fact, some Nix users exclusively use it as a framework for creating and managing custom packages whenever the need arises to install something not already provided in their distro’s package repository.

Of course, the most vocal Nix users are all-in and use NixOS. With NixOS, Nix is your native system package manager. Everything system-level becomes Nix-managed, though the same leave-userspace-to-dotfiles philosophy still applies on the user level. This strategy enables cool stuff like seamlessly syncing your system environment between multiple workstations and having guaranteed safe restore points through the use of nothing but a handful of config files.

Beyond that, for the total Nix freaks, there’s the Home Manager Nix package, which allows you to install and manage userspace applications Nix-style. This is handled separately from Nix/NixOS proper because userspace configuration is a much larger and faster-moving target. If you use Home Manager to fully capture your userspace, it’s nigh-guaranteed that you’ll need to get your hands dirty by writing custom Nix modules. As you may imagine, this process can be a big pain… though it comes with the benefit of being able to seamlessly carry user applications & dotfiles across any distro that supports the Nix package manager (including Darwin).

chaorace, 9 months ago

Claude doesn’t believe in you.

chaorace, 10 months ago

I FOUND YOU, FAKER!

chaorace, 10 months ago

Putin lied as naturally as he breathed

chaorace, 10 months ago

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chaorace, 10 months ago

I just sort of let it go and join the background of life experiences. My brain already knows to remind me of a mistake when it’s truly relevant, so why dwell?

Obviously this isn’t great advice for those struggling… but it’s what works for me. Not to brag, but I have an astoundingly bad memory, so not remembering things is kind of my forte.

chaorace, 10 months ago

Something like this, I imagine:

“The screen is bonded directly to the front-facing camera, so the screen assembly must never be separated in order to prevent tampering with FaceID. As an additional anti-tamper measure, we’ve also recently begun permanently soldering the harness responsible for connecting the screen assembly and TPM. Unfortunately, this means that the screen assembly and motherboard cannot be separated without compromising system security. For the protection of our users, we at Apple cannot in good conscience offer any individual parts other than the case and master screen+motherboard assembly.”

chaorace, 10 months ago

Note: if your knife begins plotting the demise of you or any other person, the best course of action is to assume your rightful place as an avatar of destruction.

chaorace, 10 months ago

Well, technically it’s a disorder which can emerge from any number of different causes. Yes, generally ADHD emerges as a developmental issue, but you could arrive at the same physiology through sufficiently specific neurodegeneration or brain trauma and these things would still be diagnosable as ADHD and even effectively treated using ADHD medication.

Saying that might seem like a stretch, but consider the fact that we can consistently visually identify an ADHD prefrontal cortex in brain scans. When reduced volume is observed, it’s even possible to predict to some extent the symptom severity by how much appears to be missing. For several decades of research, the precursor to the modern ADHD diagnosis was even called “minimal brain damage”.

chaorace, 10 months ago

All of the scientific literature that I have ever read on the topic has strongly stated that there is no way to identify ADHD from brain scans or anything like that

Identify =/= diagnose. You also cannot diagnose ADHD with a genetic test, despite genetics being a strong indicator. I alluded to this by following up with “when reduced volume is observed”, but you’re right in saying that it would have been less misleading to state directly that brain scans are never in and of themselves used to diagnose ADHD.

Also, no, any situation you describe wouldn’t be diagnosable as ADHD, one of the requirements of an ADHD diagnosis is that the condition is present from birth.

If we’re talking DSM-5, the criteria is actually that the onset of symptoms occur by 12 years of age. Even if you take the DSM-5 as gospel, it’s entirely possible for a 6 year old to experience a traumatic brain injury to the prefrontal cortex, heal from the initial trauma, continue to demonstrate symptoms, then receive an ADHD diagnosis. You might call that a misdiagnosis, but I don’t see much of a difference if the symptoms and treatment are the same. There are also recent studies which explore the development of ADHD secondary to traumatic brain injury in adults which I think could eventually warrant further broadening the diagnostic criteria.

chaorace, 10 months ago

I’m posting a source for my original claim: “we can consistently visually identify an ADHD prefrontal cortex in brain scans”. This is not the same as a source which proves that brain scanning is able to identify/diagnose ADHD itself. The order of operations is reversed, because the only way to diagnose a disorder like ADHD is through observation of symptoms, not physiology.

To be clear: what I claim is that you can compare brain imaging of an average individual (oxymoron notwithstanding) diagnosed with ADHD against the brain imaging of an average individual not diagnosed with ADHD and visually see a difference.

Source for this claim, w/ attention to table 4: sci-hub.se/https://…/j.biopsych.2006.06.011

chaorace, 10 months ago

Table 3 and Table 4 aren’t combined because they assessed different regions of interest. The tables don’t contradict each other, because they don’t even include the same ROIs:

Presented in Table 4 are ROIs that were assessed in only two studies and show significant SMDs between the ADHD and control subjects.

As for the heterogeneity, the paper notes which ROIs failed to remain statistically significant after correction. The Prefrontal region is not included this list:

Although frontal gray and white matter and premotor ROIs show substantial SMDs ranging from .59 to .75, they also show statistically significant levels of heterogeneity, indicating rather variable results across the two studies in each meta-analysis. Due to the lack of power for the meta-analyses in this table, we need to interpret these results with caution. For example, the measures of intracranial volume, frontal lobe, right amygdala, and the splenium using the O’Kusky et al. (1988) method failed to remain significant after correction for multiple comparisons.

As you say, the studies aren’t golden, but that’s why I picked a meta-analysis. To be honest, if I knew I was going to be held to such a high standard, I would have just kept my mouth shut!

chaorace, 10 months ago

Oh, bother…

chaorace, 10 months ago

… did you link the correct article? It seems quite critical of China’s emissions?

None of the world’s biggest emitters – China, the United States, the European Union and India – have reduced their emissions enough to meet the Paris Agreement goals.

Over the past two decades, China’s emissions have surged as the country has developed economically at a breakneck pace. Mainly because of its reliance on coal, one of the highest-emitting fuels, China now accounts for almost a third of all human-caused greenhouse gases — more than the United States, Europe and Japan combined.

Granted, the article says that China’s emissions are projected to peak in 2025, but that still means emissions are estimated to increase every year for another 3 years. They have not (yet) actually reduced their annual emissions, let alone achieved anything close to net-zero.

According to projections from Climate Action Tracker and other monitoring organizations, China’s emissions are nearing their peak, years ahead of when China’s government had pledged to reach that goal. Analyses show China’s rate of emissions neither growing nor declining from now until 2025, before gradually dropping off. China’s peak will occur at a far lower per capita emissions level than countries like the United States.

The goal that China has beaten, it would seem, is their own internal peak date goal. It’s good that they set and kept a goal, but keeping an internal goal is not the same thing as keeping the Paris Accord goals. The Paris Accord represents the bare minimum for avoiding a climate catastrophe and should continue to be the primary bar which we measure countries against.

chaorace, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I’m not anti-China. I’m just pro-clarity.

When someone says “China has absolutely not met the Paris accord goals” and you respond “New York times reported China is ahead of pledges”, it creates the impression that you are correcting the former statement with a contradictory source. The source is not actually contradictory, however, because it explicitly affirms the original point.

They literally have a graph showing their paris accord goal as of now, where they as of now, and a 1.5c goal. They and India are ahead.

That is excellent. I’m very pleased to hear this. Perhaps you could share that graph next time instead?

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chaorace, 10 months ago

This graph, correct?

A graph of China’s emissions over time. It shows three indicators relative to today. The first indicator is China’s projected 2030 emissions (approx. -5%). The second indicator is China’s target 2030 emissions (approx. -3%). The final indicator shows the reduction necessary to achieve the Paris Climate 1.5C 2030 goal (approx. -50%)

It doesn’t seem much closer to the blue Paris Accord goal compared with any of the other graphs in the same article, as far as I can tell.

A graph of U.S. emissions over time. It shows three indicators relative to today. The first indicator is the U.S. projected 2030 emissions (approx. -15%). The second indicator is the U.S. target 2030 emissions (approx. -35%). The final indicator shows the reduction necessary to achieve the Paris Climate 1.5C 2030 goal (approx. -65%)A graph of E.U. emissions over time. It shows three indicators relative to today. The first indicator is the E.U. projected 2030 emissions (approx. -15%). The second indicator is the E.U. target 2030 emissions (approx. -35%). The final indicator shows the reduction necessary to achieve the Paris Climate 1.5C 2030 goal (approx. -70%)

As for India, I don’t see how beating a goal of **+**25% emissions with +20% is any cause for celebration. I actually agree with you and the article when you say that they don’t need to be held to the same standard as fully developed economies, but in that case we probably shouldn’t be talking about them at all when it comes to meeting emissions reduction goals.

chaorace, 10 months ago

So, this is a question with a cultural and legal element. Legally speaking, it is possible in many U.S. states to be fired for no reason – the employer does not need to explain themselves when asked for a cause[^1]. This is to say that it’s perfectly legally possible in (many) U.S. states to be fired for a reason so petty as a customer complaint – whether or not that was the official cause notwithstanding[^2].

With that being said, employers aren’t compelled to fire their own employees in response to a customer complaint. From a management perspective, it’s generally very inefficient to fire someone because you’ll then have to cover their hours and find/train a replacement. For that reason alone, it’s already rare in most industries for truly petty firings to happen. Unfortunately, this rule of thumb gets totally flipped in low-training industries whenever there’s a surplus of bodies in the labor pool. As a manager, if you’re able to replace a burnt-out and/or below-average worker by the end of the week, why wouldn’t you roll those dice?

Even then, it’s not exactly a daily occurance even in settings where these conditions are common… with one big exception. When it comes to businesses which serve “regulars” (e.g.: hotels, restaurants, grocery stores) there exists a certain type of individual who expects that their complaints will have the power to get people fired. This variety of power-starved person tends to exclusively patronize establishments where they feel taken seriously. Such establishments deliberately choose to indulge these sleazebags because they’re potential “whales” – people who, if handled correctly, will be worth much more money than the replacement cost of the staff they cause to be fired. These firings are basically performative in nature and have nothing at all to do with something the employee could have controlled.

[^1]: Protected classes are a whole other can of worms. For the purposes of this explainer, please just trust me when I say that the legal system is still able to protect protected classes without directly requiring paperwork from the employers themselves. The system would be significantly better at this job with a papertrail requirement, but the fact that it manages to work at all when employers can basically ghost employees is something worth noting.

[^2]: Another can of worms! As you may imagine, when giving a reason is optional, it is often (but not always) legally advantageous for employers to report petty firings as no-cause firings. It’s all about CYA. For example, if they’re doing something dicey like racial discrimination or retaliation against union organizers, an employer might go in the opposite direction and meticulously document dozens of petty reasons in excrutiating detail. This is usually what’s happening when a service-worker employee is “written up” – that information goes in a file to be used against them if they ever sue.

chaorace, 10 months ago

grimly points in the direction of Ohio

chaorace, 10 months ago

Ohio Gozaimasu!

chaorace, 10 months ago

In the holy GNU scripture, we predict the second coming of Proton who will one day return to vanquish the evil Electron.

chaorace, 10 months ago

Even if all of the operating systems were playing on a fair & ideal field, I do not think Linux would come out as the clear winner.

The Linux ecosystem is stakeholder owned. That is to say that design decisions are made by experienced users for experienced users. Whenever an ergonomic tradeoff exists between ease of use and expressiveness, ease of use loses. New users sense this and feel implicitly unwelcome. It’s the original sin of open source software as a whole, really.

I don’t necessarily take this state of affairs as a bad thing, but it does lead me to think that the dominant OS software will always be a commercial product of some variety. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a proprietary greed-fest like Windows, but at the very least the top-level stakeholders of that specific project need to be directly motivated by user adoption. AOSP (aka: Android) would be a decent example of something like this working in the wild for an open source project (Google attempting to claw back control notwithstanding).

chaorace, 10 months ago

I also just really hate the idea of applying financial logic to something like this. Like, are we just gonna go and label the entire human race as a Ponzi scheme? Grandpa’s not able to pull his weight lately so fuck him? That’s a rhetorical question, obviously. The reality is that old people are going to cost what they cost and everyone else just has to suck it up because the alternative is way uglier.

chaorace, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

“401k” is an American term of art. It’s like a pension fund except you’re directly investing into the stock market and not pooling risk with anyone else. Money contributed to a 401k isn’t taxed until you retire, but in exchange you can only contribute direct earnings from the job sponsoring your account.

As part of a benefits package, some employers also offer contribution “matching”. It’s very similar to the concept of employers matching charitable donations – for every personal dollar you put in, they chip in as well. How much they contribute will also vary. Some places will do dollar-for-dollar matching up to a maximum salary percentage (e.g.: If I earn $50k and get 5% matching, the employer will match the first $2500 I contribute). Other companies will instead contribute pennies on the dollar at a fixed percentage rate (e.g.: If I save the annual maximum of $22,500 and get 5% matching, the employer will contribute $1,125). And yes – it’s never a pleasant surprise when you’re expecting the good matching and instead get the shitty matching.

In any case, because 401k matching is technically only a job benefit, there aren’t many rules against employers reneging on it. It’s one of the first corners that tend to get cut in workplaces where the boss doesn’t have to look their underlings in the eye on a regular basis.

chaorace, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Surely actual pension contributions would be better than having your employer partially fund what is essentially a big financial gamble?

FWIW: pensions do carry similar risk factors. Most pensions are only financially sustainable because they’re invested into the public market and it’s entirely possible for a pension fund to go belly-up due to mismanagement as a result.

You are essentially correct in identifying that 401ks are much riskier, however. Most working adults would probably rather have the security of a pension instead of being given a rope to potentially hang themselves by.

Or… Is that the idea? Another way for US employers to screw their fellow citizens over and give them as little as possible in return for their lives of labour?

In a sense? I doubt most employers actively scheme to do evil to their employees, but the outcome is fairly sinister nonetheless. Pensions used to be much more common in the U.S. until getting largely replaced by the 401k during the 70s. These days, the only jobs that tend to offer pensions are government/unioned… which I think says all that needs to be said about which option is more pro-worker.

The one place where 401ks really shine is (legal) tax evasion and high-spend retirement. If you make six figures, you can max out your 401k contributions and thereby avoid paying $1000s in income taxes each year. People who are able to contribute that much also tend to get way more money back in retirement compared to a pension because – when properly funded – a 401k is technically more efficient in the long-term for those who already have the requisite resources to weather a medium-term financial hardship.

The world just makes me sadder and sadder. There’s just no real good news any more, only bad :-(

Well, if it’s any consolation… this particular bad idea has been around long enough that it’s no longer newsworthy

chaorace, 10 months ago

That’s a fine point, but I also think there’s a case to be made for attributing this difference in policy to the practical reality that traditional American pensions were popular decades in the past while 401k policies are popular today. Viewed through that lens, it seems fairly obvious that a modern 401k policy would be more accomodating of modern work sensibilities than a traditional pension plan originally penned 60 years ago!

With that being said, I think it’s a little self-defeating to limit our discussion to such things. Our non-American friend who originally asked the question would almost certainly be more familiar with the more modern and less all-or-nothing pension varieties. Indeed, depending on where they live, it may even be possible to transfer accumulated pension benefits between plans when changing jobs.

chaorace, 10 months ago

Man, Elon’s got one hell of a boner for WeChat, huh? I honestly feel embarassed for him. WeChat is WeChat because it’s Chinese – there is no secret formula for Elon to steal. The circumstances which created WeChat simply do not exist in the west and IMO it should stay that way.

chaorace, 10 months ago

It’s not difficult to guess: they got EA’d. IBM’d. FaceBook’d. Their startup got bought up, hollowed out, and dissolved. All in the name of killing off competition and padding staff rolls.

chaorace, 10 months ago

🙄 I want you to tell me with a straight face that you honestly believe someone could say something like “six nines…” whilst simultaneously quirking their eyebrow and striking a dual fingerguns pose without an implied double meaning…

A screenshot of Luke from the Linus Tech Tips “What do we do now?” video as he strikes a dual fingerguns pose as he quirks his eyebrow and wears a grimace-like smile

For Pete’s sake, the editor even inserted a zoom cut and delayed the next shot transition for comedic effect!

chaorace, 10 months ago

I’m disappointed. Jesus of all people should know how dangerous it is to ride without proper gear. Where’s the helmet? Where’s the armor? And, Christ… are those Sandals?? ATGATT!

chaorace, 10 months ago

My question is if she had such a bad experience, why hasn’t anyone else said anything, or at least put an anonymous negative review on Glassdoor or something? […] (and the turnover is pretty low for LMG if I’m not mistaken, so that also doesn’t make sense)

Indeed, why is that? Why would she have such an abnormaly bad experience at this particular company? I can’t seem to think of any particular traits that she might have which would have caused her to be treated differently. If sexist comments and sexual harassment are such a problem, then why do people like Gary, James, Ed, Nick, Colton, or Luke apparently seem blind to it? I have no idea what disparity in the distribution of power could possibly account for this phenomenon!

chaorace, 10 months ago

The fact she is a woman is different than the majority, however there are other women at LMG

I don’t know how to respond to this without speaking condescendingly. I’m sorry, but you’ll just have to trust me when I say that women can still be subjected to workplace harassment in situations where they aren’t literally the only girl in the building. I’ll leave it at that unless an actual woman wants to step in and expand on this subject further.

not all the men at LMG are sexist so most likely at least one person from one of those camps would object/want to do/say something

That’s just how power works. If you’re in the minority, your needs and concerns get less attention. If you’re in a very small minority, they become practically invisible. Organizations aren’t immune to this. Sexist outcomes can and will readily emerge from systems where none of the individuals directly intend to do a sexism.

As evidence, I’ll point to the statistic itself. A gender gap as steep as this one doesn’t happen by random chance. The only way you get this far skewed is with a feedback loop.

chaorace, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

You’re of course within your rights to remain unconvinced, but I fail to understand the mindset that would lead a reasonable bystander to look at what Ms. Reeves has said thus far and think “there’s a significant chance that this is untrue”. Why? For what purpose? She stands to gain nothing by lying unless you start imagining that a much broader conspiracy is somehow at play.

If you’re willing to entertain the idea of a hitherto unsubstantiated conspiracy from one side, then why not also suspect that LMG will conspire to hire a crooked auditor or otherwise hide unflattering findings? Why take anyone’s word for anything?

chaorace, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I assume this is a genuine question? This is a state-level indictment from Georgia and Mr. Trump resides in Florida. Georgia cops can’t just go on an extrajudicial joyride across state lines and grab him. That would, unfortunately, be abduction.

In cases like these where a state wants to prosecute someone residing in another jurisdiction, the process generally goes like this:

1. The prosecuting state asks for the indicted person to return within a reasonable timeframe and face their allegations
2. The prosecuting state waits for this time limit to lapse
3. The governor of the prosecuting state requests an extradition warrant from the governor of the indicted person’s state [^1]
4. If the indicted person’s state does not comply within a reasonable timeframe, then the prosecuting state gets the FBI involved
5. If the FBI fails to extradite (very unlikely), then the prosecuting state can pass a default judgement and start following alternative courses of action for causing suffering to the guilty

[^1]: Generally speaking, states are federally obligated to honor each other’s extradition requests, though asking nicely still remains the first resort. Gov. DeSantis does have an opportunity to grandstand here, but he’s much more likely to drag out the process rather than outright defy it – pissing off the FBI is something which states try to avoid doing

chaorace, 10 months ago

Uh, yeah… I guess? Step 2 is doing a lot of heavy lifting because states can and do extradite internationally. There’s a whole federal office which exists for this specific purpose: the OIA. It’s hardly a “happily ever after” situation to spend the rest of your life far away from home and constantly looking over your shoulders.

chaorace, 10 months ago

In other words: this is a pathway for a reformed person to scrub a past felony off of their record, rather than a get-out-of-jail free card

chaorace, 10 months ago

I can see the memes already: Punished Trump

chaorace, 10 months ago

We can do better.

I’m guessing “wrong-sider” would be a step in the wrong direction?

chaorace, 10 months ago

This is a long-shot question, feel free to disregard… but I have to ask: is that you, Joost?

chaorace, 10 months ago

Ah, nevermind sorry about the trouble. He’s a cofounder of the company whose logo you’re using as an avatar (“Ronimo”, i.e.: “Robot Ninja Monkey”).

chaorace, 10 months ago

Spite them even harder: just tar it without compression.