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Oh ffs! He's the Chancellor of the UTexas system. Fuck my state and fuck my alma mater.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._McRaven#The_University_of_Texas_Chancellor

McRaven approved the spending of $215 million on land in south Houston so that the UT system could expand. The land was a former chemical manufacturing site and was contaminated. The more than 300-acre parcel was formerly owned by another UT alumnus. McRaven sidestepped the Texas Legislature which should have been informed of the purchase at a time when funds for higher education have been cut. McRaven was also criticized for the unknown amount that would be needed remediate the soil of contaminates.

McRaven joined the board of the multinational ConocoPhillips, effective October 2018

In 2022, McRaven joined the board of Palantir Technologies

FUCK this guy.

You could buy the filet from a grocery store, grill it at home, and feed the whole family for that same price PLUS there's a very good chance it'll taste better.

$37.5/ea for badly cooked steaks and a deep fried onion.

Texas didn't have it. Just left the line blank on my ballot (what's called a "spoiled ballot"). So you can see these records show up in the under count.

I just use a VPN to get it

So, there's nothing strictly preventing this in a real sense. I don't know how simple it would be in execution, as folks who are in poor health don't tend to have the best credit and credit cards can stop payment if they see irregular activity.

Also, some open question of who your fence on this would be. Who is selling you this asset on credit? Who is buying it back?

And is this really any more practical than just getting a ten year term life insurance policy? Unless you have an enormous line of credit, I can't imagine how a few grand in precious metals would be preferable to 10-100x that in an insurance policy.

We will be more like China

We won't be like China. We'll be more insulated and divorced from Chinese media, culture, and conversation.

That's the stated end goal. Bringing up sharp walls between nationalities in order to control the flow of information between people.

If we keep TikTok open, we risk exposing American young people to Chinese norms, ideals, and social standards. We might even be exposed directly to Chinese mass media (ie, propaganda).

This is a real security risk, as it raises a possibility that younger Americans won't accept American mass media at face value.

Wonder if it's just cheaper to hire from a discriminated group? Wonder if the APLA isn't friendly towards black women, and this is causing a pay gap the airlines can exploit?

We do not. Please drop it

If this goes half as well as Vietnam, Mali, and Libya...

Between that and Frieren, Netflix is holding onto my subscription money by the skin of their teeth

Both physical and digital Switch games include what Nintendo calls technological protection measures, or TPMs. As Nintendo itself explains in one of those takedown notices, "When a game is started on the Nintendo Switch console a Game TPM is decrypted using cryptographic keys that are protected by Console TPMs. The games themselves can then be decrypted by the decrypted Game TPMs so the game can be played."

The DMCA includes a section that says "no person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." In other words, any attempt to bypass DRM is a violation of copyright law no matter the intent - or at least, that's how Nintendo interprets the law, and that argument has been very effective at getting hosts like GitHub to take down software like Lockpick and SigPatch-Updater.

Love to live in a society where private property is real and personal property is not.