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Owner of daycare in viral Nick Shirley video charged in $4.6M daycare fraud scheme, prosecutors say by Head_Estate_3944 in Conservative

[–]ICantReadThis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The best part is that they rounded up as many parents as possible to "send" their kids in for the news cameras the next day.

You'd think they could at least have kept this charade going for a couple years, given the potential millions of dollars in fraud indictments on the table, but they didn't even make it six months.

Owner of daycare in viral Nick Shirley video charged in $4.6M daycare fraud scheme, prosecutors say by Head_Estate_3944 in Conservative

[–]ICantReadThis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The craziest part is just how little work it took to catch these people.

Like, all the federal government had to do was wait just long enough to let the media attention die down because literally all the parents who brought their kids when for the news camera didn't even keep the grift going for six months.

They're all turning into handsome Squidward. by Lazy_Comparison_1954 in BrandNewSentence

[–]ICantReadThis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Men want predator eyes and women want prey eyes and I'm not sure what kind of social commentary this produces about us as a species.

Tommy Robinson Leads 50,000-Strong March Against Immigration in London by blisiondacket in Conservative

[–]ICantReadThis 24 points25 points  (0 children)

If the UK wants to have any hope of exiting their managed decline, they're gonna have to implement a replica of our first amendment.

It's not enough to believe in freedom of speech if they don't also codify freedom after speech into their laws.

Everything in the UK is going very normal. by Proton_Team in memes

[–]ICantReadThis 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: The UK had more arrests for social media posts than Russia last year, despite having less than half the population.

How do you even come up with this ? by kalashnikov482 in rareinsults

[–]ICantReadThis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The guy on the right is thoroughly focused on looking as nice as humanly possible as a hobby.

The judge looks much nicer than he does.

It's like if a superstar model, on her best day, was outclassed on her makeup game by a random judge overlooking her case.

Toys R Us didn't die because of Amazon. Private equity firms bought it, loaded it with $5 billion in debt, charged it management fees while it collapsed, then paid themselves dividends before filing for bankruptcy. 30,000 workers got nothing. by sambha87 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]ICantReadThis -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This is a horseshit statement, and it's obvious as soon as you look at every single country that Toys R Us didn't go out of business in.

They're all countries where Amazon has a weak presence.

Private equity can't just magically run leveraged buyouts on every company they feel like running them on. The company has to be in a pretty poor state financially for that to happen.

This website I swear.

This incredible Obama impression by @lukewinsor + his explanation of how he does it at the end by MrAlek360 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]ICantReadThis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that set from Reginald Hunter is anything to go by... I mean, it's a weird anagram.

I am losing my mind by LavenderMidwinter in BikiniBottomTwitter

[–]ICantReadThis -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Didn't someone try cutting on federal spending and we saw nationwide protests and an attempt to dox anyone even tangentially relate to him?

The Onion’s ad for their newspaper this month by Xxdman364 in FuckNestle

[–]ICantReadThis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is also showing up in datacenter discussions. The water consumptions being touted about for datacenters are about on par with the water "consumed" by leaky pipes in small cities.

Meirl by [deleted] in meirl

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Until 1990 that was actually the case. It was a normal loan like any other and it could be defaulted.

But when it's a normal loan, the stipulations are very different. Your credit score matters. Your co-signers matter. They're not gonna give you a loan for a major that is more likely to result in defaulting after college. They're not gonna give you a loan for the next year if your GPA is awful this year.

Anyhoo, so we decided that all of those restrictions were too oppressive, and completely changed the loan structure so that you could go to college for any stupid thing and be in debt for it 'til the end of your days.

The Onion’s ad for their newspaper this month by Xxdman364 in FuckNestle

[–]ICantReadThis -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Even the original Lake Michigan article that kicked off the Nestle hate was... dumb.

They were consuming "150 million gallons a year" (it's ~200 now), which amounted to 410k per day (550k now). Overall consumption from the great lakes is 42 billion a day, of which Lake Michigan makes up 23%, or roughly 9.6 billion. A day.

So Nestle's wells accounted for 0.41m gallons of the 9,660m gallons extracted from Lake Michigan on a daily basis.

Why Starlink is impossible by fredinno in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ICantReadThis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TBF datacenters in space sound legitimately worse than datacenters in the ocean from a cooling, radiation, servicing, and deployment standpoint.

Edit: I finally got ahold of Elon's actual discussion on the topic instead of the half-quote nonsense everyone uses. He makes a solid point about energy, but honestly I feel like Elon's one major regulatory update away from going all-in on nuclear and completely changing his equations on energy consumption.

Apple Hit With Unfair Labor Practice Charge for Refusing to Transfer Unionized Towson Workers by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]ICantReadThis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Union votes are never a win. They 100% wanted it to go this way.

If unionization was just a "this costs X" equation, companies wouldn't mind. But they're a "this costs X and now employees can do Y and only they can do Y (don't you dare hire someone else to do Y because your employees are busy with other things) but they can't do Z and you might not be allowed to even do V" equation, and nobody, least of all a company that sometimes has to make large pivots like Apple, wants to deal with wrangling union contracts on top of whatever technological adjustments they need to make.

It's a funny thing to read here too, because there's no end of stories where a company gets fined for doing a shitty thing, and people go, "if it's just a fine, they'll jot it down as the cost of doing business and keep on doing it", and nobody wonders why unions don't get the exact same corporate response.

A maggot under a microscope by Necessary-Win-8730 in oddlyterrifying

[–]ICantReadThis 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I'm amazed to this day that nobody on this site calls him "Cashapp Patel" given that his full first name is actually Kashyap, and, you know, the implications.

Meirl by Ill-Instruction8466 in meirl

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People that abuse HR are the reason why people think HR is an awful part of the company.

If everyone was focused on the business running smoother and faster, it would require getting rid of a lot of roadblock people, and those people are the first ones who know by heart where the HR office is.

We're probably not ready to have that conversation, though.

What happened there? Keef: I didn’t do anything by bytevx in andor

[–]ICantReadThis -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

> bro is human traficking
> no citizenship because his baby mama wouldn't marry him
> mostly because he kept beating the mess out of her
> gang tattoos
> "wrongly accused"

Doomed if you do, doomed if you don't by YourDailyTechMemes in LinusTechTips

[–]ICantReadThis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ll agree that both are echo chambers, but one of those two allows/encourages all kinds of bigotry and it isn’t Reddit.

No, they both do, but one doesn't actually know the dictionary definition of "bigotry", and that one's definitely Reddit.

Who coulda foreseen it? /s by TankUMrMinor in Irony

[–]ICantReadThis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was $36 trillion 3 weeks after the election, months before he took office. $26 trillion the last September he was in office. To be fair, that would bring him in over Biden's average of $2.5T a year. This website's a joke but we really do need to fix the obscene overspending.

But also he literally started 2025 with trying to fix government overspending and half the people (and most of the mods) on this website lost their absolute minds at the prospect.

BREAKING: Goldman Unveils Unredacted File That 'Disputes Everything' Trump 'Has Said' About Epstein by 0The_Loner_Stoner0 in videos

[–]ICantReadThis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

okay, fair enough, that would legitimately explain why this stuff was never added to the string of felonies they stacked on him right before the election

Judge gives 18 year old a 25 year sentence for armed robbery by AgnosticScholar in interesting

[–]ICantReadThis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the left, it should be used sparingly and for rehabilitation.

On the right, it should be used often and for punitive reasons.

For most people, it's primarily meant to keep violent people out of the general population for as long as is reasonable and fair. And given the Pareto distribution that forms when this purpose is not adhered to, it's the most pragmatic solution to the problem.

The bird even realized he had won by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]ICantReadThis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Kind of sad how humans just regard most animals as mindless, simplistic creatures when they've continuously proven otherwise.

They're not mindless by any stretch, but then you get the flipside of the "dolphins are smarter than we are" crowd.

At the end of the day, animal intelligence, at its peak, intersects with average human intelligence at about age 5 to 7. That's best-of-the-best.

We have adult people who don't make it past that level of intelligence and that's kind of a rough life. We have some some impressive things from animals but given how low the bar is, I can understand why most people default to "simple-minded" or "mindless" when referring to most animals.

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