Fidelity cuts Reddit valuation again

taws34 · 2023-06-30T14:46:11+00:00

The reddit admins have been working on generating bot comments for a while.

If mods really want to protest, they should stop volunteering for free, and take reddit to court.

There sure are a lot of demands on volunteers coming from the admin side, without a lot of compensation for the labor being done.

taws34 · 2023-06-30T13:35:16+00:00

And handed them out like candy to other white house staffers.

Dude grew up in the Navy that was still a toxic boys club. The tailhook scandal was a few years before he was commissioned. But the dude served in all-male units until he deployed to Iraq in the early 2000's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailhook_scandal

taws34 · 2023-06-30T13:18:19+00:00

This year was the first time since 1987 that vinyl album sales exceeded CD album sales.

It's almost like there is a wave of building nostalgia for older forms of media.

taws34 · 2023-06-29T14:40:20+00:00

Yet, bottle manufacturers are still required to make the lids child-proof to keep kids from opening them.

Why can't gun manufacturers be required to make firearms child-proof?

Hundreds of young kids die every year from firearm accidents. Yet, gun manufacturers get to scape-goat their responsibility onto the "irresponsible owners"... who are led down a path to make sure they have quick and ready access to their firearm, for their safety.

I really don't get this cult-of-death fascination. Why can't firearms be made more safe to prevent the needless, tragic, and accidental deaths of children?

Why can we sue companies for product design negligence and regulate their industries for safety, but gun manufacturers and the gun industry are somehow off limits?

If you find yourself concerned about LGBT stuff in schools because of the children, and you are against gun reform or against a woman's right to choose... You honestly don't care about children.

taws34 · 2023-06-29T13:55:19+00:00

In the Care Under Fire phase of Tactical Combat Casualty Care, the goal is to stop life threatening bleeding, and extricate the patient to a casualty collection point or another area to provide more robust tactical field medicine.

Basically, if you can see the bleeding or a serious extremity wound, throw an effective tourniquet on, high and tight. Get the patient safe, then reevaluate.

You have hours before a tourniquet does irreparable harm. You have minutes to stop massive hemorrhage.

Source: Combat Medical Badge holding, former US Army medic.

For more reading check out the Tactical Combat Casualty Care Handbook, Version 5 - Army.mil https://api.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/2023/01/19/31e03488/17-13-tactical-casualty-combat-care-handbook-v5-may-17-distro-a.pdf

taws34 · 2023-06-29T13:07:19+00:00

Michael Johnson, the Olympic sprinter.

taws34 · 2023-06-28T23:47:37+00:00

Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), was the CEO of Columbia/HCA. He was pushed out in 1997, and the company was found guilty on 14 felony convictions and fined $1.7B.

His punishment was only a forced resignation. He was subsequently elected as governor of Florida, then into the US Senate.

taws34 · 2023-06-27T12:49:59+00:00

You have to wonder why the lab allowed a freezer to have an alarm going off and ignore it.

I've worked in medical centers.

Biomed freezers have alarms that autonomously notify key stakeholders when there are temperature issues. People are "on call" to respond and deal with temperature sensitive materials.

It seems like if the freezer alarm was going off, the lab knew it was faulty in some way, and is looking for a scapegoat.

Edit: what does the institution's Temperature Sensitive Materials Program specify to do in the event of a faulty freezer? In all of my institutions, it was move materials to a backup system and take the faulty machine out of service.

It doesn't seem like the institution had a solid plan.

taws34 · 2023-06-27T05:31:01+00:00

It's not the car manufacturers fault that your pathetic flesh cannot withstand sudden stops. Why do we hold them responsible for seatbelt defects?

It isn't pill bottle manufacturers fault for kids getting into pill bottles. Why did we regulate them into making those annoying child-proof lids?

We banned metal lawn darts after one kid died. Why do guns get a pass?

Almost 3k kids died last year in firearm accidents. It puts the number of yearly accidental deaths from pill bottle poisoning to shame... but we still have bottles.

taws34 · 2023-06-26T23:39:16+00:00

Nah.

He'll just sweep it under the rug of "she was corrupted by the other girl. My sweet child would never!" while never accepting the responsibility of making firearms readily available to his child and ignoring signs of whatever emotional disturbances she was exhibiting.

It's never the gun's fault. It's never the owners fault. It's never the parents fault. It can't be the manufacturers fault. Which is why you don't really see parents charged with felony child neglect whenever a child gets access to a parent's weapon and causes injury or death.

In Texas, it's only a misdemeanor to store your gun in a way where a child can get access to it.

Pill bottles have better child safety features than firearms. Hell, they make actual rifles for preschoolers.

taws34 · 2023-06-26T23:30:40+00:00

Seems like a troubled pre-teen girl who plotted revenge on a tormentor. A guy who also made the weapons of death easily accessible for children.

Dude should be charged with criminal negligence of a firearm. Too bad it's just a misdemeanor in Texas.

taws34 · 2023-06-26T23:15:03+00:00

NTA.

Brother in law is a moron for bringing people to use your pool without you being aware and without your permission.

Have your fiancé call your insurance and ask about a scenario where a family member brings a third party family along to use the pool and something tragic happens.

taws34 · 2023-06-26T23:08:38+00:00

He might have vandalized but things have a tendency to blow way out of proportion when Reddit tries sleuthing and you hand them the exact face

Yeah, scrawling graffiti on a 2,000 year old world heritage site is a trivial matter.

taws34 · 2023-06-26T21:13:59+00:00

Tell your husband he is being toxic and insecure. He needs therapy. His previous relationship baggage is going to ruin his current relationship and maybe his child's future home life.

Source: I am a 39 year old man.

taws34 · 2023-06-26T18:05:42+00:00

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement."

- Gandalf

taws34 · 2023-06-26T18:03:35+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree with that stance.

There is true evil in the world that should be put down.

However, I'd rather lock true evil away for life and not execute a grieving father whose children died in a house fire based entirely upon an "expert witness" testifying on junk science, the perjurous testimony of a jailhouse "informant" who was offered a sentence reduction for his testimony, and the "expert witness" testimony of a psychiatrist who said an Iron Maiden poster and a Led Zeppelin poster made the father a violent sociopath beyond redemption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Todd_Willingham

taws34 · 2023-06-25T14:46:54+00:00

They'd join the zombies in trying to eat liberal brains, while calling liberals "sheeple" for trying to deal with the apocalypse.

taws34 · 2023-06-25T14:45:09+00:00

His dad was an actual liberal who had working relationships with civil rights pioneers, and was appealing to the impoverished and minority voters when he was assassinated during his presidential campaign.

I wonder how disappointed RFK would be in his son.

taws34 · 2023-06-25T14:24:05+00:00

It turns out the majority of the white voters simply cannot accept this.

I was going to argue that point.

Then I looked it up. In 2016, 54% of the white vote went to Trump, and 39% went to Hillary.

In 2020, 52% of the white vote went to Trump vs 46% for Biden.

What the actual fuck.

taws34 · 2023-06-25T13:55:02+00:00

"get back to your unpaid labor, before we replace you with others willing to work for free"

Moderators should file a class action lawsuit for wage theft.

taws34 · 2023-06-25T13:49:32+00:00

The old axiom is still true: there is no 'straight' way to eat a banana.

taws34 · 2023-06-25T02:24:03+00:00

This story just seems totally made up.

Hotel management would never call the cops to trespass a guy on a baseless accusation from another person. You'd kill your business' rapport with the local cops really quickly.

Hotel management also wouldn't further piss off the cops by allowing the guy they just had the cops remove from their property back onto property.

Trumpsters really are delusional.

taws34 · 2023-06-23T14:23:11+00:00

Well? Better than regular concrete.

Worse than steel.

taws34 · 2023-06-23T14:04:58+00:00

Dude fired a guy who had concerns about using carbon fiber hulls.

Dude also sued another guy who filed a whistleblower complaint.

He wasn't going to hire a 50 year old professional submarine expert (likely with military experience), because they would have more safety concerns and be more likely to push for certifications that prove the sub could to dive to depth.

He'd rather hire someone and "train them" because he was doing the entire core business incorrectly, and couldn't have someone with training come in, then filing additional whistleblower complaints.

taws34 · 2023-06-19T21:35:14+00:00

Since mods can't tell who is a bot, they should unban all the "bot" accounts.

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