> I’ve noticed that the type of people to have problems with these kind of jobs - people who think this is some type of neocolonialism - can not appreciate the difference between real material poverty and metaphysical problems with watching some abusive content.

I think THIS shows that you've never dealt with people in abject poverty. Just because you live in poverty doesn't mean you lack humanity.

People lie, cheat, steal, sell their bodies and kill to subsist in poverty. Whatever it takes to survive. That is totally separate from the toll that that type of surviving takes.

It's not that I have nothing to hide. It's that I have nothing I want to share.

It took 4 years. What is your point?

That you don't want to be in jail for 4 years for not providing the key?

I personally don't want to say "oh but my liberty", in a jail cell. Whatever floats your boat though.

It is salient to point out the individual almost certainly had incriminating evidence on that system. There aren't really any cases of a person being /randomly/ detained and held in contempt. Especially not a fishing expedition by the DOJ against a journalist. And if you know the act of giving away the password has some upper limit on contempt jailing vs. assured evidence against you in some much higher consequence felony wouldn't you just stay quiet? No amendment or right is absolute, but this one is rather strong, especially if you haven't, you know, been doing any crimes.

Vivek getting his face eaten by the leopard while running for the "leopards eating OTHER people's faces" party isn't really something I feel we should sad about.

> Obviously advertisers have not been fans. And it is a dying business. But rather than it dying, Elon has found a clever (and probably illegal) way to make it so that SpaceX, which has national security importance, is going to prop up Twitter/X. Now our taxpayer dollars are paying for this outrageous social network to exist.

There is a difference between a dying business and and influential one though. Twitter is dying, but it is still influential.

I mean... shows where your head is at? Lol.

It’s crazy to me that Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, couldn’t number one use a condom and number two find his own handler to get him doxycycline or whatever he needed.

> It's actually called the ACA (Affordable Care Act). Obama was only attributed to it because people were so happy with what it did for them.

That's one half of it. The other half is that Obamacare could be used as a dogwhistle to constituents on the right.

There are already many "compassionate use" exceptions out there already. I've family friends be grated that. It helps the pharma company as well as the patient. I'm sure that will happen here.

> TBH the "ZIRP overhiring" seems like the most likely real reason. I could never understand how all these companies could hire so many people for so much money, only to have them work on later-to-be-cannes open source projects.

The same way they hire so many people for so much money to work on AI projects and build datacenter which haven't produced actual revenue for any customers (corporate or otherwise). I'd rather light money on fire to employ people tbh.

I say this as someone who has the 200 dollar Claude sub.

That, and then the dedicated stick out like sore thumb.