other higher-level extraction agents

I was shocked when I learned what the monthly cut for referral services like “A Place for Mom” is. After going through this with a parent, my #1 advice is to avoid every single place they recommend. Their “recommendation” is entirely based on how much money they get from the facility. And these kinds of referral “services” are increasingly being offered as a workplace benefit for a lot of people. It’s not the scummiest part of that economic sector, but it is straight up payola masquerading as healthcare advice, and should be illegal.

We used a recommended provider for a few months and it was a nightmare. We eventually moved to a facility A Place for Mom “couldn’t recommend” but was recommended by a hospice nurse. It was about half the price and 100x better.

When traffic is bad, you can drive for an hour in LA and still be in the same neighborhood.

Worked there for 16 years. Not 16 years old.

Yeah, it’s not an accurate indication of what changed. As of Jan 2026, California has a new law and registry where residents can register with the State to have the state demand that the data brokers (those who bother to register with the CA Sec of State anyway) remove the California resident’s data.

It’s got a fairly slow compliance deadline, so it’ll be a while before the whole rigamarole of some non-compliant broker actually getting fined, lawsuit, appeal, and an eventual majority opinion written by Associate Justice Butchug stating why California doesn’t have the right to protect its citizens because of some bullshit application of the interstate commerce clause and how it will cause undue harm to the data brokers that have him on payroll.

It probably won’t change much for the average person, but at least the lawyers finally get a win.

Apple might have an amazing bit of tech with Vision Pro, but its a failed product when it’s10x the price of competition.

Apple fell into their own RDF on this one.

You’d be surprised what people share at those. I also doubt this story about the special K is the real reason he was fired.

A lot of classes aren’t in person any more.

I suppose schools could force online classes to test in person, but they seem to favor shitty proctoring and anti-cheating software instead.

Perfectly legal. Unless they were legally charged and ordered by a court to preserve data considered to be used in a crime, they can’t be charged with shit. Cops don’t dictate this, courts do, AND that scope only applies to an active prosecution anyway.

I’m not a lawyer, so I’m not arguing that you’re wrong here, but the article describes the federal law the journalist was charged with. It seems very broad, and it’s a bullshit law, but from what’s here, it seems more grey area than perfectly legal. All of 2232 seems to require knowledge (which it seems like he had, but might be arguable) and action. You could argue that the journalist didn’t take any affirmative action to wipe the phone. The action that wiped it was the feds entering a code.

Who tf wants casettes back? They were terrible.

They could solve this problem and a bunch of others by banning the surveillance and collection of user data without consent.

Caption: Trump, sitting in the gilded room where supplicants like Tim Apple and Snoop Dog pay tribute, explaining why “you having political power” is bad.

Look at the University of California.

There was a lot of money that UC funneled to construction companies and banks during the LIBOR rigging scandal. It affected a lot of universities around the country, and became big news when Harvard sued to get their money back. The UC Regents said “nothin to see here” and elected not to pursue getting the stolen money back. Shortly after, one of those regents got a VP gig at Wells Fargo (with no prior banking experience).

So yeah… fuck the NYP for sure, but education budgets are badly bloated and the crookedness is rampant.

I see the /s there, but it feels as likely as not.

It’s also possible that DHS and Thomson Reuters do nothing and just stealing another 125 million of taxpayer money.

That dude in the picture definitely has his pants stuffed full of stolen shit, right?

But if you want it to be non-stick like OP asked that’s the way.

It one way, not the way.

you need to preheat over MEDIUM-LOW heat until the pan is UNIFORMLY heated enough that it can levitate a large bead of water all over the surface.

There is no single skillet surface temp that’s right for a stainless pan. Leidenfrost gives you a visual clue as to surface temperature, but that’s all it does. It doesn’t mean that specific temp is right for any particular cook. Just as an example, you can cook a perfect over easy egg in a stainless skillet, but you cannot do it with a pan that hot.

After a while, I was rowing with them. It was fun to watch.

Good for him.

It was a good read, but I was hoping the authors would close with “You’re welcome.”