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  On 6/15/2023 at 9:04 PM, HonkeyVape said:

Yea that was bad. He gleefully steals from artists. Weird flex and boast.

In other news:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/13/spacex-starlink-hire-child-college-graduate?

Kairan Quazi is years away from being able to watch an R-rated movie at the theater by himself or buy a drink at the bar, but he’s about to get a college degree and start a job at SpaceX.

Other than that, the 14-year-old insists he’s had a fairly normal academic journey.

Virginia fifth-grader’s textbook correction gets hat tip from publisher

Quazi’s story has gone viral after California media outlets reported on his preparing to graduate from Santa Clara University on 17 June.

The Bay Area native will not only become the youngest graduate in the school’s 172-year history, but is also about to join a short list of people who have graduated from college in their childhoods.

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Whenever I hear about these kids who go to college at 13 or whatever, which guarantees they won’t get laid in college, I wonder how smart they really are. 

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At the end of the day, Rogan's followers aren't tuning into Rogan to change their mind, just as Musk's followers aren't following him to have their minds changed, and the list goes on, back to Rush Limbaugh (and before).

This isn't some kind of Art Bell Coast-to-Coast where you had an actual decent mix of True Believers, skeptics, and pranksters/trolls all wanting to mix it up (even if the latter groups didn't always get their phone calls put on the air). If somebody tells me they love Rogan and follow his shows, then I know quite a few things about them without their having said anything else.

And Musk is actually working to make twitter more of a platform with a single viewpoint, the one he believes. It was never about "free speech" or the 1st Amendment, neither of which Musk has shown a capacity for understanding.

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https://puck.news/will-elon-lose-control-of-twitter/

 

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Oh dear, what is going on these days with Elon Musk at Twitter? Let’s see: Twitter is being kicked out of its office in Boulder because—wait for it—Elon decided to stop paying the rent. He’s stopped paying the bills for Twitter’s use of Google Cloud and, according to my partner Eriq Gardner, for JAMS, the arbitration administrator that is adjudicating many of Musk’s legal disputes with his ex-employees. He’s also facing a lawsuit from the Wall Street P.R. firm, Joele Frank, which claims it’s owed more than $830,000 in fees for advice it provided during Musk’s campaign to buy Twitter last year.

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As a former restructuring and bankruptcy advisor at Lazard, I can recognize the signs of a company in distress. After all, it’s a pretty obvious tell that there’s financial trouble brewing when a company stops paying its bills as they become due. That’s a recipe for financial disaster, or bankruptcy, or both. Last time I checked, if a company has more than 12 creditors—as Twitter does—then any three of them can join together to put a company into an involuntary bankruptcy proceeding. And Elon is in danger here. At some point, the creditors he is mindlessly stiffing on a regular basis are going to get sufficiently pissed to throw Twitter into bankruptcy. 

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But I don’t get it, dude. Elon is the world’s richest man, with a net worth of some $233 billion, according to Bloomberg, up an astounding $100 billion so far in 2023. Why is he not paying the people he owes money to? Why is he risking an involuntary bankruptcy filing? And then, of course, there is the upcoming interest payment of around $300 million due to the group of seven or so banks that still hold Twitter’s $13 billion of debt used to pay a portion of the $44 billion Twitter purchase price. I know Elon made the interest payments owed in January and in May. But will he make the next one, due in September? I suppose not paying those (metaphorical) nickels and dimes is one thing. But if he doesn’t pay the banks the $300 million he owes them in September, he will be asking for trouble in the form of a financial restructuring, or worse, a bankruptcy filing. 

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  On 6/18/2023 at 11:13 PM, Spottieottiedopaliscious said:

Hotez is far from bulletproof. 
 

 

 

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RFK Jr couldn't be more wrong on vaccines causing autism and he believes there is no connection between HIV and AIDS. Edit: I forgot the fucking wifi and 5g stance!

>In a YouTube video that has attracted almost one million views, Mr. Kennedy Jr. accuses Mr. Gates of developing an “injectable chip” to enable the tracking of human movements

>Mr. sKennedy Jr. forcefully defended his claims about 5G. “Show me a study that says 5G is safe,” he said. “Show me one, because I can show you 10,000. That’s not hyperbole 10,000, including a $28-million study. It causes cancer. It causes DNA dysfunction. It penetrates the blood brain barrier. It’s making our children stupider and sicker.”

 

Now you are being a fucking troll. Stop it with the low effort, poorly informed posts. Or you are going to be on username like 5 in less than a month.

Edit: some quotes from that article 

>In order to deal with RFK Jr’s more troublesome points of view, I think the only solution is to agree that the current surveillance system— and the current epidemiologic evidence is limited in many ways. We need to improve the current surveillance system on vaccine safety, so that we can adjudicate whether or not even some of his claims are true. I personally believe that most will not hold up, but I think one must acknowledge that the current surveillance system is flawed, and some may hold up. 

>The news media keeps labeling RFK Jr as a conspiracy theorist and a charlatan, but that is a colossal mistake. He is somebody who on many issues is saying something deeply true. On other issues, I think he is off the mark. 

>The key to persuasive refutation is to agree what someone gets right and wrong, and also to agree on the study that may resolve open questions. That is the only way to respond to RFK Jr. Given how elites mishandled COVID19, I think the next 25 years will be incredibly disruptive to science and medicine. Sadly the same people in media who supported school closure are covering RFK Jr all wrong.

stop posting dumb shit.

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  On 6/18/2023 at 11:13 PM, Spottieottiedopaliscious said:

Hotez is far from bulletproof. 
 

 

 

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You're standing by this guy?

Prior to the lecture, some faculty and students at GSBS recognized Prasad’s name from statements in his October 2021 blog post and YouTube videos comparing COVID-19-related public health restrictions to the totalitarian policies of Nazi Germany. The blog post forecasts a descent into totalitarianism spurred by the adoption of COVID-19-related public health restrictions. In the post, Prasad argues that in the context of the pandemic, democratic countries have become tolerant of government censorship and restrictions, which he says potentially paves the way to totalitarianism.

https://tuftsdaily.com/news/2022/03/08/controversial-oncologist-dr-vinay-prasad-disavowed-by-dean-lectures-to-gsbs/

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  On 6/19/2023 at 12:17 AM, cactusflinthead said:

Who? Rogan, Elon, RFK Jr? All of the above?

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  On 6/19/2023 at 12:21 AM, NoName said:

RFK I think 

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Sorry I was obtuse.  RFK.  There is certainly debate on whether glyphosate causes autism, celiac disease and cancer.  But several of the ways he describes its use in ag are wrong.  Like 15 minutes of research would prove that.  And him being so wrong on that kind a destroys his whole argument.

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  On 6/19/2023 at 12:09 AM, NoName said:

>Mr. Kennedy Jr. forcefully defended his claims about 5G. “Show me a study that says 5G is safe,” he said. “Show me one, because I can show you 10,000. That’s not hyperbole 10,000, including a $28-million study. It causes cancer. It causes DNA dysfunction. It penetrates the blood brain barrier. It’s making our children stupider and sicker.”

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My Qanon-in-law was talking bullshit about 5G, and when it was pointed out that she has her 5G phone with her everywhere, and that it's her sole means of accessing the internet outside of libraries or coffee shops and that if she believed what she was saying, she should hand her 5G phone over to one of us, she got really pissed off and left.  And still uses the same fucking phone and 5G network.

  On 6/19/2023 at 12:09 AM, NoName said:

>In a YouTube video that has attracted almost one million views, Mr. Kennedy Jr. accuses Mr. Gates of developing an “injectable chip” to enable the tracking of human movements

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Meanwhile, Elon Musk literally has a company whose purpose is to inject chips into people's brains.

 

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Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed As Nearly 2000 Laid Off Employees File Arbitration Claims

holy shit. if back of the napkin math is correct about 30% of the ~6500 laid off Twitter employees have filed for arbitration?!

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Of course, for a while, Musk, who verbally promised three months severance (which was below what the company had previously offered, and really only one month, since the first two months were required by the WARN Act, and were actually just continuing salary, since he had to give 60 days of notice for a layoff) refused to provide employees with any severance documentation. Then, when the documentation finally came, it was way less than they expected. They also included gag orders and giving up legal rights.

Many employees chose to fight this, including suing the company. But, those old pesky arbitration clauses meant that some of the lawsuits were dismissed, with the judge telling employees they had to go to arbitration, instead.

It turns out that many of them did.

1,986 former Twitter employees have filed arbitration claims.

And Twitter’s lawyers at the big law firm of Morgan Lewis are flipping out about it. They’re asking the arbitrators if they can combine the discovery process so they don’t have to go through 1,986 separate discovery efforts.

Given the identical and/or overlapping legal claims and factual allegations in these thousands of pending matters, a coordinated, universal discovery plan is imperative to litigate these matters efficiently, effectively, and fairly. Thoughtful coordination on the front-end across all pending matters will result in speedier resolutions, while also preventing prejudice, undue burden and waste of resources and expense for the parties and JAMS. Indeed, a coordinated, universal plan is the only practical way to resolve such an enormous number of similar arbitration matters.

 

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Apparently Twitter’s lawyers hasn’t met with the other law firms that have brought arbitration claims yet. But, it seems they’re freaked out by the prospect of having to handle 1,848 separate discovery efforts.

The firm also notes that they wouldn’t be surprised if Liss-Riordan seeks to depose Elon Musk for each of the nearly 2,000 claims, because why not?

Twitter will seek coordination across the matters and various law firms because for most, if not all, witnesses, the testimony would be equally applicable across all arbitrations (or a large subset of them). These disputes will have to be briefed and resolved by potentially several hundred (or more) arbitrators. An obvious example is Elon Musk. Without conceding that Mr. Musk should be subject to deposition in the first place, whatever testimony Mr. Musk has to offer will be equally applicable to all other matters, in whole or in part, and it would be wholly unreasonable to permit repeated depositions of him or other individuals across the numerous arbitrations

The law firm is even arguing that if there need to be depositions, they should be universal across all for firms that are representing claims, or otherwise even having people give four separate depositions for each firm would be too much.

Well, yeah, maybe Twitter should have thought of that before laying off everyone without providing them the proper severance? Just saying.

 

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  On 6/19/2023 at 8:09 PM, NoName said:

oopsie

Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed As Nearly 2000 Laid Off Employees File Arbitration Claims

holy shit. if back of the napkin math is correct about 30% of the ~6500 laid off Twitter employees have filed for arbitration?!

here is the money quote:

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The dildo of consequences rarely comes lubed. 

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  On 6/19/2023 at 8:09 PM, NoName said:

oopsie

Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed As Nearly 2000 Laid Off Employees File Arbitration Claims

holy shit. if back of the napkin math is correct about 30% of the ~6500 laid off Twitter employees have filed for arbitration?!

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Fuck 'em.  Companies love arbitration because it gives the company the advantage to cost each individual employee money, deterring claims, and making the process of asserting a claim a pain in the ass.  But treat enough employees like shit simultaneously, and you get hoisted on your own petard.

What Twitter is asking for is something like a Multi-District Litigation path -- consolidate a jillion similar cases in an MDL court for unified and consistent management.  Cool.  That's a remedy available IN COURT.  Which Twitter opted the fuck out of when it forced its employees to agree to arbitration.  Fuck that shit.  Twitter picked its poison.  Now it has to drink it.  All of it.  The whole.  Fucking.  Thing.  Every.  Last.  Drop.

Arbitration is a key tool to fuck over employees and consumers.  But when a company behaves shittily enough, it ends up fucking over the company.  Tough shit.

EDIT: Also....Twitter's law firm best make sure they're getting paid up-front.  And that their engagement agreement with Twitter doesn't contain an arbitration clause.

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  On 6/19/2023 at 8:33 PM, Brisketexan said:

Fuck 'em.  Companies love arbitration because it gives the company the advantage to cost each individual employee money, deterring claims, and making the process of asserting a claim a pain in the ass.  But treat enough employees like shit simultaneously, and you get hoisted on your own petard.

What Twitter is asking for is something like a Multi-District Litigation path -- consolidate a jillion similar cases in an MDL court for unified and consistent management.  Cool.  That's a remedy available IN COURT.  Which Twitter opted the fuck out of when it forced its employees to agree to arbitration.  Fuck that shit.  Twitter picked its poison.  Now it has to drink it.  All of it.  The whole.  Fucking.  Thing.  Every.  Last.  Drop.

Arbitration is a key tool to fuck over employees and consumers.  But when a company behaves shittily enough, it ends up fucking over the company.  Tough shit.

EDIT: Also....Twitter's law firm best make sure they're getting paid up-front.  And that their engagement agreement with Twitter doesn't contain an arbitration clause.

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the article is interesting in pointing that out. idk how they can all be consolidated together when people are going to have different arguments to make/different situations as a part of the arb. idk how they can consolidate it all together at this point.

but yeah. live by forced arbitration, die by forced arbitration.

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  On 6/19/2023 at 8:33 PM, Brisketexan said:

Fuck 'em.  Companies love arbitration because it gives the company the advantage to cost each individual employee money, deterring claims, and making the process of asserting a claim a pain in the ass.  But treat enough employees like shit simultaneously, and you get hoisted on your own petard.

What Twitter is asking for is something like a Multi-District Litigation path -- consolidate a jillion similar cases in an MDL court for unified and consistent management.  Cool.  That's a remedy available IN COURT.  Which Twitter opted the fuck out of when it forced its employees to agree to arbitration.  Fuck that shit.  Twitter picked its poison.  Now it has to drink it.  All of it.  The whole.  Fucking.  Thing.  Every.  Last.  Drop.

Arbitration is a key tool to fuck over employees and consumers.  But when a company behaves shittily enough, it ends up fucking over the company.  Tough shit.

EDIT: Also....Twitter's law firm best make sure they're getting paid up-front.  And that their engagement agreement with Twitter doesn't contain an arbitration clause.

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Yep, my first thought was I hope the law firm got a $25 million advancement otherwise he ain’t paying. 

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  On 6/19/2023 at 12:10 AM, cactusflinthead said:

You're standing by this guy?

Prior to the lecture, some faculty and students at GSBS recognized Prasad’s name from statements in his October 2021 blog post and YouTube videos comparing COVID-19-related public health restrictions to the totalitarian policies of Nazi Germany. The blog post forecasts a descent into totalitarianism spurred by the adoption of COVID-19-related public health restrictions. In the post, Prasad argues that in the context of the pandemic, democratic countries have become tolerant of government censorship and restrictions, which he says potentially paves the way to totalitarianism.

https://tuftsdaily.com/news/2022/03/08/controversial-oncologist-dr-vinay-prasad-disavowed-by-dean-lectures-to-gsbs/

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Absolutely. 
 

Would you like other guys pointing out Hotez deficiencies?

 

  On 6/19/2023 at 6:49 PM, NoName said:

dude just parachutes in, drops off a tweet about how great RFK Jr is, then parachutes out. now THAT is troll behavior.

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It was actually more about Hotez but whatever? Why stick around? All the constructive back and forth? My posts are limited. 
 

  On 6/18/2023 at 12:43 PM, Neonmoon said:

They want to debate him for a reason

 

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