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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. This law? Yes. And they're putting the ownership of the enforceability on the platforms not law enforcement or the person misrepresenting themselves.
  2. Minors only need to claim they're 55 to bypass this law? Minors will never be able to figure this one out. Confirms my suspicions about morons being in the state legislature.
  3. (not a lawyer but doesn't this describe surly?) Sec. 509.002. APPLICABILITY. (a) Provides that this chapter, except to the extent that Section 509.057 applies to any digital service provider, applies only to a digital service provider who provides a digital service that: (1) has a primary function of connecting users in a manner that allows users to socially interact with other users on the digital service; (2) allows a user to create a public or semi-public profile for purposes of signing into and using the digital service; and ( 3) allows a user to create or post content that can be viewed by other users of the digital service, including sharing content on: (A) a message board; (B) a chat room; or (C) a landing page or main feed that presents to a user content created and posted by other users
  4. If a child claims they're 30 but you didn't check up on that, you're liable. The law may not address this aspect but it's the logical conclusion.
  5. I'm not talking about criminal behavior but when people are legitimately trying to create a social media account. Why do so many always jump to this miniscule aspect? Adults won't be claiming to be teenagers but in reality the other way around. The validation can't just occur when someone claims to be 15. . If someone claims to 30, facebook will also have to verify to ensure that they're not 15. Otherwise every child can bypass the age verification with a simple selection of birth year of 1993. Meaning EVERYONE has to confirm who they are with the state ID database. Or the parents (or other adult) in the case of minors.
  6. That's a big question, and I would talk to someone who has helped many work that out. If you have funds in different accounts with different tax implications, you need to plan out the tax burden and the strategy of which accounts to hit first. Then you need to decide, as you ask, how to liquidate 4% each year. If you have enough in income funds, you could just cash out the dividends but I doubt you would have that much in dividends. I've probably listed it here but I'm a frequent listener of the Money Guy show out of Tennessee. https://moneyguy.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@MoneyGuyShow. Their main gig is a financial advisory service. https://aboundwealth.com/ I'm not telling anyone to use them. But instead find someone similar, who have helped 100s or 1000s of others transition into retirement and can advise on the pitfalls.
  7. Laws that like this don't impact facebook or snap. Those companies can implement tech or services to knock this out in a minute. The problem is for sites like Surly. Claim you're 15 or 60, and Surly has to prove you are that age. This isn't age gating or giving parental rights, this is requiring all of us to always prove who we are online.
  8. 30 miles away from a big city is definitely what an older person might say. They think of a idyllic small town with a cute downtown. 30 miles from a big city is a big city. 70 probably isn't at a point that she needs frequent assistance yet but those days may not be far away. Within 10 years be prepared that she may need you to come over without notice. And I don't mean in I've fallen and I can't get up (those can occur) but not understanding why the TV won't come on. If she's near Houston, you're looking at a 5 hour day to turn on a TV. You discover that she's hitting the wrong remote button.
  9. In a related topic, Minnesota is starting in 2024 to cover tuition and fees for in-state students from families with under $80k income. North Dakota is panicking in that many of the students in ND schools come from MN. https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-free-tuition-north-dakota-colleges-universities-3422a4b2b4f6ffcd7ec0da77cbe27636 Texas usually wants to attract companies with tax abatements, on the hope that good jobs will follow. I like the idea of helping students with college costs, which should attract employers.
  10. Australian firm suing Twitter for non-payment of work to a total of $600K. CNN couldn't reach out to Twitter as they no longer have a media relations group/person. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/tech/australia-twitter-lawsuit-hnk-intl/index.html
  11. A few years ago, I had decided that my next vehicle would definitely be a Tesla. Elon's recent antics have completely changed my mind. I worry too much that the wrong person pisses him off, and he locks people out of the vehicle if they don't subscribe to a new, unnecessary Tesla service. I know that my hesitation with Tesla doesn't even remotely impact him/them but I also don't think that I'm the only one.
  12. I could be mistaken but I don't think average graduates earn enough to adequately pay down the loans from a normal priced state university especially when you include housing costs. The state legislature, who represent Texans, have decided that it's not up to the taxpayer to fund education. We've decided that burdening the student is preferred.
  13. In 2015, 17 year old Pasadena man went missing. He recently turned up but the apparent story is that no one knows where he was. He was found beaten and abused, and is recovering in the hospital. The story claims he is traumatized and barely communicating. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/us/rudy-farias-missing-texas-teen-found/index.html Lot of weird aspects to this story. A link in the cnn article takes you to a 2016 KHOU story about it where is mom didn't want her face on camera but spoke in depth about her son. Also in the KHOU story, the mom shared that she was worried he was kidnapped by drug traffickers. You have to wonder if she had watched Breaking Bad too much or there was a specific reason that she came up with that theory.
  14. I don't see how beer comes into this other than you're suggest that we shouldn't allow loans to anyone under 21. I'm ok with that but that creates problems since I assume a good percentage of students are under 21. Loan amounts should be somewhat tied to the ability to pay it back. I'm cool if someone wants a low paying career but guaranteed loans shouldn't allow someone to owe 10x what they will earn.
  15. I bet the new CEO doesn't last thru July. It's doubtful that she wanted this change, ordered it, or is supporting it. And she's the CEO at least in name. I wouldn't be shocked if we start to hear rumors about her departure this week.
  16. There are definite problems with student loans but your friend did it wrong. You can't keep financing continued training and not paying off your loans. It also helps to read the fine print to understand the payment process. Someone in the finance sector should be able to model how their loans will come due and the consequences of non-payment. With the recent SCOTUS ruling, I'm seeing a lot of anger at the system by adults who made some really bad choices. I agree that we shouldn't allow some of these loans but the adult has to take some of the blame themselves.
  17. In my career, I've witnessed some poor leaders order subject matter experts to make a particular tech change. Many times it's a reactionary request. If the SMEs think it's a bad idea, they will initially push back by explaining why the idea creates downstream problems. The leader was bad because they 100% ignored the feedback and required the immediate change. Do that a handful of times, and the SME will stop providing valuable feedback. It's how you steam over your own towline. If you just want yes-men on your team, you better be 100% right all the time.
  18. Elon is treating tweets like they’re his content that he paid to create. I can understand that he wants to get paid by other services to access tweets especially if they’re doing it in bulk. Presumably those services utilize heavy Twitter resources so it’s not unreasonable to ask them to pay for API or bulk data scraping access. But why would you punish everyday, low volume users whose very existence pays the bills? I’m sure that some data analyst told Elon that 95% of Twitter users wouldn’t be impacted. Probably true. But the remaining 5% are the power users who perform the heavy lift of creating and viewing content. Both of which drive Twitter revenue.
  19. The GOP pledge is pointless because we all know the front runner wouldn’t live up to a pledge. One, he will refuse to acknowledge the he could hypothetically lose. Second, he will declare fraud if he loses which is 100% undermining and not supporting the nominee. not to mention that agreeing to support the nominee is a vague phrase. What does support even mean? Working for them on the campaign trail? Not running as a 3rd party candidate? Support could mean a million different things to a million people. I give any candidate credit for refusing to agree to it. They could easily sign it. Not agreeing shows some intelligence.
  20. There’s nothing worse than a parent of a young child and they decide they’re the arbiter of what is decent for the rest of us. And I agree that a parent should decide what their child sees or experiences but those decisions shouldn’t impact the rest of us.
  21. True, Arkin and his character rile up Harris into stealing the leads. With a few words and yeses, he gives Harris the motivation and the moral high ground to steal. It's like not stealing them is immoral.
  22. Sorry I wasn't implying you were mad. I meant it as a general statement that many get mad at taxes especially as their income goes up and they understand how much they are paying vs services that receive. But trying to get tax revenue out of poor people doesn't work. I agree that property taxes are an important factor with retiring in Texas. It can't be ignored and may led some to living elsewhere.
  23. Arkin was overshadowed in Glengarry because he was the invisible, sad sack, salesman but he played it to perfection. Pacino, Harris, Baldwin, Lemmon and even Spacey, to some extent, all had over the top characters. Arkin was needed as the guy you would forgot as soon as he walked out of the room.
  24. Coke didn’t shed most of its income and market cap on that failure. And even so, it’s a text book case of a bad business decision.
  25. If Elon wanted to pivot 5-10% of Twitter users into X.com users, he didn’t have to pay $45B to do so. It’s crazy to buy a service that is valued at a certain level due to advertising and then push off that advertising. Even if he somehow turns this around and creates a success with x.com, this will go down in the books as the most unnecessary failure. it would have been easier and cheaper to start from scratch.
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