normalexit

I can buy that TikTok created an opportunity for this kind of market by being incredibly popular with young people and having the ability to exchange payment. But, I also wonder if people are using meta or x platforms to do the exact same thing?

It's interesting to me when TikTok gets singled out for this sort of story. Especially after Mitt Romney revealed that the US sees TikTok as a danger not because of China spying and propaganda, but because of the pro Palestine content.

Very strong "It must be banned now, won't someone think of the children??!" vibes.

That's Geoffrey!

I didn't define what it means for him to be ok. He may be able to sue, he may find a better job, I am just hopeful that he'll land on his feet since he seems like a good guy. Chill.

My CEO is starting to get ideas. I work at a startup, and recently they have been floating 60-80 hour work weeks. So far it has been an idle threat and is really just their hail Mary play, but big players doing this shit is really worrying as far as normalizing it.

I'm more productive than ever, and the punishment seems to be piling on even more work in order to chase those short term profits.

I don't want to be a tinfoil hat guy, but those comments are all suspiciously well capitalized and punctuated. Smells like a pro Russia bot powered by an LLM

Luckily he's awesome so he'll probably be ok

It's a modern day enterprise fizzbuzz: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

Here, you can learn about it: https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/faq/index.html

This is really sad for an easily preventable disease. Below the fold, they mention this (which a lot of people won't see without reading the article)

The outbreak is largely spreading in the Mennonite community in West Texas, where small towns are separated by vast stretches of oil rig-dotted open land but connected due to people traveling between towns for work, church, grocery shopping and other errands.

It's going to suck when they outlaw VPNs

Flavored water does feel like cheating. It's really just water.

The reason a tattoo artist finds themselves in a courtroom soon.