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Ripoff posted:I wish the username character limit was larger. Kowloon Baron Goon fits
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Mister Facetious posted:Oh, i always thought it was something you could do in civil court. Ianal. You might be thinking of easements, where a property owner sometimes can't do things like block the end of your drive that is technically on their property but you always use, or adverse possession, where you night gain ownership of land because everyone already thought you already owned it for a long time and you built stuff on it, or some combination.
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No, I was literally thinking cartoon villain corporation wants a condo highrise; your house and a few others have refused to sell, and now they want to play hardball. Like. An eleventh dimensional long term strategy years in the making.
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Mister Facetious posted:No, I was literally thinking cartoon villain corporation wants a condo highrise; your house and a few others have refused to sell, and now they want to play hardball. This happens surprisingly often. All it takes is persuading the government that "economic development" and there you go.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This happens surprisingly often. All it takes is persuading the government that "economic development" and there you go. not as often as you'd think, luckily https://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/d...velopment_0.pdf
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Ripoff posted:I wish the username character limit was larger. HK μ-apt slumlord?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This happens surprisingly often. All it takes is persuading the government that "economic development" and there you go. Or get the village council to declare the homes a "blight" like what happened in Wisconsin for the totally real deal for the Foxconn plant. Although apparently they weren't quite morally bankrupt enough to actually condemn the houses, just imply it when negotiating.
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Sep 6, 2019 00:45
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I was a slumlord for a bit, not fun and everyone hated each other.
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Raenir Salazar posted:I was a slumlord for a bit, not fun and everyone hated each other. How much money did you make landlord?
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Sep 6, 2019 05:35
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We don't want to call you an "employee," but how does "indentured servant" sound? https://twitter.com/rkgwork/status/1170134088474398725
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Old and busted: Telling kids to never get in a car with a stranger. New hotness: https://twitter.com/komonews/status/1169071331033395206
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Sep 7, 2019 04:52
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this after(weeks or months ago) that article about an uber ride that a few degrees helped a kid suicide? also reinventing buses(and other schooling transit) but worse and forprofit
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Sep 7, 2019 06:03
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Is jeff epstein the venture capital investor for this kid only ride service
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Sep 7, 2019 06:04
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Is jeff epstein the venture capital investor for this kid only ride service If he was, he isn't anymore.
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Sep 7, 2019 06:10
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HopSkipDrive offers service in King County starting at $22 per ride and will work with schools and social services to give kids a ride. So quick math. 220 bucks per week for 2 rides a day. loving really
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Sep 7, 2019 06:16
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:HopSkipDrive offers service in King County starting at $22 per ride and will work with schools and social services to give kids a ride. Per kid! Imagine how a school bus driver makes and do some math, lol Disrupt
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Sep 7, 2019 06:55
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I have to wonder how many people can afford that, but can't afford to hire a nanny to pick up their kids.
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lol if you allow your chauffeur Jeeves to be seen at the elementary school in the same car twice
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Doggles posted:Old and busted: Telling kids to never get in a car with a stranger. What if school buses, but private and not for the poor kids.
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MickeyFinn posted:What if X, but private and not for the poor Y Generally.
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MickeyFinn posted:What if school buses, but private and not for the poor kids. Uber but for ____ apps are designed by men who are shocked and furious that earning six figures doesn't net you a "rich" lifestyle anymore, not like the ones they grew up seeing on TV. I can't afford a chauffeur or a private chef but I've got Uber and Postmates so you won't catch me doing my own labor like a dirty poor.
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My immediate thought was "Let me guess, even at that take they don't do background checks on drivers"
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RuanGacho posted:My immediate thought was "Let me guess, even at that take they don't do background checks on drivers" They contract to a background check service that they secretly own and that consists of 3 interns searching for names on Google and lexisnexis
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JK Fresco posted:They contract to a background check service that they secretly own and that consists of 3 interns searching for names on Google and lexisnexis Interns are unpaid but gaining valuable "experience" in a innovative and disrupting environment.
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This Media Lab scandal is wild. Until yesterday I didn't even know what MIT Media Lab is. A short summary is this: MIT's Media Lab is a machine to launder tech billionaire money in to propaganda that is used to support the tech industry. It was run by a college drop out and club DJ (who got a PhD in 2018, 7 years after assuming the director's role). They took $8 million from Jeffery Epstein after he plead guilty in 2008 to "procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18". Basically, the entire institution is a way for MIT to grant academic legitimacy to TED-talks in exchange for money and in return launder the reputation of billionaires. Joi Ito, aforementioned DJ, just resigned for taking Epstein's money. I know why rich people thought this was a good idea, but holy cow the techno-fetishists bought in to the propaganda hook, line and sinker. MIT prostituting itself for money is very on brand for a private school, too.
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MickeyFinn posted:This Media Lab scandal is wild. Until yesterday I didn't even know what MIT Media Lab is. A short summary is this: MIT's Media Lab is a machine to launder tech billionaire money in to propaganda that is used to support the tech industry. It was run by a college drop out and club DJ (who got a PhD in 2018, 7 years after assuming the director's role). They took $8 million from Jeffery Epstein after he plead guilty in 2008 to "procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18". Basically, the entire institution is a way for MIT to grant academic legitimacy to TED-talks in exchange for money and in return launder the reputation of billionaires. Joi Ito, aforementioned DJ, just resigned for taking Epstein's money. They're not prostituting themselves. They are helping their own people and social circle using their own peoples' money. This is more like a wife sleeping with her husband.
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JK Fresco posted:This is more like a wife sleeping with her husband. 
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JK Fresco posted:They're not prostituting themselves. They are helping their own people and social circle using their own peoples' money. This is more like a wife sleeping with her husband. I think I see where you are coming from, in that the people who work at Media Lab have always been in bed with billionaires and the associated TED-talk pseudo-science circuit (or aspired to be). But, all of the people who I have encountered (on Twitter) from Media Lab that are fuming over the Epstein money clearly see themselves as academics working for the betterment of mankind and not paid corporate propaganda peddlers. So I think it is worthwhile to point out what they are doing rather than rely on the fact that it is obvious. Anand Giridharadas, who wrote a book on corporate/billionaire money being used to turn charity to the devices of the rich, thinks that Joi Ito should simply be replaced by a woman, because women won't accept a pedophile's money clandestinely. He still hasn't put together that the existence of places like Media Lab is a fundamental part of the problem his book is about, he even served on the board for the Disobedience Award (I think that's the name)! That Epstein was a pedophile is just the tip of the iceberg. Edit: I kinda went on a bit of a rant there before I realized that you are probably responding only to the MIT part of my original post. In which case I think I agree more with your post.
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silence_kit posted:What are the most notable ideas which have come out of the MIT Media Lab? That accepting billionaire pedophile money is okay until you get caught. I assume they also just kept the money.
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silence_kit posted:What are the most notable ideas which have come out of the MIT Media Lab? Apparently they were the source of mpeg-4 and some part of what became google maps (and now all other mapping apps). In other Media Lab news, the Agriculture Computer program is a fraud: quote:An ambitious project that purported to turn anyone into a farmer with a single tool is scraping by with smoke-and-mirror tactics, employees told Business Insider. That article was published 4 hours ago (by Business Insider's clock). Can you imagine working on a story about how an apparently major tech "thought center" has been grifting for money, including fraud, and then a few days before you get your story to print the director of the same place resigns for being chummy with a billionaire pedophile and covering it up?
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Who would’ve thought that Joi Ito would be responsible for instructing jerk offs how to hide donations?
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MIT Media Lab is the MIT equivalent of a “unique philosophy of integrating physical exercise with spiritual and mathematical stimulation.”
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silence_kit posted:What are the most notable ideas which have come out of the MIT Media Lab? they gave K. Eric Drexler a Ph.D in nanotechnology ... the sci-fi magical miniature robots version, that chemists bang their heads against walls about, not the real things version
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divabot posted:nanotechnology ... not the real things version aka ‘chemistry’. Nano-technology is just a marketing term for chemistry.
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silence_kit posted:aka ‘chemistry’. Nano-technology is just a marketing term for chemistry. actual chemists have taken over the word now, but even ten years ago they were having to fend off a lot more magical microscopic robot nonsense
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divabot posted:actual chemists have taken over the word now, but even ten years ago they were having to fend off a lot more magical microscopic robot nonsense I understand that Eric Drexler is a crank. Real chemists use the term primarily to make normal chemistry and material science research sound more novel and exciting to government agencies. Nano-technology is a marketing term.
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MickeyFinn posted:This Media Lab scandal is wild. Until yesterday I didn't even know what MIT Media Lab is. A short summary is this: MIT's Media Lab is a machine to launder tech billionaire money in to propaganda that is used to support the tech industry. It was run by a college drop out and club DJ (who got a PhD in 2018, 7 years after assuming the director's role). They took $8 million from Jeffery Epstein after he plead guilty in 2008 to "procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18". Basically, the entire institution is a way for MIT to grant academic legitimacy to TED-talks in exchange for money and in return launder the reputation of billionaires. Joi Ito, aforementioned DJ, just resigned for taking Epstein's money. I worked there years ago, this has been true for as long as it's existed. There's literally a thing called "sponsor week" where everyone trots out their segway alternatives and lovely haptic interface prototypes for Sony, Raytheon, Intel, whoever shows up. I dunno why this is news all of a sudden, but I can definitely confirm it. No idea leaves the media lab without an extremely large corporate handshake.
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