Section 230 is a pretty strong immunity shield for internet sites:

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

Edit: Actually I’m not sure about it now. They don’t allow automatic online submissions, so it’s really not an interactive website, just a place to post dox.

My father-in-law has been saying he can’t retire despite being in old and in rough physical condition. He’s been paying into a 401k for 40 years, has a paid-off house, and they’d collect over $6000/mo in combined Social security payments. He also has a good job as a draftsmen at a military contractor.

Turns out that they’ve been racking up credit card debt until they can’t afford the payment then withdrawing from the 401k to pay it off.

I still can’t fathom what those credit card charges could be. They don’t have any flashy stuff, their house is small and in disrepair, they have cheap cars. He’s an alcoholic and they go out to eat a lot, but it still doesn’t add up to me. Only thing that makes sense to me is that he got scammed somehow.

What happened to cherry tomatoes? Every grocery store used to have them, now it’s all grape tomatoes or those new bland things. Cherubs/angel sweet/etc stay fresh longer but they don’t taste the same as real cherry tomatoes. Even when a store does have them, they seem different, less acidic, less flavorful.

There’s a cap that limits most of the shenanigans. Plus gig workers still have to pay self-employement tax and ss/Medicare tax on the tips. It’s just an income tax deduction

Goods delivery people is for gig workers, the companies lobbied for it. Doordash, Spark, Amazon flex, etc.

This thing has been rolled out pretty sloppily. It seems like things only count as tips if they’re given in cash or are accounted for in the new 1099s as tips. So it leaves some of the decision making to company lawyers to decide if it meets the law.

I suspect they will not count subs as tips even though they basically are. Many channels give you something in return, even if it’s just emotes or dodging ads

You still have to pay state and local income tax on tips.

The only thing more American than killing kids over a prank is doing it with a car

There was a vid about a young person who was hitting a nitrous canister basically non-stop.

My house had a ventilated basement room that the previous owner used as a dark room, I used it as a grow room for a while, and then as a place to smoke when it was cold outside.

Once I quit smoking that room was basically lost to me. It smells so terrible it’s unbelievable.

I’m trying to clean it, but everything is coated in a thick sticky cigarette residue. I threw everything inside away, including the carpet, but cleaning the walls and ceiling is sucking.

Just wrap the planet in tint film

Such an embarrassing thing to wear

I was in Maine

Went to ocean for a night. Took this photo at 2:30am. I think it’s pretty cool:

Every time I’m bent way over and pick up something I’m amazed it even works without me tipping over. I guess that’s as much our hips and legs, but it’s still pretty amazing.

Back injuries suck and all but it seems like the job it has to do is insanely complex. I don’t think anyone could design a robot that could bend over and pick up stuff for 80 years without needing repairs.

I had a dream where I was being chased down from the top of an impossibly large building. I was trying to find routes down by jumping from sloped, shingled roofs. With me was a guy with red spiky hair who kinda looked like young Tom Cruise and Stavros Halkias was there and he was constantly doing that fake cackling laugh.

It sounds dumb, but it was a really intense dream. My teeth hurt from grinding.

Can someone recommend a sunscreen that doesn’t smell, or at least smells less?

All US sunscreen has a smell that I really don’t like. A useful reddit post pointed me toward Korean and Japanese sunscreens because they don’t rely on the same ingredients as am US sunscreen.

I bought Missha, a Korean sunscreen. I like it much better than American sunscreen, but it is scented. It reminds me of my grandmother, it’s like old lady perfume scent.

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That’s a good deal on a Prius with that mileage. At least it would be in my area.

A Prius is a great high mileage car, parts are dirt cheap. Even the batteries can be had for cheap

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