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Ah, thank you and sorry, I should have just searched before posting.

Part of the issue is the quotes from Facebook rep saying they only do this with public posts, makes me wonder if its user error, platform lying, a bug, etc. but fuck all that. Any situation like this is strictly the platform's fault, idc if the mother is mistaken and actually posted it publicly, if that's possible then it's bad design. Invest more in UX and less in user manipulation. If a parent was intentionally whoring out their children, we'd expect the platform to prevent that, not enable it.

I'm not trying to defend Meta, but where in the article does it say that private posts were shared publicly? I'm only seeing that public posts made by adults were used this way. The main rub is Facebook being accused of intentionally serving these publicly posted photos of children in school uniforms (by parents) as bait to join another one of their platforms. Like, a grown man was sent multiple advertisements where this was the exact content, no back to school pictures of young men, or any other type of photo. That they sexualized children algorithmically to bait men into using Threads, and are justifying it's ok because the parents shared the photo publicly and didn't opt out of the advertising settings (which seem to be a way to gain followers?).

One of the men was like, I've no idea why they keep sending me these pictures, I don't engage with them. That might be an even more interesting story, because either Facebook is trying to offer sexualized children to uninterested men, or they know exactly which men are interested in sexualized children and instead of using it to push intervention ads, ban them from seeing the content their AI can definitely classify as enticing, or anything else, they use it to try to make more money.

I'm not saying you're wrong for wanting that. In a perfect world we'd all be doing things we love surrounded by people we love. I'm saying this sort of shit isn't going to turn coworkers into friends. If I think we'll get along, I'm going to have a sense of that through natural means. We're probably not going to get along anyway. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586171/full

With rare exception, team bonds at big companies are superficial and these forced social situations aren't going to produce deep bonds.

More to the point, I have work I actually want to do, and shit like this isn't going to get it done any faster. Nothing you learn about my dog, kids, the weather, etc is going to make work faster, on the contrary the absolute best case is that we'll spend more time catching up about non-work shit.

If management has time to think this stuff is a good idea, they aren't good managers, especially if they manage anyone that has no interest in these things.

Feels relevant somehow, consider listening to act one of https://www.thisamericanlife.org/796/what-lies-beneath

Not sure if this works anymore, but worth a try. Get on the phone with the 1-800 during business hours and escalate, ask for consumer relations. Make sure you tell each person that you talk to that you'll never be shopping at best buy again if this isn't resolved, so they know you're serious and will properly escalate you. 15 years ago, that would solve any problem. People who absolutely scammed Best Buy would still get replacements plus a gift card for their trouble, at least once.

Sorry this happened to you. Don't just assume the chargeback is going to solve things without any more effort, the machines involved might fuck you over if you don't take steps. Credit card might side with vendor if you don't submit evidence better than theirs. Your case seems cut and dry since it wasn't even the right address, but you might still need to get that police report filled. Like the other poster said, you're just getting the case#, as frustrating as it is, expecting anything else would just be silly. All of these things show you are serious and not a scammer. Scammers wouldn't try this shit because it would put them in jail the second or third time they did it without any evidence. You have evidence, but the machine is tuned to ignore it until escalation. Fucking lame, I know.

I read McCammon's Swan Song in 6th grade, terrific post apocalypse novel. Guess I should check out his other stuff.

Might be worth mentioning how much money the company spent in stock buybacks, and how much the executives were compensated in previous years. It's a shame.

Congrats and fuck cancer.

This either prompted a Baader–Meinhof phenomenon for me, or I heard you on the radio this morning. I practically never listen on the radio, don't really remember hearing the term "ring the bell" before reading your post here. Would be fun if the world was that small.

For Korean BBQ, and other restaurants like this such as Hot Pot, you need to drop any conception you have about these being places you go to eat. These are places you go to socialize, the food is secondary. This is food that is optimized to be eaten slowly over 2+ hours, because you aren't there for the food, you're there to hang out with people.

We tend to have rigid concepts of things and get disregulated when expectations aren't met. You walked into a restaurant thinking they'd serve you food and you'd be done in a normal amount of time, of course you had a less than ideal time.

I had the exact same complaints about Korean BBQ and crawfish boils, but now that I've changed my expectations of them, they are a great time assuming you're with people you like. The food tastes much better in good company.

I've had this experience with a ton of things in life. Not being able to make sense of something sucks. When that something is an event / experience, the experience sucks, and if you aren't careful you will set in your mind that experience as the standard for such events. So much random nonsense exists strictly as an excuse to socialize, and when you don't enjoy socializing because you haven't managed to consistently do it with people you like (basically all NT people, 85%+ of the world), the random nonsense won't make sense. None of this is ever outright explained.

Me at 12, taken fishing on a lake. 6 hours later, what the fuck was the point of that. I could have been playing video games. We didn't even catch any fish! Me at 30, hell yeah, an excuse to drink some beers with friends and get away from the house for a weekend.

Hopefully you can give it another shot one day, maybe at a place that has more comfortable seats. There are certainly places where everyone gets enough grill space and food doesn't need to be shared so much.

My flavor of sleep disorder, I fall asleep when I'm bored. On modafinil I get through the boring activities like driving without falling asleep. Without the drug I've no issues staying awake for hours after regular sleep if I'm really hooked on something, like a good show, game, or project. At the end of the day once the drug starts wearing off, I'll fall asleep watching shows if they aren't engaging enough.

They say it promotes wakefulness, but I don't buy it. I think they've misidentified some key mechanism, at least in neurodivergent brains.

When I fall asleep, I hit REM within 15 minutes, compared to the 2 hours it takes NT brains. This was per an EEG taken during my sleep study, overnight and through forced naps the next day. I swear I'll be in REM while awake sometimes, if I'm fighting sleep, like I perceive the movement.

I've narcolepsy, modafinil (200mg daily) eliminates undesirable dozing for me. It doesn't prevent sleep altogether, just the kind of falling asleep while driving I was dealing with before.

It's weird to classify it as a stimulant, you can see them pussyfoot around it on Wikipedia. No one gets amphetamine like energy from this drug. Neurologists don't understand the mechanisms at play, only that it's effective at treating symptoms of narcolepsy. They've given it to pilots to have them fly for 48+ hours without sleep fatigue, but that's not the same as being wired. College kids abuse it to trade sleep for study time. Plenty of countries don't prescribe it for ADHD.

Why are you going to sleep at 10am? Why are you taking a drug that primarily treats narcolepsy, and then going to sleep? Outside of being sick, the only way I can pull that off is if I'm suffering deep depression, and use sleep as an escape from it all. I hope you're ok, that you have a fulfilling purpose.

At what point do we consider a carjacking over? The violence of the action was ongoing. If this was their house, the person is still invading.

I'm aware of the letter of the law, I'm arguing spirit. I'm also ok with the idea that a civil society with a working justice system should discourage people from such actions. We're not really living in that sort of system right now, especially if we're talking about poor areas and marginalized groups. Might be a good idea for us to debate this shit as the populations underserved by our justice system keeps growing, and evidence that the US justice system exists only to protect the rich keeps piling up.