Of course, that’s what this always been about. Insurance companies will no longer have to cover the cost for a vaccination in EVERY newborn. This adds BILLIONS in profit, especially over time.

I’m no lawyer, but from what I understand, they have to sue in the county where the violation took place, so that would be the location of my business, since supposedly it was my business that stole the equipment.

I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or not, but I am actually a terrible boss, because I have way too much empathy, and I let my people get away with everything.

I am still doing the same business in an occasional way (I’m basically semi-retired), and my assistant has been with me for over 10 years, so I don’t think I’m that bad to work around.

Thanks, I still smile when I think of it. I had some more fun details in an answer another post, so make sure you see that one, too.

I can’t argue with that, but there wasn’t really a case in that.

It was cool walking out of court with my lawyer, both of us wanting to celebrate, but the other team was dejectedly walking down the hall in front of us, shoulders slumped, humiliated, so we didn’t want to interrupt THAT. They got their asses handed to them badly, and they were feeling it. My lawyer grabbed my arm and pulled me into an alcove and pretended to use the water fountain, and said “We make a GOOD TEAM!” We played them like a fiddle, and she was rightfully excited.

That final monologue from the judge wasn’t the only fun thing that happened.

They were first questioning the regional inventory rep, and the local branch manager kept whispering in his ear. After a few questions, the judge asked “Who are you?”

“The local branch manager.”

“Are you under oath?”

“Uhhh…”

“NO! YOU ARE NOT! SO BE QUIET! When I want to hear from you, you’ll be put under oath, and then you can talk. Until then, be quiet.” She was giving peak Judge Judy vibes.

Then it got really good. The judge then said: “In fact, I want you to sit by yourself in the back of the courtroom. MOVE!” And he had to go sit by himself in the back of the empty courtroom like a fucking misbehaving child. Heh-heh.

And when he did testify, he brought no supporting documents with him. He couldn’t tell how many times a year they inventoried their gear, how many they had in inventory the last time, how many they had in stock today, and I even had my lawyer ask if they repurposed equipment for other uses, to which he said Yes, but then couldn’t say how many had been repurposed at all. He literally had no grasp at all about how much inventory they had. Nearly every answer was “I don’t know.”

This was the testimony they were relying on to accuse me of stealing from them, which I hadn’t done. They were literally counting on the judge finding against me just because they were a big company.

By the time judge had to render her decision, she was REALLY pissed off at them. I can’t tell you how satisfying it is to hear a judge tear into the people that have wrongfully tortured and harassed you for the last couple years.

Maybe the solution is to keep sending the code through various AI requests, until it either gets polished up, or gains sentience, and destroys the world. 50-50 chance.

This stuff ALWAYS ends up destroying the world on TV.

Seriously, everybody is complaining about the quality of AI product, but the whole point is for this stuff to keep learning and improving. At this stage, we’re expecting a kindergartener to product the work of a Harvard professor. Obviously, were going to be disappointed.

But give that kindergartener time to learn and get better, and they’ll end up a Harvard professor, too. AI may just need time to grow up.

And frankly, that’s my biggest worry. If it can eventually start producing results that are equal or better than most humans, then the Sociopathic Oligarchs won’t need worker humans around, wasting money that could be in their bank accounts.

And we know what their solution to that problem will be.

I get the sick child thing, though. I used to own a retail shop, and one girl would check the schedule, and if I was off, she’d call in sick, knowing I could cover her shift. This was pissing me off, because I only took Sundays off, so every time she did that, I’d have to go 2 weeks without a break, and then she’d do it next weekend, too.

Often her sick daughter was the excuse. Her husband was chronically unemployed ( he never had a job the entire time I knew her, while she worked two jobs), and I finally said “No, have your husband watch her, he doesn’t have anything else to do.”

And that’s when she said one of the most outrageous things I’ve heard: “He doesn’t like taking care of her, because she’s a girl, and Hispanic men don’t like taking care of girls.”

I lost it. “You mean that because you have this communication problem with your loser husband, I have to be the solution? My Sundays are my time to spend with MY kid, but I can’t do it because YOUR useless husband doesn’t want to be bothered with spending time with HIS kid? Your problems are your problems, and they are not mine to fix. Stop making your problems my problems. I expect you to get to work today, or don’t come back.”

She did end up quitting not long after, and then called me up months later when she needed money, and begged for work. She had experience, so I gave her another chance. Then she got pissed because after being gone for a year, everyone else was making more money, so she demanded the same pay, and then demanded more, because she wanted the Assistant Manager position that she claimed I offered her before she quit (I had never done that, I would never have given her control of the shop), which was already held by someone competent, who still works for me to this day.

Hey, ya got Sweet Martha’s number? She sounds like a nice gal.

Everybody hates Jenny, she’s a bitch.

I’ve worked with Fortune 100 companies that were total Mickey Mouse outfits.

I got sued by a big supplier over literally nothing, after I had refused to honor an illegal clause in a contract (which literally would have put me out of business, so it was a serious issue). They couldn’t sue me for that, so they claimed I hadn’t returned some rented equipment, which was a lie. But they said that I better pay up ($10K), because who did I think the judge was going to believe, some loser (their lawyer’s word), or a Fortune 500 company? I didn’t say it, but in MY county, I doubted the judge was going to favor the big corporation.

When we got to court, I had my lawyer ask me about my new supplier’s inventory control system, and explained how the new system had bar codes, and every piece of gear is carefully tracked. The company that was suing me, couldn’t even tell the court how many they had in stock, how many they rented out, etc.

The judge looked at the Plaintiffs, and said, “This is the most amateurish inventory control system I’ve ever seen. I don’t understand how you got to be a Fortune 500 company by doing business this way. You expect me to tell this man to pay you $10,000, when you don’t even know if the equipment is actually missing?”

She found for me, AND made them pay my legal fees. After two years of worry, it was one of the most satisfying days of my life.

The entire media universe is being captured by Sociopathic Oligarchs, and they intend to extend the Conservative Propaganda Machine to cover everything. They will NOT be amenable to efforts toward monitoring truth in media, unless they can be the sole determiners of what is the truth.

I don’t know shit about anything, but it seems to me that the AI already thought it gave you the best answer, so going back to the problem for a proper answer is probably not going to work. But I’d try it anyway, because what do you have to lose?

Unless it gets pissed off at being questioned, and destroys the world. I’ve seen more than few movies about that.

So the cold weather is his refrigeration system.

There you go.

If you want to have a cat or dog, but allergies are stopping you, it won’t hurt to try one or two of these meds to see what works for you. You can buy almost a years worth at Sam’s for about 15 bucks.

I’ve got a super thin metal spatula, with the perfect amount of flexibility, and I’ve been carrying it with me from place to place for decades. It is absolutely my favorite kitchen utensil. I know it didn’t cost much, but I’ve never found another one as perfect for my needs, so it is priceless to me.

I use it on everything, even when it says no metal utensils. I’m just really careful with it. I love the thinness of it, and how it slips right under the edge of anything. Trying to catch the edge of an omelette with a thick plastic spatula is infuriating.

She’s so good in it that it is breath-taking. That Christmas episode was insane.

It’s a parka, you’d only be wearing it if you were outside on a cold day anyway. He’s wearing it indoors in the photo, but that’s AI. In reality, he’d be outside.

Is this what we can expect in the future? Serious discussions over the details of AI photographs? This whole world is fucking screwed.

It looks like he’s sucking on the drawstring of the hood, like little kids do.

Dang it! I knew it was too good to be true.