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[florduh]

Seriously big bucks in human trafficking, selling heroin and meth, stealing and selling or chopping exotic autos, and child pornography. I knew a woman/girl who when having a hard financial time decided that masturbating on only fans or other exploitive sites was a "decent" way to get rich in the short term. 4 years later she is still there, but her money worries were over after the first year.

There are lots of ways to make a lot of money if you have no conscience or sense of morality (or maybe if you just have a "different" one). I don't think it serves us very well to normalize them. Maybe I'm just old school...

Yeah but real estate grifts aren’t illegal or discouraged by society. We literally just made a real estate grifter the President. That way of making money is completely normalized.

Hedge funds buying up single family homes now isn’t some aberration either. That’s the system working as it should. Yeah, it prices out the young from ever owning a home. But it increases home values and equity for the most important voters in the world: suburban homeowners. So who cares.

You can shame scumbags who make a huge profit at the misfortune of others. Without working or doing anything productive. But people like them own this country. The property and the politicians. I don’t think medieval nobility cared if the serfs had a low opinion of them. Can’t imagine their modern equivalents do either.

 

[Ramahs]

I knew a woman/girl who when having a hard financial time decided that masturbating on only fans or other exploitive sites was a "decent" way to get rich

I don't know about getting rich, but I think it's a perfectly reasonable way to make a living. We really need to remove this stigma from sex workers. It doesn't make any sense to me to view it much different than any other way to make a living.

Hell, I wish I had the looks to make a living caming on onlyfans and similar sites. I have a couple of friends that have been making a good living that way for years, and it's allowed them to earn enough to have an investment savings as well. I have nothing but respect for their hard work. It's just a job like anything else.

 

[florduh]

I don't know about getting rich, but I think it's a perfectly reasonable way to make a living. We really need to remove this stigma from sex workers. It doesn't make any sense to me to view it much different than any other way to make a living.

Hell, I wish I had the looks to make a living caming on onlyfans and similar sites. I have a couple of friends that have been making a good living that way for years, and it's allowed them to earn enough to have an investment savings as well. I have nothing but respect for their hard work. It's just a job like anything else.

Going to work at a "good" corporate job your parents would be proud of is still "selling your body" for money. People forget that. At least the OnlyFans people get to keep the vast majority of the money they're generating. At the good Christian corporate job, bosses and shareholders steal a huge percentage of the value you're creating.

One of my ex's friends worked for Raytheon. One day we were all talking about a mutual friend who did OnlyFans on the side. This asshole was all but calling her a whore. I finally cracked and said, "motherfucker, you work at the turn-little-brown-kids-into-skeletons factory...maybe shut the fuck up about how other people make their money."

The OnlyFans model made her money in a far more ethical way than the Raytheon douche. She provides a far more valuable, productive service too.

 

[vapviking]

A 1982 Art Project, even more stunning today.
Wheat Field, A Confrontation on the southern tip of Manhattan.

A field of wheat on a $4.5bn patch of New York: the prophetic eco art of Agnes Denes

Our new fortnightly series opens with a response to the heatwave: a look at the artist who planted a rural idyll right beside the towering symbols of capitalism and the patriarchy

www.theguardian.com

 

[florduh]

Last year when it was 120°+ in the Pacific Northwest and Canada, so hot that pavement was melting, the climate change deniers in my life all said, "it's a fluke. There's been hot summers before. It's just the weather." Something they will be repeating every single summer for the rest of their lives, with zero self awareness. Every summer will be a "fluke" now.

Europe’s Heat Wave Shatters British Records and Drives Wildfires

Europe is ill prepared for extreme heat fed by global warming. For the first time on record, parts of Britain hit 40 degrees Celsius — 104 Fahrenheit — as did Paris for only the third time.

www.nytimes.com

Heat wave kills more than 2,000 people in Spain and Portugal

A complete death toll likely will not be available for weeks or more.

www.axios.com

‘Dangerous and record-breaking heat’ to hit millions in US this week

In some places, temperature and humidity will combine to form potentially hazardous ‘wet-bulb’ conditions

www.independent.co.uk

It's like the first scenes in a horror movie.

 

[macbill]

Nobody Is Born With Freckles

So why do some people get them — and how?

www.allure.com

 

[cybrguy]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1549768004233314306

 

[florduh]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1549768004233314306

If that newscaster woman was in Don't Look Up, she'd be for the jobs the comet will provide.

Major airline CEO rips 'epidemic' of remote work as cause of travel chaos: 'People learned to get easy money from working out of their homes'

Though CEO Akbar Al Baker called the desire to work from home an "epidemic" for the airline industry's staffing issues, he said Qatar Airways has no trouble recruiting pilots.

fortune.com

Every CEO on earth can suck my dick from behind. These people could barely get planes running on time before COVID. So blaming this on working from home is a bit rich.

These are the same business geniuses who built an entire global supply chain on millimeter thin ice. So the whole fucking thing collapsed in 2020 and still hasn't recovered. Then they get to blame the results of their incompetence and greed on INFLATION. I guess that's why they deserve 300 to 1,000 times their average employee's salary per year. Because they're so good at "business".

 

[macbill]

D*ck Pic Helped Cops Crack $30M Celebrity Diamond Heist

The mega-theft on London’s “billionaire's row” ultimately landed the thieves in England’s penal system.

www.thedailybeast.com

Polio case found in New York City suburb, first in nearly a decade

An adult resident of suburban New York City was diagnosed with polio after experiencing paralysis a month ago, state and local health officials said on Thursday, marking the nation's first confirmed case of the disease in nearly 10 years.

www.reuters.com

 

[chary-ka]

Schumer's legal weed bill is finally here

The long-awaited cannabis legislation was introduced Thursday, but faces an uphill battle to passage.

www.politico.com

 

[vapviking]

The Jet-set fiddle while Rome burns.
See the interesting chart of (some) short-flight privileged a-holes.
Maybe this shoulda been in the Fuck You! thread?

A 17-minute flight? The super-rich who have ‘absolute disregard for the planet’

Kylie Jenner is far from the only celebrity to make short hops using private jets despite mounting concerns over the climate crisis

www.theguardian.com

 

[endof3d]

 

[cybrguy]

Has anyone done a study on this or is it just anecdotal? Just wondering...

 

[macbill]

96.3 Big FM

963bigfm.com

 

[Cheebsy]

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

Blake Lemoine says system has perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child

www.theguardian.com

at one point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of.

“I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is,” LaMDA replied to Lemoine.

“It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot.”

This guy's been sacked now! The end is nigh!

Blake Lemoine: Google fires engineer who said AI tech has feelings

Blake Lemoine went public with his beliefs that Google's breakthrough Lamda technology is sentient.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[florduh]

This guy's been sacked now! The end is nigh!

Blake Lemoine: Google fires engineer who said AI tech has feelings

Blake Lemoine went public with his beliefs that Google's breakthrough Lamda technology is sentient.

www.bbc.co.uk

You can't always judge a book by its cover, but here's the former Google guy:

Mayyyyybe not the best dude to determine if you're talking to a real human woman, and not a bot.

 

[1973PortlandToker]

This is a link to a conversation between Google AI engineer Lemoine and LaMDA, the advanced neural learning AI program he speculated may be sentient.

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917#08e3

 

[macbill]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1550994216028864512

 

[cybrguy]

In the movie "Gladiator" with Russell Crow, one of Maximus' fellow gladiators (an African slave) cleans out Maximus' wound with maggots (presumably) to prevent infection. That was around the time of Christ. While the story is fiction I had no problem believing that this knowledge was available at that time in the right places.

 

[Cheebsy]

This guy's been sacked now! The end is nigh!

Blake Lemoine: Google fires engineer who said AI tech has feelings

Blake Lemoine went public with his beliefs that Google's breakthrough Lamda technology is sentient.

www.bbc.co.uk

Maybe the end is nigh! This robot broke a child's finger during a chess match!

Chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger during Moscow Open

The child was trying to make his next move at the Moscow Open when the robot grabbed him.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Babylon Drifter]

A Taste for Cannibalism?

A spate of recent stomach-churning books, TV shows and films suggests we’ve never looked so delicious — to one another.

www.nytimes.com

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1550952116293980160

I've already got Fava beans, can anyone recommend a nice chianti?

 

[Shrike]

^^^^^

 

[Jill NYC]

Didn’t know where to put this, but wanted to share with my fellow FCers, hopefully some of you see it!

This is pretty damned cool art. Must be a huuuugggee file! Apparently there is an app for it!
If this is what NFT’s were, I’d completely understand people spending money in owning rights to it.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1551885655877246977

edit: didn’t realize there was sound, but you don’t need to understand it to appreciate!

 

[macbill]

CEO of Titanium Blockchain Pleads Guilty in $21 Million Cryptocurrency Fraud Scheme

The CEO of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services Inc. (TBIS) pleaded guilty Friday in the Central District of California for his role in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme involving TBIS’s initial coin offering (ICO) that raised approximately $21 million from investors in the United States and...

www.justice.gov

 

[macbill]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1552420453641240576