kevinrsours.bsky.social
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If you didn't mean LA county don't say LA county. Your map doesn't cover half the county.
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Yeah. I was also thinking that contacting somebody privately with something that looks like legal advice is going to raise substantial ethical and entanglement concerns for a practicing lawyer. But, you know, not a lawyer just somebody who hangs out with them.
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The thing that concerns me is that the people pushing this stuff and the people not following the law appear to two distinct groups. Not seeing a lot of evidence that the loudest voices are using their own accounts for anything.
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Some poor M&P engineer just had to sign a report detailing their professional opinion on the corrosion risk of racoon pee as applied to various materials.
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This is the kind of thing that makes my wife's eyes twitch. Are Racoons a FOD hazard?
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Even if he was leaving you don't get to just walk away from what he's done.
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I suspect it keeps changing.
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What makes you think that isn't literally what he's doing?
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I'm being to expect that the overlap between people screaming about this and people actually using *their* bank accounts in this fashion is not very large.
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Keep in mind that Molly won't use *her* accounts for any of this. Apparently because she has a "boundary".
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That’s going to depend on your interpretation. In many cases the main problem isn’t that the gas is toxic it’s that it’s forcing out the oxygen.
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People doing this on the bike trails when I'm going 20 mph are lucking I'm not pyrokinetic.
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Just in general anytime somebody you don't really know wants to use your account to transfer money to somebody you don't really know, something hinky is going on. Setting up accounts and transferring money isn't *that* hard unless you are worried about attracting the Eye of Sauron.
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Being asked to fill in for the part of the process that GFM looked at, refuses to do, and explicitly disclaims any responsibility for should give on pause.
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What can you -- an internet rando with no relevant experience -- do that the other players already involved can't just as easily do themselves? It's generally a good rule to be reluctant to put your name on something that other people refuse to.
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That's not an answer. The question is: why? Why won't GFM -- a company whose primary business is moving money around and has it's own legal department -- transfer money to these accounts? They could if they wanted to. Why don't people create accounts and set themselves up as receivers?
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Poe's Law is a hell of a thing.
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I would consider moving to New York.
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Separating the mark from people giving the mark good advice is confidence 101.
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None of which triggers a "the environment is bad" mental response so much as "person has medical emergency and needs assistance". I don't know anything about coal mines but in my wife's line of work nitrogen gas is a carefully flagged hazard.
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One thing I would add is that there are surprisingly few context clues. No bad smells. Or caustic feel. Or nausea. In many cases the first clue you have that something is wrong is when you pass out. And the person you observe might not be choking or clawing at the error so much as they fall over.
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s/day/year/
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Unless he's talking about Mars, Pennsylvania. Which seems plausible.
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As I cyclist I would not recommend the lime bike E while riding.
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It really has taken on a "discredit the experts in the eyes of the mark" vibe hasn't it?
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I need you to not tell my wife about these -- she might purchase a set.
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Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice. At some point it really doesn't matter if its a con or not if the observed behavior is identical.
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The problem is that no matter how stupid you think it is with these clowns it's always somehow dumber than that.
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Flavor
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I think you have him beat on sheer number in any case.
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It sounds like the pitch is "we need you to do the part that GFM's lawyers told them under no circumstances should they consider doing".
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I'm sure you can manage to get in trouble for sending money to friends, but sending money from people you don't know to people you don't know is somewhat more concerning.
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American Exceptionalism! (Said in the same tone one would say "The Aristocrats")
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There are ethical reasons to want to do this -- governments don't always do the right thing -- but it's the kind of things that governments get cranky about.
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Because the obvious answer to both is that your account is being used to obfuscate the flow of money. They don't want your account. They want your profile as a normal law abiding citizen. They need a lot of accounts so the transactions can be small and get lost in the noise.
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You also need to ask "what am I adding to this process". If you are just taking money from person A and sending to person B, why can't person A send it to person B?
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The question that I think people need to ask pretty sharply is "why do these people need *my* account"? Bank accounts aren't that hard to set up. They don't tend to have limits on how much you can use them and they don't go bad.
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It honestly feels less that and more "I know how much damage you are capable of doing in 30 days"
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Starship is bad even granting that reality.
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This isn’t wrong exactly but overlooks SpaceX’s long history of dubious quality control and the reckless way they’ve approached Starship testing. They’ve been running a lot of tests while ignoring problems found in earlier tests.
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Given that the last three failures all seem to have the same root cause it's not just "learning from others" that they are failing at.
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At what point do we have to accept that this *is* a proper starship reentry?
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I only encountered a bluebook in that one class I took at CMC.
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I don't know if the furry lawyers should feel insulted or relieved.
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Started early did you?
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Kinda wish that thing was actually functional and they tried to use it.
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He really gives root vegetables a bad name.
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(Apparently ownership of colonies that spontaneously relocate themselves gets complicated)