This is why we have a harder and harder time using any online marketplace. We want our stuff to go to an actual human being and don’t charge very much for it, but the hassle of being bombarded with super lowball bullshit offers and from accounts that clearly aren’t real people has soured us.

Now we just stick most of our shit out for bulk pickup a couple days early and hope someone gets a chance to pick up anything useful.

Holy red herring. The point isn’t the percentage, the point is that fraud this size got past the system at all. They falsified labels - that’s egregious, planned, and indicates a systemic issue with the company.

And sprinkling in a bit of cherry picking? You’re dividing what 1 single inspection incident caught against the entire country’s consumption of all meat for an entire year. This is apples and oranges, and entirely beside the point - you don’t conflate detection with prevalence. Detection indicates a thing is happening, but doesn’t indicate the entire scope. If you’d like to look at it in a real-world sort of way - this single inspection incident showed that enough beef to feed nearly 3000 people for an entire year had falsified labels. You can always make something seem small if you appeal to a relative scale to suit your argument.

If we had proper regulation, there would not have been 167000lbs of this shit to recall.

This is not ‘oh, the regulation works or it doesn’t’, humans like to do that a lot for some reason, this whole ‘it’s either one thing or the other’. Nuance and gradients are a real thing. This would not have happened in a robust regulatory environment. The one we have operates on shoe strings.

Edit: 167000lbs at minimum. As another poster pointed out, this is just what was found. Which is like finding a roach in your house.

This one right here. A) They already work at this crazy abstracted layer and B) They are often … yeah… um, either not competent or out of touch - Nepotism and cronyism has run wild in corporate America at least.

My partner and I often joke about this - That LLMs would do a better job than current execs. We both work at a layer where we still have to do work based on very specific, rigid criteria (I’m in systems, she’s in contracts), but still both high enough that we have contact with C-suite. It’s bonkers how crazy and not-good these people are, and we’ve each worked for a few companies at the layer we are at… it’s fairly consistent.

Edit: Just as an anecdote: One of my companies brought on a C-suite who came from another large company and another one before that and another one before that. He was terrible, but this was expected - his whole schtick is to come into that position in companies and figure out the most cutthroat ways to outsource, which leaves those departments in massive disarray but makes the company more money in the short term, then he jettisons away to another company. It’s bad out there. Oh right, and he proselytized Christianity in meetings… that was weird.

US auto manufacturer software development is widely considered to be top-notch.

/s just in case

Oh you musta grew up in one of them fancy non-racist areas. Yeah, we definitely had this version even in the upper-midwest, along the rust belt. Elder millenial as well.

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I smell a new Dungeon Crawler Carl announcer.

There’s no way they could be lying, right?

As long as they are within 1/4" diameter variance this is true, otherwise you FUBAR the viscous coupling over time. Which is why most mechanics default to ‘just replace all of them’.

Subarus are actually one of the worst-case vehicles for this. I really don’t understand the love for those things.

My partner has one and with the ‘need to replace every tire if you replace one’ thing, ads showing up in the infotainment center, the battery dying if the key fob is stored too close to the car (real stuff, it’s legit written in the manual not to store the key near the car because of this, ask me how we know), she’s so fed up with it.

Edit: To clarify the ‘one of the worst case’, other AWD/4WD vehicles have higher tolerances for size mismatch than Subarus. Like, I think literally every other major manufacturer is better about this.

RAM manufacturers were colluding to keep prices high, as I recall. There were convictions.

Edit: Back when governments actually did anything about all this bullshit. Ah those were the days.

Edit edit: Hooooly cripes. This should just about tell you all you need to know about how shitty corpos are: On 5 April 2006, Sun Woo Lee, Senior Manager of DRAM at Samsung Electronics, entered into a plea bargain with the US Government for his involvement in the price fixing conspiracy. Following the plea agreement he was sentenced to 8 months in prison and fined US$250,000. Lee was subsequently promoted to President of Samsung Germany in 2009, and then President of Samsung Europe in 2014.

Conviction = promotion if you made the company money

Yuuup. At the data centers I’ve been to in VA, there are smaller buildings peppered in which house small businesses. Bet your ass all it takes is a little gyro shop to qualify as sharing the infrastructure.

If phytoplankton didn’t exist, the things removing pure 02 from the ocean through respiration would die. In which case, the ocean would reach O2 solubility equilibrium at a fraction of a percent of atmospheric O2 and would stop uptaking it because there’s nothing left to continue converting it to CO2.

I have confirmed it - it’s how I run all my services

It’s more like 50-60% and it depends on who’s doing the breathing - the vast majority of O2 generated by phytoplankton doesn’t become atmospheric O2 - it stays in the ocean. So yeah, us terrestrials would see terrestrial 02 producers as our glam rock stars.

That they’re not even on the Trump/Epstein Island leaderboard

Depends on your config, I’m just doing DNS (proxied). So you hit my nginx and that’s where the cert is provided.

Why not handle certs on your end and just use CF for proxy? I use NPM for cert automation with CF proxying. It’s honestly ridiculous easy and I’ve had no issues.