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3 years ago
Truckloads of JUMP Bikes Are Being Destroyed During a Nationwide Shortage

JUMP, a bike-and-scooter share startup sold to Uber in 2018, operates in 37 cities around the world, including 18 in the U.S., according to the company's website. Under pressure to pursue profitability, Uber dumped JUMP onto Lime, another micromobility company with operations in 114 cities around the world, in a complicated deal earlier this month that resulted in Uber taking a larger share in Lime. The fate of JUMP and its distinctive red bikes and scooters was unclear until the videos of the crushers began to surface. [...]

An Uber spokesperson said,"We explored donating the remaining, older-model bikes, but [ we decided that we just didn't give a shit. ]"



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Fact Check!

3 years ago
"Social media should not fact check posts" says child molester Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has today hit out at Twitter owner Jack Dorsey following blowback from the White House on twitter's plans to factcheck tweets. "Social media companies should not be acting as factcheckers and arbiters of the truth," announced Zuckerberg this afternoon, "also by the way I like to spread peanut butter on the wall and lick it off while naked."

The billionaire social media mogul, who spends his free time taking candy from children, instead suggested that social media companies should allow all speech on their platforms, and only intervene if there was a threat of imminent harm to someone's life, like the woman he keeps chained in his basement.

"On the other hand, I just really like the taste of goat urine," explained Zuckerberg thoughtfully, "can't get enough."

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"Fact-checking" as Capitalist Kayfabe

3 years ago
JYSexton:

Tech isn't interested in fact-checking because all content is profitable, whether accurate or intentionally inaccurate. In fact, misinformation is demonstrably more popular and profitable and their financial bottom line is symbiotic with the spread of dangerous misinformation.

These people are not bound by duty or honor or obligation to the better good. They're completely anti-political and anti-ideology. Their only purpose is the accumulation of power and profit. This is the cumulative result of hyper-capitalism, profit unbound by morality.

Facebook and Twitter are unwilling to check Trump or put an end to weaponized misinformation because both are immensely profitable to them.

Our economy rewards destruction and unhealthy behavior. This pandemic and crisis are crystallizing it, but it's been at work for decades.

The "fact check" move on Trump was an impotent gesture because Twitter needed to do something to handle the PR hit and date Trump's critics. Facebook is a Right Wing fever-dream cesspool and embraces it for profit. [...]

You're watching a professional wrestling match. Trump and Twitter and Facebook are all symbiotic and all interested in the same pursuit: dismantling democratic government as an impediment to profit and power. All gestures to freedom or reform or whatever are just fake punches.

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readonly

3 years ago
Dear Lazyweb,

What's a way to re-mount a USB APFS read-only on macOS 10.14 or 15? I've resorted to this indignity, and it only works like 3/4ths of the time:

dev=`mount | grep "$dir" | sed 's/ .*//'`

# Doesn't work with AFPS:
( mount -ur -o nodev,nosuid "$dir" 2>&- >&- ) || (

 (            diskutil unmount "$dev" 2>&- >&-  ) ||
 ( sleep 10 ; diskutil unmount "$dev" 2>&- >&-  ) ||
 ( sleep 30 ; diskutil unmount "$dev" 2>&- >&-  ) ||
 ( sleep 30 ; diskutil unmount "$dev" 2>&- >&-  ) ||
 ( sleep 30 ; diskutil unmount "$dev" 2>&- >&-  ) ||
 echo "FAILED TO UNMOUNT $dev $dir"

 ( sleep 10 ; diskutil mount readOnly "$dev" 2>&- >&- ) ||
 ( sleep 30 ; diskutil mount readOnly "$dev" 2>&- >&- ) ||
 ( sleep 30 ; diskutil mount readOnly "$dev" 2>&- >&- ) ||
 ( sleep 30 ; diskutil mount readOnly "$dev" 2>&- >&- ) ||
 echo "FAILED TO REMOUNT $dev $dir"
)

It's the unmount step that fails most often ("busy"), though sometimes the mount step fails instead. Spotlight is turned off.

I have a backup drive that I rsync to periodically, and proper data hygiene demands that the drive be mounted writable only during the 5 minutes that I actually intend to be writing to it.

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