The Belle Delphine Stolen Money Scandal Is Actually Part of a Bigger Problem & Today’s News
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00:00 - Belle Delphine Says She Lost Money Selling Her Bath Water
04:08 - Microsoft Gaming in Turmoil
08:01 - Three Boeing Planes Narrowly Avoid Disaster & Another Whistleblower Speaks Out
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12:10 - Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on Americans
15:15 - Biden Threatens to Cut Off Offensive Weapons if Israel Invades Rafah
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21:41 - Pandemic Gun Buyers Support Political Violence & They Have Some Crazy Beliefs
25:58 - Comment Commentary
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Paypal saying you broke a rule which cost you thousands but refusing to tell you what rule you broke is insane.
Makes them almost as transparent about their policies as CZcams... 😮💨
They want to control your money
I mean... youtube does it to. Doesnt make it right, but its a larger issue that just paypal
I mean greywater has disposal laws. I don't think you can sell it without disclosing what's growing in it for safety reasons. (Allowing stuff like this is one good way to get the ftc to open an investigation into your business.)
This is a common issue. My PayPal business account was closed with over $15,000 because it was making "too much" money in a short amount of time. They held my money hostage for over 6 months before finally reviewing my case and returning the money. Nowadays I'm glad payment providers like Stripe exist.
Someone needs to have 24/7 surveillance on that whistleblower. Being a Boeing whistleblower has a 100% death rate.
As far as we know. How many snitches went for a very long vacation to another nato country Or now have a different name in rural Idaho. We can hope some got away from the planePutins.
The same 24/7 surveillance they had on Epstein?
✌️"""""""allegedly """""""""" ✌️
🙄🙄🙄
I think it’s 5 deaths before it’s considered a conspiracy from a legal standpoint.
Anon needs to get involved and leak some information.
Microsoft HR: “so we are firing you despite your massively successful work, but would it help to know the CEO is, like, super bummed about it?”
I know you lost your jobs, but please feel bad for me, 👉🏻👈🏻
“It hurts the CEO as much as anyone”-NO IT DOESN’T!
Skillup made the point that this might be terrible for Microsoft in terms of keeping quality game devs. Who is going to work for a company that will not just possibly fire you if you make a game that's a flop- like Arkane Austin- but that will fire you if you make a game that's a massive success- like Tango Gameworks.
It's actually insane.
@@Sol-Orion the same way Disney can't keep VFX partners around. Disney drives them into the ground for a project or two then people leave because it sucks so much. Eventually Microsoft will look around at all the empty desks and realize they can't make a game with 3 students and a couple ai
Phil missed one of the most maddening parts related to Tango Gameworks being shut down. Within a day of the studio being shut down, one of Xbox's executives (Matt Booty) held a town hall where he said - "We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards." It's astounding to me how someone can utter such a sentence a day after shutting down the studio that made Hi-Fi Rush. I work in the game's industry myself and after the past year of shutdown after shutdown and layoff wave after layoff wave, my aspiration and passion are dead in the water.
Barely visible mustache ✅️
Backwards hat ✅️
Hot girl in the thumbnail ✅️
2012 Phil is back!
Yeaaahhhh!
Thank you for this comment didn’t like the
Moustache cause hate change but your right it’s OG vibes
Yay, someone else noticed the mustache!
Phil is not a hot chick. Tf is wrong with you people.
MEGAN FOX WATCH!!!1!
I don't cate if Belle did or did not make money from her bathwater. What do you mean you're taking $90k and NOT TELLING ME WHY???
Privacy reasons! Lol
Because........... ssshhhh.....
I haven't lost a PayPal, but all of these silicon valley companies are like this.
I once got my phone number banned on tinder without having ever met anyone. I emailed asking why I couldn't log in and they sent back this snotty email basically saying "oh we banned you, were not saying why and you know what you did."
I still have no clue what I did that was ban worthy
@@dismurrart6648 Its messed up they can all just kinda do that since its probably some random line in the TOS whenever you sign up. essentially dooming your account if any company decides "yeah we just dont want this account here" for whatever reason
Like an abusive ex partner...stop using them.
I don't understand how someone can hear a politician say "there is no war more just than this" and not get at least a little suspicious
That's what the Crusaders said at one point.
@@ThisIsDinaA I rest my case!
@@ThisIsDinaA The crusades was a just war, you must have failed history to think otherwise.
@@Zenkai76Under no circumstances has a “crusade” ever been anything more than self-righteous slaughter for the sake of indoctrinating as many people as possible
"If we have to fight with our fingernails, we will." Well since you don't actually pay for a single aspect of your military, if all aid were actually cut off you might.
"Sir, do you know why I pulled you over?"
"Was I speeding?"
"I can't tell you that, it'd be a security risk that could be detrimental to your personal information. What I CAN tell you is you're facing the death penalty-"
Looks at skin....looks back at cop...
Sir, I'm cauca- *whack*
"a whistle blower who also happens to be alive RIGHT NOW" is amazing. Congratulations and thank you to the writer on this one.
At this point we need to keep these whistleblowers anonymous and put them into witness protection while evidence is collected. This is getting completely ridiculous. The bravery of this man to come out saying this after 2 others have died is astounding!
@coleyohley71 yeah, I get the feeling local police will be finding his body soon
not for long. I hope he buys insurance fast
Protect Santiago!
Although I'm in the crowd who think people who value likes are sad I also can't stand how easy it is to get them for simply repeating something the video said. 400 of you were played. It's literally something a chimpanzee can do!
The whole entertainment industry needs to wake up and realize that infinite growth is impossible. That you will eventually hit a cap, but no, let's destroy lives and families to continue chasing that dollar. People have a finite amount of money and time. It's sickening to see and to top it off. All these horribly managed companies still give massive pay to CEO's who are out of touch with the with reality. They run their companies taking massive losses to try and hopefully get lucky with a live service game, or movie/ tv show that plays it way to safe and easy. There is no room for creative work anymore, and it's only getting worse because all these companies are just doubling down on their crappy trends instead of letting their creative teams make good art.
As someone who works in medical manufacturing the Boeing crap pisses me off. If we screwed up as much as they are the FDA would shut us down!
All I got from the first three stories (PayPal, Microsoft and Boeing) is that we are in a society where corporations just do not care about their customers and employees. And then you have the FBI warrant story which makes me feel like we are in a true Corporatocacy with just that little dash of Dystopia we all know and hate
Don't forget the last story, yikes.
They’ve never cared. Maximized shareholder value has been the sole purpose of corporations for over 100 years.
@@bbrbbr-on2gd Very true, the only reason i didn't include it was that it was less about a corporation controlling things and being negligent or even the government being dystopian, but more the stupidity, negligence and destructiveness that has occurred mainly from the Corporatocacy and Dystopia we are in (Corporations screwing people over, then getting a little fine for it, or being bailed out after collapsing the economy, or the use that politics has played on the news being amplified by the easy access we have now to instant articles with social media and technology) and more about the fact that humans as a species are guaranteed to do two things. 1) Be afraid and 2) be stupid. unfortunately it is often the case that when someone becomes both, they try and find others who share in the same/similar emotions, and that is what results in their becoming a voice and even providing some credence to what they are believing. however i do agree it does all meld into one big pot of horrific and dangerous slop we are now being forced to eat whilst smiling and asking for "more please"
@@garythecyclingnerd6219 Whilst i do agree that has been the case, i feel like since the 80's but particularly since 2008 we have seen a shift from corporations not wanting to admit to this being their sole purpose, to realising they can do whatever they want have have no repercussions, using the pretence of "Capitalism is the best" during the Cold war. Become a monopoly by buying companies up and then dysect them to make money and remove competition? go ahead. Pollute a ricer which supplies fresh drinking water to millions of people, don't worry about it. produce products which do not meet any of the basic safety measures, add it to the list of all the other failures us regulators know about! and when the crash happened in 08, we saw that ultimately the government care about one thing, and that is the corporations. using the pretence that they need to protect them to save everyone else, when in reality they don't need to do that. it is disgusting that with the whole financial crash of 2008, only one, low level employee at a bank was jailed for what happened. in a span of a day trillions wiped out of pensions across the world, millions homeless, millions unemployed, unable to survive in this hyper capitalised and hyper corporate place. but those who made the decisions and had the power to stop it, what happened to them? they got bailed out by the government and then used said bail out money to give them huge bonus's. this is the the world now, not just America where these stories are based, but the UK where I am based, and anywhere else in the western world. Unfortunately though, that will not change, especially overnight. It has become the bedrock society sits on now, and is certain to stay for the foreseeable future.
Just a dash? I don't think you have been paying much attention, I'd say it's more than a handful!
To my ex-Spirit (BOEING) employee friend Santiago Paredes. We all know strange things are happening with former BOEING employees, so please:
1. Don't eat anything outside. Cook at home
2. Stay at least 8 feet away from everyone, so no one "accidentally" brushes up against you
3. Make sure your home security system is on at night
4. Keep talking to news channels and stay visible to the media
Maybe others have more tips. Keep up the good fight.
He is very brave to have come forward and speak up. Most would not.
I hope his days are long and happy on this planet.
If anything, they should stay at a different residence than normal/ what is listed in their employment profile.
“If they go into Rafah, I will not be supplying the weapons that have been used historically in Rafah.”
Ah , so you’ll be supplying different TYPES of weapons, got it.
womp womp, give back the hostages, pretty simple, any conversation outside that is just sympathizing with Hamas... argue with the wall now.
You heard the quiet part 👀
I work on a factory has a quality control engineer. The idea that defects that are detected in products are being flat out ignored is insane. Most corporations will look around defects and see if it is a serious threat or just minor but not looking them at all is insane.
PayPal needs to be regulated like a bank. It’s obviously acting in such capacity and its arbitrary stealing of funds is inexcusable.
Sounds like it was seized over being flagged down as potentially illegal. Sounds like it could be easily clarified and returned though? Idk.
I remember PayPal charged me $500 worth of fees because it approved a $10 purchase but didn’t actually remove it from my bank account. Being 18 att, having most of my tiny summer paycheck wiped hurt
@@kuritheking PayPal doesn’t negotiate, speak to you, or has any way to contact a real person. They do not care. She’ll have to sue to see that money.
It's just sex workers why care?
Because there still people@@D3monicAssassin
If this third whistle-blower suddenly comes down with a case of dead then I think all the ceos and leaders of boeing need to be charged with conspiracy to commit (CENSORED).
Something is clearly going on here, there NEEDS to be accountability and consequences.
I haven't watched the interview but it wouldn't surprise me if he said in the interview "I am not depressed. I am not suicidal. I have been given a clean bill of health by a doctor. I am not planning on taking any long trips anywhere."
Murder*
@Tomato6 my comments keep getting deleted when I use legal terms, my account is flagged or something. Because I notice other people can say it, but I have to constantly keep revising and rewriting.
I have a thing where I have to copy my comments and refresh to see if it stays and screens screenshot everything.
I'm building up receipts because this is ridiculous.
@@RavenHailiSomething similar is happening to me. I rarely even comment anymore.
@ThatBunniBoi Don't let them silence you. Adapt, improvise, overcome. They want us to be silent and roll over, why should they get what they want?
They get off on the submission of others, don't let them have that satisfaction.
"Im afraid to fly--"
"TEXAS BRISKET"
Love the abrupt transition there. Lol
A lot of websites will not tell you what rule you broke, just suspend or terminate your account suddenly. A lot of sites that handle money do this constantly and it sucks. When you try to find out about what rule you broke so you can fix it to not cause issues, they will always tell you either "we can't for privacy reasons" or " its your responsibility to know what rule you broke" despite changing the ToS all the time. It sucks.
I swear if this new Boeing whistleblower ends up “unaliving themselves” or have yet another “car accident” then we will know very well that Boeing is guilty and super desperate
I wouldn’t call them desperate. Perhaps. But they’re also extremely arrogant and/or powerful to assume they can indiscriminately kill people known to be whistle blowers with no penalties.
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.
Ok so can we all just agree that if yet another boeing whistleblower dies or disappears, we just demand the company is investigated at any and all corporate levels?
Yep. 2 is a weird coincidence. 3 is a pattern.
It's crazy that they're not being investigated at all yet, considering not only what just happened but those murders happened without any attempts to be sneaky about it. It's very obvious Boeing killed those men.
After investing themselves. No foul play has been discovered.
Tbf, they should have been investigated the first time around, and it absolutely should have happened the second time. So if it happens a third time and nothing is done, I will be APPALLED.
It's a damn crime they aren't already investigated since the first whistleblower came out, especially one he and the second one kicked the bucket. We shouldn't wait until this guy goes to, start investigating NOW!
"There's no war more just than this" These religious extremist nations need to grow up and integrate into modern society.
I'm pretty sure Queen Isabella said something similar......
Queen Isabella from the 15th century?
@@bonobo84Yes, similar to your quote I mean.
As an election worker, this is a nervous time. I live in a liberal area of a liberal state, and there were riots after Trump got elected. We've had obvious Proud Boys, QAnon believers, and 2nd Amendment fanboys tour our facility (we do primarily vote by mail), and some of them may have been scoping us out to see if they could break in. Security has increased. But we NEED to let them come in and see what we're doing, because it's still their right to be there, and it'd be a damn sight worse if they couldn't. But yeah, lately I'm glad I don't have kids to leave behind if some madman decides to blow up our building to prove a point. I'm not leaving my job, because it's imperative that every vote be counted and counted as the voters intended, but I sure am tired of fearing for my life.
That transition from "I'm afraid to fly on planes" to "I HAD THE MOST AMAZING SMOKED texas BRISKET" was hilarious 🤣
that shit caught me so off guard 😂
*i had it on at 1.5x speed 🤪🤣🤣🤣🤪 that transition was WILD 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'M LAUGHCRYING*
Exact thought. Rare slip up by his editing crew lmao, gotta reorganize the stories or something 🤣
Always laugh when his ads are for stuff he tells us we need to stop or cut back on. Not too long ago he said the beef industry was a major factor in the climate issues and now he's pimping a meat company. And the time he advertised a chance to win a 500 HP 12 MPG supercharged truck in the same episode about how we need to do something about our usage of fossil fuels.
Right?!?!
PayPal stole 30k from my company and then went and took all the money in my personal account that was in no way tied to the business account. Paypal is a leech. They also said that after reviewing their data, we didn’t actually break their rules but then charged both the business account and my personal account fines of the exact amount that was in each account as information processing fees. Then banned me forever. Absolute bologna.
Did you attempt to sue?
That’s so messed up! 😢 I’m so sorry you went through that. I wish more people supported this cases and go against PayPal so they can take responsibility
Woah please tell me you faught this?? I feel like any lawyer would pick this up knowing they would get money at the end
There's no way this isn't lawsuit worthy.
Funny as I was reading this I suddenly started to think of all those cyber Truck fan boys. And then I remembered what South African Billionaire founded both of those companies.
Is anyone keeping a running tally of these Boeing problems? At this point it's not a question of if Boeing is a problem or not, or if they're at fault or not. At this point it feels like we're waiting for a plane to fall out of the sky and kill everyone on board before they're held responsible in some way. Worst part is, like Phil has said many times, even if they get fined, that's just the price of doing business. Unless governments start hitting companies with fines that risk running them into the ground instead of a slap on the wrist, they're not going to do shit.
It's already happened.... But in other countries..... 😬
It's been long known that they would rather pay out families for losing a plane with 300 people on it than fix their problems. 😮💨
The paypal executives should go to jail for theft.
These companies shouldn't have the power to seize money without explaining why and without any means to dispute.
Okay on the gun thing…I’ve lived in Texas all my life. I had someone threaten me with a gun for the first time in my life last week. That’s not what scares me, it was how emboldened he felt in his rights that’s concerning.
He was Not trying to rob me, he wanted to wait for the police for a minor fender bender after we had exchanged info but I had a client to get to and there was hardly any damage. When I get in my car to leave he knocks on the window and flashes his gun at me tells me not to leave.
After I yelled for help and got a good distance from him (this was in a grocery store parking lot) he comes up to me with his phone to his chest talking about his second amendment rights and how I was wrong to yell for help. He said “open carry is my right in Texas” even though his gun was tucked in sweatpants when he flashed it at me. Goes on this whole second amendment spiel with his phone to his chest recording me. Now after scaring me once I have to fear I will end up on some right wing Facebook group. The police supported him saying he showed his gun by accident until I showed them the video I took that he was clearly threatening me.
Gun owners that have a 1% chance of ever needing to use their gun but are constantly looking for their chance are who I’m concerned about.
As someone who has been around guns most of their life, I see it the same as reactionary idiots who get a puppy only to abuse/abandon soon as they learn responsibilities are involved. For me, the tell is them buying the gun after a crisis starts instead of before. Their introduction to firearms wasn't like mine where I learned to use one at a young age in a controlled environment from others who also grew up with firearms.
Just like how our society prioritizes learning that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell over basic living skills, learning how not to be on r/idiotswithguns has either been made difficult from both sides of the political spectrum. Republicans don't want mandatory training because they see it as socialist or unconstitutional, and Democrats will claim they want gun owners to take safety courses then to turn around and make those same courses as unaffordable and inconvenient to the point it is unfeasible for anyone working a full-time job.
Reason 8745 why I will never visit Texas:
That's horrible.
In ohio they keep shooting ppl instead of calling the police.
Open carry is his right, but holding someone hostage at gunpoint is still a crime.
The fact the whistleblower is labeled as "alive right now" is pretty terrifying tbh
Being defended by Mike Ybarra is like having Satan as your character witness. Ybarra was not only responsible for the "Cosby Suite" era of Blizzard he also slashed his devs bonuses on his way out the door with his golden parachute.
I grew up in a house that had guns in a safe. When I turned 16 my dad put me in a gun safety course at a local gun range and we would go shooting about once a month for the next three years. My brother sold my 9 mil while I was in college so I stopped going to the range and generally didn't think about guns for the next 15 years.
During the leadup to January 6 some proud boys decided to have marches in my city and even down my street I live on with my husband. My husband and I decided to get some handguns and go to the range once every few months since then. To be honest I was more afraid of police coming in my yard and shooting my dog before that. I didn't realize militias were popping up next door.
Push comes to shove though I'm just trying to read the room and I'd rather leave than start a gun fight. You're more likely to be shot when you have a gun anyways. My personal weapons still live in a gun safe in my house anyways so it's not like I'd have a quick draw option should someone break in my front door anyways.
My aunt was SAed and killed the room where she kept her gun safe. She couldn't get it open fast enough. The killer then abducted my niece and her body was found a month later. I don't lock up my fire extinguisher, I don't lock up my other forms of protection either.
@@mandan7654I hope you’re not too dumb to understand that anecdotal evidence doesn’t outweigh the statistically proven dangers of not locking up weapons at a home. Your story is very sad but ignoring every other thing that could’ve been done now that you have the clarity of retrospect, and instead choosing to support a provenly dangerous protocol, is objectively bad advice.
@@WubbyPunch I know when you control for households with no drug or alcohol use, stable income, stable parenting environment, death or injury from "unlocked guns" drastically decrease. I'm an actuary so I think I have a pretty good understanding of statistics. I'm very much at ease letting my children in my friends home's who don't "lock" all their guns. Unlocked gun does not mean it's easily accessible to children. Have you ever looked at the statistics you're quoting or just accepted their presentation at face value?
@@mandan7654 lolol yeah when you control for pretty much everything, I do suppose you can make the statistics work for you. But you can do that with everything. It doesn’t mean you’re right for what you believe. If you are in control of all of those things you don’t need a gun to protect yourself. You could just live somewhere where the likelihood of those kind of crimes are low and not need to have a gun. If you controlled everything you wouldn’t necessarily “NEED” anything. The fallacy in your argument is assuming it’s not already implied the only places you WOULD need a gun for self defense isn’t already a place where people would commit those crimes, and everything you listed isn’t a certainty. If you live in an area where those crimes DONT happen, it has nothing to do with you having a gun that it hasn’t happened. And having a gun is only MORE of a danger in that situation than not. It’s a sad coping mechanism really, owning a gun. It might be to cope with a reality, or an anxiety, but the real fix isn’t owning a gun. It’s keeping yourself away from problematic systems and people. Or moving to places that don’t have that. Owning a gun where you do genuinely need one means you’re already not in control of the variables you mentioned, rendering your point moot. Also it’s just irresponsible advocating for having a gun that’s easy to access, especially if you happen to have the perfect environment for it. Because not everyone else does. Having a gun for those reasons means you’re attempting to fix a problem in one of the least effective ways possible, anyway. Flawed logic all around. You’re not even arguing about keeping a gun locked in a way that only you can securely access it swiftly(which would be the best argument for you specifically) no, you argue about keeping guns out and about to be easily accessible to anyone… why? For your convenience? How stupid can you be?
@@WubbyPunch I'm not going to abandon on my city, culture, and community. That's a privilege I don't have. My wife employs 6 people. I donate to local charities and my money from work is spent locally. Those crimes DO happen where I live because I live in a tough neighborhood in New Orleans. I'm trying to change that. I'm a roll model in my community, I can't just leave, and I don't want to either. "Owning a gun where you genuinely need one means you're not in control of those variables" just because I come from a tough neighborhood doesn't mean I need to do drugs, not have a job, or abondon my kids, and living in a tough community doesn't mean I need to be defenseless. And it especially doesn't mean I should just uproot and leave it. I'm not arguing to leave guns out and about. I just don't think I should be forced to keep it in a safe. I don't think keeping it in a safe is a good idea for me and my family. This isn't theoretical for me. It's my life and I've thought a lot about it.
It’s still baffling to me that PayPal can, without any justification, just take/steal your money.
Edit. Terms of service is wack don’t store your money in PayPal.
Exactly why you transfer asap😂
Or end of day... Just have to.... Have dealt with PP before. Not fun ... And I've seen people lose $30k in one go
It's justified in the contract you sign to use their services. Don't use services without reading EULAs, I guess, is the lesson 🤷🏼
@@frankcaggiano8282 every contract has bullshit in it like that. Most are deemed unenforceable if they make it into court
It's in their term and service, it is known. It is still lame though that that are so anti-SW.
I just don't understand how a company can steal 90k from you legally like that.
If you break your ToS, then they should tell you that you have 5 days to move your money out and you are banned forever, or something like that.
That is what happens in other places, i.e., if you have a Fidelity investment account living outside of the US which is only allowed for people in the US, they will close your account but your money has to be transfered somewhere. They don't just, you know, keep the money. Wtf.
wouldnt surprise me if they get a good chunk of their profit from shit like that. having really vague terms of service, banning people without telling them what they broke so they cant combat it and then pocket the money
Paypal is uniquely shitty. For example there have also been several cases of suddenly succesful indie game devs getting their accounts frozzen for months on end.
They operate in some kind of legal loophole that somehow makes them not a bank. I don't know the specifics, but I suspect that not being a bank might somehow give them legal ownership of the money.
That's just my poorly thought out hypothesis though.
Edit: so poorly thought out that I did the dumb American thing of thinking that everything is America.
There were a lot of accusations in the 1980s that Bank of America had closed a number of accounts and the money was never properly turned back to the owner of the funds. There’s supposed to be process and procedures but when you think about it, those procedures had to be a response to likely court cases suing for return of the owners property. Therefore, there were banks that pocketed funds before these procedures were established
Payment price processors desperately need regulation to disallow them to dictate what you can and cannot pay for with their service. It really has gotten out of hand recently as basically every processor is trying to ban adult content.
With the craziness going on within the surge of some recent gun owners, and the "patriotism" related car stickers/flags that pop up closer to election season, I'm uncomfortable. Because when I see these people, I see just how many delusional gun owners and voters are around and amped up looking for an excuse. I'm just happy I'm getting married before the election, not after, so there's just a little bit of peace left. Hoping for the best, but I don't have much hope for the people who are worshiping a politician like they're God's God and they can do no wrong. Every politician can and does do wrong, but people think we should have unwaivering support. That's very dictatorship-esk. Not patriotic at ALL.
Am I the only one seeing the little guy pop out from behind the middle bag of coffee around 12:13 when he starts talking about the FBI? Fucking hilarious!!!
The fact that the people who bought guns for "COVID safety measure" are also anti-mask and anti-vax should be the dictionary example of irony.
Yeah. Did they think they could shoot the virus or something?
I met a Boeing engineer once a 10+ years back who constantly used the phrase "If its Boeing, I'm not going". Guess he wasnt just making up a funny catchphrase.
"There is no war more just than this" is maybe the most naive and arrogent thing ive ever heard
There is nothing more ironic than Mike Ybarra coming to the defense of Phil Spenser. Two equally tone-deaf CEO's (Or former) talking about how "This really hurts them". But their paycheck says otherwise and Ybarra took 1600 employees out when he left Blizzard earlier this year. The games space has become an absolute clusterfuck, along with the entire entertainment industry as a whole. The days of Satoru Iwata and his emphasis on what is right in the gaming space, are gone.
The big issue I have with everything that is going on at Microsoft is the fact that the head of Xbox Game Studios (Matt Booty) told employees in the wake of these closures that “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards”, and I’m over here like “YOU JUST SHUTDOWN A STUDIO THAT MADE EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED”. Hi-Fi Rush was the only game Microsoft released last year that was both well-received AND won awards, and it wasn’t even a big AAA release since it was released without prior warning and only cost $30 if you didn’t have Game Pass.
And it did all of that while being shadow dropped, had 0 advertising, in a year full of games that could have been GOTY had they released in any other year. It's a travesty.
It also barely sold. Tango also just lost their CEO.
@@petelupien214 Tango CEO only left because he felt that the employees were ready to take over, meaning the studio was in good hands. Xbox talked in the past about how it was a major success in every form, which likely includes financial, despite how horrible they handled the marketing. There's no justifiable way to explain it besides they're just idiots
@@Akeyins I think the big issue is that with Microsoft putting a lot of their focus on Game Pass, we don’t exactly know what they qualify as being successful nowadays. And keep in mind that Microsoft saying they saw the game as being successful was before the ActiBlizz deal went through. It seems like dropping $70 billion on ActiBlizz was a bad idea in hindsight and is likely what is causing all of this to happen.
@@Akeyins Yep, and while I couldn't find any accurate sales data, according to Bethesda, as of August 2023, the game had 3 million players. It's unknown how many of those were purchased and how many were from gamepass, though. But the game was so good I bought it on PSN, and I'm keeping an eye on the physical release, so there's at least 2 😆.
I think it was a victim of gamepass. Microsoft has a library of games for a monthly fee, which includes games releasing on day one, but they still need games to sell copies. You're indirectly creating an environment where your sales are being cannibalized by a service that's very tempting for the average joe. And everyone that plays online has access to said library (or portion if it's gamepass core). Maybe that's why Sony didn't want to do day one exclusive releases on their service.
Historically.... in every single humanitarian dispute... no matter if foreign, domestic or otherwise... students at universities have always ended up on the side that history calls moral... this conflict in Gaza will be no different... the civil rights movement, the Nazis, Womens rights, the Vietnam war to name a few prominent things.... the majority of politicians have been against those things... and looking at the age of currently serving politicans most of them have been against it in their lifetime... While students always have spawned large protests which have always been met with over policing and state violence... it's just history repeating itself and we seem to ignore that
Students were on the side of Mao Stalin and communists. The single ideology with the highest body count outside of maybe religion as a generality. Maybe.
Looool what a ridiculous thing to say
Communism called.
@@VSPoliFight communism describes the ownership of the means of production being in the hands of the community, it kinda seems like you have no idea what communism means
@@LoFiAxolotl 😂🤣 and the n4z1s 25 point platform was all about equal rights for German citizens. The abolition of income not earned aka sl4v3ry. Profit sharing is large industrial enterprises. Social security and more.
It's amazing what happens when you take your revisionist history bs for communism but take the real politik angle for n4z1sm.
It's amazing leftists are allowed to vote. This is basic contradiction dude this shouldn't need to be explained to you. But I mean leftists are m0nst3rs who actually support Mao and Stalin so maybe I am naive thinking you're just ignorant and not ev1l
Lol, no.
Student protests helped get Castro implemented
Chinas cultural revolution student red guards
The hitler youth protesting jewish stores and ownership of land
You keep that stash going Phil! Looks promising already. Thanks for your work
PayPal is the shittiest 'banking' company. A few years ago I was sent some money by a friend there and PayPal decided tolock my account due to "suspicious activity." The only reason I was able to get my money back before 3 months of "investigation" was the fact that I'm an EU citizen and EU considers PayPal a bank so its illegal for them to lock people's money.
In 2007 one of my friends was a software developer based out of Amsterdam. For years he used PayPal to sell his mobile app, for Windows Mobile. Then he started getting major deals with OEMs, like Samsung etc. One day, PayPal locked his account, which had around $100k USD in it. Wouldn’t tell him why, or what rule he broke. Took him six months and hiring a lawfirm to get the money back, and PayPal still will not tell him what happened, to this day.
Reason: Elon Musk
They probably invested that money and didn't want him to take it out just yet. It's scary when they can just take your money. Use them, but keep transferring your money somewhere else.
I’ve never used PayPal, so I just don’t understand. Are you not able to transfer the money to your acct and then transfer that money into another acct. why have your money just sitting in PayPal?
@@brittanydanyelle6247You can always move your money to a bank account, but there are fees involved, so it may be that people are trying to minimize the number of transfers in order to keep the fees down. (I’m speculating, to be clear.)
@@brittanydanyelle6247
You are allowed to transfer the money off your PayPal account. In fact, it's one of the unspoken rules among PayPal users to never leave a ton of money on their PayPal account because a lot of people were fleeced out of their money before.
The discourse on Belle Delphine was enough to see how Paypal can get away with fee theft. She was/is othered hard, even by people who privately consumed her content - bathwater or otherwise. This is a common tale among SW. It's well past time that we start being adults about being adults.
The emphasis on "doing so properly, and within legal requirements" makes me believe that there is much more known, actively inappropriate and illegal use of section 702, and the fact that it is CEELEBRATED is absolutely bizarre.
Love the management perspective of "it hurts us just as much as it hurts you when we have to fire you."
9:32 "Yet another whistleblower who happens to be alive right now" 💀💀
Wonder if third time is the charm.
Yeah, I'm pretty worried we'll get another Boeing story for Monday's show...
Having to mention the whistleblower "happens to be alive right now" is insane
Guy loses position after complaining to HR about a problem that could potentially kill hundred of people in the future. I've said it before and I'll say it again: HR is NOT there to help YOU; they're there to help the COMPANY.
20:28 I don’t agree with what he’s saying but Phil actually didn’t interpret him correctly. He isn’t saying Israel will enter a ceasefire “even” if god forbids it. He says IF god forbids it then Israel will not enter into a ceasefire. He’s saying the opposite of what Phil said, he saying that god has/may have forbidden them from entering a ceasefire. He’s saying his god wants the war to keep going which draws even more parallels between this and the crusades.
"Raw dog the landing" is my new favourite use of the phrase raw dog. The previous was for VPN ads telling people not to "raw dog the internet".
I liked being unmedicated referred to "raw dogging life"
The irony of a private internal email from the FBI about spying on people's communications tickles me silly
I am a leftist and I am a gun owner. If the past few years have shown us anything, it has shown up that we cannot rely on the proper authorities to protect us. The far right is more armed than ever, with military grade weapons, armour, & training. While the likelyhood of a militarized militia of far right extremists is low, it's not zero. I think it's important to arm ourselves and to train as much as possible because the other guys certainly are. The best way to prevent yourself from being a victim is to match force & learn how to defend yourself. This is to also say that the best way to stop a mass shooter is to have an armed & well trained person amongst the crowd.
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I have heard of PayPal doing this to so many people, How do they keep getting away with robbing people?
My wife is a firearms instructor and I'm ex military so I partake in the statistics of people who carry. Before the boom yeah sure there was some unease towards society while being a parent and prefer to know I had mine on me for protection. But the stories from my wife of the people she see's entering training programs to learn how to handle a firearm properly terrify me. The amount of accidental discharges while holstering, accidental discharges while drawing, flagging people with loaded firearms. Not being able to hit a target 10ft away. And I'm glad she's doing her part to make sure those who "have" to carry one are being professionally supervised to be less dangerous. But thats just a small drop in the bucket of owners running around these days. For every 1 guy that almost shoots his foot drawing his pistol in a class theres probably 10 not caring to be serious and mature about it and learn. I don't think we'll ever win the proper flow of firearms into the public. But I wish we could require learning if you want to purchase one. Because at this point I wouldn't be surprised if accidental discharge deaths become as big of a issue as the other causes.
As a Canadian the USA's gun culture is scary AF. In Ontario to legally own a handgun, everyone in the household (even your kids at a certain age) have to take a firearms safety course, and it has to be locked away when not in use at all times.
@@Dan-SimmsIt’s terrifying
Well, that's why they are taking the class.
@@Dan-SimmsLocked away... Just how the criminal breaking into your house wants it.
Cause of death: freedom
As a boudoir photographer we have been struggle getting our websites shut down and having our payment systems rejected because of the content we shoot. We can’t show our work in ads either but skims and Fenty can show way more. It needs reformed.
Kim Kardashian and Rhianna getting preferential treatment than others is not surprising but shitty as all hell nonetheless. Just reading your unfortunate experiences I feel sorry for and 100% sympathize with you.
In the meantime my best suggestion would be getting creative to switch up your marketing so as to bypass this. “Less reveal, more suggestion?” Could be a starting point. I wish you the best of luck! Psychologically this leaves all the exciting bits and example images to the location and the boudoir session itself.
Gun control is still one of the most insane topics to me. The cons outweigh the pros so strongly it’s actually wild
I have major issues with the paypal story, it was the same thing that happened with CC's that when that whole underage scandal broke at PH refused to process payments. I never bought porn in my life, but the CC's and banks should just sit there, stfu, and process my transaction. I don't give a shit what their take is on a scandal the company may or may not be going through, or if the type of business is ripe for abuse, or whatever. If the company wants to give me a warning saying they won't allow me to dispute so they're not on the hook? Fine, whatever. But don't refuse to process it, that's bullshit. We need "transaction neutrality" in my opinion. Because from this shit it's a pretty small jump to "this group promotes hate" and start censoring donations and what-not based on political ideology. We need legislation to protect this ASAP IMO.
And it's also problematic because if all banks and CC's decide to do the same thing, you can essentially be locked out of your money, which is bullshit on a variety of levels, but including free speech.
Whoa Whoa Whoa.. what gave Pay Pal the right to just take that money.. This needs investigated and should not be allowed.. They don't get to just keep the money
Yeah like, if their explanation is that it was illegally obtained, shouldn’t they have to refund it? Since it’s, y’know… illegal?
@@chuchuyeah3430Paypal is insane sometimes. I had a paypal account i could not close for 2 years while they were investigating a business I interacted with on paypal. So I had an empty account with a payment that was pending processing for 2 years and there was nothing they would do.
I have a hard time justifying the bella situation as "she came out on top". Paypal took that money, offered no accounting as to why it was kept, and refused to elaborate further. As you noted it isn't rare for them to just shut down an account, and keep the money.
Pretty sure Phil just meant that if you look at it as "money spent on marketing" instead of just "money lost", Belle came out way ahead in the end.... To have purchased that level of PR saturation, Belle would have had to spend literally multiple times that amount, and do so every week she wanted to keep it going. It likely would have cost her several million dollars to buy what she got for "losing" 100k.
Don't misunderstand me, though, mate...That *CERTAINLY* doesn't excuse the actions and lack of transparency on the part of PayPal. What they did was scummy at best, and shouldn't be allowed.
90k for an internet wide marketing campaign? A presidential candidate would literally kill for that.
Though im sure costs were pretty significant on top of that still. Money wise, for the whole thing, she almost definitely made tons of money from it. Even though still fucked over by paypal.
@Nathan_Talisien I agree with you completely. Especially with some of the deals Phil has been burned by, I believe he is just looking on the bright side. I don't think everyone is going to view the situation with the same lens. I feel like a lot of people will look at her making a ton of money and brush off anything bad that happens to her.
@@caskento That is an EXCELLENT point, mate... And, sadly, one that is all too accurate. An awful lot of people will likely just shrug off her loss and say it's irrelevant because she makes a good living off her work anyway- despite the fact that getting screwed over sucks, no matter how much money you make.
The crappy thing is that these Boeing stories is that every one of these obscures the picture a little bit until we know what's really happening. Many of these incidents are not in Boeing's control, but it's doing numbers to point out when a Boeing has a problem, just pure sensationalism in a lot of cases. But we can't just "wait for the report" because most of the time there won't be enough attention on it to care about the report without this initial reporting.
This is why we have regulations. This is why we we can't just leave this junk to the business jackanapes -- they will suppress as much as they can, and rely on obfuscation to protect the bottom line.
Phil kinda going for the "but you got paid exposure so it was still worth something" is the bane of every artist. She should have gotten paid. If paypal claims she broke a rule, give her HER money and then shut down her account. It's good to know that they can't be trusted with holding your money.
It's sad the government serves the companies and corporate power instead of us regular citizen.
You have Citizens United to thank for that.
I mean we've always played this game since the fuedal age ended. The only time America made any progress was with FDR. But we didn't go far enough and we lowered our gaurd. This is what capatilism does. There is no other goal than make more money at all costs. That means consolidate, deregulate, and build monopolies.
We have known this behavior since 1848. Yet the propaganda from your childhood has everyone in love with the system that enslaves them and say, "There's no other way. They have to own us." Everyone always throws out the same propaganda in response to these facts.
the idea of an elected government still has a major flaw. you get to pick from a group of people who desire power. this will lead to corruption. how to fix this though is quite the conundrum
@@Arthera0 especially when the government represents so many people.
Boeing cant kill the 3rd whistleblower.
1 murder is a conspiracy.
2 is a coincidence.
3 is "HOLY SHIT THEY MURDERED ALL 3".
I don't know man. They blatantly got Epstein Infront of the eyes of the world.
And we all made jokes.
Across the world. We make jokes.
counter conspiracy another corporation is making Boeing look bad by killing whistleblowers and sabotaging their planes. I don't believe this, but I want to put it out there cause it would be even more crazy then what already is believed.
Oh, you sweet summer child.
Being from st. Louis and having family friends very closely involved with the BLM protests there... this is very naive.
Hillary clinton called
As a foreigner, I find it disturbing, that the US is saving all the data they can find about me. My country has sent their foreign minister over to stop this practice, but the US (Obama's minister) told him, that they wouldn't stop.
I find it only fair, that Americans get spied on in the same way now. Maybe Americans will end this practice now.
You know Ybarra is also the guy that said ''We should have the option to TIP the games we enjoyed so much!'' Unironically. And he was at the helm when Blizzard was falling down the rabbit hole.
So of course he would make such a clueless statement. He lives in a fantasy world.
Paypal being able to just steal money is insane. Where did it go? 🤔
That's always my biggest question, because I doubt they're refunding people.
They do it all the time, to people who are not s** workers too
Not back to the customers, I’m sure.
The pockets of the CEO’s. Per usual
Payters pockets
As someone who lived in Azusa Southern California. During covid I’ve been mugged and stabbed. Had my house and car broken into so I’m one of the ones who bought a handgun for my family’s protection. Didn’t think I needed one but it came in use when someone tried to take my car after closing at knifepoint. Luckily I didn’t have to use it but just pulling it out the guy got scared and ran off. I don’t condone violence but my and my family’s life and safety is more important to me than someone who obviously doesn’t care about mine.
When I was “sexy dancer” our club had to stop taking American Express because they would refund money, no questions asked, if it came from a club. Then when I got a PayPal account to help, they blocked my account completely when I got a few thousand. The only option I had on my account was to refund the money and even then, my account was still cancelled. Thousands of dollars that I worked for, just gone.
My brother hates paypal because he had an account that he used maybe a decade ago. He used it for normal purchases online like games and stuff. Suddenly they banned him with no warning and no appeal option saying there was suspicious activity on his account. He told them that he wanted them to at least delete his bank info and other personal info from their databases for security since he's not even using the service anymore after the ban. They refused and he was livid that not only was he banned even though he personally didn’t do anything weird on his account and now this company could just keep highly personal info even after that. Im sure it's in the terms and conditions, but he still felt very violated by the situation and won't use any service like that since.
Microsoft being anti-consumer and anti-competitive is so typical of the company it might even be in its corporate charter.
Microsoft is wild. They have this company culture that is so competitive, teams within the same product will sabotage each other.
If you ever are confused why something from Microsoft sucks, it's literally the management.
Please, someone keep an eye on this Boeing whistleblower and maybe put him in a safe house so he doesn’t wind up dead.
this is a really bad year to try and get over my fear of flying/claustraphobia
The comment about the lifeguard thinking he was being messed with. I haven't been to a public pool in over a few decades. I think you need to be a bit stricter because the lifeguards at the pools we were at? If they couldn't see you... we had these bowl like things that acted like a water sled but we flipped it upside down and had it over our heads so we were walking around like a big red turtle shell. Lifeguard called us out for it. Someone else did it afterwards, called out for it. Another did it more than once, got permanently banned from that pool for safety reasons.
The most concerning part about all the new gun ownership is the amount of gun theft currently.
"The rate of gun thefts from cars is triple what it was a decade ago - rising from an estimated 21 thefts per 100,000 people in 2013, to 63.1 per 100,000 in 2022. This includes both consistent increases nearly every year over the decade and a marked spike during the pandemic."
Probably at least somewhat coincides with the sales of bumper and window stickers since if you see a car covered in pro-gun stuff, there's probably a gun inside free for the taking.
It's actually a documented fact that gun thieves look for pro-gun decals on cars to rob. Yes king go off, you use that blue lives matter Punisher skull and Gadsden flag on your car, let all the thieves in the area know you've got at least two unsecured firearms in your Tesla Cybertruck
@@JessicaKStark The sticker thing is a big one. I never leave guns in my truck, but I still wouldn’t put any of the manufacturers’ stickers on my vehicles because I don’t want to deal with a busted window when some moron comes looking for an easy score.
This has a lot to do with the fact that in most states, even where 'unlicensed concealed carry' is allowed, most places a person would go throughout the day won't allow you to carry. Which leaves law abiding owners having to leave their gun in the car, or not have carried it to begin with. (the choice of which, is another debate)
Seriously, the FAA can’t be ignoring all these incidents regarding Boeing. Especially around the “mysterious” deaths of these whistleblowers. I hope this new guy doesn’t end up like the others.
Hey you! Yes you 🫵Remember last year when all the media would report on were train derailments and chemical spills? Weird how trains stopped derailing all off a sudden and now it's Boeing going haywire 🤯The media's job is to get clicks.
All three of these stories are not tied to Boeing in anyway except the fact that they were built by them. The FedEx 767 is over 10 years old, the Senegal 737-300 is over 20 years old, and the Turkey 737-800 popped a tire.
They are part of the problem, they don’t care and won’t do anything because it would hurt the politicians stock portfolio
I mean I agree but clearly they have allowed them to get away with it thus far. So I guess we will have to see how many incidents, crashes and sudden deaths from whistleblowers it actually takes to cross their line and finally step in and shut it down.
Just checked Boeing stock prices, no effect at all. It's like it's immune to bad news
As a gun owner on the far left, I'm scared shitless, I want nothing to do with armed conflict breaking out in my back yard, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not ready to do some things I certainly wasn't say a few years ago to defend my community. I live in a place where we have a relatively left leaning social culture but I don't know if that makes us more vulnerable or less due to how most liberal minded folks feel generally about guns. The scariest thing is that the prospect of armed conflict within the borders of the states is that it's entirely unpredictable
Forget privacy issues. It goes against the FBI's basic mission: the more information you pull, the less of it you can actually process.
Solid point.
It creates noise
This is the cost everyone pays for bad apples.
This is your yearly reminder that Microsoft has previously used the philosophy "Embrace; Extend; Extinguish“
In the United States, banks cannot close a bank account for this unless it's against the law.
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Phil is rocking the “ boy band member going through puberty “ look with the barely visible moustache and backwards hat
I'm in law enforcement, I have had people come up to me, with fox news brain talking to me about how annoying the protesters are.
I have seen first hand, people talk about political violence, i've seen the dehumanization of "Others" which currently are LGBTQ and immigrants.
Family and the sort talk openly about "Liberals and how they're "pdf files" for wanting to teach kids about gay stuff"
Hell, the law enforcement scene is sorta divided on the whole jan 6 fiasco, they literally attacked cops wtf.
Law enforcement with Fox News mentality, least surprising thing ever
LOL. The protesters were more than just annoying, especially the ones that committed their own insurrection, and unlike January 6th, took hostages. Such hypocrites.
@@chronic_payne5669 It's worse in Canada, the Ottawa Police Service are the most corrupt department in North America, probably on Putin's payroll.
Stay safe. Sorry you have to work within the nut bin.
Cops were also patiently waiting for Jan 6 people to leave the builiding instead of dragging them out and bashing them like the anti war protestors in colleges
As someone that works in a regulated industry, we get parts from suppliers that are not to spec, and we mark it as nonconforming material and send it back to them. Do it enough, it triggers a full audit and SCAR (supplier corrective action report) and then we find a new supplier
I was laid off for the first time this year, and I have literally no sympathy for huge companies doing layoffs. there is no excuse. hundreds of people losing their security and income, just for tax cuts and write offs. its horrific that we allow it to happen.
I have a friend who works for a safety company. At an annual conference, a different Boeing whistleblower who I guess hasn’t gone mainstream yet? spoke and several of her colleagues, who have worked in safety for DECADES and have seen some shit, were genuinely, in the words of a bunch of a bunch of middle aged men who don’t say things like this, ‘triggered’. Someone had to leave because she was horrified by the fact that she had to fly home afterwards. The general consensus was that at this point, getting on any modern Boeing plane is just rolling the dice; will this be the time it goes off? The whole plane is a loaded magazine and every time a round goes off, THAT round is getting removed from all the other planes, but the rest of the rounds are still in there.
Cool but this is so shittily written it's kinda crazy
A Boeing whistleblower?! PROTECT THAT MAN!!!
This new data on gun ownership is a natural side effect to the political shift that occurred during the pandemic. People shouldn’t underestimate the huge political shift that occurred. As a secondary teacher I have seen the differences in students political awareness. Students of color are looking at their life differently and seeing some biases that affect their lives and education. I’ve seen students call out teacher actions as racism and make a compelling case even when the teacher had never shown a history of racist behavior. The BLM protests had a massive effect on making people aware of political injustice. It also made people more scared and more likely to become radicalized on gun ownership. We saw people bring guns to protest and defend their actions saying they thought society would breakdown.
With America's history of programs like COINTELPRO and Project Mockingbird we need to take the FBI's warrentless wiretapping VERY seriously.
Senator Murphy is 100% correct. The US Military has known this for a long time and even has manuals warning against it. Specifically FM 3-24 "Insurgencies and Countering Insurgencies" Section 7 covers the paradoxes of counter insurgencies, specifically in 7-7:
"Often insurgents carry out a terrorist act or guerrilla raid with the primary purpose of enticing counterinsurgents to overreact, or at least to react in a way that insurgents can exploit. For example,
counterinsurgents opening fire on a crowd or executing a clearing operation may create more enemies than it removes from the streets. "
When death is a reward either its 72 virgins, Valhalla, or a simple break from misery you've got one hell of an enemy
🤣😂 so you should thank the "insurgents" for their patronage.
Thanks leftists!
@@VSPoliFight whats the logic here?
@@LordErebusBloodmoon lol you think they have logic? They are aiming for the Olympics with the jumps that they do
@@LordErebusBloodmoonthey’ve been bouncing from comment to comment leaving the most toxic shit they can think of. ignore them and eventually they’ll fuck off
Paypal did the same thing to me. Only way to get it back is to fight and you'll spend more on attorney's. No way this isn't a part of their business plan/model. They make you wait 180 days in vase of charge backs, then with a few days left they take it all for "damages caused". Such a scam.
Damn! I never knew that happened to you and is terrible. Sorry it did. Fellow follower of Philly D is cool to see. :)
"Boeing whistleblower who happens to be alive right now." 😂😅😭
oh god that mustache lmaooo. I know we all start somewhere but good god lolol.
Microsoft telling the various Xbox teams that they need "Small games that win them awards and prestige." after shutting down the studio that did exactly that says a lot about where their priorities are right now.
This sounds like they just want more mobile like games
Sounds to me like they're starting to realize they lost the console war for this generation, and are worried AF about how stock holders will react over the next few quarters...
The Fed: _"ByteDance is collecting data on US citizens and needs to sell TikTok or it is banned!"_
Also The Fed: "So anyway there is this database under Section 702..."
It's only a problem if someone else does it, of course.
I'm feeling like people need to chill the fuck out and to love thy neighbors and treat others how they would want to be treated.
The thing about law enforcement is that they need criminals to stay funded. With crime rates steadily dropping over the last few decades, sometimes you need to create a few to find a few. This is why we toss billions of dollars at FBI & policing programs but couch cushion change at improving schools, paying teachers, and other equitable means that prove to lower the likelihood of delinquency and criminality.
This is also a privacy issue. We've been learning over the years who all had files and who'd been wiretapped by Hoover, et al. in the 60s. Now it'll be easier to see who's "communistic" and who's likely to shoot up a school. History has shown how "the govt" handles outliers, social justice protesters, whistleblowers, and those who lean too far left. Big Brother will not only be watching, but listening & reading. I feel like we're inching closer to a dystopic police state (for some).