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- Comment on Salmon 3 days ago:
Salmon She 😂
- Comment on Meta greenlights Facebook, Instagram ads based on your AI chats 5 days ago:
Man if ChatGPT did this they would be showing me guns and the home address of Nigel Farage 😂
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 6 days ago:
Yup I added an edit. LBOs should be illegal man. Just search how many companies have been bought like this and then driven out of business.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 6 days ago:
Depends. This is a leveraged buyout and there are countless examples of other companies bought like this and they don’t last long.
They take on massive debt to buy it. Then they shift that debt to the company they bought and away from the individuals. Then that company is crippled paying down interest so they can’t innovate (not that EA did), then they’ll have to cut costs and the product will diminish. Likely pay out billions in dividends to the buyers can make profit and in 5-10 years EA will go bust or get sold again.
The banks will be left holding the bag, but probably covered their loses by that time so can write off the rest of the debt.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 6 days ago:
Yup. Or Toys R Us, or Debenhams (UK), or any other number of LBOs which led to the death of the company.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 6 days ago:
Hopefully it’s a leveraged buyout and this is the death of EA.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 1 week ago:
Furthermore, we then tie it all into the stock market and link our future pensions to that. So we can never really change the system otherwise everything will collapse.
It’s like a house of cards.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 2 weeks ago:
It didn’t start that way. If people want to shove their opinion where it isn’t needed then they should be told.
The fact is I asked before posting the output and people still piled on. I don’t have to be nice to those people.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I don’t believe my government does. I’d have to check the UK though.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
But they want really care, in a moral sense, they’ll just do what helps them make money. There all soulless.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I assume Facebook. We all realised after that that social media was an evil business.
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 3 weeks ago:
Hey someone has to pay for these server costs 😂
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 3 weeks ago:
Crack on pal. Have a great day, the sun is shining here and I’m trying to enjoy it.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 3 weeks ago:
Well you sound like a damn clown if you think you’re a researcher. Wonder what degree you have.
I’m a software engineer not a researcher. Furthermore it was a quick and easy way to get an idea where to start. Don’t bring your biases about LLMs to me cause i couldn’t give a fuck what you think pal. Frankly you’re all boring going on about LLM bad, Linux great ad nauseam.
Go the fuck outside and touch some grass. It ain’t that deep you bloody melon. Sick of y’all’s judgemental asses. If you don’t like a topic or thing just move along. Christ on a bike nobody cares what you don’t like pal.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 3 weeks ago:
Yup. We are the left wing The Donald. They hate everything. And talk about the same shit incessantly without actually making any change cause they won’t engage with anyone else with a different opinion.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 3 weeks ago:
Why bother questioning what others do. Move a king you silly cunt.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 3 weeks ago:
Imagine. I’m not a fucking researcher. I doubt you could do your own research.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 3 weeks ago:
I’ll paste the output. My prompt is below too so if you want to probe it for the best way. You could get it to make a program just have to keep pushing if stuff doesn’t work. I’m a developer so it helps if you know a little.
Prompt.
Where can I find data on reward money offered vs paid in the USA over the last 20 years
Reply Short answer — there’s no single complete national dataset.
Reward programmes are fragmented across federal agencies, state/local Crime Stoppers chapters, private bail/bounty firms, and corporate/financial whistleblower schemes. To build a 20-year “offered vs paid” series you’ll need to pull from several sources and (optionally) stitch them together.
Below are the best places to look (with examples and why they matter): 1. Federal whistleblower & reward programs (high-quality, machine-readable annual reports) • SEC — Office of the Whistleblower: publishes annual reports with amounts awarded each fiscal year (detailed PDFs). Great for securities whistleblower payments (large, consistent dataset since 2011).  • DOJ / Department of Justice press releases and program pages — DOJ has various reward/whistleblower programs (and a recent pilot program). Useful for criminal/corporate enforcement reward totals where reported.  • U.S. Department of State — Rewards for Justice (RFJ): posts individual reward offers and announcements (large, occasional awards). Good for transnational/terrorism-related reward offers.  2. Federal law enforcement (FBI, DEA, etc.) — press releases and “rewards” pages • The FBI and some other agencies publish individual reward offers (Ten Most Wanted, fugitive rewards) and occasional summaries. These are event-level (not neat annual totals), so you’d scrape press releases or file FOIA requests for bulk data.  3. Crime Stoppers (national + local chapters) — aggregated rewards paid • Crime Stoppers USA and many local chapters publish aggregate “Rewards Paid” and “Property Recovered” statistics (useful for local/community reward payouts). There are many chapter reports you can scrape/collect.  4. Private-sector and industry sources (bounty/bail industry, private reward platforms) • Bounty hunters / bail bond industry earnings and private reward platforms are private and fragmented — statistics exist in trade pieces, law reviews, and industry blogs but no central public dataset. See law reviews and industry reports for estimates.  5. News archives & academic evaluations • For historical context and one-off large reward offers (and sometimes totals), use major news archives, NCJRS/NIJ and academic reports (e.g., evaluations of Crime Stoppers). 
Practical approach to build the 20-year series
If your goal is an actual dataset (offered vs paid per year), I recommend this pipeline: 1. Decide scope — which kinds of rewards? (e.g., federal law-enforcement offers, whistleblower awards, Crime Stoppers/local rewards, private bounty/bail payments). 2. Pull high-quality federal reports first — SEC whistleblower annual reports, DOJ/State press release archives, FBI press releases. (These are the easiest to quantify.)  3. Scrape Crime Stoppers chapters — collect annual “rewards paid” numbers from national and major local chapters (they often publish totals).  4. Supplement with FOIA or API calls — for FBI/DOJ bulk records or if you need all reward offers (not just press releases). 5. Handle private/industry data as estimates — compile from industry reports, law journals, and news; treat these as less reliable.  6. Normalize & document assumptions — e.g., currency (nominal vs inflation-adjusted), whether “offered” is the maximum stated offer or the amount actually committed, and whether “paid” includes partial payments.
Useful starting links (to grab data now) • SEC Whistleblower Annual Report (FY2024 example).  • SEC newsroom (whistleblower award press releases).  • State Dept — Rewards for Justice program pages.  • FBI reward announcements / press releases.  • Crime Stoppers USA / sample local chapter stats pages. 
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If you want, I can start pulling and assembling a first-pass dataset for you right now (for example: SEC whistleblower totals per year + Crime Stoppers national totals + notable federal reward offers per year) and deliver a CSV with year, source, offered (if available) and paid. Tell me whether to include or exclude (a) private bail/bounty payments, and (b) whether to inflation-adjust amounts — I’ll assume nominal USD if you don’t specify.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 3 weeks ago:
I asked an LLM although many here hate that.
It basically said it’s very fragmented but many departments / organisations do publish their rewards information.
SEC, DOJ, Dept of state RFJ, FBI, DEA, Crime stoppers, and more.
You have to go and look at each one and consume that data ideally programmatically. The LLM has links you can try but I won’t post the output without consent.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 3 weeks ago:
It seems like you might not understand how pieces of shit can be made and also how they can change.
I wholly believe that it’s better in the long run to understand these people as surely we would want a world that doesn’t foster these people.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps I should have highlighted that it’s not a viable option for everybody.
I would say that your solution is also pretty shitty. As bad as bullies are many of them are doing because either they’re getting bullied / hit at home and so they act out in this way or have other issues.
I don’t think sticking them all together is the solution, we should be trying to understand why someone is doing that and see if we can make positive changes. When I say we I mean the education system.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks ago:
It’s sad that the school did that and sided with the bully, but at least you stood your ground.
It’s shocking that teachers over there seem so quick to call the cops which is sure to escalate any situation. We had fights in school in the UK and never had cops called. Maybe that’s changed now with knives and stuff, but 🤷♂️
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry you have to go through that bro.
What I learnt about bullies is once you smack them in the face most of them will think twice before bullying you again.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks ago:
Also crazy as they don’t really have that much freedom. They’re slaves to capitalism.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine going to school like that bro.
Like is it scary and you always wonder if some lunatic is going to come and shoot it up or no?
- Comment on The Balance of Terror 4 weeks ago:
WRONG. Who tf does that
Well I had a deep cleaning like this recently due to many years of poor hygiene and it was performed by the dentist.
I have to go back in 3 months to see the hygienist.
- Comment on Age check 4 weeks ago:
What he do? All I know is Em told me he humped a dead moose.
- Comment on YSK that you can force Windows 10 to open your default browser instead of MS Edge with MSEdgeRedirect 4 weeks ago:
If people need to go on forums for help then it ain’t easier than Windows. You’re just swapping one inconvenience for another.
I’m a software engineer and I listened to you lot and removed windows and tried Linux again a few months ago.
Absolute shit show getting my Nvidia 4060TI to work. WiFi also had issues and would just randomly stop working.
Went back to windows for the 2 games I play.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 4 weeks ago:
Censorship is a stretch pal.
Yea, I can’t really explain it but I saw a post the other day here somewhere and basically I agreed. They were saying that curse words have become so prevalent that they’ve lost some of the power, if every other word is fuck then it loses it potency, writing f*ck kind of adds that emphasis.
Honestly though I’m just sick of all these people on here complaining about it to be honest, it’s the most minute of issue that they latch on too. Free expression means I can write what I want and if some people don’t like that that’s their problem.
I guess also I’m just in a better place in my life and the constant negativity on here is just not something I’m prepared to keep consuming.
Curse word this, Linux that, rah rah rah.
This place has literally become the Donald for us on the left and it’s a massive circlejerk of all us fellating each other for being so moral when in reality we ain’t changing shit and we have made our own little echo chamber.
I’ve gone from 4 hours a day on here to less than 5 mins on average and I’m happier for it.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 4 weeks ago:
Stop telling people how to write if I want to add an * to a word I fucking will do. Sometimes I find it adds something to the word like highlights this is a strong word. Y’all are some basic b*tches complaining about dumb stuff all the fucking time.
Get a grip ya silly c*nt.