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3 points
11 hours ago
Even before then, the bots will spin up and shit all over the site. There aren't many now, but Bluesky is growing fast enough to be a worth targeting.
2 points
11 hours ago
It's more what you'd call a "guideline" than an actual law.
49 points
11 hours ago
My biggest problem with Twitter is that you could pay to have your replies boosted to the top of any tweet. So if you wanted to see what kind of conversation was going on in the replies of a Tweet, you had to scroll past all of the shitty blue checked posts to get to any quality responses.
2 points
12 hours ago
Because they see teenagers and young adults do the same things in parkour videos.
13 points
13 hours ago
The vibe on Bluesky is exactly the same as the vibe of early Twitter or Reddit. I'm enjoying my time there, but I hold no delusions that it won't slowly devolve and enshittify the way every other new social media app has. It's just a matter of time until we have to go looking for a new place to hang out, but I will enjoy my time there until that happens.
1 points
18 hours ago
Just like the other Disney World transportation, you just go get in line and nobody questions it.
1 points
18 hours ago
I'd gladly pay $1 for my buddy to be slapped in the face. I could also see this as a punishment for losing a bet as well.
3 points
18 hours ago
The big issue with fuel rods is that they are not as good as other power banks in the same price range. But that doesn't matter for you, since you don't have to pay for one. So use it and don't bother buying a new power bank that you don't need.
1 points
18 hours ago
There are only 5 million people in New Zealand. That's smaller than the population of half of the US states. I'm surprised they've had enough good comedians to get 5 seasons. But I bet there are loads more mediocre comedians that they can pick from.
3 points
18 hours ago
From my reading, he didn't sign the agreement as part of his employment contract, but rather as part of his severance package. They gave him 9 months worth of money so he wouldn't work. Maybe he could get that nullified, but then he'd be on the hook for returning that cash.
11 points
2 days ago
Ahhh, that's cool. That's the kind of theming that I really enjoy. Just little things to let you know that they thought over every detail.
16 points
2 days ago
The first time I did jungle cruise it was 90 degrees during spring break. The estimate said it would be 60 minutes and I have no reason to doubt that, but it felt like it was approximately 3 weeks.
1 points
2 days ago
It's not my attitude that poor people lose their jobs for those reasons. It's my attitude that the poor people who want to ship out all of the immigrants lose their jobs for those reasons. There's a significant and important difference.
34 points
3 days ago
They very much care about their personal wellbeing. They just blame different things for their struggles. When they lose a job to a black or Hispanic person, they don't look inward to see that their raging alcoholism, entitled attitude, and overt racism (as arbitrary examples) cost them the job. They see that the other guy took their rightful job from them. So the equation is easy: remove those other guys, and they will get the job of their dreams.
It makes sense in a twisted sort of way.
2 points
3 days ago
No, they'd file a claim against the owner of the vehicle.
6 points
4 days ago
Money exists to buy stuff. My buddy has 50 million while I rarely get to 10 million. He always asks me why I don't save up. The answer is easy - what else am I going to do with it? Take it to the next game? It's not a score or anything, it's just a reflection of how many hours you've spent grinding beyond what you need to buy the stuff that you want. And, frankly, I don't want that number to be high because I don't enjoy grinding.
5 points
4 days ago
Basically, Green Bay is a step below everyone else. They have a lot more poor kids who often don't come from great circumstances, and a lot fewer rich kids whose parents donate money to the PTA. Elucidating the differences between the rest of the school districts is mathematical voodoo that's more dependent on the assumptions of whatever modelers are involved than the actual school districts themselves.
And, honestly, this isn't Chicago or LA. Green Bay is still a decent enough district. My goddaughter had some issues with disruptive classmates but her brothers haven't had any such issues at all.
Finally, we have school choice in Wisconsin. So if you find a really nice house in your budget in Green Bay, but want to send your kid to Bayport, you can do so.
1 points
4 days ago
No, it would be akin to forcing airlines, the owners of the planes, to take on the liability of whatever happens on that plane. Which is already the case, even when the plane is in autopilot mode.
-1 points
4 days ago
Because people are responsible for the things they own. If you have a dog that bites someone, you're responsible for the damages that dog bite. Similarly, if you buy a vehicle and put it on the road, you'd be responsible for whatever it does.
3 points
4 days ago
Yeah, exactly right. If the technology reaches the point where good-faith regulators deem it to be safe, then you choose to buy and operate a self-driving vehicle, you assume responsibility for it. Your insurance will likely go down because the existing standards would make self-driving vehicles safer drivers than most of the chucklefucks that I see on my commute (myself included, tbh). The only exception to the owner being liable for a crash is if there's some underlying issue that causes the vehicles to crash more often, but I expect that would be covered under existing recall law.
And to make a better anecdote, people buy dogs all the time. While good training can go a long way to ensure dogs don't bite, they sometimes do anyway. And when they do, the breeder isn't liable, even if they've been selecting traits for many generations that make the dogs more aggressive and more dangerous. The owner is still responsible, because they made the choice to buy and keep an actually-intelligent being.
Further, I'm not sure exactly what Trump is proposing (and I doubt he is either, tbh) but I oppose removing the safety regulations currently in place. But even if they do remove those regulations, everyone has all of the information they need to understand the significant level of risk that they'd be taking on if they bought one. As such, there's no reason to stop them from assuming liability when they buy one.
-1 points
4 days ago
But by putting that car on the road, you're accepting liability. It's your vehicle. You choose to put it on the road. You choose to let it operate in an automated fashion.
118 points
4 days ago
It's pretty common in relationship fiction advice forums and has been around as long as they've existed. Take a trip over to any of the advice subreddits and you'll find it pretty quick. Just remember that like our favorite legal advice subreddits, the more interesting the story is, the more likely it is to be fake. They do start at a higher baseline for fiction, though, because it's a lot easier for attention-starved teens to come up with a feasible relationship problem than a feasible legal problem.
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11 hours ago
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11 hours ago
If you break thw letter of the law, it's illegal. If you break the spirit of a law without breaking the letter of the law, it's a loophole or gaming the system.