“Your honor, my client does not possess the funds to continue this trial, so we have crafted an offer to the plaintiffs: in lieu of compensating them for the hundreds of watches that have gone missing from their inventory, we admit no wrongdoing and they will be offered stock in his watch making company should he ever start one”

Maybe there’s a word we could apply to situations where a group of people make plans to carry out an activity that is not legal for personal gain

Even here in Maine there are some large subsidies for battery backup systems. The state is even running a program for people who have them, where they can get paid for selling their stored energy during peak usage times.

Nah you’re good, I just became a lot less fun when the Gell-Mann stopped <3

Inappropriate for a wire service/po•tah•to. Reuters has little value to me if non factual statements are not attributed as quotes.

The newly listed company warned in its initial public offering (IPO) paperwork that its unique approach to content moderation can sometimes subject it to disruptions like in 2023, when several moderators protested against its decision to charge third-party app developers

I seem to recall over 8000 subs going dark but sure, just a handful of people protested.

@scrubbles

Growing up had a lot of careful navigation between “what are you smiling about” and “I’ll give you something to cry about” and a ton of unhealthy emotional suppression to boot. It takes so much effort to escape those trajectories.

I’m proud of both of you and really hope you feel that way about yourselves.

Meanwhile, toyota’s driver assist tech from 2023 models will actively jerk the wheel from you and try to steer itself into obstructions on the side of the road you’re trying to pass, if you have to move closer to the double yellow dividing lines to do it. Oh you live in a rural area and more than half the roads don’t even have markings? It will occasionally attempt to steer you into the middle of the two lane road, into oncoming traffic.

Sudo on windows…

I left it anyway

From our perspective it’s been worth the investment. We did a new water heater while the electrician was wiring everything up, and that’s saved us an additional grand (at least) every year not using heating oil. Last time we talked energy prices with the neighbors they were averaging over $500 per month, but we generate enough to bank credits to last us through the winter at the hookup fees.

Granted, our winter heat is primarily the wood stove and a low consumption floor fan to circulate the air and not space heaters, but our overall ROI is below 10 years given heating and electricity costs in our area.

No but I have experience with my Sudo:

I would like to non-sarcastically point you to my top level comment in this thread ❤️

I agree, given my own experience in this regard. I’ll film what I’m doing because I think there’s a value in the techniques or approach that others may find helpful in their own lives, but there’s a limit to how much time I’ll spend editing it or adding effects/thumbnail creation/etc. That’s time that could be spent on the tasks that aren’t being done due to the setup and breakdown time for capturing the video, the amount of editing that does get done, or the time spent planning for longer/deeper dive videos.

Sure, there’s a slight economic advantage for doing those videos given what we do, but it’s not like we’re monetized. The collection of videos is primarily just because of my enthusiasm for what we’re doing, with my reliance on internet groups for social interaction coming in as a close second.

My answer would be that the AP is just reporting the claims made by the two parties, rather than knowing that they were destroyed - that’s the usual approach from the AP. I agree there’s likely no “smoldering trail” in any logs that an encrypted system like Signal might be able to furnish, but I also am not read up on what kind of reporting requirements they might have. If they have to do something like SMS carriers where “a message was sent at x time on y date” logs exist then there’s investigatory potential. But again, not really my strong suit.

There’s probably some testimony or interview that we’re not privy to that lends credence to these claims by the FTC, hopefully it will be made public as their efforts progress.

Moreover, do we know the conversations were destroyed AFTER they were ordered to preserve them and not just routinely destroyed?

Can’t say. My own anticapitalist leanings notwithstanding, none of the reporting on Amazon’s corporate behaviors would lead me to believe that they are pro-consumer or unwilling to break the law in furtherance of avoiding a heftier punishment.

“As a result of this criminal act, Amazon’s license to operate within the U.S. has been suspended until executives can provide the communications they were legally ordered to preserve,” said an FTC spokesperson while smiling wryly in my fever dream where laws matter.

Amazon employees were using signal to coordinate anticonsumer policies and then destroyed the records, which the FTC had ordered them to preserve. At least, that’s how I read it.

This is what real foraging guides look like. If the cover doesn’t look like this you’ve got to go and look up the author and their bonafides before trusting anything in their book. If you’re new to foraging, you should be bringing a few books or guides with you for cross referencing and confirmation of species.

Anecdotally, I have a generally negative perception of the brands placed in the way of actual search results. They’re rarely relevant to my actual wants or needs, let alone the search terms, and it colors my expectations that they’d be capable of helping me even if I did want their products or services given the low QC on where their ads are shown.

I’m pretty sure it’s everyone who uses their app, since every third post and every fourth comment on it is an ad of some sort (or at least that’s how it seemed). I’m sure anyone on old.r with an adblocker is unaffected but during the brief time I had their app installed there were enough ads to render it unusable and unnavigable.

Anything wet can impart wetness to other solid materials by releasing a portion of its held liquid. A sponge is wet because it contains, holds, is covered in, or adheres water or another liquid, and can make other things wet by imparting some of its held liquid to that other material.

The act of having water or another similar liquid on, in, or adhering to a solid is what makes that solid wet.