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What does 9/11 have to do with not running sponsor logos?

Do you buy your hot food in specifically TikTok friendly, coffin shaped packaging explicitly labed as a challenge?

Let's hope they regulate greedy marketing not food sales.

From my understanding, this is the first case of actually serious consequences, and I'm sure millions of these chips have been eaten by now.

We need more stupid challenges that cause only pain but no serious, long term injury. It's a good way to learn not to do stupid challenges, keeping kids away from the stupider ones that are more likely to do permanent harm.

Especially in this case, labeling something 18+ is just a marketing gimmick that makes it more likely for it to be eaten by 14 year olds.

There are no legal restrictions on selling it so someone will sell it, and it appearing "forbidden" makes it more attractive.

Are there schools that don't teach calculator usage? Even 10-15 years ago German schools (at least in the states I looked at) had the option to teach math with either basic calculators, scientific calculators, or computer algebra systems in grades 9-13 (I think) with most schools picking scientific calculators even back then. I would expect that to have moved into earlier grades and more advanced devices nowadays.

If they try to use a blender (the kitchen appliance), I'm sure it will also become interesting.

Some countries used to require you to list expensive gear (mostly cameras back then) and either pay a deposit or prove that you're taking it back. I've never encountered it but it could be something countries with strict import rules still do (it's more commonly done the other way - if you leave the country you can get documentation on the way out so you don't have to pay import tax when you come back with the device).

It's also possible that they do it only if you bring more than one per person. (I think this may be the rule India applies, but you should check it.)

They might also just ask whether your aunt is taking it back or leaving it in India as a gift, and charge her the tax when she says it's meant as a gift. Lying would be illegal, but as you pointed out, possibly hard for them to prove...

Departing with it from Canada and getting through airport security shouldn't be an issue. People travelling with laptops, even multiple ones, is obviously super common.

However, I don't know what the rules on importing goods into India are. Customs may have restrictions or require import taxes to be paid.

How does a) pissing off your employees b) making sure they talk to each other in person impeding unionization?

For those who don't know who that is, from Wikipedia:

Michael James Lindell, also known as the My Pillow Guy, is an American businessman, political activist, and conspiracy theorist. He is the founder and CEO of My Pillow, Inc., a pillow, bedding, and slipper manufacturing company.

Lindell is a prominent supporter of, and advisor to, former U.S. President Donald Trump. After Trump's defeat in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Lindell played a significant role in supporting and financing Trump's attempts to overturn the election result; he spread disproven conspiracy theories about widespread electoral fraud in that election. He has also been an active promoter of unproven medical treatments.

It works on Windows, no idea how other distros behave but judging by all the issues people were reporting, even if this specific issue doesn't happen on other distros, you'll get bitten by something else.

It's less than 3 years old. If it was any newer the argument would be "you can't expect such new hardware to be supported".

My embedded AMD GPU has been unusable under Ubuntu. Constant crashes/freezes. When trying to find a workaround (unsuccessfully), I found lots of other people with slight variations of the same problem - same symptoms, but different root causes... seems like at any time there are several system-breaking bugs and every time one is removed another is introduced. You just have to hope your kernel happens to be one that happens to work with your specific config.

My next platform will be Intel-based.

And the stuff you do want to use is often best installed from the Dev's repo because fdroid takes forever to update theirs.

And last time I checked they still hadn't implemented the now years old APIs that would let them to silently update apps, so unless the phone is rooted you need to click for every update...

For anyone wondering: still significantly above the pre-war price

This brings the continent closer to the traditional patterns seen before the pandemic when prices, sustained by Russia's abundant and cheap deliveries, used to reliably range between €15 and €25 MWh.

For cost per unit, you divide the cost by the number of units. $20/(200 units) = $0.10 per unit. $60/750= $0.08, so 2 cents cheaper per unit.

But if you actually only need 50 but can't resist a "good deal":

The 200 cost $0.40 per item that you actually need, the 750 cost $1.20 per item that you actually need (plus the cost of storing and at some point throwing out the ones you don't need).

It not just cost money. It's easier to generate outrage and "interesting" articles when you can just make shit up (or at least distort facts), so bullshit gets more clicks and thus is more profitable!

Forbes is just a blogging platform where "contributors" can post their clickbait. Forbes adds their reputation and the ads and then splits the profit with the "contributor"...

As if that stops Windows from spamming you with popups that you should be using Edge with Bing instead.

Came here to make this (half)joke.

Sadly, it's not just a joke, it's also the only way to actually do this.