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Oh they care, just not about the worker. They care about their real estate holding company which owns the property the corporate HQ is sitting on, and the company is paying a wildly inflated lease to. They care about being able to justify renewing that lease next year.

Is this is true that the rapist Brock Turner has started going by his middle name, Allen Turner, aka, rapist Alan Turner is is rapist Brock Turner?

So 20 years ago.

Landlords, of course, can sue for damages, but it's almost always in small claims court, and the former tenant is almost always "judgement proof" -- no real assets and no real wages to garnish. These same individuals are often the sort of tenant who allows their pets to destroy a home, let cat urine soak into the floor boards, and so on.

Not everyone, of course. and in fact, probably a very small minority of tenants, but it only takes one terrible tenant to utterly destroy a home.

The enshitification of Assistant is what prompted me, a few months ago, to embark on a quest to remove Google (and other cloud-based services) from my home automation setup. I've since swapped over to Home Assistant using Zigbee for almost everything.

I had to keep the Alexa integration going, or the other half would lose their god damned mind because apparently, that's the only way on the entire planet to turn the light by the couch on and off.

But yeah, next up is just replacing all the light switches with zigbee-enabled ones so I can go full scary motion detection in a room thing. It's going to be super futuristic in here, like 1998!

That sub was mostly cops just repeating their own bad interpretation of the law. Terrible.

TIL: I have a perpetually disappointed cat.

Also, hey hello, now look at my butthole.

Even as a big fat homo, and presuming I could get into that position, I don't want to stare at my own dick all day.

Funny how so much recent talk has emerged yet again about how companies like Microsoft want to get rid of disc drives on their next Xbox… [...]

While I will freely admit that the lack of a physical drive is a huge way to drive downloaded (and licensed, revokable) content controlled by the company, it's worth noting that physical media is really not all that great a medium for transferring things like games or movies anymore. Blu-ray discs can hold, in ideal situations, around 50GB of data. A lot of games -- especially AAA games, are well beyond that. I think Spider Man 2 came in at like 85GB? The internet says Hogwarts Legacy is ~75GB on XBox.

Network connectivity, and downloading content to our devices is almost certainly going to be the way a lot of the world works going forward. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to back our content up elsewhere, or offload it to some other device.

Your right in noting that the laws and regulations need to keep up and protect consumers' right to the content they've purchased.

edit: Here, I'll bold the important part.

It's an uncomfortable way to watch porn.

Why you acting like we can only do one of these things?

Because it's a common tactic used to confuse an issue and get the discussion bogged down in irrelevant details and "hah! Gotcha!" moments.

Fyi, the US president cannot set prices for these things.

That said, he's trying, using what power he does have.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/grocery-stores-should-cut-prices-costs-ease-biden-white-house-says-2024-02-02/

Well that's what I see.

Also, I wonder how that works if you’re colorblind?

It's orange, blue, and yellow fyi.

Absolutely. The crawler is doing some rudimentary processing before it ever does any sort of data storage saving. That's the sort of thing that's being persisted behind the scenes, and it's almost certainly both not enough to reconstruct the web page, nor is it (realistically) human-friendly. I was going to say "readable" but it's probably some bullshit JSON or XML document full of nonsense no one wants to read.

The requirement to honor a "Certificate of Credible Coverage" with like a 30-day gap was a fucking godsend, and even then, health plans still didn't have to cover any minimum set of services, medications, procedures, etc. like they do under the ACA. Insurance providers were free to just be like, "No, we don't cover chemo at all, period, fuck off." But more common, by far, was simply not covering prescriptions. Like, at all. You go to the doctor, get fixed up, and here's to hoping the meds they want to give you are generic, because you're paying out of pocket.

I want my death panels incentivized by .. keeping me alive to keep paying taxes, instead of incentivized to reduce costs and increase short-term profits.

For what it's worth, contact your employer's benefits coordinator. They can often slap the insurance company around since they're the people essentially paying the bill.

It's the same crisis from the last election.

Remember the migrant caravans that evaporated on November 3? Same thing.