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yeah, elon's not going to see the negative consequences of this personally, because he'll just use the "ban" button instead of the "block" button.

yeah, it's not spotify's fault that splitting $10/month between all the music you listen to doesn't pay the artists very much.

It’s always good to step back from “companies” and think of companies as just a bunch of people.

Is it good for companies to force employees back to the office? Nah, probably not. Is it good for the guy who has to explain why he signed a 10-year lease on all that office space, and now it’s sitting empty? Yup. Is it good for the lonely manager who wants to be surrounded by people, and has the power to make that happen? Yup. Is it good for the exec who has to find some reason why his department is underperforming, and decides remote work is a good scapegoat? Ehhh….

I don’t know about bard, but google doesn’t know any better either. https://ibb.co/7YHpSsq

Shout out to Moninaa on Reddit, which is probably the source of this “fact”, for making the world a little stranger.

people stopped liking discord when they got to use slack or teams and see what a professional chat product looks like.

not that people really love slack or teams either, but they are miles ahead of discord in terms of speed and general usability.

This is the opposite of transparent. When I order food, I’m agreeing the pay the listed price for the item I ordered. Adding 18% on top of that when it comes time to pay is hiding that fee.

If they want to charge more, they should raise their prices

I bet they get really mad if you call them business weebs

It’s any of them

But we’re not talking about salary here. We’re talking residuals, per quarter, paid on top of the salary they received for the original work.

For a show that is 13 years old. Collecting $6k per quarter for work you did 13 years ago and that you have to do absolutely nothing for anymore seems pretty good to me?

There’s a hell of a lot of working class people who would absolutely love to be getting paid like that. Trying to frame this as the working class vs the rich seems really dishonest. Do TV writers even understand what the working class is, or how much we make? I sure as hell don’t collect $6k per quarter for work I did 13 years ago. If I did, I’d be rich.

It is entirely another to see it play out in real life. News of fire and destruction will become as commonplace as school shootings in less than 10 years

in some countries, it already is!

the ASUS ROG STRIX SCAR 17, their biggest baddest gamiest 17" laptop, ships with a power adapter rated for 280W. it also offers charging over USB-PD at up to 240W, so would comply with the regulation here.

I can’t stand them on pizza either, and I always thought that meant I didn’t like olives

Turns out I just don’t like the cheap black olives they put on pizza. Good olives are good, but lots of olives aren’t and bad olives just make the whole dish they’re in taste like bad olives.

this always reassures me a little bit. all the tracking and targeting and whatever that we're supposed to be afraid of on the internet, and they still haven't figured out a better form of targeting than this.

The big benefit of light rail is you can make trains longer than buses, and fit more people. So if your system has outgrown buses, then you should move to rail.

But transit systems should always be trying to maximize frequency, because the more frequently a train or bus comes, the more convenient it is for riders. So if a bus fits 30 people and a train fits 90 and you’re trying to make a decision between providing a bus service every 10 minutes or a train service every 30 minutes, the bus service is the better option.

Different modes work best for different passenger demands, and you should use the right one for the number of passengers you’ve got. Overbuilding is expensive, and if you spend too much building out a network and the don’t have enough for operating expenses then you’ve got to reduce service levels.

only if those programs support minorities. government-funded school breakfasts or lunches, healthcare subsidies, and funding for school extracurricular programs are all A-OK as long as we can make sure it only happens at schools that primarily serve rich white christians.

it's only hypocrisy if you take the most generous possible interpretation of the things the right-wingers say, not what they so obviously mean

it's always been very clear all along that "don't tread on me" doesn't mean the same thing as "don't tread on anybody". they want some people to be firmly tread upon, and others not to be.

LED bulbs aren't really even a small thing.

going from a 100W bulb to a 15W bulb, or a 60W bulb to a 2.5W bulb (that's the actual conversion for the bulbs i've actually bought on amazon and am currently using, not hypothetical guesses) across 20-30 bulbs in a single house is a real actual big difference in energy savings.