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  • Lots of people fly overnight flights places… it makes a pretty big difference to overall comfort to have your own space and something that turns into a bed.

    I’m going to guess there’s a lot of things in your life where you spend more money for something that is better, more comfortable or more convenient.

    But the value of money is relative. Spending another $2,000 to sit in business class feels unthinkable when you make $50k/year. When you’re making $500k/year it doesn’t seem like such a big deal.

    Also, lots of people get a lot of frequent flier miles from working jobs with travel, so the actual cost might have been lower.

  • What nonsense is this. The airline checks your ticket against your passport prior to departure. If airlines board anyone without the proper passport or visa and are rejected on arrival, it’s the airlines’ responsibility to fly you home on their dime.

    No airline lets you book an international ticket and board it without a valid passport and appropriate valid visas that match the name on the ticket.

    You can of course fly domestically without ID (even getting through TSA, it’s onerous but TSA has a process for that).

    Your information on that ticket is also electronically sent by the airlines to the next port of entry for a huge percentage of countries.

    If that doesn’t match the passport you have, you’re going to have problems at immigration wherever you’re going.

    You can see this is action on any boarding pass you get for international travel.

    It will say something like DOCUMENT CHECK REQD or DOCS OK right on your boarding pass.

  • Not just specific example. i.e. when used in contract law is a limited list of things covered.

    Acts of god (i.e. fire or flood) would not include hail or rain or lightning or….

    Acts of god (e.g. fire or flood) would include anything you could argue to a judge is an act of god.

    If they use ie in a contract, you would first have to argue they didn’t mean to use ie and both parties believes them not to be a complete list, and were supposed to be examples of.

  • Hopefully with kids in private school you’d have more savings than that, but that’s an easy $15-50k/yr per kid.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the monthly cash burn for a truly middle class family was $5k.

    The rule of thumb is 6 months of expenses.

  • I do frequently. If you’re going to be so smug, you should also be correct. They purchase a copy of each media that they loan at any single time.

    If they have 5 copies of digital media, 5 people can use them simultaneously. Not more.

    It’s why Libby has a waiting list.

    The internet archive would have been legal if they had a) purchased the copy and b) had not lent it to more than a single person simultaneously (or purchased more copies). They weren’t doing that. They were acquiring (legally or not, I’m not sure) copies and putting on their website for as many people as wanted to read them.

    That is not what libraries do.

    It’s why libraries don’t photocopy infinite books so there’s never a waiting list. You can’t do it with print media, and you can’t do it with digital media.

  • Listen, I love libraries as much as the next person. We have very clear laws that protect libraries.

    Is copyright a little fucked and a little too slanted towards those rights holders? Yes.

    Did anyone really think it was OK to start adding books and movies in? And provide those for free to everyone simultaneously? Libraries don’t do that.

  • I’m not sure what you’re getting at. He broke the law, the government investigates and enforces the law.

    What do you expect to happen? Should the government not investigate crimes against corporations? Should corporations be required to pay for the government investigation into a crime perpetrated against them?

    Seems like pretty quickly the governments would only be incentivized to investigate financial crimes against corporations.

    Seems like a worse pay-to-play scheme than the alleged thing you’re mad about.

  • Probably not. Tesla is very dysfunctional as an org. He flattened it so much, and hasn’t appointed a real leader, while he’s distracted I bet they’re basically in a holding pattern.

    He motivated them by setting insane goals then driving them insanely hard and sleeping in the office and shit.

    If he’s not doing that, the company is, pardon the pun, on autopilot. Watch out for stopped emergency vehicles.

  • It looks wildly different than what social interactions with any people I know in real life.

    It’s a super small percentage of the population that is wildly over represented in lemmy.

    It’s definitely not “regular” outside of Russia and China.

  • This is the way. Any medium fill power down will be like that in a few weeks.

    Everything I’ve tried is worse than down. The memory foam pillows are better than the synthetic fake down pillows that are hot garbage.

    If your pillow is $10-20 it’s probably not a good pillow.

    But pillows are super subjective. My wife grew up with the thicker synthetic ones and hates my pillows. Upside is hers are cheap I guess!