Good. What needs split is the search engine vs. the advertising business. The browser is just a tool, and if it were officially in the hands of the advertising side people would be fleeing it in droves without any other help needed.
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Good. What needs split is the search engine vs. the advertising business. The browser is just a tool, and if it were officially in the hands of the advertising side people would be fleeing it in droves without any other help needed.
This reminds me of "The Suit". I recall a text version on Tumblr that was longer, and more disturbing as it recreated what the wearer must feel. www.badspacecomics.com/post/the-suit
What's the current thinking re: an organization's liability when threatened by a state for violation of that state's law when the organization isn't located in that state, has no offices in that state, and doesn't specifically target users from that state, just doesn't block them?
You need a couple of hefty goons and a good running start.
I really wish we had a law on the books saying "The minimum settlement in a class-action suit shall be the average or estimated damages due each plaintiff, times the number of members of the class, plus all costs and fees. Any settlement amount less than this minimum shall be rejected.".
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Not only does the parent company own all 4 brands, they _also_ own the only printing company with the specialist large-format printers capable of handling the thin paper patterns are printed on.
This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.
I run into ICE, I've no problem making them jump through every hoop there is. And if they balk? SPD's already issued warnings that armed criminals are attempting assaults while impersonating ICE officers, so the call to 911 will be for "armed criminals threatening passengers".
#ICE ramp-up in #Seattle planned. Or so he says. Fine by me. I'm an old, white, cishet male. I'm also grumpy before I've had my morning coffee, was taught young that Mr. Policeman is _not_ your friend, and need a (heavy ebony) cane. www.king5.com/article/news...
For that matter, how many of their terms does any GTA title violate? Even my FFXIV subscription is classified as "mature content" and potentially violates them.
Thing is, by their ToS you can't buy any romance or military-themed fiction using PP. Which is far from what anyone would consider NSFW or "adult". And under laws being considered, *anything* mentioning LGBTQIA+ characters, no matter how bland, would violate their ToS too. That's a bit much.
Anything where she gets kidnapped or something by the villain and forced into a relationship or marriage the hero rescues her from? That's flat-out non-con and rape right there. And this is all on the supermarket shelves, housewives buy it in huge numbers.
"dubcon"? That's a huge portion of romance novels, anything where the heroine doesn't want to go with the dashing hero, doesn't like him, but eventually after he forces her to go with him she comes around.
We need to pressure politicians to start talking about regulating payment processors like PayPay. PayPal absolutely doesn't want to be regulated at all, they'll do practically anything to avoid it. And it's easy to push, no need to even bring up questionable stuff:
"Mayday": distress signal. Derived from an American mispronunciation of a Frenchman dealing with catastrophic equipment failure and trying to correct it.
b) this Court's already held that Congress can't delegate it's powers to the Executive Branch.
I'll bet the SC overturns this, holding that the laws don't _prohibit_ the President from imposing tariffs under them. Unless someone argues that a) Congress, not the President, holds the authority to impose tariffs under the Constitution and...
Now everybody else gets burned because the MBAs were short-sighted. I wonder how you'd calculate damages in a breach-of-contract suit for "I could have participated in this class action settlement IF you'd've registered the copyright like you were obligated to, but you didn't so I can't.".
I'm not really surprised. It seems common for companies to not go to the trouble of registering copyright until they need to to take legal action, depending on the law granting automatic copyright for most purposes. Typical MBA-think, placing "saving" money above all else.
This. YoshiP clearly doesn't want to kill mods if he can help it, but the law, economics and respect for other players demand action when the effects of a mod exceed certain limits. DON'T PUSH THOSE LIMITS.
"Advocates fear such settlements will "financially ruin" the AI industry." Like to power, reblog to cast.
You do realize being off-grid doesn't mean you don't have plumbing, it just means you own _all_ the plumbing all the way to the bottom of the well?
Final results in Iowa's #SD01 (Trump+11): Catelin Drey (D)- 55.2% Christopher Prosch (R)- 44.8% That's a 22 point overperformance from 2024 AND a broken Republican supermajority in the State Senate. bsky.app/profile/uncr...
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)
Walz: "Naw, I know all the pig farmers who could use high-protein slops. Won't be able to prove there _were_ bodies after that."
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Executives won't accept the necessary limitations (eg. the author is responsible for the accuracy of all AI-generated work, AI may not be used in legal documents without detailed review by Legal, etc.).
And the external safety won't help either, they'll just have that off too. The problem isn't with the weapon but with the idiot holding it.
I'd give Walz that position. He was doing the "weird" thing long before Newsom got into the game.
Yep. If the GOP had anything they could turn into an "unbeatable" majority, they'd have enough of a majority already that they wouldn't need to gerrymander. Gerrymandering only makes a difference when the balance is even or close to it.
Next time DeSantis' goons show up to erase this, arrest them for vandalism.
I recall Doug Winger commenting about people who criticized him for his art. He said basically "I do tame, vanilla product design and industrial art for a living. If you think I'm going to go home and do more of the same for fun boy do YOU have a few things to learn.".
Engineering sales pitch. youtube.com/watch?v=RXJK...
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I was told directly by an aide on a call today that when a bill comes before a congressman, they specifically take their data from these calls and say "this is how many/who called in to vote yay/nay for this bill" they actually do factor in how many people call on issues like these. do your calls!
I remember those...
Just waiting for Mamdani to bring a can of this to his next rally!
Apparently it is a real tradition. That said, in that tradition you DO NOT try to conceal giving the gift so I see her "explanation" as more CYA than true.
It wasn't just Harrell either, it was the rest of the city council too. www.cascadepbs.org/politics/202...
Lots of theories about interstellar object #3I/Atlas. It's hard to credit coincidence for a path with so many opportunities for maneuvering to stay in the inner system. But coincidences happen, and it's too far out to really tell anything. If it does maneuver, THEN it'll be time to get worried.
At least it's learned how to cold-read someone...
Ah, not that far upriver from where I lived then. I could never shake the feeling the green was sort of leaning in hungrily, waiting.
I think because they're hitting things people don't normally think of as "adult media" (aka porn). Baldur's Gate 3, for instance, and other games that don't involve explicit sex or visible nudity, or ones like the GTA series that are just too popular. They've over-extended themselves.
The bad implementations transfer the secret to their servers to make it easier to recover if you lose it, which is where they fuck it up.
Implemented properly they protect you because the thing that needs kept secret never needs to leave your possession. It's stored in a hardware fob (eg. Yubikey) or in secure storage on your phone (private key), so the site can't leak it.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we're nowhere near Kardashev II yet.
The town, or the state forest?
FFXIV canon is that they get revived until you kill off the Lightwarden for that zone.
He's still behind Knuth for worst output record. Planned: 7 volumes. Started in 1962. Volume 4b was published in 2022. Volume 4c is in progress. Work was suspended 1977-2001 to rewrite TeX to get typesetting to his satisfaction.
18 months off, roughly. I'm hoping the ones with spines kick the current crop of Democrat medusozoa out.
Eep! I lived there (Hyner, upriver from Lock Haven) and it isn't just green, it's AGGRESSIVELY green. The sort of green that's just waiting for a chance to grab you and pull you in, never to be seen again. Plus, small-town insularity.
We did complain about it, all the way back to when Reagan started it. Conservatives dismissed us as deranged liberals who could be ignored because the majority supported the Moral Majority (see, it's right there in the name 🤮).
I fear these are absolutely delicious. Just the right amount of salt and acid, but also somehow rich? I added some chopped Grillo's and honestly it was gilding the lily. 9/10, one of the best instant ramens I've ever had, will probably buy a bunch more.
They'll get jerked back to reality real quick if Democrats take Congress in the midterms and they realize the next President may not be theirs.
I just went and got a Kagi subscription. End of all of Google's BS.
Put her in the back of a C130 on a supply run to wherever she wants to go.
I'll accept his help now, against the GOP's gerrymandering gambit. At the same time I'll remember the old Shin'a'in saying, "The enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend. At most he's a temporary ally."
A year later, the empire tried to withdraw only to find the student population FOLLOWED THEM, being unwilling to give up the research merely for a lack of experimental subjects.
I recall a story based on the idea that, faced with conquest by an invading empire, a planet-wide university turned it's complete attention to writing the definitive thesis paper on guerilla warfare with all the determination and thoroughness of any other academic research project.
Need some cuddles to start my monday 🥲 So here is weighted blanket Cayto💜🧡 (Probably gets flagged but it's just snuggles!) #Caykri | #Lohkri | #Cayto
These were part of a little longer gpose Story btw. (Will probably get flagged again but its truly just snuggles and kissy!) (1/3) Lohkri belongs to @cillianstaco.bsky.social #Caykri | #Lohkri | #Cayto
So, #Trump got played as usual, #Putin got his PR shot and #Ukraine is still hanging. Bravo, Donald, bravo.
I'd hope the separation-of-powers bit at least is a slam-dunk, given that the Constitution explicitly gives authority over DC to Congress, not the executive branch.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s comments belittling autistic people: "Kids and adults with autism, loving contributors to our society, don't deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in the back seat of his car."
"Absolute outrage" would be the right one, I think.
Our plans did not go as anticipated.
I'd rather they write about WHY it's so much harder to find a job and how to do something about it.
The only problem I see is that the IQ of the average deer exceeds the IQ of the average PA hunter. NB: I have personally witnessed a group of hunters encircle a thicket and then begin firing into the thicket.
The most she says is that she earned her appointment (which she did), and that the Constitution makes that appointment for life (unless we rewrite the Constitution).
It could. It would go against a long pattern of making changes in terms explicitly not retroactive. And really isn't central to the question of where exactly in her words Sotomayer claims a property interest in her office?
b) if they do amend the Constitution to implement term limits it can't retroactively change the terms Justices were appointed to (which stems quite reasonably from the prohibition on ex post facto laws).
I don't see in the text where she's making an argument for a property interest. She's arguing that a) the Constitution says that Supreme Court Justices like her are appointed for life and no law can override the Constitution, and...
The best targets for doing this are the people at the top, the senior generals and politicians giving the orders.
Not to mention that the same shrouds that keep light aimed down, with a reflective interior surface, increase the amount of light you get on the ground where it's needed. That means less power for the same light level, saving the city money in the process.
And call Riot and note that you've heard of the pressure from MC and if you see Riot giving in to it you'll be reconsidering playing Riot games because of the risks of having content or games removed due to pressure from MC.
The governor of Texas needs the FBI's help to locate the Democrat lawmakers? Dude, just read the papers. Augh. www.texastribune.org/2025/08/07/j...
If they claim "the government", ask them to give you details so you can complain to _them_. What agency? What department? What's the title, chapter and section of the United States Code being claimed? Don't let them end the call until they can give you that.
Looks like the hopes for a conservative/centrist comeback are futile. www.kuow.org/stories/2025...
I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money. Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.
So they want to eliminate the filibuster entirely? Just so long as we hold them to that when they're in the minority.
Talk with @liag1.bsky.social about resolution? She's had to work it out. My take is limited to "Canvas is an integer multiple of the final size." Also depends on whether you want the final size in pixels or in/cm.
See also "Why humans run the Federation instead of Vulcans": www.tumblr.com/animatedamer...
The Vulcans' main problem with humans is that if you hand them a problem you need solved, it _will_ get solved. Probably not in the way you wanted it solved, more likely in a way that makes you reach for the next bottle of Advil, but thoroughly and comprehensively solved.
Companies are complaining loudly about applicants stealing the companies' tactics of making an offer and then when the employee shows up the first day to finish the paperwork telling them the offer's been rescinded.
My response would be "The GOP says gerrymandering isn't wrong, so where do you get two wrongs from?".
Visa/MC are still the correct targets here, they're the ones pressuring the IMA. They may try to deflect blame, but we don't have to let them succeed. Also, if the IMA threatens to "blacklist" a business, making them unable to get an account at _any_ IMA, that's likely illegal collusion.
Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3 www.instagram.com/reel/DMvVG1S...
I had another Ilios based scenario come to mind as I went thru a bit more of ShB. Just a small one. Thank you for taking a look! Hope you enjoy! archiveofourown.org/works/68564296
It means they're scared to death because this _isn't letting up_.
The telco was pissed they couldn't touch him for it, because we _had_ had Blue Stake out to mark where the lines all were and the trench we were digging was a good 10' inside the property from where the phone line stakes were.
Don't worry, there _will_ be a backhoe involved at some point. I've had to watch this kind of thing too often to believe otherwise. Last time it happened the operator ripped a 10-foot section out of the main telephone cable serving the development.
Sounds like you're going to need the backhoe and a lot of careful digging to find the pipe and backtrack it from where the water came through to where the leak is. Check with the county to see if there's a map showing the utility lines? The local blue stake center might have info too.
Stripe is lying through their teeth to divert the pressure they're feeling. The banks don't care what you spend your money on as long as it isn't outright obviously illegal, and they don't want to risk having customers leave for other banks.
I currently have a case that started out as a pretty routine unpaid wage case, but in discovery I got a copy of the company's contract with its HR outsourcing vendor, who used AI to draft an agreement that attaches ~personal liability~ to the vendor's shareholders for wage underpayments by clients.
I'd like the name of whichever snot-nosed chucklehead of a judge was brain-dead enough to say people don't have a right to sue for compensation when denied it here.
Gabriel Malor 
