I get the attitude that when mocking shitbags anything is fair game, but this sort of thing lumps in Innocent people with the shitbag.

What books were they going to give away?

We don’t know

What books are banned?

We don’t know

… Sounds super legit

Not that it would’ve been ok anyway, but you can hardly even call it a smokescreen.

Thank you

Private messaging? No, just ‘direct’?

That’s skipping over the fact that recovering deleted data, even if it isn’t overwritten, is not an “oops”. It it takes extra effort, and if that data isn’t being protected it would be overwritten incidentally as drives are used.

There is a big difference in a database between “flagging” data and actually removing the association of the data to the database.

The article is being disingenuous about data not being deleted unless it’s overwritten with 1’s and 0’s. Technically that’s true, but:

Most data being deleted is equivalent to a piece of paper being placed in a trashcan, and it’s “permanently” deleted when that trash gets hauled away to a landfill (or supposedly recycling but that’s another topic). Technically it’s still forensically accessible, but it isn’t accessible by any normal means. That piece of paper may not have been incinerated, but for the majority of practical purposes, it’s gone.

Apple never hauled the trash away, even though they claimed they did. There should be no way for them to accidentally restore those photos, just like there’s no way for you to accidentally get a piece of paper back in your trash bin after it’s been sent to a landfill.

Focusing on the 1s and 0s skips past the fact they failed to complete the first, obvious, essential step. If they didn’t delete it the simple way, they would never have gotten to the 1s and 0s step. This isn’t just a simple oversight, and those pictures were still very easily accessible, just not to the people who should have been in control of them.

Also that no one would argue the point

The chef makes food. They’re different plates. Getting one big order of 9 different plates or 3 orders of three isn’t going to impair their flow.

Your waitress telling you that… agreed with what others have said that it was not professional and almost certainly a lie.

Thank you!

Can’t read the post past the giant subscribe things banner :/

Just like in cities the world over, blame should be with the landlords and those that regulate them. And Airbnb.

Click bait title to a YouTube video might be part of the cause for down votes.

Happens a lot more when the search engine prioritizes SEO farms and random sponsored shit.

I don’t believe it, other than a handful. If there’s a study I might be interested, some random people on social media… eh.

Yep, that was a good game too. Different focus, and a fairly linear story. Part of what made Baldur’s Gate 3 so good was of course the amazing characters and character development. Solasta is missing that, but still a very solid and complete DnD game.

“in a truly immersive fantasy world”

Micro transactions are there to help make you feel like more of a peasant I guess.

If she was rich, the response would be, “congratulations!”, and if she was an LLC it would be a fine of… 5 percent?

Coincidentally, Kellogg’s is probably top 5 for most greedflated prices.

These kind of favors are never about paying something back, it’s always a perverse version of paying it forward; this bond is only posted because there’s an expected future return on investment.

The comments from the article were surprisingly not bad. One made a good point:

The POTUS started his SotU speech with:

“Now it is we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union. And yes, my purpose tonight is to both wake up this Congress, and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either. Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today.”

I have watched a lot of state of the union addresses and I cannot remember one that began with this stark of warning.

Yet, all the articles being posted are about MTG and whether Biden looked/didn’t look old and who clapped and who didn’t.

That’s a 5-alarm fire bell he just rang, broadcasted out to the entire country and world, pay attention to what’s important