Came here to check if there was a Pratchett quote.

(Reaper Man if anyone’s curious)

Not sure about the second part, tanks are built to go over things. Their “negative slant” seems more likely to push things under than a car’s hood or a truck/SUV’s flat face.

Spokane here, no one outside of a survey team would call it that.

“Inland Empire” maybe, but that’s about as specific as “Tri-Cities” or “the lake”. PNW is the tri-state area of WA/OR/ID in casual conversation.

For that they’re waiting on the paperwork to go through with Apple.

The study is talking about overall numbers of jobs, not specific companies. Get fired from McDonalds closing a location, get a job with higher pay somewhere else that’s paying the new minimum wage, is a net zero result.

McDonalds is gutted that their 2024 earnings are on track for only a 5% increase over 2023, which saw a 10% gross profit increase for the year.

Remember when there was a “shoplifting crime wave” that it turned out was just profits were down so they had to blame something?

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It is just an out of touch rich guy struggling to make small talk, but a particularly bad example. It’s made worse because of his self-mythologizing of growing up ‘normal’ and poor and incessant talk of how if all “these people” behaved as they should they’d be where he is.

It’s really weird for a national politician going out to shake hands to not have the charisma to have no more than a single question and single response and seem to have negative interest in the visit.

This feels like the second round of this going around as the AI articles / lazy sites pick it up.

It’s a doc ‘sent’ to one guy who had 12 followers on medium before this started blowing up. It was edited after it was sent out to be the real marketing email of the company instead of a gmail address. The doc is still owned by that gmail account, which isn’t typically how companies operate.

I guess they’re getting their viral moment so good for them for generating content?

In the US a few decades ago the big rail companies were given the ultimatum to upgrade their safety infrastructure or have a national speed limit of 79 mph imposed on them.

Guess which they did?

Disney is also actively arguing in court that if you use the free trial you can’t sue them for anything. Ever.

Even if years later you die in one of Disney’s hotels because one of Disney’s restaurants didn’t care about your allergy.

So there’s that to worry about now.

If you don’t care how long it takes to get there and can effectively use the ITN you don’t even need to leave going that fast.

Would love to get in on this if you’re still going.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197985128777/

Cloudflare’s counterclaim system didn’t open a ticket when the notification email was replied to.

That’s the kind of nonsense you expect from a local municipality hosting solution. Not one of the biggest on the Internet.

RSS feeds are so nice. I’m still frustrated that Facebook moved away from an in-order timeline. (Or would be if I used it for anything other than family chats)

An ordered list of things you haven’t seen yet on <topic> instead of a mostly random list from everywhere. Amazing.

Technique yes, technology I would question.

It is, but this isn’t. The DMCA doesn’t mention Trademark. That’s a separate section of law because copyright and trademark are different things.

Crowdstrike submitting a DMCA takedown for alleged Trademark infringement isn’t how it’s supposed to work at all. Likely because they know this isn’t actually a Trademark infringement case.

Cloudflare’s automated system not being smart enough to see that is fine. Their abuse/counterclaim process being broken isn’t. ( Not that that’s new or unique )

[European utilities] have failsafes implemented to prevent back feeding electricity in the grid

Yeah but imagine if you could save money by not doing that? What are the odds that there’s going to be cheap(er) personal mass power generation in the next few decades.

This is partly because there is no such thing as a non-POS point of sale system.

I mean every work laptop is (/should be) encrypted. It’s about as suspicious as having 2 factor authentication.

I have literally never seen a depiction of Vietnam that was positive or shy of direct condemnation of how terrible it all was.

Seriously, even Forrest Gump’s innocent portrayal of it still managed to underline in bold that it was all pointless, needless, and cruel beyond reason.

Not sure what about any of that doesn’t line up with “sad”. None of those adjectives border on happy or nonchalant.