It's taboo to talk about the poor like they actually contribute to society, as opposed to being welfare queens sucking at the teat of the generous and benevolent overlords.

The problem is, once an accusation is made - whether by an automated system or by a licensing troll - that a video is in copyright violation, it's then the video owner's duty to prove their innocence, rather than the accuser's duty to prove their guilt. This law was intentionally written backwards from the start.

Teachers in Florida are about to adopt very carefully gender-neutral language when talking about their little scrublings, because calling a child a "boy" or a "girl" can get the teacher sued at their own expense.

I'm just glad I live on the opposite side of the US from you guys. We're all either watching, horrified, or laughing at you by the way.

If a single person controlled 10% of the electoral college of the United States, they'd be able to pick who the president was every 4 years.

The US government paid Comcast et al 200 billion dollars to run fiber to this man's house, and then Comcast turned around and double-billed him to the tune of 20k. They belong in prison.

I think if they really wanted to go for Amazon's blood they'd open an investigation into Amazon's role as a vector for spreading Covid to its subcontractors and employees during the pandemic. Amazon has enough money to outright buy off any serious trouble, though. Might need to ask the EU for help on this one since the US has no balls where money is concerned.

Losing 20% of their inventory every year is more-or-less comparable to textbooks. Textbooks get replaced every five to ten years, budget permitting. Kids are crap at taking care of stuff, whether that is clothes, books or computers. Stuff gets broken, lost, scribbled on, fed to the dog.

If the client is using a mandatory Internet Explorer solution, I test my web app on IE. If my boss tells me we only support Chrome, I'm not going to waste my time and other peoples' money by testing on Safari. If a client comes to my boss and says, "Hey new feature X is broken in IE, can you fix it," we're probably going to fix it. But if nobody is using that browser, nobody cares.

Instacart waives delivery fees for EBT. Better to get a little bit of money off the government than force those customers elsewhere I guess.

As a half-blind, immunocompromised guy with no car, food delivery services helped keep me alive when i had a MELD score of 30 and was too sick to walk to the store. Having somewhat recovered since then, I still don't want to own a car since ordering delivery a couple times a week and lyft a couple times a month is far, far more carbon friendly (and cheaper too).

Try walking a mile to the grocery store in a foot of snow, and then walking back with your groceries, and THEN see who's a lazy sack of something.

The job of governments is to create regulations that stop the worst abuses, and then have regulators that apply these regulations to the worst offenders.

Any law relies on the majority of the citizens who are supposed to abide by that law not to be arse wipes, because the ability to regulate each and every individual in the face of widespread violations just doesn't exist. If one company has child labor, treasonous dealings with enemy nations, and ignores the nominal minimum wage, employment laws and taxes they, as a company, are obligated to pay - regulators in general can deal with one bad egg.

Where it falls apart is when every single company larger than $x dollars is funneling their profits offshore, buying slaves and hiring kids, agreeing to sell their tech for the explicit purpose of oppressing a billion human beings and thumbing their nose at anyone who could hope to stop them - because at that point, it's too big for a few desk jockies; it's time to call in artillery strikes. And the US hasn't had the spine to stand up to its corporate abuses for many, many years.

Kids absolutely need enough math to take sum up their income, multiply by some arbitrary percentage and pay that much to the government. Since our education system doesn't even do that at an adequate level the government provides friendly lookup tables for income times tax percent for the mathematically impaired.

Anything beyond that is probably completely useless to four standards of deviation of the population, plus or minus 0.05. The rate of increase by which it becomes increasingly useless as calculators become more widespread, popular and easy to use - such as, "Siri, what is eight times nine?" - can be described mathematically but is probably best left to the imagination.

The gatekeeper on the the lab leak theory page, shibbolethink, isn't chinese but is thoroughly active in debunking that theory.

It's an unfortunate reality that one or two users with an axe to grind - regardless of how truthful or fanciful their pet cause - can alter history for the generations of students who rely on Wikipedia to be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

In this case it appears to be a med student who sincerely believes that the theory would need far more evidence to be convincing.

Clearly, they gave Bezos a call, asked if everything was OK. He said yep, their tickets to a paid resort were in the mail. They closed the investigation; everything was fine.

If I can't get life-saving medical treatment, even though I'm already vaccinated, because there are too many unvaccinated morons flooding the hospitals, then their poor decision may have killed me. They didn't mean to murder me, but they did.

Unfortunately, they aren't really dying in large enough numbers to cause evolutionary pressure; covid isn't measles, and even if 100% of the deniers get sick, unfortunately 95% will only be stuck with life-long medical complications rather than death, inflicting an even bigger drain on the society.

Rabid politicians in general, and fundie republicans in particular, are a cancerous blight on the face of democracy. I sincerely hope they and you catch venereal diseases for christmas. Happy holidays!