Baltimore County in Maryland banned "single-use" plastic bags, but didn't ban thicker 4-mil "reusable" bags. I went to the Walmart in that county last week for the first time since the ban (I live elsewhere). The checkout wanted $0.05 per bag for "reusable". Hmm. OK, not bad.

I reuse the "single-use" bags as trash bags. I thought I better check to see what 4-gallon trash bags will cost when the ban spreads to the whole state. The cheapest off-brand bags Walmart sell are $0.06 each! They are super-thin like the "single-use". The national brands are over $0.10 each. So I'll just buy 100 of the 4-mil "reusable" bags at checkout for less money. And so most of the thicker "reusable" bags will end up being single-use due to government stupidity and the law of unintended consequences leading to more plastics, not less. Brilliant!

Not on the desktop site either. Weird. Wonder why the crypto bros deleted it?

On-topic: Without the context, the quote reads like it was meant sarcastically. To be fair, at least the Volt was fairly brilliant. I wish they had continued it. If not for WFH taking over, it was high on my list to replace my gen-1 Insight.

Not the OP, but I was curious and can provide sources.

I was can confirm that Dr. Epstein was a Hillary supporter and that his research shows Google can, and may have / may be surreptitiously manipulating search results to influence elections. The sources are all left-leaning.

https://www.latimes.com/politi...
https://www.politico.com/magaz...
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

“I have become a darling of conservatives, which is driving me crazy,” Dr. Epstein said.

More importantly, it's Free.

You were never the customer. You are just the resource to be exploited for the investors.

You have a five-digit UID. You are old enough that you can't hear shit anyway.

Commafeed is here for you.

Created as a copy of Reader shortly after it was killed, it's very good and free/Free. Keeps all the same keyboard shortcuts too. The developer is still actively involved. It can be self-hosted or use his service. No cost (though I give him $50/year).

Wouldn't that be his usual response?

David Gerard got it right a decade ago:

The now-standard 'Web 2.0' business model:

1. Brutally sodomize the personal privacy of anyone who comes within a mile of your service and say 'hey baby, I'm sorry' every time you're busted.

2. Sell ads.

It's here.

(If you don't know what that is, read a book once in a while...)

And SSC, and SST and another SST, and YMNWR, and ECCS, and AmTrak, and, and, and...

You don't understand how it works, do you? Idiots didn't see the fifteen+ year delay coming in 2000 either.

There is no way in hell it will launch in 2021.

If I was a betting woman, I wouldn't even take the under on 2026.

You think the job of government procurement is to procure a product or service for use by the government.

And you are dead wrong.

The purpose is to procure a metric ass-load of money for the constituency of the criminal class aka Congress.

If it comes in on-time and on-budget, Congress and the parasites they feed consider it a failure.

Your mileage may vary in other countries...

They may void coverage of any components the upgrades directly cause to fail, but the rest of the product is still covered by the warranty by law.