No one else can get one any more than I can. It's literally illegal. Green nutjobs made it illegal when in office.

Distinction without meaning for the purpose of this discussion. There are rights that aren't being enforced right now. Adding a little bit more right in the same vein will not change the status quo.

Nope. You are not smoking enough!

That's not going to change then.

So it's the same narrative that goes around the internets that has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with "intermittents can totally work, if only we discover some new utterly revolutionary technology in multiple fields to make them work".

Honestly, tiring to keep reading it. You're all repeating the exact same mantra as if repeating it will make laws of physics just go away.

Reading the story, copyright seems like an irrelevant hail mary in the absolute barrage of hail mary accusations. Her lawyers seem to be throwing everything and the kitchen sink at the case to try to make it stick, or more likely get a good settlement by making it hard to defend against so many different accusations.

Overall though, this story is so stereotypical it hurts. High level female manager gets on a promotion track. Does well. Gets into position where she's basically required to pull the work tempo of a high flying career at its critical point. That's the kind of a thing where you have to ration sleep, because you just don't have time for it from all the work.

And gets pregnant during it. Discovers that pregnancy really fucks with one's ability to be a high level manager, who needs to work long hours, be on call and ready to go 24/7 if they want to proceed with the career track. So the choice is between your own progeny or the career, and you can't really give any attention to your progeny if you want to stick with it. There's a reason why high flying men are overwhelmingly absent fathers.

So being a mother she fell off the career track at the end stage of pregnancy which ended in c-section on top of everything else so longer than usual sick leave at the end, and so leadership puts her into a more appropriate spot so her absence doesn't damage the team she manages. She protests that no, she totally can do the whole birth and newborn and career track at the same time, gets a "difficult to work with" label put on by those around her at work as a result. Gets shoved into the "difficult to work with" corner in the hierarchy and put into position where she will be fired as a result. When her termination becomes a foregone conclusion, she sues for discrimination for as big of a termination payout as possible.

Problem here is the very reason why this scenario is utterly stereotypical, and stereotype accuracy is the most repeatable, most proven theory in social sciences by far. Overwhelming majority of women in this position go through the exact same process, for the exact same reasons. Being a mother is not the same as being a father, and mother-newborn baby bond is one of the strongest bonds there are. No matter how much your abstract thinking systems believe that you can totally pull the whole high flying career and a mother of a newborn baby roles at the same time, reality is that unless you have a severe character flaw that makes you utterly indifferent to your newborn, it's utterly impossible. Babies don't haggle over their needs with their mothers. They demand and mothers answer. If mother intentionally doesn't for whatever reason, baby's crying tends to become psychologically devastating to the new mothers who will have that primal reaction to their feeling that they haven't done enough. This is not a bond you can mess with using just your abstract modelling skills. It's a primal thing that doesn't care about abstract mind. It will assert itself regardless of delusions abstract mind has about reality.

And reading between the lines of the claims of woman's lawyers about her co-workers reactions strongly suggest that this is exactly what happened. So she was on the way out regardless as a result, and she just wants her payout for her termination to be as big as possible. Hence the barrage of hail mary claims, designed to attract as much PR attention as possible to get Amazon to settle.

Frankly, the only question I have after reading the story linked in the OP is "what is the relationship between submitter of the story and this woman's lawyers?" Because the whole point of these lawyers doing the whole barrage of claiming everything under the sun is to get the case to become damaging to public image of Amazon so they can pressure for a higher payout in a settlement.

Feature set sounds a lot like google lens. Just built in glasses. Why not just hook your phone to the glasses to do the same thing for way less?

Other than the fact that meta doesn't have a phone obviously. Seems like a bit of a waste of purpose built device instead of just outsourcing a lot of work to the device pretty much everyone has on his/her person today.

And that is how a lot of cults get you. Human tendency to note the exceptional new thing and give it extreme attention when noted, but only do this once, plus selective memory that only collects things it associates with extreme negativity.

Because that's an evolved trait. Those who didn't have it, failed to adapt to things like new predator entering the forest you're in and got selected out of the gene pool.

Completely not unique to Green cult. Almost every religious cult uses this, to the point where current far left thinkers that infested most of the Western teacher training programs teach teachers to do to children. You scare the child as much as possible to make them remember the fear, and then you level it out to allow them to remember only that fear and nothing about how and why it was caused. Do this enough times, and mind enters the state of high plasticity, where you can tell it even the most absurd things, and they will be believed. Like that men can turn into women by just believing they are. Something that is so fundamental to life on this planet, that species that are separate by a good billion years from us by divergent evolution and don't even have a central nervous system have no confusion about.

It's that powerful of an adaptive trait in humans. Which is why it's critical to recognise when this pattern gets triggered in your thinking by others who have designs for you. Because that is indeed how how cult recruitment works.

I agree. Some of it, I suspect, is that I've just read so many books now that I'm in 50s that when I read a trope-driven genre novel (SF, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, whatever), I rapidly feel like I've read this story before. I've gotten to the same place with TV and movies. Both mediums really suffer from a lack of any kind of originality, or even attempts at quirkiness. It all just feels like Thomas Kinked-esque cookie cutter.

I've started reading a lot more non-fiction, mainly history. Ironically, there's a lot more originality there than in most of the modern fiction I read.

I read the first Three Body Problem novel, and I thought it was crap. Some of that might have been the translation, although I've read other translations from Chinese without that much of an issue. The plotting was terrible, the characters flat. I finished it more because I kept expecting it to eventually turn around, breaking my rule that if I don't like a book in the first three chapters, I won't finish it. In the end, I couldn't imagine why I would want to read any more of it.

Does it have the intro "Imagine Bash, but object oriented and with function call names so long they would drive a Java developer to madness. Brought to you by the author of Microsoft Bob and Clippy, psychopaths that infect your computer with their dead-eyed smiles comes Powershell."

As an owner of the complete History of Middle Earth series, these books are not for the casual fan, or probably even the average fan. They really are more designed for Tolkien scholars, and anyone picking up The Nature of Middle Earth expecting ripping yarns filled with Hobbits and wizards is going to be very disappointed.

This is the casual take about casual play, misunderstanding the nature of minmaxing entirely.

Username checks out.

How many genders are there, and why is the same Left in their hatred of Christians bashed them for so long on dismissing theory of evolution, is now prima facie not understanding evolution?