Well, I'm about to find out if I need to do my first chargeback, I have a delayed response on a return authorization for where I was sent the wrong item. They advertised a different version. This might be confusing for them since the difference is small - yet critical. But there really should be no confusion because they advertised the other version both in the images and the product name/listing title.

I got killed by a drunk driver while going out for a 1AM Taco Bell run, you insensitive clod! /s

The restaurant is independently owned. Disney ended up involved because their website listing (which again, is subject to the same blanket TOS as the rest of their online services) had incorrect allergy information. Disney's response, tone-deaf as it was, wasn't wrong: you're supposed to verify with the allergy accommodation information with the restaurant.

It was not a Disney owned restaurant - Disney's involvement was limited to incorrect information on their website, and their TOS basically laid out how that is to be handled.

The plaintiff had every reason to sue the restaurant for negligence, but to sue Disney would be like suing Facebook because someone in the marketplace sold you a counterfeit iPhone. Maybe you'd even be successful if could if you could prove that Facebook knew the seller was selling counterfeit goods, but again, there's usually a clause in the TOS that says it's on you to verify that you're trading with someone trustworthy and if you get screwed, your legal bone to pick would be with the seller.

In the grand scheme of things, what probably happened here was that the lawyers figured Disney would just fold and settle, which is entirely why Disney comes off as being asshole-ish in these types of situations, otherwise you'd end up with every person who slipped on some spilled popcorn in their theme parks trying to score an easy payday.

I'm sure there's some similar dynamics at play with suing OpenAI. You usually don't hear about parents suing when their teen unalives himself with a rope bought from Walmart, but this is new untested ground and there's the possibility that people might be more sympathetic to punishing an "evil" AI company, more so than the store where they buy their groceries from.

It wouldn’t surprise me if cheeto ordered the various national labs to start mining crypto.

My implication was a comparison of the number of drone crashes against their other forms of delivery.

Although to be honest, even compared against other delivery industry players, I'm surprised it's not higher. Their semi truck drivers drive like maniacs.

For the most part it already is.

The major loopholes are open WiFi hotspots and prepaid phone cards. If we required ID for those things, you're pretty much keeping kids off the internet without their parents being involved in some way.

The ironic thing is though, most kids are not online via a clandestine burner phone they bought with cash and connected through the WiFi at Starbucks - their parents gave them the phone/tablet and pay for the plan and/or home broadband connection. The parents are just under some weird delusion that the entirety of the internet is safe for children (it's not, nor should it be).

They have been having decreases in their ability to grow food, so yes they absolutely want Ukraine. You really think people around here know dick.

I have overly expensive cable internet already, I don't need to also pay for CATV.

Disney uses the same TOS for many of their online portals, which was why the news ran with "it's the Disney+ terms of service".

Plus, it really is the victim's fault if you go into a restaurant with a potentially life-threatening food allergy and don't bother to let the wait staff know you have an allergy. Assuming the allergy information online is 100% accurate is like playing Russian roulette. Kinda like giving your kid unrestricted internet access and hoping everything just sort of works out.

Wait until you find out about all the accidents their road-based delivery vehicles cause. Hell, a few years back an Amazon driver crashed into my car while it was parked in my driveway.

It happens, and at least in my case they made good on paying for the damages.

Gotta work on that English, Vlad.

I got a Google TV because I knew it would have the best app support. Looks like you didn't.

My desktop TV-used-as-Monitor has stupid LG WebOS, but I also don't need a TV-specific app since my desktop is connected to it and I don't connect the TV to the network, only HDMI.

Most iPhone owners didn't buy them outright.

What was the title of my post? Perspective, that's all, picture that mount of billions in a different way. I also said it was 1 year of revenue but go off chief.

The wealthy prefer a dystopian hell hole for 99.9% of the population and extraordinarily god-like opulence for themselves. They want to be able to control who lives and who dies on such a fundamental level that they are like the Pharaohs of old literally exalted to godhood.

You cannot as a regular person comprehend the kind of greed that a man like Elon Musk or Bill Gates experiences as their normal state of being. It is way past just wanting money or yachts or any of that and into the point where they want to be transhuman.

And you need to understand that they do not think of you as a human being. You are not at the same level organically or as a species in their eyes. You aren't even at the level that you for example perceive a chimpanzee as in their eyes. To a guy like Elon Musk you're more like a slime mold. An utterly alien existence that might occasionally be useful.