Not officially. In most places here, you need a permit to let rooms to 3 or more people in a single property. And when the permits are issued, they don't just take fire safety concerns into consideration, but also livability, impact on the block and the neighborhood, noise issues, available parking and so on. I don't think they get issued when tenants don't get their own room at least.

Solution: don't apply for the permit and just let the place. Works especially well if its your own workers you're housing, not an uncommon arrangement even if it's highly illegal.

This is a lot like the extortionate (and illegal) type of housing we've had here in the Netherlands: 10-14 migrant workers sharing a smallish apartment. The main difference is that these pods look a little more stylish than the bunk beds in our workers' flop houses. Oh, and the migrant workers aren't here for "AI"...

As a former landlord, this pisses me off. We've kept our properties in order and charged reasonable rents, and most of the other landlords I know do the same. But when people think of landlords, they think of this. And demand (and got) more legislation and extra taxes (which is why I am a landlord no more).

So much for "promoting safety" and being "ethically aware"

Once most people are on Microsoft accounts on their Windows box, Microsoft will turn off the loophole that gets you a local account, and switch to a subscription model.

Depends. I don't know about boats, but the classic car we bought is now worth 2x what we paid for it, including the rather expensive repairs and maintenance. Just buy the right car... As in many enterprises, your profit is determined when you buy, not when you sell.

Most governments operate their own web sites for official publications. I'm fine with them making announcements on commercial social media, after all that's where the eyeballs are. As long as it's not only Facebook, but all the other major platforms as well. By the same token, I'd have a real problem with the government ignoring a particular platform for the wrong reasons, for instance Twitter / X "because Elon Musk". Dropping Facebook over data privacy concerns is understandable, but on the other hand the people there ought to know by now what happens to their data.

It's a bit of a non-issue... as long as the social media posts don't become the official publications rather than just links to them.

Does the fact that it's propellantless necessarily make it a perpetual motion machine? The thing still needs power, and presumably you'll have to put in as much (or more) energy to make it go than any kinetic or potential energy it'll gain. Compare it to an electric coil levitating in an electric field, except this thing pushes against... I don't know, invisible unicorns maybe. Seems improbable, but not because it somehow has to be a perpetual motion machine. Unless I am missing something in the lack of conservation of momentum.

Because law and culture are connected.

Ask the Germans or the French how to do it; their dubbing of big productions is pretty good. In fact some people commented on how the Star Wars prequels sounded better in German; the movie's actors were unused to doing what amounted to voice acting in front of a green screen. Some of the actors sounded like they were reading lines off a teleprompter. In contrast, the German dubbers do voice acting for a living; they are used to that kind of work.

Or they are still in the room but paused the movie for some quiet; for instance to take a phone call or to hear someone calling from another room. What an awesome idea to play loud ads during that time.

It may be source-available, but this is a shitty closed license resembling Facebook's Llama license.

When I see a company that doesn't do layoffs in a dehumanising way, it makes me think it's probably a good place to work.

Seizing the assets of the wealthy might pay for UBI... for one year. Then what?

We used to have a similar model, until they did away with the license nonsense and simply started funding public television from general taxes. The 5 people with no TV set complained for a while. But the savings were massive as there was no longer a need for an expensive enforcement agency.

Right, because of course reasoning about a site based on its name is the smart thing to do. Either a dumb joke or bad reasoning.