Still Allows Data Caps:

542. We agree with Professor Jordan that the Commission can evaluate data caps under the general conduct standard. We do not at this time, however, make any blanket determinations regarding the use of data caps based on the record before us. The record demonstrates that while BIAS providers can implement data caps in ways that harm consumers or the open Internet, particularly when not deployed primarily as a means to manage congestion, data caps can also be deployed as a means to manage congestion or to offer lower-cost broadband services to consumers who use less bandwidth. As such, we conclude that it is appropriate to proceed incrementally with respect to data caps, and we will evaluate individual data cap practices under the general conduct standard based on the facts of each individual case, and take action as necessary.

Trying to get people literally "addicted" to your products?

Why do we go so hard after drug pushers when literally every company in the country uses similar tactics?
It's like literally every company took all the worst ideas from gambling psychology and ran with it for an entire fucking economy.

Did they also find a young Brooke Shields there?

From what I understand, part of the agreement is that you are actually disallowed by the company from renting any lower than their listed rate, if you use their service.
That is where it becomes collusion to raise prices. If they didn't require landlords working with them to use the prices they set, and just had them as loose guidlines, it actually would be legal.
With the requirement of using their minimums, over time the prices will move upward because no one is able to negotiate lower than the floor they defined by algorithm.

Canonically Los Angeles is the "Angel's Boneyard" and filled with.... ghouls. Nary a human to be found. It's a dangerous place for your human player character because a lot of ghouls are feral.

Did fucking nobody at Bethesda play the original Fallout?

Kind of surprised I'm the only person to mention in this thread that we already have a canonical Los Angeles, and it ain't the kind of place you'd start a Fallout story unless your main character is a Ghoul.

I'd love to see some evidence of people actually being "punished" for "questioning trans." Also, "biological reality" means you've never cracked a biology book outside of high school.

They really should have trained it on Norm MacDonald's material.

In Olympia, one of the cities referenced, fares only accounted for 2% of the total budget and the cost of upgrading the fare-collection-system on new busses they city was buying was basically going to wipe out any gains they made from fares. When it costs more to collect fares than you earn, what's the point?

From Olympia.

Fares accounted for about 2% of the total budget for our busses to run.

They were upgrading their busses to a new fleet, and realized that the cost of putting in new fare-collection devices would exceed that 2%.

In other words, it was actually going to cost the city more to install machines to take fares than it would to eliminate fares entirely.

Thus they cut fares. It was never really about increasing ridership as much as realizing that the cost of implementation and long-term maintenance would far outpace the amount of money actually collected from fares.

I'm not sure how applicable this is to other cities, but this was the issue in Olympia.

https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article237257744.html

Those fares net less than 2 percent of IT’s operating revenue. Meanwhile, IT’s fare collection boxes need to be replaced. The agency says it looked at switching to a card-based payment system but most cost at least $1 million to introduce.

It would cost about that for IT to start using ORCA, the payment system used on buses in King and Pierce counties and elsewhere in the region.

“It basically is a wash in terms of what we collect and what we would have to pay for the capital investment and for the operational investment to collect money. Because it costs a lot of money to collect money,” said Ann Freeman-Manzanares, IT’s general manager. “And if at the end it’s pretty much a wash, why are we doing it when we have all these incredible benefits to gain?”

This is what most people still "protesting" on Reddit fail to admit to themselves. What Reddit is doing isn't nice, it's business.

I definitely left for greener pastures, as the old saying goes, but I believe Reddit has probably done their due diligence and knows a large chunk of the site literally doesn't give a shit and just wants to be able to look at cute animal photos and videos. When I last looked, it seemed like they've gained 40% of their current userbase after the site redesign in 2017. Most of that userbase really couldn't possibly understand old.reddit or third party apps because they were given a more admin-curated Reddit experience. They know they have large sway with a large chunk of the userbase, and it's doubtful they're above astroturfing to make it seem like even more people support them over the moderators.

I predict that it won't end as profitable as the Reddit admins want it, but it will be more than profitable enough for them to do their IPO, cash out, and be completely comfortable that what they left behind is completely different than what came before. They don't feel like they owe anything to these communities, and maybe they don't, but to me it's just more evidence that if you're playing on someone else's property, you're always going to be ultimately bound by what the property owners want. Self-hosting and federation seem like worthy successors, but it may end up just being a niche of the internet community that adopts it.

Bzzzzt, wrong. I am running Firefox and have three pi-holes with extensive blocklists and regex, ublock origin, facebook containers, google containers, and so on.

I received the message opening a random page yesterday.

However, there is an option to turn this off entirely in the about:config. look for something titled "vpn_promotion" or something similar.

According to various biographical stories related to Ma, he was born Ma Yun, and was an anglophile at a young age, listening to media in english.

Later, when visiting the west, he would earn the nickname "Jack" from a friend. The name seems to have stuck and has become one he self applies.

There are always some who are obsessive about other cultures and lean into it.

So, to answer your question, no, it is not his real name.

This is true, however, isn't sodium bicarbonate basic in nature, not acidic? In essence, wouldn't this reduce the overall acidity level over time? I am not a scientist, so this high school science idea of mine could just be me talking out of my ass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

US Chamber Members, USPBC 2021

Abbott, AEAI, Bayer, Cargill, Caterpillar, Inc., Citi, The Coca-Cola Company, Excelerate Energy L.P., ExxonMobil, Facebook, General Electric, Gilead Sciences, Inc., Global Logistics Providers, Google, Hecate Energy, Jamil & Jamil USA, Netsol Technologies, North Shore Medical Labs, PepsiCo, Pfizer, PMI Global Services, Inc., Procter & Gamble, S&P Global, Target, The Resource Group, Uber, Visionet Systems Inc

Yeah, sounds like a bunch of real small businesses! Way to run interference for literally the top lobbyist group in Washington D.C. that far outspends the next highest spending lobbying group. They literally represent Big Business CEO interests. What even is this easily disproven trollop?

The reason they're panicking and want regulation is they know they're actually a bunch of do-nothing chucklefucks and that ChatGPT could do their fucking jobs.

Unlike anyone else in a similar position, they have the political power to actually do something about it. They're usually anti-regulation because it benefits them to screw over their workers. Now that they see the writing on the wall for their bullshit jobs, they want to make sure it legally can't touch them.

The thing is, and AI could almost definitely outperform all these fucking idiot CEOs who can't make a decision past the next quarters profits.