This is a civil case, not a criminal case, so the burden of proof is only preponderance of the evidence (A very oversimplified explanation: in a criminal case, if the jury says "I don't know", the defendant wins, but in a civil case, the jury can't say "I don't know", they must pick a winner). If Meta tells the judge and jury that they have no idea how the decision of who to lay off was made, it's going to be very easy for the plaintiffs to find one bit of evidence or explanation that will tip the jury in their favor.

Not at all. If they use a metric of "Worked at least X hours in the past 12 months", and a person worked fewer than X hours because they were on parental leave, firing them would not be a "side effect of performance", it would be a direct violation of their legal protection.

Hahaha

Oh, you were serious. Let me laugh harder.

I think you might have misunderstood the idea. Usually when someone talks about adding a generator, they mean adding one that charges the battery, with everything in the drive train being a normal EV system.

Half of advertising money is wasted. The trouble is figuring out which half.

Sure, I'm not disagreeing with that. I just meant that at least some of the cards have an option that's less scammy than the list of random reward crap.

Who here is acting surprised?

If I remember correctly, merchants could always give a discount for paying in cash, but they couldn't charge extra for paying with a card. They may be effectively the same thing, but what the credit card companies didn't want was people being unhappy that they were being charged more than the advertised price. Obviously the credit card companies did it for their own benefit, but it was also good for the customers.

The rewards program for my credit union's credit card has a bunch of that random reward crap, but they also have a nice "Just give me 1% in cash" option. Whenever I've skimmed the list of random crap, the cost in reward points was almost always higher than if I took the 1% cash and just bought the item in a store.

Spectacle does all of that. It's the built-in screenshot tool for KDE.

From what I've read, that baby is not a US citizen. There are long-established exceptions to birthright citizenship. The most obvious is a baby of a diplomat, since they are generally not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. I believe that a baby born to parents on a temporary visa is also not granted birthright citizenship, since there is an explicit intention for the child to not be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States when they return home.

Yes, copyright infringement is also different from theft. The point is that saying "It isn't theft if you don't take an object from someone" is not legally correct.

Theft of Services is a specifically-defined crime in some jurisdictions.

That was my immediate reaction too. $80 now would have been about $35 in the early 1990s, which is probably pretty close to what good third-party controllers cost back then.