adespoton

joined 2 years ago
[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

At an individual level, the more you know, generally the more miserable you are. This likely operates at a societal level too.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 45 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Depends on the action needed.

Personally, I feel like for health and safety items, after 48 hours the renter should be able to call someone to do the repair on their behalf and bill the landlord any reasonable fees / withhold that money from the next month’s rent.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Walkie talkies only :)

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

It’s about protecting a world view that props up his value system by dismantling anything that might call it into question.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

He pre-dates ALL CAPS. For him, that means it’s a new paragraph in a legal document or he forgot to turn off caps lock.

He’ll underline it instead.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You’d think when they asked him for his ID and he showed them his badge and ID card, they’d realize they got the wrong person.

What this illustrates is that ICE does a horrible job of checking people’s identity. It took validation by multiple state officers to get him released.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

https://www.kleankanteen.com/

Been using them for 15 years; the bottles get a few dents in them, but I’ve even been able to hammer most of those out.

Haven’t used a plastic water bottle since the early 90s.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Same reason people join crime syndicates.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

OK, so since Apple is integrating the Phone app into macOS and already has the other apps there… will someone using an older phone be able to use these tools on their computer? Seems like it should be technically possible, and you can download way more language models on a computer.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

the company knowingly avoided at least $8,800 in program fees….

Well, if it saved more than $19,000 last time around, it definitely came out ahead.

$28,300 — is this on top of the $19,000, or is this only an additional $9,300? Because if it’s the second, by not complying over the past year, it’s really only cost them $500 - which is likely less than all the additional costs of changing over their entire inventory handling workflow during that time. And if they’re still refusing to pay… that’s an easily absorbable cost, leaving them mostly with the problem of bad publicity.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

<man steps up to the security checkpoint and removes his belt and shoes, walks through>

“Hey, wait a minute! My shoes used to have my feet in them! Why are they full of drugs when coming out of the scanner???”

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

We need more news stories like this. Great that they’re getting a source of methane captured to do useful work instead of just polluting the atmosphere.

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