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- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 1 day ago:
ftc.gov/…/consumer-review-fairness-act-what-busin…
The Consumer Review Fairness Act makes it illegal for companies to include standardized provisions that threaten or penalize people for posting honest reviews. For example, in an online transaction, it would be illegal for a company to include a provision in its terms and conditions that prohibits or punishes negative reviews by customers.
- Comment on here there be lions 5 days ago:
“I’m a lone wolf.”
OK, so you’re too useless and/or immature to pull your own weight among your group and they kicked you out?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Odyssey counts, right?
- Comment on CUSTAAAAAAAARD 1 week ago:
Is that a research grant I hear calling?
- Comment on Is there a place online where I can apply for a bunch of free books? I was thinking of creating a library in my local county jail to help educate and pass the time in a healthy way? 2 weeks ago:
A local or regional library often (but not always) serves jails in their community already. If not, they may be open to extending operations there. If that fails, libraries often rotate out stock to make room for newer, or more popular books. Anything they dispose of would be older, but for this situation, that may not be as much of an issue.
- Comment on I can get a 430 hearing on any family member I want. Hell i can even testify if someone else needs one. So tell me why I can't go through the legal system to get an invasive one for Trump? 3 weeks ago:
The real answer is, it’s complicated. Involuntary commitment (and related acts) is a pretty extreme measure for when an individual is a danger to themselves or others. There’s no evidence that he’s trying to hurt himself, and the “other” usually has to be a specific person, not just a hypothetical class of others to have standing.
And it’s even more complicated by the idea that the president has been gifted broad immunity regarding anything remotely tangential to official powers. So you can’t even say you, specifically, are in danger due to things done by the government, so long as there is some whack job theory under which it’s being executed.
If he came alone to your house naked and covered in nacho cheese with a knife threatening to hurt you, you’d probably have a case. Depending on the state, it probably takes something similar even for a family member or acquaintance (but check your local laws).
- Comment on Black Holes 3 weeks ago:
Teachers: You can’t divide by zero.
Nature: Hey guys, check this shit out. - Comment on protein! 3 weeks ago:
In other news, sales of the caveman fad diet books have cratered.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 5 weeks ago:
What’s the worst that could happen if we eradicate all the rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows?
- Comment on Thoughts?? 1 month ago:
They were living in 2025 when they posted that in 2023. I don’t think the stats software is the biggest story here.
- Comment on Trump despises the future because it threatens him 1 month ago:
He was born in 1946. The world came together to reject what he stands for before he was even born.
- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 1 month ago:
Ok, Agent Smith.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 1 month ago:
Win10 EOL is surely driving some people away, but it’s difficult to put a number on that. Measuring by market share is tricky and can be misleading. Steam Deck popularity may be driving increased usage, but those users aren’t necessarily migrating their main OS, just adding a new machine to the mix. But maybe “migrating” their time spent in a given OS counts? It’s messy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I mean its not even too late for this to happen starting like right now 2025, right?
No, it’s not. The US, and increasingly the rest of the western world, is infected by a bunch of politicians who think ‘1984’ is an instruction manual rather than a cautionary tale.
IT being used to weaponize surveillance against the people is happening right now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s not an argument, that’s somebody who only looked at the cover of the cliff notes on presidential terms but didn’t read it.
Right, but he can’t read, so it can still be his position.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And of course, anything passed by the normal legislative processes can just as easily be repealed that way.
Lasting change is going to require constitutional amendment(s) to harden the democracy against bad actors.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 2 months ago:
The question is basically answered now, so I’ll just drop this video here for some additional context about Microsoft’s history of trying to build a file system that solves the problem, and the challenges they faced even in the early XP days:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5d5H92c4Mk
tl;dw: MS tried to understand the context of each file, not just the name. Once you add dozens of pieces of metadata to each of tens of thousands of files (even 20+ years ago), the whole system became too difficult for them to properly index and manage efficiently.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah, my wife teases me all the time about not answering. “Going to the store after work” doesn’t, IMHO, require me to do or say anything about it.
A direct question will almost always get a response.
It’s going to be a little different for married couples, though. Even if I don’t respond, we’ll be talking face-to-face in a few hours tops.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 2 months ago:
Might be too late. They changed the policy a few years ago when they introduced mod packs. They didn’t want entire packs to fail if one person pulled their mod, so total deletion was disabled.
Folks can still hide their mods and make new individual downloads impossible, but it’s still there in the background.
(All this is from memory. I hope I’m wrong)
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 2 months ago:
As soon as I graduated, ‘too many people are fighting for IT jobs, depressing salaries, meanwhile we’re paying plumbers $100/hour.’
That was 2001. Almost 25 years later, I recently paid a plumber $300/hour.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 2 months ago:
I’ve always maintained that the first was a fine game that was tanked by the price. It was priced to drive gamepass subs, not sell the game. At $35-40, it would have been received much better, imo. Years later, now that it’s more appropriately priced, it seems to be more well-reviewed.
Unfortunately the second is going down the same path. It may take 5+ years for the game to be appreciated to its fullest (assuming no glaring issues), through no fault of the devs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is why subject matter experts matter. Support for the vague idea of “deport people here illegally” is pretty high, but any specific method of actually doing it is much more unpopular. Media is essential in getting that distinction out to the laypeople, but they’ve largely failed.
And I’d argue that it’s not just immigration where this disconnect exists. Lots of policies have broad support until you start talking about specifics. People just want to “get things done” but the “how” is either boring or unsavory.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You can handle what you can handle, and trying to drink from the firehose will only burn you out. Be as active in your community as you can, when you can, then take a break when you need to. Your own mental health matters, too.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 2 months ago:
Can’t be. I was born in the 70s and I’m only what the fuck?
- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 2 months ago:
Wasn’t that long ago that people even had pet rocks.
- Comment on Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage? 2 months ago:
For many people, “drugs,” with no other qualifier, is just short-hand for “illegal drugs.” Plenty of people who say they don’t use drugs also take prescriptions or OTC medications.
It will be interesting in the next few years to see where marijuana ends up on that spectrum. Still largely illegal (federally), but if that changes, will people still consider it a “drug” in the same way they do now, or will it fall into a separate category like drugs that are mostly legal?
- Comment on You can now format text in Windows 11's Notepad 2 months ago:
What Microsoft says: We’re getting rid of Wordpad.
What Microsoft means: We’re getting rid of Notepad. - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
IIRC James Cameron intended Terminator 2 to end the series. The monologue at the end was full of hope that everything had changed and the future wasn’t written in stone.
Then the studio saw dollar signs and shit all over the message.
- Comment on Safe to run a box fan face down? 2 months ago:
You could always build a plywood box/cube thing to duct the airflow downward, but with an opening on the side so you can use any cheap box fan.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 months ago:
See also: census designated places, a collection of people with no formal town incorporation/government. My dad grew up in a “town” (CDP) of about 250 residents. It’s about a half hour drive from the nearest real town, for things like groceries and hospitals.