Betteridge’s Law

Yeah, that’s how it was advertised, but that’s not really true.

GDPR affects any company with assets accessible to EU regulators. It does not affect companies that have no business presence within the EU.

A Chinese (Or Brazilian, or American, or any non-European) company that has no physical location or bank account in Europe is still accessible to European citizens. That company can still serve European customers. But European regulators have no means of enforcing the GDPR against that company; the European citizen is not protected by the GDPR from such a company.

Uvalde shooter was not. https://www.bbc.com/news/61607042

Nashville shooter was.

Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nashville_school_shooting

Is there an element of literality to the term “muscle memory”?

Regulation? I think you mean “guillotines”…

Ahem…

Bingo.

Either support the device until the heat death of the universe, or provide consumers with the access to maintain it themselves.

I mean, it’s far more engaging and a bit more compassionate than most of my teachers…

The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’

They’re halfway there already.

Certainly. Most of the 20th century, the top tier tax rate was set at a level that can only be described as “punitive”. It was higher than 90% to kill off the robber barons.

While I am not morally opposed to beheading rich people, we really need to go back to the tax rates we had in the 50’s. And add a securities tax, payable in shares of that security, that the IRS can liquidate slowly over time.

Since you’re outsourcing this, the adjudicator is either the first contract killer involved, or the second contract killer you specifically hired to deal with that first contract killer.

Having too many communities prevent potential posters from knowing where to post.

Post in any of them, or any combination of them.

When I find a good community, I tend to join the communities they recommend. I would suggest Sidebar links to related communities for others to join.

Power tripping mods can be reported

What is the purpose of such a report? Seems like pointless drama in a decentralized environment.

The internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.

Just join them all.

Do all of these communities serve a distinct purpose?

They serve the purpose of redundancy. Power-tripping moderators and administrators are less able to silence reasonable dissent when dissenters can just run to other instances. When various instances fail, the others pick up automatically.

My advice: Don’t setup dual boot.

Instead, setup Virtualbox in your Linux instance, and install Windows in a VM. You’ll have access to a windows “crutch”, without having to leave Linux to use it.

so you’re saying there’s a chance…

They do, but “rightsholders” suck harder. And the tech companies oppose the measures the rightsholders are pushing them to adopt.

Here, the enemy of my enemy may not be my friend, but they aren’t my enemy.

Dance halls and hotels don’t have “safe harbor” provisions as a matter of law, and their services to performers are not deemed a “human right”.

The human capacity for reason is greatly overrated. The overwhelming majority of conversation is regurgitated thought, which is exactly what LLMs are designed to do.

There are laws against selling fake drugs. Why does he think your product is a drug? Has it been represented to him as a drug by you or by someone with whom you are conspiring to sell fake drugs?