Yeah. The Bidens are safe. The assailant is under arrest. Nobody’s dog got shot.

It’s obvious why this is a confusing outcome.

Honestly, I’d take a woody window to replace the clear glass overlooking the scenic parking lot outside literally any of the apartments I’ve ever lived in.

Holy shit, someone that actually likes that aural abomination?

Are you the reason it won’t fucking die?

Hahahahahaahahahaahahahahahahaha

Land of the Free, folks

Self checkouts tend to have a hand scanner too

I’m going to guess that this is regional or vendor specific, because I’ve literally never seen a self-checkout with a hand scanner. And if I ever did, I would expect it to transform into a broken, dangling cable within a few months.

Meanwhile, stores all but stop manning existing checkouts, forcing everyone to line up to check out their own stuff.

In business, all data are vanity metrics. If they make you look good, you slap that shit on everything; if they make you look bad, you “don’t have it”.

It’s just that sometimes you can use negative data to make decisions that look good to those above you, and sometimes you know that you can’t.

I think I’ve reached the point where no one will be able to convince me that Star Citizen is not a money laundering front.

their value comes from them being relevant

The news’s value should be to society, though, not shareholders?

Just another episode of Pog & Dar: Cop Landlords

Funny, I thought the Red River drained into Fargo.

Yeah, I’m wounded by the commission omission of Cape Breton. But I think it’s just that there’s nothing dubious about our islands.

Edit: Sausage fingers and rogue autocorrect.

He was “forced” to buy because he, uh, signed a contract saying he would. I’m sorry, but “voluntarily signed a purchase agreement” is only “forcing” if you believe people above a certain wealth level can do whatever the fuck they want with impunity.

He could have backed out and paid the fine he agreed to pay in the case he backed out, but he didn’t want to do that, either.

He’s not being investigated by someone else.

He can’t win because he’s a fucking idiot.

It’s not “deal with” so much as “stop causing them”.

No. Especially if you have work experience, doing a MA or an MSc will be taken for the career pivoting skills development you sell it as.

Don’t do a PhD, though, unless you’re specifically trying to get into a job that looks for them. That is, unless you specifically want to do the PhD for the sake of doing it. A lot of employers see it the same way a retail employer sees a BSc - a sign that you’re a flight risk.

The system required personally ambitious people to the right thing for everyone instead of the thing that would get them further ahead as an individual. In the face of the wealth and power of the oil industry, corruption was almost inevitable, sadly.

Worth nothing that Augustus used the title “princeps”, which was also an existing title in the Republic. And his power came from holding existing offices. He was careful to make himself the ruler of Rome using the existing governing framework.

He just negotiated that he would hold these positions for life.

This is the same thing Julius Caesar did, except the existing title he held - dictator - carried too much political baggage.

It’s litigation around what a machine can freely use in its learning model.

No, its not that, either. It’s litigation around what resources a person can exploit to develop a product without paying for that right.

The machine is doing nothing wrong. It’s not feeding itself.

You’re asking two questions here. One is about some kind of purity test, which… You gotta let that one go. The crowd isn’t here to pass judgement on you, and asking it to do so is a kind of psychological self harm.

The other is about whether using a particular Reddit front end supports Reddit. The answer to that is an unqualified “yes”.

The two together point to you wanting to use Reddit, but not wanting to be judged poorly for doing so, and that’s an anxiety state you don’t deserve to live in. You either believe strongly enough about not supporting Reddit for your own reasons to not use it, or you don’t. And that’s ok, because they’re your beliefs. You’re not some soldier in some holy war.

I think it was before that, but after publishing lists of U of T faculty he wanted his incel army to harass and threaten.