Base 12 is actually simpler when you’re accustomed to it. It’s easier to figure out a third in base 12. The average person wasn’t trading in a pound and the rich could give two shits.
It’s one banana Micheal, what could it cost? Ten pounds sterling?
It cost a quid and he got two back so he can buy two mars bars.
You can’t tell me this isn’t the exact way you’d expect this guy to look. He said he’s gonna use his 2 quid settlement for more mars bars. I’m comforted.
They have it that way because it reduces the support calls from idiots who can’t figure out why their webcam won’t work.
You just need a mod team willing to enforce those rules.
The unveiling was done by a man pulling off the cover, suspended by an overhead crane with hooks through his skin.
Just put him on display I guess.
Meaning that he was already enlisted, and gave up a lot of rights that a civilian would otherwise have.
South Korea used to jail and abuse people who objected to compulsory military service and nowadays just treats them like shit. This guy tried to eat his way into doing community service instead of being an active duty soldier and he got jailed for it. I would say that tracks as abuse against objectors. I wouldn’t say he was avoiding a “promotion.”
Yeah, me was an unusable dumpster fire.
In this case we’re creating all the social ills and costs that broken families entails, being monsters, and punishing frankly a minority of those that lack status. All for a bad policy. I mean, you yourself thought there was a pathway when we started this conversation because obviously that’s the most humane and sensible thing to do.
You need an immigrant visa to start getting a green card. Technically a green card is a visa, really. It’s a whole change of status thing that is quite Byzantine.
And in general, I do not see the punitive value of breaking up families. It’s like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The system is unfortunate in that you can’t apply for legal status while you’re in the country illegally. Like you get married, you then have to leave the country and apply for a spouse visa from a consulate. Even if you leave, if you’ve been in the country out of status for over a year, you’re barred from getting a visa for 10 years(even as a spouse or parent). She likely had no legal path to stay with her family. It’s fucked.
Biden tried to do something about that and failed. https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/g-s1-33370/judge-biden-program-immigrant-spouses-deportation
Google fired a co-inventor of it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit_Gebru
Following her departure, Google held a forum to discuss experiences with racism at the company, and employees reported to NBC News that half of it was spent discrediting Gebru, which they took as the company making an example of her for speaking out. The forum was followed up with a group psychotherapy session for Google’s Black employees with a licensed therapist, which the employees said was dismissive
It’s a real fucking laugh. It seems Google’s go to response to discrimination is to hire psychs to calm it’s employees. Real cyberpunk corpo shit. “Let’s fix your thinking.”
@timnitGebru@dair-community.social
In many parts of the states they do because their insurance won’t cover them working on those bikes.
Stingy on letting you make your own vape but happy to let you stuff your lip with snus. Typical Sweden.
Most will not repair an ebikes outside of the brand they sell. I’d ask the shop first.
Can’t buy nicotine from the wholesalers anymore to do that in the US. Feds made it illegal.
You pretty much should only buy one from a shop that has a physical location near you and can do repairs. Like everybody around me sells Trek, so if I ever got one, it’d be a Trek with a Bosch motor. Bike shops will not repair ebikes they don’t sell, even though they’ll repair regular bikes. And neither Trek nor Bosch are going anywhere.
What he’s saying is not beyond what Congress has previously laid down though. First sale doctrine should let you do whatever you want, but they actually banned renting phonographs because they thought people were recording them on tape. We’re lucky they didn’t outlaw movie rentals too back in the day. Whole copyright regime needs to die in a fire.
aren’t delivering on the promised economic activity
There doesn’t exist a company that gives a flying turd fuck about a government’s revenue. Particularly not if they took tax breaks to reduce that revenue in the first place.
I doubt there’s many here that are even interested in that format.