When the EU mandated USB-C, Apple included a bullshit adapter so they could keep their proprietary charger. But of course if someone with an iPhone was visiting my house they wouldn’t have an adapter with them. Eventually the EU bitch-slapped Apple over that nonsense and now iPhones have USB-C for charging.

So, companies will definitely try to weasel out of serving consumers, and the EU will eventually sort them out.

Wow, holy crap.

Yeah this must be it. I have a hard time wrapping my head around it, but there seem to be a lot of people who find downloading a file with the installer and running it to be a problem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What’s a bottle in this context?

No, it’s like when the corporation tells them that their company laptop belongs to the company and is only to be used for company business. Which is why I carry two phones and two laptops on business trips.

Meh.

I mostly deal with corporate lawyers, and their advice is almost always:

1. Don’t do it
2. Spend more money on lawyers

This is in their best interests, not necessarily their client’s best interests.

I don’t know how this applies to criminal law, obviously.

In the USA, libertarianism was invented after the New Deal in order to allow monopolies and other capital accumulation to occur without government interference.

In 1946, Leonard E. Read founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), an American nonprofit, conservative educational organization which promotes the principles of laissez-faire economics, private property and limited government. According to Gary North, the FEE is the “granddaddy of all libertarian organizations”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Libertarianism_in_the_United_States_(1943–1980s)

The police are not your friends. Think of them like HR for society. 😅

Imagine you are in the middle of the street in a civilized country (meaning traffic drives on the right side).

Face either side of the road. Traffic goes from your right to your left.

Now turn around, 180°. Traffic goes from your right to your left.

I love this story as a counter example for the supposed awesomeness of Jesus.

a core basket of everyday groceries will be 30 percent cheaper at the five new municipal grocery stores. The basket will include all fresh produce, meat and seafood, along with roughly 20 additional categories of pantry staples, dairy and refrigerated goods

It’s right there in the link.

Didn’t she defeat the Democratic incumbent to get on the ballot for her seat? Oh that’s right, she defeated the Democratic caucus chair, so hardly “picked by the DNC”.

Which was 32 of 35.

I mean sure if you bothered to read it and not just ctrl-a ctrl-c ctrl-v.

Yeah so maybe literally every student used AI but 3 read the output before submitting.

Why not just say “32 of 35 students”?

University degrees serve at least two functions.

One function is a sort of guarantee that you have the knowledge and skills of the particular degrees you obtain.

The other function is to show that you are the kind of person who gets university degrees… whether that is because you are competent or just that you come from a socio-economic background that values university degrees nad can afford them.

For that second function cheating matters very little if you don’t get caught.

For the first function, it might also not be super relevant. I had to take a humanities class for my computer science degree. If I had cheated on the theater exam it would not have made me a worse programmer. 😄

especially when his parents excellent test scores are added in

…what? 🤔

Not the same day, but it reminded me of this:

https://dutchreview.com/news/dutch-court-awards-man-34k-for-unfair-dismissal/

I think that seafood is basically the same as with Kosher… so you can only eat things from the sea that have both fins and scales. Or is it gills and scales?

I worked with a Muslim in Amsterdam who ordered vegetarian because he was pretty sure it would be Halal. That was 20 years ago, so maybe he’d have an easier time eating non-vegetarian now? I see lots of Halal signs in restaurant windows, but who knows?