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this is a good example of how in certain cases wage garnishment should probably not be allowable as a punishment, particularly since it’s unlikely nintendo will even see a fraction of this before he dies but his entire life is probably ruined by this
it would appear they have an explanation for all this on github, although i don’t use DDG so i cannot speak to how useful it is
in general, metaverse people do not seem like they’re particularly aware of… uh. anything, honestly. it’s kind of baffling to see people who are on paper so broadly tech-literate advocate for or do things that very much are not tech-literate
beyond the points brought up in the article, a good way to tell this is not a good change is that i’ve seen so, so much confusion about what the change here actually does from users of netflix. obviously, this is quite bad for a corporation because if even power users don’t know what’s happening, it’s really unlikely people who don’t use netflix very much will either
super interesting piece here. here’s a bit of it which illustrates just a handful of the many uses of a cellphone in prison, most of which are actually very banal or outright benevolent:
Most of what I knew about illicit electronics came from press releases and news stories that offered example after example of all the bad things people could do with contraband phones, things like trafficking drugs, making threats and running scams. While it’s true those things can happen, over the past three years I’ve also seen a lot of people use their phones for good. Some use them to self-publish books or take online college classes. Others become prison reform advocates, teach computer skills, trade bitcoin or write legal briefs. I’ve seen a whole plethora of savvy and creative uses that fly in the face of stereotypes about people behind bars. “Our cell phones have saved lives,” a man in prison in South Carolina told me.
Advertising has a habit of grabbing any available space where we look, and if train windows are available, I’ll bet it’s going to happen any time soon. No, I’d expect it would not happen on those beautiful Alpine railways… But on dreary subway trains, oh yes! Maybe a nice use would be to display passing Alpine scenery on a subway train?
i’m reminded of the ongoing, piecemeal adoption of advertising screens on glass doors in supermarkets, which is a particularly cynical and dystopian, egregious example of this. i fully expect similar to happen with train windows if an opportunity arises.
this particular librarian also has a very nice little twitter account she’s been running since 2006(!)
beyond the comment already made, a more detailed explanation can be found o’er yonder
don’t forget the extensive water usage!
definitely seems like a thing which should be adopted internationally–so many people suffer negatively under unrealistic body pressures from advertising or worse, develop body dysmorphia and other issues of that nature from trying to meet those pressures
Over more than 10 years, the author wrote several million words of fake Russian history, creating 206 articles and contributing to hundreds more. She imagined richly detailed war stories and economic histories, and wove them into real events in language boring enough to fit seamlessly into the encyclopedia. Some netizens are calling her China’s Borges.
honestly, this is kind of hilarious and cool–it just should have been done in a novel and shouldn’t have been done on wikipedia
US-americans seem to be so stressed atm, so afraid.
you probably would be too if every public place could become a shooting gallery because of the lack of federal legislation on guns, but that legislation also has to pass a designed-to-fail legislative branch!
depending on how you ask it, the “great replacement” conspiracy might even be a prevailing belief (in some form) in a number of countries: france, for example, where one poll found 61% agreed with it
among other things she wrote for the IWW and was a card carrying member, was one of the founders of the ACLU, supported the NAACP, and was obviously one of the first major disability advocates in the US. (she also had some takes which, in hindsight, are quite bad–for example, her support of eugenics and objection to life-saving treatment for mentally and physically impaired children.)
hellen keller is one of many significant people in the history of america whose support of socialism has either been sanded down or completely washed from the record books, which is both unsurprising (this is america) but is also unfortunate (particularly with keller, because her political advocacy is nearly completely overlooked in favor of her inspirational story despite the two being joined at the hip)
I’m all for reducing parking lots, but I’m wondering what it has to do with meat and produce.
it seems to be that they want to make it easier to establish full-service grocery stores instead of just dollar stores and that was a requirement they slashed to accomplish that:
the full ordinance is here.
to update this, since we’ve had a lot of developments:
we have opened an issue about all of this, which you can find here. hopefully this is helpful to any instance also dealing with one or multiple facets of a problem like this!