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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm very curious what they'd say it needs to pass in order to be "proven".

And then I'm curious if a pack of ground beef from the grocery store would be able to meet the same standard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Interestingly, SEATAC airport has started doing exactly that in (at least Concourse D). It's one big long hallway with sinks on one wall and floor-to-ceiling doors for the toilets. And a separate room off to the back with a sliding door for urinals. They've got enough toilets that wait times aren't too atrocious

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (8 children)

This is more permanent than it could be...instead of being able to be undone via executive order, it would take an incredibly rare and twisted court ruling or an act of Congress. Neither is that unlikely, however repealing it won't be unilateral, and that means it'll take time and political capital.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was incredibly mad before I realized I was reading George Soros, not George Santos. Now I'm only kinda mad

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Cancel culture only really is a thing when the person on the receiving end is capable of feeling the tiniest shred of embarrassment/remorse for what they've done (not being caught). People fade into obscurity when they get "cancelled" because the massive outcry from the public convinces them they can't ignore that what they're doing is wrong anymore. In the case of most fascist hucksters (as well as Mr Beast), they are incapable of seeing that what they've done is wrong, so they can never be convinced of the need to stop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If there's one thing this guarantees, it's that Peelon has some guy in India remotely driving that Tesla

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can tell right now this show is a flop because it's been out nearly a month and this is literally the first time I've heard of it. Nothing in the run up to release, nothing in nearly a month since.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago

Given that NATO mandates 2% GDP on defence, they're pulling their weight. Estonia is not a large country, so $1.5B goes a lot further there than in larger nations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When my grandmother passed, my grandfather took most of her books to her favorite local buy/sell/trade bookstore and got a pile of store credit for my brother and I. It took us over a decade to spend it all, and we probably only had $300 or $400 in that account to start with. But the store sold most books for less than $5. Amazon is out here charging $25 for a 40 year-old book as an ebook, and there's no equivalent to buy/sell/trade secondhand bookstores in the ebook space.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The method I used actually (currently) doesn't require a physical Kindle. I just had to download a specific version of Kindle for PC (Version 2.3.70682) and was able to quickly and easily use the Calibre extension to remove the DRM.

I'm not super confident it'll always work, so I'm not planning on buying more books from Amazon, but it's a good solution to pull my existing library into the ePub world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That's basically my attitude. As usual, piracy is a service problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I've recently bought a Kobo, and had great success removing the DRM from my Kindle library, then loading all my books there onto my Kobo. Just food for thought that such a thing is possible

 

There are so many gems in this one, least of which are the bathrooms.

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