As long as it’s profit, not revenue, even 50% is little.

Once it’s revenue and they’re in the red will the fine be more than a regular business expense.

Of course they din’t call you fantastic, because you’re not drinking Fantast.

Since you drink Fanta, you’re fantaic.

I’d say it just means socially worse for those folks, because a bad social net clearly corresponds 1:1 with corporate friendliness.

The alarm is fucking stupid on some models.

I will not put on my seatbelt when I take the car out of the garage for a wash 2 feet in front of it.

I would also like the car to be “smart” enough not to beep that it’s in reverse before I had the chance to change it out of reverse myself. And of course, the tone is a 120hz sine wave and way too loud. Great to calm the nerves right before work or a long road trip.

And you know what’s the bonus point? The headlight on alarm is quiet like a fucking lullaby. Of course my battery died once.

I can guarantee the tones being as loud and obnoxious as they are is the reason people turn them off or buy those clamps to fake wearing a seatbelt.

Even when people use them, they do, they annoy and distract. Which causes accidents.

I’m not going to claim that they cause more accidents than they prevent, but I will claim that these are the most preventable accidents as they are actively caused by literal safety features!

I have quite a few issues with modern cars. Most I’ve had the opportunity to be in are asinine.

Important, rare warnings get lullaby tones, while the most common ones sound like someone’s actively dying on life support.

One had the genius behavior of showing a large ice detected message that took up the entire dashboard and hid away all the dials.

Most also show a tutorial for how to start the damn thing, as if it in any way differs from any other car. And as if you don’t need to pass a practical exam before driving it.

Honestly, as bad as it is, there might be one good effect: apps and software will get less bloated and spec-hungry.

It is like replacing an aggressive cancer with a congenital heart issue though. Both are terrible in their own and unique ways and choosing the worse option isn’t all that sensible of an ask.

It’s already unconstitutional. But when a fool with a ballroom constitutes most of the government, a piece of paper falls flat.

Yeah. What this lawsuit in effect did is say “Games can fall under art and education. Publishers shouldn’t think just including a swastika in a game is illegal, because it isn’t. Just as a movie can include it, a game can as well.”

Of course, it still needs to not glorify nacism deliberately or inadvertantly. But it’s sad that it took this long for this non-question “legal question” to have been finally asked in court, and answered with the most expected answer - and dare I say it - one more expected of past decades than this one.

Their interpretation did. Games now classify as art and fall under the art-related exception from censorship.

The one who ordered the work?

Or does the RIAA have a $10 a pop deal with the artists’ guild?

So they’re actually not anti-AI art. They’re anti AI-art in their field, because they (rightly) percieve it as direct competition.

But if a visual artist uses it for music, how can he sleep soundly and claim a musician using it for visual arts is inethical?

That’s just slandering competition tooth and nail, all the while proving it’s good enough by using it yourself. Not an ethical stance.

Not reached, but breached?

What is Linux, a virus?

I remember whn Linux hit 4% as if it was yesterday.

In the laisses-faire market, any levy and any price is perfectly legal by definition.

Doesn’t deepseek have a wailord and mistral an “M”?

But the US ones are in fact assholley tho.

Yeah, sure. Everyone throwing out old books is knowledgeable enough to know and willing enough to check that the book they’re throwing isn’t rare or important.

You’d think people would check on the off chance it’s worth a bunch but you’d be surprised.

To be honest, I’d be MUCH less against this practice if this shredding at the very least included saving the original scans at at least 300 dpi for everyone to access, freely.

Ideally, they wouldn’t cut them by the spine, but even giving the despined ones to an archive/library would be just above the unpermissible line.

Despining, scanning and public access archiving is borderline permissible.

They can: hire locally (not a bad thing), move out of overpriced areas (also not a bad thing), pay/find closer housing for employees and negotiate better prices (also not a bad thing) or just make remoteable jobs remote.

All positive consequences of… Having to pay your employeea for their time spent for the company.

Not only that. Travel time should count as work time, with full reimbursement of all travel costs: gas, tickets,…

If they really feel that added cost is worth it? Let them.

Takes you three hours of travel time to get to work and back? That counts into your 8h workday, so you’ll both be paid full salary for it and get to work “only” 5h at the office.

Most should quickly turn away from the idea.

From what I see, 0 = 10 on this scale.