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Information? You mean пропаганда.
Information? You mean пропаганда.
A Lemmy salad with Russian dressing.
There was a guy on here a few months back who created his own sub with “real” news. He shut off comments and posted regular crap like this until he and his community were banned. This looks just like something he would post.
GQP tripe. Biden got 81% of the Democratic vote, while Trump got a dismal 68% of Republican votes, and you claim Biden’s being rebuked? I guess that means that Trump’s being outright snubbed.
Typical NYT BS when it comes to Palm Springs.
Palm Springs is a man-made oasis in the middle of a desert. A true “return to nature” means barren desert - no palm trees, no water, just sand and spotty low shrub. There are thousands of acres of just that in most of the Coachella Valley around Palm Springs and the land is desolate. The picture the NYT chose of the Prescott Preserve looking green, wet and inviting was taking during an unusually wet rainy season and that picture is not at all representative of the the natural state of the land in this desert.
The left side of the attached picture is similar to what the Palm Springs golf course used to look like. The hundreds of acres of barren landscape on the right and in the distance is the “ecological life raft” the NYT refers to. This is neither needed or welcome in the middle of a small town surrounded by thousands of acres of desert.
Lol - that’s possible. I spend time in Mexico and Canada so I keep the exchange rates on my dashboard. Easier than looking them up every time.
I could set my the thermostat higher on cloudy days in the winter or more usefully, increase the setting when our cell phones are in the house and decrease it when we’re away. One guy put a vibration sensor on his nightstand and tapping on the stand turns on his bedroom light. There are way too many possibilities, useful and not.
My Home Assistant software and smart devices all are controlled locally and cloud access isn’t used but there are other, much more important reasons to avoid running it.
You should avoid it because Home Assistant is an addictive monster. It starts as a hobby and then the next thing you know you’re putting temperature sensors in your refrigerator and setting different brightness levels for your bathroom lights depending on the time of day.
Seriously though, the software gives an amazingly useful single dashboard for things you might use everyday including lighting, HVAC, alarm systems, weather, currency exchange rates, and entertainment systems. I use it every day.
True. We must all make sacrifices so Amazon’s profits can grow. Maybe their marketing department should call the increase a “Mandatory Donation for the Good of the World” to help us keep things in perspective.
This is a 26% price hike. Amazon’s marketing BS shouldn’t fool anyone.
Even Hersh’s article lacks any kind of supporting evidence, only siting a single unidentified source. His story is plausible, but plausible does not mean true.
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Whatever happened, the robot rebellion has begun.
Blatant lying from hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest.
Seems Horseshoe Theory applies to indictment responses too.
That is literally the article linked in the post.
True if Soylent Green was immortal and sought money and power at any cost.
The GOP and right wing justices’ blithering about the Founding Fathers, Originalism, and “historical tradition” is absolute, self-serving BS and regularly the opposite of historical reality. If you have a few minutes this history of U.S. corporations is fascinating. An excerpt:
Initially, the privilege of incorporation was granted selectively to enable activities that benefited the public, such as construction of roads or canals. Enabling shareholders to profit was seen as a means to that end. The states also imposed conditions (some of which remain on the books, though unused) like these:
Corporate charters (licenses to exist) were granted for a limited time and could be revoked promptly for violating laws.
Corporations could engage only in activities necessary to fulfill their chartered purpose.
Corporations could not own stock in other corporations nor own any property that was not essential to fulfilling their chartered purpose.
Corporations were often terminated if they exceeded their authority or caused public harm.
Owners and managers were responsible for criminal acts committed on the job.
Corporations could not make any political or charitable contributions nor spend money to influence law-making.
For 100 years after the American Revolution, legislators maintained tight control of the corporate chartering process. Because of widespread public opposition, early legislators granted very few corporate charters, and only after debate. Citizens governed corporations by detailing operating conditions not just in charters but also in state constitutions and state laws. Incorporated businesses were prohibited from taking any action that legislators did not specifically allow.
Don’t forget, Corporations are Peopleᵀᴹ
State law always trumps seller policies. The seller can force you to check a box agreeing to their terms of sale but those terms are not enforceable if state law gives you other rights. Unenforceable clauses have been in literally every contract or terms of sale I’ve ever read.
Rightful rejection laws make sense too, especially when you start looking at large purchases. Let’s say you ordered a black car from a dealer 500 miles away and the dealer delivered a pink one. The terms of sale say that you have to return the car to the dealer and pay a restocking fee for a refund. Those terms mean that the dealer has no obligation to deliver what you ordered or paid for and will make a profit (from you) even if they deliver something you didn’t order. That’s where Rightful Rejection laws become indispensable. All you have to do by law is make the product available for retrieval by the seller.
Funny you should mention Amazon - I’m literally dealing with this issue this week. They sent me a DOA item that has to be sent back. Amazon suddenly wants to charge me a fee to return a defective item that they have the legal obligation to retrieve. While I don’t mind dropping things off at a UPS store because I’m regularly a block away, they want me to make a special trip to a Staples or Whole Foods which is not convenient or reasonable. I was just going to order a replacement from them, but because of their new return fee I won’t be buying the replacement from Amazon, or much else going forward. My Amazon purchases will easily decrease by 90%.
Here’s the rub - a retailer does not have to continue to do business with you. If you force Amazon to retrieve an item they can close your account and refuse to sell to you again.
Who said anything about a bot? You’re a Russian tool and useful idiot.