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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Some people need practical advice.

-George Carlin

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (18 children)

What exactly are they trying to accomplish? The article talks about sending entangled photons down a fiber optic... but that just sounds like ordinary fiber with extra steps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The TOS doesn't say anything about crimes like murder, and of course you can't waive that anyway.

What it does say is that any disputes arising out of the use of their website are subject to arbitration. If the plaintiff is correct and Disney is liable because they posted the menu on their website, then that would be a dispute arising out of the use of their website.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The plaintiff doesn't say that Disney owns it, though. They are basing their argument on the fact that Disney posted the restaurant's menu on their website. The website is also under the Disney+ TOS. So, if the plaintiff is correct and Disney is liable then the TOS probably applies.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Annual commemorative pastry observance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Fritz Leiber's short story "A Pail of Air".

This story portrays the effects of the most terrifying natural calamity I have ever encountered in fiction: Earth being ejected from the solar system. In any other disaster there's still hope because even though humanity might die out, life on Earth would eventually recover. Not so in this case. Without the Sun we're fucked. Even the air freezes (hence the title).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Breed claims this is about people who refuse to accept help. But is this true?

Yes. For example, I worked at a housing site that SF acquired during COVID for the purpose of getting people off the streets so that they could "shelter at home". This was actual housing, too, not merely a shelter bed.

The refusal rate was over 70%, most of which were no-shows. So they added incentives like free Uber rides to the building, Safeway gift cards just for showing up, etc. Still, the overwhelming majority of people who were referred to us by the city never showed up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The answer is: because she doesn’t benefit from it.

What does this imply about those who agree with it?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

"Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer and because of it many others [other cats] too. And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come."

https://medievalfragments.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/paws-pee-and-mice-cats-among-medieval-manuscripts/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)
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