Too much.

@xenon No one more evangelical than a committed atheist. I have no issue with atheists just as long as they're not telling me what to not believe. Same way with evangelicals of all sorts.

LOL.

@Renauda said in "I can't afford to live, so kill me.": I really do not see why this is such an issue for others and, in particular, people who are not affected by Canadian law, when it is, in reality, a matter of personal choice. All the law does is affirm and facilitate the legality of medical professional involvement in a patient’s personal choice to die with what he or she believes is with some dignity and on their own personal terms. +1

@89th said in Breaking the Digital Addiction: I mean, the kids practicing are like 7 years old so yes the parents drive the kids there and stay for the 30-45 minutes of practice. Oh, ok - yes, you're right, that makes more sense. I'd assumed the kids were older. We used to do the karate stuff at that age, and I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

WaPo: [image: 1670933486703-image.jpeg] Journalism dies in ignorance.

He looks awfully frail. You only lose muscle mass if you are bedridden and not eating. When I've been in, they had a hell of a time keeping me in bed.

Gibson's Bakery v. Oberlin College was an Ohio legal case concerning libel, tortious interference, and infliction of distress. The case ultimately involved questions about the responsibilities of universities during student protests. The case began in 2016 with an incident of shoplifting by an Oberlin College student at Gibson's Bakery. Following the arrests of three students related to the shoplifting incident, students, faculty members, and employees of Oberlin College protested against the bakery, alleging racism. Meredith Raimondo, the dean of students and vice-president at Oberlin college, took part in the protest, distributing a pamphlet falsely alleging racism on the part of the bakery. Oberlin initiated financial sanctions against the bakery, while lending material support to protestors. The owners of the bakery sued Oberlin College and Raimondo for damages. In 2019, a jury found that the college had defamed the owner of Gibson's Bakery and his family, and awarded them $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Following the jury verdict, the trial judge reduced the total award to $25 million, due to Ohio state law capping punitive damages. The trial court also awarded $6 million for legal fees. The College appealed that decision. In 2022, the Ninth Ohio District Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the 2019 jury verdict which found that the college defamed, inflicted distress, and illegally interfered with Gibson's Bakery, and upheld the damages award. Oberlin College then sought review by the Supreme Court of Ohio, but that effort failed when the Court declined to accept jurisdiction on August 30, 2022.[1][2] On September 8, 2022, Oberlin College announced that it would no longer contest the matter and would pay Gibson's Bakery the sum of $36.59 million representing the judgment with interest.[3][4]

Oh, he's a piece of work, to be sure. Did you know that UPenn pulled his PhD thesis from public?

@xenon I think the appropriate word in Musk’s case is kow-tow. An age old Chinese subservience protocol.

Yeah, there's a lot of sorrow for a lot of us this season. Sigh.

@Mik said in Bad Systems: Not unusual. My place is pretty fast once you get back there but requires two check-ins. Thar's gold in them thar hills. Got to be an easier way to leverage technology. Ought to be able to complete any needed paperwork and get a check-in time on your phone, as soon as your orders drop. Walk in the door, give them two unique identifiers, get banded and queued.

@Rainman said in John Dean wants to sue: Aqua, you have just explained what's going on better than anything I've heard. Your explanation makes sense to me, seeing as how my SEO people have been stumbling all over themselves trying to explain what has changed. And, I pay them a lot each month, to (supposedly) keep ahead of the herd. They keep trying to pound the square peg into the round hole, and pretend that it fits. Yeah, SEO is a total arms race. It's basically professional rules lawyering, except the rules of the game keep changing on them. It's a slog. Not to worry, though. Chat GPT and Lambda are going to turn their worlds completely upside down in the coming year (years if we're lucky), whether they know it or not. The downside is, no one knows what that technology is going to do to the very concept of online business as we know it.

https://twitter.com/AvidHalaby/status/1602127460677844993 Threadreader here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602127460677844993.html The report that was sent to Congress here: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22186683/twitter-whistleblower-disclosure.pdf

Should I be buying a massive laser? I've kind of always wanted one.