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So that you can stand on the lift, and not get head trauma every time you want to travel to a lower deck I’d assume.

I didn’t figure out that particular trick until pretty late, unfortunately, but it did serve me VERY well during high school.

I was in middle school in 2005 and had basically no friends largely because I had no phone to text with.

Uber is NOT an acceptable replacement for public transport and acting like it is, is foolish. A public transit system seeks to move people around, and make enough money to keep themselves alive. A rideshare app only seeks profit, and will move people around as a means to that end. They are diametrically opposed. Further privatizing things in America that should be public utilities is a very bad, no good, awful idea.

Odd that they would mail you a survival package when their goal is explicitly to kill everyone on earth.

Right, because nobody has ever studied military history. Surely there isn’t a college degree path centered around it or anything.

They’ll suddenly care an awful lot when fish dying out means penguins and seals dying out means polar bears dying out. There is no creature that exists in a vacuum.

Just went and read the entire article. That’s pretty much spot on. Journalist sneaks into Amazon warehouse with a camera, interviews drivers, gets caught, and then has the idea to sell bottles of piss (real piss? Fake piss? Empty bottle? It’s not specified) on Amazon. Which some people then buy and then an Amazon automated service contacted him about boosting his business.

There’s also a bonus bit in there about his daughters being able to buy knives and rat poison from Alexa without any age verification.

It brings up some notable points in the age verification section, and it brings up some notable points about life as a delivery driver, but as far as the actual product is concerned it’s hard to paint Amazon as the bad guy this time. This is clearly a ridiculous item. If you’re shopping and you click on and order a clearly labeled bottle of piss, when it arrives on your doorstep that’s your own problem.

That said though if just anybody can post and sell literally anything, even things like that, and Amazon does nothing to monitor what they’re selling through their site - well, Amazon is going to get flooded with garbage and scams sooner rather than later.

The wiki for Bird Box told me a hell of a lot more about what was going on than the actual movie did.

“We can’t find any evidence. But we definitely know they’re guilty! They just covered their tracks so well that there is no evidence of wrongdoing available anywhere. Given the situation at hand and how obvious it is, without evidence, that these guys have committed a crime, we better lock them up.”

Right, and the first Starlink launch was in 2019. So, at absolute maximum, these satellites have a total lifespan of 4 years, if the ones coming down now are the very first ones ever launched into orbit.

That’s, if you’ll excuse my language, fucking abysmal. This is what’s supposed to bring reliable internet access to the distant corners of the globe? A constellation of million dollar satellites that crumble into dust on re-entry every four years? Maintaining this, and God forbid scaling it up to actually serve a majority of the world population, would be a stupendous and recurring waste of money, materials, and labor. Elon has a stable full of actual rocket scientists over at SpaceX, fucking use them. Max lifespan of four years for a “permanent” satellite constellation is actually laughable. The ISS has been in stable orbit since 1998. DIRECTV had better satellite longevity than Starlink.

By all means, design them to deorbit so that when humanity cooks itself off the face of the planet next century we aren’t left with 300,000 starlink satellites trashing up our cosmic lawn for eternity. But maybe design them to deorbit later. At this rate we’ll be turning a percent of the world’s GDP into literal smoke each year as a fifth of the Starlink constellation rains down over the plains of Africa.

a plurality

Yeah, about ten guys who were bought and sold by Russia and a couple thousand other folks that fell for their con. By no means a majority and also by no means a reasonable stance.

At the rate we’re going we’ll be lucky if we aren’t all dead in 250 years, let alone 250 million.

I predict lots of stupid emoji spam, and frequent changing of the subject.

If it bothers you that much, write one. 85% of Linux was constructed by frustrated nerds deciding to write their own solution to a problem they found. There is no parent company to complain to, just fix it yourself and distribute the solution. Else, you’ll need to wait for someone else to do exactly that.