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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
The credit card companies have always tried to prevent merchants from doing this by inserting language prohibiting either credit card surcharges or cash discounts into the contract agreements with the merchants. Obviously, credit card companies want to make it easy and convenient for consumers to use their credit cards.

I can’t immediately find it, but at some point I think 10-15 years ago, some merchants sued the credit card companies over this, and they won a court ruling that said that the clauses forbidding cash discounts and surcharging are unenforceable. As a result, merchants are now free to do it, but there are various rules. And some state legislatures have started to get involved with regulating things.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

alcohol in pretty much any quality has negative effects

The key is that this guidance came out somewhere between millennial and gen z coming of age.

When I was a child the TV news would run “health” stories about how moderate amounts of red wine are good for you. It turned out those studies were funded by the alcohol industry.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If that’s a Tomcat, where’s that lizard’s RIO?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got a DMCA notice for having a fork of GPL 3.0 code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
OP needs to counter-notice this shit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke up with hate in my heart⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Achtung! likely originates from the same era, propagating through allied machine shops during WWII. And I’ve seen that in the wild.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He took it literally⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If you confess a crime to anyone, that’s an admission against party interest. And it can usually come in under that hearsay exception. It’s pretty common for cops to testify to what the defendant said in custody, and also for jailhouse snitches to testify to what the defendant said in custody (i.e. this is not a special cop hearsay exception).

And the kicker is that this doesn’t help you, the defendant. Anything you say will be used against you, but it can’t ever be used for you. Because as soon as you’re trying to introduce your own prior statements, it’s inadmissable hearsay and not an admission against interest any more.

You’re right though that it’s going to be an argument on this every time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He took it literally⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Funnily enough, the supreme court ruled that you cannot invoke your right to remain silent by remaining silent. You have to actually say something about “I want a lawyer.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
millia pasuum, literally “1,000 paces,” was a common unit of measure in the empire, and the basis of various modern miles. It was slightly shorter than the modern statute mile.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drive safe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Seems like it might be 60 km/h.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is audiophile bullshit cheating?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
But, but, the other terminal on those batteries is floating?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accidental rapture⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
In many jurisdictions, deer season is like 1 or 2 weekends per year, and the limit is 1. It’s not a lot of time to actually find and shoot a deer. So this guy is probably setting this up several weeks in advance to get some level of assurance that some deer will show up to his spot at the appointed time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not sure what attracts down votes to your comment. People should read up on the know nothing party. This shit has happened before.

America has always been a contradiction. It is Ralph Waldo Emerson and Robert E. Lee. It is both ICE and this nativity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fall for it every year. Every. Year.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s funny because earlobes are, like, all gristle.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Darkness Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Also going backwards in time compared to everyone else.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You are correct. The public only receives written transcripts of the relevant sections of tape only. Off-topic conversations, meaning anything that is not relevant to the air accident, are not released. The audio files are not released to the public.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a real geopolitical problem for Russia. Russia got screwed by geography in terms of natural harbors that don’t freeze over in the winter. It’s why they’ve always had a crap navy, going way back into the imperial days.

Right now, the Russian Navy is based in Murmansk (brrrr. limited routes to get out into Atlantic) and the Black Sea. The Black Sea is bad for them because Turkey (a NATO member) makes sure to maintain total control of what passes through the Bosphorous.

Part of what Russia did in Syria during the civil war netted them a lease on a base on the Mediterranean. That could have had some use for power projection, but I think they lost it when a certain opthalmologist was expelled.

Anyhow, it’s hilarious when the trolls posing as MAGA Americans bring this up, because real Americans just take their total abundance of ports that don’t freeze over completely for granted. That’s why I point out secondary, less busy port cities on the Gulf of Mexico, where the water is actually pretty warm (instead of just not freezing over). Just to highlight how good the US has it. Even if we were forced to give up Norfolk and Coronado, there are plenty of other suitable places we could have naval bases.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ah, yes. As a patriotic American I love our warm water ports like Corpus Christi and Tampa. Don’t you love warm water ports as well?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Finally, these two letters, thorn and eth, dropped out of English a long time ago, but they’re still in Modern Icelandic today.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hilary can't catch a break⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I remember I went to a Mardi Gras parade that year, and every single float was a joke about Bill Clinton’s penis. Very family friendly that was.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aeroplane⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

I’m pretty sure on newer 737s the autopilot disconnects when it detects a sufficient physical force on the yoke.

On airplanes that don’t do this, the autopilot servos are clutched so that you can still override them by applying a specified amount of force. There are reinforced points on the bottom of the dash panel that you can use with your foot to get leverage to help with this.

(This also applies as a backup on planes that do disconnect)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The trauma. The terror. The humanity!!!1!!1!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
We might never know. Subway has been accused of bread shenanigans in the past (in addition to short-selling their footlongs).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The trauma. The terror. The humanity!!!1!!1!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The FBI crime lab didn’t even do any forensic analysis on whether the sub measured up to the full 12 inches or not.

It was such a shoddy investigation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aeroplane⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Some more practical tips.
- if the autopilot is engaged, you can’t physically move the wheels, because it is moving them for you. Press the red button on the steering wheel to disconnect autopilot.
- That IAS tape on the left of the sky/ground box is the most important thing on the plane. It’s got red bands on the high side and low side that you should stay out of.
- if the plane tells you there’s a “stall, stall” you need to push the wheels forward to make the nose go down. And keep the speed above that lower red band.
- the black button on the wheel is the push-to-talk to talk on the radio, or maybe the internal PA system. Depends how it’s set up.
- most important: the switch for the “fasten seatbelt” sign is usually on the bottom of the top panel. You can flip it on and off as much as you want. (Older planes will also let you do this with the “no smoking” sign).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
And Hawking radiation. Hawking radiation is pretty “dark” for solar-mass scale black holes and up, but it can become relatively very intense for smaller holes.

For the holes we observe astronomically, the things we can see are the accretion disks and the orbits of stars around the black hole.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Just for context, almost every federal court is a branch of a state court.

This is not true at all.

Federal courts are part of the judicial branch, not the executive branch. So they don’t shut down when the executive branch “shuts down”, because the shutdown laws don’t apply to them. As a practical matter federal courts can keep running for a while using saved up court fee revenue. They will eventually run out of that money and gave some tough choices about what to do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s pretty well settled mathematics that infinities are “the same size” if you can draw any kind of 1-to-1 mapping function between the two sets. If it’s 1-to-1, then every member of set A is paired off with a member of B, and there are no elements left over on either side.

In the example with even integers y versus all integers x, you can define the relation x <–> y = 2*x. So the two sets “have the same size”.

But the real numbers are provably larger than any of the integer sets. Meaning every possible mapping function leaves some reals leftover.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FlatEarthers will work around it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There’s a rule that the flight has to be within so many minutes of a diversion airport at all times, and this is hard to do in Antarctica.

Nowadays, 180 minutes is fairly common, and there are some planes and airlines that can go to 240 or even as high as 370.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

they were going on about how AI would route all the trucks and decide which order the deliveries would be done.

Yeah, NP hard problems don’t get easier just because the AI is doing the “thinking.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US presidents are getting younger over time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s about the same time as the Know-Nothing party was pushing nativism and anti-immigrant sentiment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be gay, do crimes (in space)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s probably fully recorded. Everything in and out.

That way if there’s a mishap it’s possible to go back and reconstruct the entire sequence or to replay high fidelity simulations of the network traffic at the equipment to reproduce problems.