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- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 13 hours ago:
While not a “review” in the traditional sense, I hope it would fall under the CRFA anyway.
ftc.gov/…/consumer-review-fairness-act-what-busin…
The Consumer Review Fairness Act makes it illegal for companies to include standardized provisions that threaten or penalize people for posting honest reviews.
They can’t necessarily use a “contract” as a defense.
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 15 hours ago:
From the king of “free speech.” 🙄
- Comment on I can get a 430 hearing on any family member I want. Hell i can even testify if someone else needs one. So tell me why I can't go through the legal system to get an invasive one for Trump? 4 days ago:
The real answer is, it’s complicated. Involuntary commitment (and related acts) is a pretty extreme measure for when an individual is a danger to themselves or others. There’s no evidence that he’s trying to hurt himself, and the “other” usually has to be a specific person, not just a hypothetical class of others to have standing.
And it’s even more complicated by the idea that the president has been gifted broad immunity regarding anything remotely tangential to official powers. So you can’t even say you, specifically, are in danger due to things done by the government, so long as there is some whack job theory under which it’s being executed.
If he came alone to your house naked and covered in nacho cheese with a knife threatening to hurt you, you’d probably have a case. Depending on the state, it probably takes something similar even for a family member or acquaintance (but check your local laws).
- Comment on Black Holes 5 days ago:
Teachers: You can’t divide by zero.
Nature: Hey guys, check this shit out. - Comment on protein! 6 days ago:
In other news, sales of the caveman fad diet books have cratered.
- Comment on Hope you like math 1 week ago:
Must be an angel with wings, so they can also have a flying fuck.
- Comment on Apparently we should shame people for selling at affordable prices 2 weeks ago:
“douche”
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 2 weeks ago:
“If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product.”
The phrase has its uses, but shit like this is what happens when it’s taken to the extreme.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 2 weeks ago:
What’s the worst that could happen if we eradicate all the rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows?
- Comment on Anon wants robux 3 weeks ago:
hunter2
- Comment on Thoughts?? 3 weeks ago:
They were living in 2025 when they posted that in 2023. I don’t think the stats software is the biggest story here.
- Comment on Anon's family tries to rein in grandma 4 weeks ago:
Have they even said ‘thank you’ once for not dropping a nuke?
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 4 weeks ago:
Dumb question: which one draws more media attention in Chicago?
In my own experience (not Chicago), the local news is dominated by where the rush-hour crash is today, while national news talks way more about gun deaths.
I’m going to go with the general vibe of Lemmy here and assume you mean that auto deaths need to get more attention in America. To that I would say there is a general cultural attitude that cars are a necessary evil (even among most people who don’t outright love them, which is a huge demographic), and fixing the zoning and infrastructure would take decades and many tens of billions of dollars to restructure a large city around public transit. Besides bumper-sticker-slogan politics (“more public transit!”) there are precious few real, concrete plans for getting from the current situation to the car-free utopia.
Even then, you’d not eliminate cars entirely. Among the more developed western European nations that are known for good public transit, Ireland seems (at a quick glance) to have the fewest cars per person at 536 per 1,000, while the car-happy US has 850/1,000. So best case, you reduce cars by ~35%.
Gun deaths, on the other hand, are easier to imagine as a problem that can be solved relatively quickly and with less disruption. From an advocacy point of view, it’s the lower-hanging fruit.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 5 weeks ago:
Win10 EOL is surely driving some people away, but it’s difficult to put a number on that. Measuring by market share is tricky and can be misleading. Steam Deck popularity may be driving increased usage, but those users aren’t necessarily migrating their main OS, just adding a new machine to the mix. But maybe “migrating” their time spent in a given OS counts? It’s messy.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I mean its not even too late for this to happen starting like right now 2025, right?
No, it’s not. The US, and increasingly the rest of the western world, is infected by a bunch of politicians who think ‘1984’ is an instruction manual rather than a cautionary tale.
IT being used to weaponize surveillance against the people is happening right now.
- Comment on Excel having a stab at dates 5 weeks ago:
Yep. “1” is 12:00am on 1-Jan-1900
Numbers less than zero just give a weird error. Between zero and less than one give a nonsense date-formatted non-date.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
And of course, anything passed by the normal legislative processes can just as easily be repealed that way.
Lasting change is going to require constitutional amendment(s) to harden the democracy against bad actors.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 month ago:
The question is basically answered now, so I’ll just drop this video here for some additional context about Microsoft’s history of trying to build a file system that solves the problem, and the challenges they faced even in the early XP days:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5d5H92c4Mk
tl;dw: MS tried to understand the context of each file, not just the name. Once you add dozens of pieces of metadata to each of tens of thousands of files (even 20+ years ago), the whole system became too difficult for them to properly index and manage efficiently.
- Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. 1 month ago:
Even if you discount all other forms of taxation, and only focus on income taxes, the sentiment is irrelevant to this particular vote.
His support appears to be concentrated in the middle class. (Median household income in NYC is about 80k, right about the peak of his vote share)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah, my wife teases me all the time about not answering. “Going to the store after work” doesn’t, IMHO, require me to do or say anything about it.
A direct question will almost always get a response.
It’s going to be a little different for married couples, though. Even if I don’t respond, we’ll be talking face-to-face in a few hours tops.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 month ago:
Might be too late. They changed the policy a few years ago when they introduced mod packs. They didn’t want entire packs to fail if one person pulled their mod, so total deletion was disabled.
Folks can still hide their mods and make new individual downloads impossible, but it’s still there in the background.
(All this is from memory. I hope I’m wrong)
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 1 month ago:
I’ve always maintained that the first was a fine game that was tanked by the price. It was priced to drive gamepass subs, not sell the game. At $35-40, it would have been received much better, imo. Years later, now that it’s more appropriately priced, it seems to be more well-reviewed.
Unfortunately the second is going down the same path. It may take 5+ years for the game to be appreciated to its fullest (assuming no glaring issues), through no fault of the devs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It was when I grew up there. 80s-90s.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is why subject matter experts matter. Support for the vague idea of “deport people here illegally” is pretty high, but any specific method of actually doing it is much more unpopular. Media is essential in getting that distinction out to the laypeople, but they’ve largely failed.
And I’d argue that it’s not just immigration where this disconnect exists. Lots of policies have broad support until you start talking about specifics. People just want to “get things done” but the “how” is either boring or unsavory.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You can handle what you can handle, and trying to drink from the firehose will only burn you out. Be as active in your community as you can, when you can, then take a break when you need to. Your own mental health matters, too.
- Comment on Anon pitches a new game 1 month ago:
But what if number bigger?
- Comment on Leaves have evolved at least twice 🤔 2 months ago:
Which came first, the plant or the seed?
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 months ago:
You could even give it some sort of rocket propulsion.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 months ago:
See also: census designated places, a collection of people with no formal town incorporation/government. My dad grew up in a “town” (CDP) of about 250 residents. It’s about a half hour drive from the nearest real town, for things like groceries and hospitals.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 2 months ago:
