Were they as annoying as seagulls? Because I could see that being a fairly valid reasoning back in the day.

This is essentially what I did when I was laid off August last year. And it did take about that long to really be free of all the stress I’d racked up over the years in retail and other public customer-facing roles.

Marked as Spam, I’ll never see it again, and if enough people do they’ll get the entire email service blocked by your email provider since they’re actively hosting spam. And there’s not much more annoying and difficult than trying to remove a legitimate service from spam lists because some users abused it.

In SEARS case… just going back to what they originally did. They were Amazon before the internet. You got a catalog in the mail, sent in your order and payment, and they would ship you the product. It’s literally the exact same business. It’s not even like Amazon came out of nowhere to be as big as it is today, it was on a clear trajectory, at any time SEARS could have jumped into the ring with the business they originally were instead of sticking to the clearly dying department store model.

DLSS is an Nvidia technology, so of course it is.

We use a combination of a tall vase for the big top heavy stuff and an old Jaegermeister ice bucket that came free with something decades ago. Nestled within each other. Holds all of the bigger cooking utensils like spatulas, spoons, tongs, etc.

Nope. And it’s 100% understandable.

I’m actually surprised MS doesn’t just lock the newest games from the Game pass trials. I don’t remember how long they removed the $1 around the Starfield launch, but say the releases less than 30 days old.

To be fair, you can advocate for a group you aren’t a part of. I advocate for LGBTQIA rights and I’m none of those.

That’s not an inherent red flag.

I bought mine to print out a replacement plastic basket slider for the deep freezer built in the 1980s with a 4 digit Kenmore model number.

But learning how to use the modelling software to make the shape to actually get that done is taking longer than I thought in my spare time. It became a lower priority than other things.

It better be a major point, their current engine is preventing their games from meaningfully competing now. Their 20 year old engine, makes 20 year old games with a mediocre coat of paint.

Except the store can’t take it back from you if they decide to close up shop. So it inherently is a different product purchase, and should be required to be disclosed as such.

However everyone with more than a wallnut brain knows

And yet we regularly see that is exactly what the average person is. That’s what the laws have to be based around, not those that are educated about a subject.

The average person doesn’t understand licensing as a concept. They buy a movie on DVD, they buy a movie on Amazon streaming. It’s the same term and the same thing to them, but with vastly different restrictions. One you don’t even own the product at all. If Amazon decides to shut the service down, you’re Shit out of Luck. Even though you paid to buy the movie just like if you got it on a disc.

Our laws differentiate that difference in ownership because the corporations want that to be specifically mentioned to protect their interests, but they usually don’t require storefronts to tell consumers that the purchase button doesn’t mean you own the product you’re paying for. You just are able to use it as long as the company wants to let you, with little to no recourse if they change their mind for any reason.

You’re defending this fucked up system whether you intend to or not. You are basically blaming the consumer for not knowing that paying for something one way means they own it, and paying for it a different way means they don’t and it can be taken away at any time.

The point is every company hides simple facts like this in the TOS that no one reads. You know you are one of the handful of people that have bothered reading more than 5 words of it.

We regularly see the average person surprised when companies shutdown or change structures and their digital “purchases” become no longer accessible because they only own a license to something that will no longer exist and there are little to no protections for digital purchases being revoked because most laws are archaic and based on a physical product, even referencing digital items but not taking the nature of that into account.

Remember just a couple years ago when Sony was shutting down a PlayStation Store movie service and those movies were removed from customer libraries? This wasn’t a subscription service with changing library like Netflix, but specific movie purchases advertised as if it would be the same purchase as getting a physical product but digital, and from a large corporation that no one would reasonably expect to suddenly shutdown.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/8/23199861/playstation-store-film-tv-show-removed-austria-germany-studiocanal

Because we know of course that the TOS is read by absolutely everyone every time, and not just blindly accepted 99.99% of the time because the consumer has no option. Companies can do whatever they want as long as its on the TOS no one reads. We can’t have any sort of oversight or regulation of things companies do if it’s disclosed in the TOS.

Because the owners have grifted all of that away to private accounts already of course.

It was everywhere when the process first started. But like most news after a couple days it gets replaced. Especially with all the other crazy shit in modern society.

So its not saving time, just costing money to increase surveillance.

So just like nearly everything the TSA does.

Polanco, Mansour and Reilly are three of five police officers the city has fired for testing positive for cannabis, despite a state law that made cannabis legal and another law that stated police officers cannot be disciplined in any way for off-duty cannabis use.

None of the five officers were accused of using cannabis on the job or being under the influence while working.

If I’m reading this correctly, the issue is really just a federal law about Schedule I drug use. Cannabis is in the process of being rescheduled out of Schedule I by the DEA, currently in a mandatory 60 day public comment period. So if that were completed already, this wouldn’t even be an issue now.

Seems pretty straightforward that this is the right call of what to do here since the only reason we’re even talking about it is bureaucratic delays with the federal process. Unless I’m missing some additional context here.

No idea why anyone is surprised that an influencer product has a price premium.

The last person I’d trust to give accurate numbers. If that’s what he’s saying publicly, it’s likely even worse.