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@futurebird You'd be saving them money. It costs them like $500 to dispose of them, apparently.
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@gdinwiddie @futurebird
Engadget had a story about it:
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/do-you-want-a-giant-redbox-machine-nows-your-chance-172806520.html
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@heidilifeldman I think "gulag" has a nice ring.
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@mattblaze I don't know whether there's case law about this. Trump's use of executive orders as effectively a form of legislation that bypasses Congress is absolutely unprecedented.
Some writing on the matter, inspired by earlier executive orders from this administration […]
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@cstross
Anyone?
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Anyone?
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@flexghost Take THAT Saint Pierre & Miquelon! Too long have you been taking advantage of the US by flooding our precious fragile markets with your... (checks notes) cheap mink pelts, suppressing development of our domestic mink farms, while blocking access to your... (checks notes) lucrative […]
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@briankrebs @mmasnick They've been saying that this is no big deal and that nothing wrong / sensitive was shared, so I've been trying to mentally will one of the press to ask the procedure for being included in the next non-sensitive group chat. Obviously, if it's completely ok to share this […]
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@shoq Is that a local market prediction? I'd have thought the housing shortage in the country would keep it a seller's market. I didn't think anyone had done anything about that (except putting tariffs on imports from our largest suppliers of lumber, lime, and gypsum, which is likely to make […]
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That's unacceptable.
People should be able to read their books on any hardware they like running any software they want.
You shouldn't have to buy a new eReader just to read a book. That's an ecological nightmare.
Forcing people to switch to closed source software, which leaks private […]
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@GottaLaff It's complicated because it depends on whether you care about the residents in the nursing home or not. You also need to consider such questions as: How will this affect my stake in UnitedHealth Group? Will this affect the property taxes on my 10 homes? You need to keep these factors […]
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@flexghost Here's a better speech:
https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/114106721845750214
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@christineburns If peace is all that matters to Putin and Trump, surely they have no problem with returning the borders to where they were in 1994 when the US and Russia both signed the Budapest Memorandum. I suspect that if that happens, Ukraine will not fire a single weapon and peace will be […]
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@futurebird Back in the 2000s when I was active on LiveJournal, I do remember actually educating one of my LJ friends about this, and it was one of my proudest moments there. He was a pretty smart guy who worked in movie CGI in San Francisco. But the circles he moved in were pretty […]
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And I do hope my students find applications for what they learn in my class, that mathematics permeates their world and informs how they solve problems.
But if all I could say is that all my students understand the difference between marginal and effective tax and how brackets are applied? If […]