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I’m skeptical of this point. Growing up Baptist, I was taught that temptation itself is not a sin because Christ was sinless and he was tempted in the desert by the devil.

“Manage to live”? Is that the standard for the richest country in the history of humanity? That’s some short sighted thinking. Are those “managing to live” saving for retirement? C…

Just grab a bottle of 5HTP from your local upscale supermarket and you’ll be fine.

“EV sales” includes plug in hybrids. I’m a big proponent of plug in hybrids as a good transition vehicle for those not willing / able to to full EV, but they should be reported sep…

Absolutely right. The fact that it even got a full trial shows there are legal questions here.

> You can't sue someone for mimicking someone else's voice well enough to be confused for the mimicked creator's voice. Some people can do some voices quite well. Oh you most certa…

I doubt they have the storage for all those discs. Won’t they just let everyone keep them?

>The agreement outlines that 35% of that local portion that is returned to Cupertino is handed by the city to Apple—to the tune of $107.7 million since 1998. California took notice…

They were able to rebuild… because the US funded it. The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following th…

The EU is pushing for (has already ratified?) rules against even pre-installing Apple apps, or at least making it easy to remove them. I’m certain that Apple, who sells their phone…

It seems like everyone in these discussions sees only two worlds: lawless hellscape of intrusive, data-stealing apps that permit freedom or “walled garden” of good apps that restri…

There is an entire genre (vaporwave) that is rooted in sampling stuff like this. It’s a treasure trove.

Well, being the only country left with any manufacturing after a catastrophic world war is one major reason. Also, navigable waterways. Transporting goods by water costs 1/100th wh…

And we treat them, for that hard work and entrepreneurial spirit quite terribly. As a native born American I’ve been appalled at the mistreatment of H1B workers, and even those on …

Not if they are totalitarian and have plans to invade a sovereign nation it borders. You cannot ignore the values of these states in this discussion.

Many eyes have been batted over Russia’s erratic leadership. One one extended instance was called The Cold War. As for China, if you can’t hear the war drums being beat over the th…

Sounds like Lukas is aromantic and asexual, which doesn’t preclude having meaningful friendships with any gender.

I’m a huge EV fan. My family has owned four over the past 6 years. That pedigree out of the way, I’ll give my cynical take: this will get rolled back by President DeSantis in a hot…

They are lending their brand to Bookshop.org, which profits also from selling books (that’s how they can afford to stay in business). I’m a big fan of Bookshop. I just wish they co…

The Rosenhan experiment is now widely believed to have been a hoax.

A new plant costs like $10B. We could build 8 of them if we got back what was stolen from the Paycheck Protection Program.

How do you know the union workers wont get those benefits if a contract hasn’t been signed?

>There is nothing stopping companies from offering the same benefits to union employees that non-union employees are getting. Sure, but it could be construed as promising benefits …

> refuses to negotiate afterwards Refusing to negotiate is illegal, the NLRB has ruled on that in the Starbucks case.

From reading the article you linked, it appears they violated the law by refusing to negotiate, not by giving non-union workers benefits that they didn’t give to union workers.