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Thing is, it wasn't just one incident, it was just one incident that resulted in a death. When Ubers started self-driving it took just a few hours before there were videos on twitt…

> He lost his eyes and face, had both of his hands amputated, and was forcibly given agonizing treatments for 14 months. I bet this was because doctors and surgeons saw him as chal…

> (and no, we don't care what your ideology is) Unless you happen to present a articulate, reasoned objection to the use of the term "sex worker" to describe camgirls, in which cas…

Dang, I can get a countertop fryer for $180? Fried food's on the menu, boys! Quadruple bypass, here I come.

My state gave restaurant owners a billion dollars during the pandemic. A billion dollars. During the pandemic, restaurants lobbied hard as hell against restrictions and cheated at …

> I would rather have nothing but chain restaurants owned by megacorps than have people working for less than a living wage. Those megacorps do everything they can to pay as little…

Enforcement isn't a farce, its just focused on workers because employers are powerful and workers aren't. The reason republicans are so hardline on immigration is because "illegal"…

"Many economists assumed this was the fault of the labor seller for not having skills attractive to buyers" Given the massive redistribution of wealth in the US for the last half a…

"If they can't give a decent wage [1] then they were not a viable business to begin with" Yep. 1000%. If your workers need to be on any form of government assistance, you're being …

What's exceedingly common is an focus on what they think is efficiency (or really, what they see as "waste") which they think makes them a shrewd, smart, savvy business owner. Dist…

There's also the fact that Homebrew are a bunch of clowns when it comes to security. For example, they included their repo github API key in their publicly accessible jenkins site,…

Have you ever tried to open a brew issue ticket? Unless you follow the exact format of their template, your ticket is deleted almost immediately. Lat I looked the template assumed …

I completely forgot about how immensely challenging it would be to keep the battery packs (and passengers) warm enough at the altitudes jetliners operate. Good point.

"The cool thing about electric drivetrains is that you can put this specific plane motor in a train..." Because clearly the railroad industry has been sitting around twiddling its …

Already done with gliders via ground-based winches, which once "bootstrapped" with enough height and forward momentum are usually self-sustaining, but you have to be in weather con…

Probably should have said soyuz rocket engine , my bad...though I guess it would have been more proper to say "one of the Vostok-K booster engines" of which there were four. Or may…

100LL is a scourge, I completely agree - but I think the sense of scale is off. 160,000 planes that spend most of their lives sitting on the ground? I just don't buy that 100LL is …

Electric flight for commercial passenger service will never happen at commercial passenger scale. Why? Energy density. Lithium ion batteries store 0.8 MJ per Kg which is fifty thre…

Can we please not use the term "sex worker" for people who do not face the vast majority of risks (health/physical, financial, legal-of-the-criminal-sort, and emotional) that someo…

It's not like I have a solution, but with a sufficiently large enough Big Employer Company in a town/city, it all but guarantees a plaintiff against won't get a fair trial when dam…

After appealing and not getting a reply, did you contact them via web chat or phone and ask about the status, and request that things be escalated?

Not quite the same as an arc lamp, but in high school I did theater tech stuff for the middle school. One year the only thing the lighting rental company had for a follow spot was …

The whole "feud" is stupid. As pointed out, Kapoor has purposefully and publicly violated the terms of sale and Semple has taken no action. I can picture the two of them sharing a …