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> If you cross the Atlantic a lot, you don't have to spend 6 hours crossing North America first. Unfortunately Nashville International Airport doesn't have very many non-stop trans…

Also Google and Facebook have both recently constructed large data centers just outside of Nashville. https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/montgomer... https://www.fa…

One of the things that came to mind when I was listening to the ToS song it generated was a video I had watched years ago on the very dry topic of Rule 803 - Hearsay Exceptions but…

I just had it make a rap song of its own ToS https://app.suno.ai/song/7995f966-6265-4b34-a68e-400981f5931...

> Your employer has the right to waive the garden leave, but you do not. How is this not an illusory contract?

Trevor Paglen has a pretty amazing talk that discusses finding and photographing some of these satellites. I've linked the specific part of the talk where he starts getting into th…

Southwest does not overbook their flights as a matter of policy. https://www.southwest.com/help/changes-and-cancellations/ove...

I think the parent means that if you're not hired in the process, then you must wait a full year before entering into the candidate pipeline again.

Sadly, in my experience this only works if there's a viable competitor in your area. Last time I asked to be transferred to the retention department, after getting nowhere with the…

A few years ago I bought some brand name shampoo from Amazon and what they sent was very clearly counterfeit. The product and packaging were so bad that if anyone was paying attent…

IMO it would be better for NHTSA to create rulemaking that would regulate pulsing brake lights for use under heavy braking conditions similar to Europe. Effectively making it a saf…

Flashing red lights are generally illegal and reserved for emergency vehicles. Pulse skirts this by claiming it's not a flashing light, but a pulsing one. "Pulse is the only pulsin…

Pulse has a "Gross Margin Analysis" spreadsheet published (probably unintentionally) on their website[1]. It shows that they're charging dealerships $59.00 for the part and it inst…

A few years ago I bought some shampoo from Amazon that was very clearly counterfeit. The product and packaging was so bad that if anyone was paying attention to the supply line the…

> A democratically elected government of a state is at least answerable to its constituents who can boot them out if the government doesn't do the right thing. How can constituents…

Because that language is for dietary supplements which have a specific legislative carve out from falling under FDA regulation.

>consumers will get a $10 class action settlement for each device. Worse, it would likely be settled in the same way the Ticketmaster case was settled ... with a 10% off coupon for…

The same exact thing happens with TV shows and movies depicting american policing. If your script does not toe the line, good luck getting those permits necessary to film. https://…

The point of the transition to BEV is that electricity production is fungible. It's easier to modify the mixture of generation sources and to scale into renewables a whole lot fast…

It's not illegal to store cash in a safe deposit box, but some banks have policies which will state that you cannot. Ostensibly over money laundering / illegal asset hiding concern…

Ahh yes, the J.D. Power model of award giving.

I'm a techie type and have one of those comcast modems. I also have a descent Ubiquiti setup that rides behind it, but I'm kind of shoehorned into using their provided modem or alt…

I'm not entirely convinced the good old days of the whitepages was actually good. The phone companies required you to purchase your privacy for a monthly fee if you didn't want to …

I believe parent is talking about what the Chicago PD was doing a few years ago[1]. If there are others, I'd really like to know about those as well. [1] https://www.theguardian.co…

There are treatments for cyanide poisoning. Hydroxocobalamin can be used to react cyanide and form cyanocobalamin (vitamin B-12) which is nontoxic and renally excreted. The trick i…