As a US citizen who lives overseas and has to vote in a state with byzantine practices, they usually only send me my digital ballot form less than 30 days before the election. To mail it and have it received before election day, I would have to mail it within a day or two. Not a lot of room for mail delays.
Oh wait, DeJoy has been sabotaging USPS efficiency for years.
Guess we can give up on that “no taxation without representation” line
Nothing of value was lost.
I bought my first Ticketmaster tickets ever recently and was shocked at the price. First and probably last time ever doing this.
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All of the responses to this story seem to emphasize the legality of the court order, but that highlights the risk of the modern era: governments acting unethically, immorally, and leveraging the law to forward those goal. And if business will always capitulate, then ultimately they are an extension of that state authority - not a servant of the customer.
In the end, privacy becomes a brand, but not a reality.
It has nothing to do with AI.
They bet big on crypto and it hasn’t paid off for years. They continued hiring. Their stock has been flat or lowering for the past five years. They continued hiring.
My kid is 11 and gets to bike to school, or walk to music lessons or the store whenever. It’s pretty cool
Netherlands
🙋♂️ I left in 2025. It’s great! Walkable and bikeable cities, affordable groceries, my health insurance actually pays for stuff, there’s public transit, the food is safer, and not absolutely every I do funnels into only 12 companies.
I moved my family. When my kid needs higher education, it won’t cost more than our home. I can send him out in the streets without worrying he’ll be hit by a truck going 80. Active shooter or intruder drills aren’t a phenomenon in his school.
I only wish we could have done it sooner.
He’ll announce something superficially positive and they’ll come back to him. The American “independent” voter is a gullible fool - they always have been.
So now we have to assume that anything being blogged about on Substack means that the blogger has a stake in whatever topic they’re blogging about.
And if their percentage was unreasonably high, their competitors would sell at lower prices. Strangely, they don’t. Which tells us that Tim’s complaints are nothing but bullshit.
I was gifted a Tidbyt. These gadgets are ok, not super useful. Just consumption for consumption sake
Police have little intelligence of their own
And in 10 years they’ll agree to a small website that suggests that maybe Europe might want to open a place to store source code that’s European hosted… In another five years.
Stocks of these firms have dropped. Trump and friends will now buy up the stocks. Then the statement will be rolled back, the policy will never be implemented, and Trump and friends will sell the climb.
Typical grifting and corruption in America these days.
EU tech companies keep letting themselves be sold to US tech companies, or re-HQing to America.
Capitalism can’t solve problems created by capitalism. The largest companies will always gobble up the competition, eliminating the alternatives.
Literally every single large AI provider admits to committing large scale piracy. No congressional response.
Some members of the public are watching HBO shows because they’re poor? FULL FORCE OF THE LAW