The first part isn’t that unusual, and then it leads to the second part being provisioning the CPE (weird to not do it remote, but they probably get some kickbacks from the HOA). And then the last part sounds like user-error/bad business practices (because how’s an ISP supposed to limit the number of devices when everything goes through my own router?)

But I agree, that’s not very nice and I wouldn’t want to live there either.

Are these groups of people in the room with you right now? Who’s asking for leaded mogas back? Or do you mean stuff like avgas 100LL? No one really wants that either, other than the last owners of planes that don’t work with unleaded…

I’d be drinking Advocaat all the time if it wasn’t so expensive.

a bullet moves fast enough to render a man dead before they can perceive what happened

How do you know that? Have you asked someone who was shot how much pain they were in? The state shouldn’t be allowed to execute their problems.

So the substance isn’t a possible treatment for cancer because of neurological side effects… and their next step is “let’s sell it to guys who aren’t able to use condoms”?

Isn’t it just a small stipend? Nothing you could live on, even if houses were burning down 40 hours a week.

That sounds like a nightmare tbh.

I used to use that kind of thing, and it was nice until I needed to carry a lever tumbler lock key and some other keys that were abnormally shaped.

According to my friend who used to work with that stuff, the bigger “problem” is mostly with regulations and balancing the risks; the damage potential of an aircraft accident (loss of life, brand reputation, recalls, etc) is exponentially more expensive than however much you’d save in production costs. Closed-loop recycling is usually the focus instead. But it would of course be cool.

At least that’s kinda Airbuses viewpoint on it. Boeing on the other hand might be fine with delivering dodgy stuff and bribing away any possible fines ;)

There are different grades btw, recycled aluminum isn’t used for most aviation or military stuff in general due to regulations on purity and such. But I guess that’s a positive for the world regardless.

“If you want to replace Internet Explorer with Netscape Navigator, why not just use Solaris or OS/2 or something? It’s THEIR OS you’re using” didn’t go over too well with the courts.

What 153./8? You mean the allocated 153.66.0.0/15? But yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised, they probably don’t care about abuse reports and it’s more difficult to pinpoint a specific customer due to CGNAT.

At least they provide a nice list of ranges you could block.

Even if you remove those places from the “Express List”? But yeah, that sounds typical, they like getting the transaction fees and such. And should you get them to do a chargeback, they take the money back from the merchant as well. It’s a win-win to screw you over.

Exactly. The Swedish government or something did some study recently to determine if we’d be able to be self-sufficient under a longer time if we needed to be, as we currently have a lot of food imports. The conclusion was “yes, but there won’t be as much food diversity”.

However, they completely ignored the fact that we only have a ~90 days strategic reserve of oil, and that basically all the machining used for farming runs on diesel. And there’s currently no goals to change that.

If we can’t import or refine diesel anymore, we will starve.

Can you imagine if they put a camera inside the vehicle?

There are already cameras inside most new cars, but the purpose is to see if you’re nodding off when driving and such. It’s a good thing to keep unsafe drivers off the road. The bad thing is the lack of privacy regulation.

The classic war crime double tap, to kill more innocent rescue workers, reporters, etc.

Wouldn’t it be cheaper for them to put up signs saying the water is non-potable?

US citizens can’t be denied entry. But everyone knows he doesn’t care about that piece of paper called “the constitution”.

“provide for their needs”…? What do you mean? Sure, many gamblers don’t have a very stable economic situation, but you’re implying that something like UBI would suddenly stop people from gambling or what?

The whole “verified facts, no FUD” title is exactly the kind of shit an LLM would write. (And it’ll still make up a ton of “facts”, of course)