> something as simple as a parking ticket is borderline life threatening
I always lived in fear of being pulled over and getting busted for not having the insurance I couldn’t afford.
Eventually get pulled over and ticketed, cough up $1000 for proof of insurance to bring to court then get a payment program to pay off $1000 fine.
Once the proof of insurance expired, begin the cycle again.
Until I finally got enough earnings to always pay my bills every month on time, my entire financial existence hinged on how often the police stopped me.
There are definitely people in Louisiana who just dispense with having a driver's license and tell the police to arrest them and they will bail themselves out with cash (and keep the cash around!)
I lived in the UK briefly and this episode broke my brain Series 3 Episode 53:
> Host Forbes Robertson, the only man in the group, is Ayr's answer to Donald Trump, and his menu plan includes pigs' trotters, which don't appeal to his guests
This isn’t about eyewitnesses, it’s about looking at historical pictures of the sky before the advent of space flight.
> Villarroel and her team used the digitized scans to study the night sky as it was before the 1957 launch of the first artificial satellite, the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, to eliminate the possibility of seeing space-based interference from human activity.
> Under the auspices of Villarroel’s Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project, they identified more than 107,000 transients.
In the recent UAP hearing, whistleblower Borland talked about how financial ruin is the real fear holding whistleblowers back:
> Are you scared for your safety?
> … I am not scared for my physical safety in the sense of an agency or company coming to kill me, but I have no job. My career has been tarnished. I'm unemployed. Living off of unemployment for the next three, four weeks until that's gone. So it's a complicated question.
I thought it would be a few trivial steps to reach the Emperor Maurice from Belle’s dad Maurice, but the best I could do was 5 torturous hops between List of Beauty and the Beast Characters and the Maurice disambiguation page.
> Each jurisdiction determines what is legal tender, but essentially it is anything which, when offered ("tendered") in payment of a debt, extinguishes the debt. There is no obligation on the creditor to accept the tendered payment, but the act of tendering the payment in legal tender discharges the debt.
No, it’s encouraging competition and cost-cutting in a part of the market they don’t control. This can be a reason for companies to support open source, for example.
Meanwhile, the companies running data centers will look for ways to support alternatives to Nvidia. That’s how they keep costs down.
It’s a good way to play companies off each other, when it works.
Business has always been a civilized version of war, and one which will always capture us in similar ways, so I guess wartime analogies are appropriate?
Still it feels awful black and white to phrase it that way when this is a clear net good and better alignment of incentives than before.
You seem so certain on the betrayal of the content-creators.
> Read up on vid.me, which broke YouTube's "monopoly" back in 2016-2017
Okay, sounds interesting.
> May 21 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google has persuaded a federal judge in California to reject a lawsuit from video platform Rumble (RUM.O), opens new tab accusing the technology giant of illegally monopolizing the online video-sharing market.
I see what I expected: that google cheated and got away with it. Where is the betrayal?
> In my estimation, all nations are lagging in the definition of what constitutes a public utility. In a decade we will be facepalming why advertisements were even needed for this common infrastructure.
I’m just glad others feel this way.
Why the hell can’t I have my own spam free email account from the post office? Because the ads, the precious ads.
It starts boldly by redefining the “american dream” into “line must go up” which ironically sounds like boomer logic being projected onto millennials.
I don’t know about the Fed but my dream as an American isn’t to accumulate more wealth than my parents.
Fwiw, the American dream in my neck of the woods is financial independence from landlords and bosses.