Over Mar a Lago

Never ever buy stock someone is trying to ‘sell’ you.

Because many people believe any use of gen AI is unethical due to how it was created, in addition to how the people in charge are using it.

In other words, using it in any capacity is a bad look to a lot of creatives. And other rational people who can foresee the devastating impact it’s going to have on art of all types, government, and society at large.

Personally I’d go with a large painful burn scar with an interesting story, or a battle wound that reopens from time to time or causes some other limitations. “It never fully healed” ala Frodo Baggins.

A person walking around in premodern times with a semi permanent but nonlethal infection would strain believability for me.

BANG

“Ok, now you’re hired”

She actually has terrible trigger discipline.

Cause most of us have no way to pressure them. What am I going to do, threaten to take away the $0 I’ve paid them over the last 20 years?

But, you know, that’s exactly the reason they don’t care about our whining.

I love your optimism. I don’t share it, but I love it. I hope you’re right.

I’m really, really upset that you put the image of McSushi into my head. Well done.

You’re not wrong but Mozilla is real busy making Firefox another bad choice among many bad choices.

Maybe it’s time to go back to BBSes. This whole internet thing kinda sucks now.

This is what I have used for the last few years (after being a Firefox user for almost 2 decades), and yeah we’re probably safe for a little while, but it seems the writing is on the wall. The LibreWolf team can only do so much when the core browser is constantly being enshittified. I hoped this was a flash in the pan thing and LibreWolf would save us until Mozilla regained its senses, but it seems they’ve gone batshit.

I too will be keeping my eyes peeled for what to use next.

Oh I see the problem. It’s on Youtube.

He’s trying to tell you that you have a typo in your headline. If English isn’t your first language, the correct phrase is as atrielienz typed it, “Our hands are tied”. The sentence “Our hands our tied” does not make sense in English.

Sigh. Yes, but I’m not going to write up a peer reviewed thesis with annotations for an online discussion about how airlines are garbage at handling luggage.

Basically if your luggage doesn’t have identification in it and you don’t submit a claim (or the airline screws that part of the process up too, which has happened to me as well) they will not do anything at all for 5 days, then they will put your bag in storage for 2 months waiting to see if you come looking for it, AND if they can find it after that you’ll get it back. According to the US DOT, airlines generally don’t even declare your bag LOST until 5-14 days after your trip. If your trip was domestic it’s almost certainly long over by the time they decide your bag isn’t delayed and it’s actually lost. The onus is now on you to continue to devote time and energy to reclaiming your belongings, while they basically wash their hands of it if they can’t easily match the bag with a phone number.

None of this changes the fact that almost all unclaimed bags are the fault of the airline for not getting the bag to the destination at the same time as the person who owned it. That they are so easily able to dispose of these things (and sometimes even profit from it) after they caused the problem in the first place is pretty gross, to me. But when you have traveled by air as much as I have, you see a lot of gross shit that they pull.

That’s fine. My point stands that they don’t try very hard to find people.

Sure. But see…. they’ve successfully convinced you it’s your fault when your stuff gets stolen while in their possession. Your whole response is completely practical, everyone does know that. It’s still victim blaming.

I’ll chime in as someone who has had some expensive stuff stolen out of my luggage. And the airlines I handed the bag over to before the theft gave zero fucks.

The airlines should be liable. You have no control over the bag once you give it to them. Why are they allowed to shirk responsibility? Lobbying and capitalism.

Edit: Forgot to add, if you think they are trying hard to reunite these bags with owners you are wrong. That is driven by the customer harassing them. Been there done that. Again, they do not care about your stuff. At all.

They screwed up their upgrade script in the release around then. I spent an hour manually fixing it on my system. I’d imagine they sorted it with a point release shortly after but I haven’t checked.

You are correct.

Agriculture, shipping, and power generation together dwarf the petroleum used by road vehicles.

They kinda did this in Strange Days.