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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Micropayments would scale at a ridiculous rate like microtransactions in games have, so your $20 example would be at least $200 in reality by now.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I get angry because of frustration about things beyond my control that impact me negatively and can't simply be ignored. Knowing that extra step is great and all, but doesn't reduce the frustration or the anger. I'm sure that identifying the difference is helpful to some people who can ignore or address the actual cause of their anger.

Note: I don't get angry about frustrating things that I can do something about, or can be ignored.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Ahhhh, I was.wondering why they would take the time to set up an API with that data and forgot that almost everything has a way to just dump things into it without needing to be set. I forget because where I work we actively avoid that approach because of risks like this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Candyman and Bloody Mary only work if you believe :P

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If they didn't do it they get the same 'not guilty' verdict, so what is the recourse for someone who was falsely charged?

I am specifically thinking of the US where there are a lot of black men falsely convicted of violent crimes they did not commit because of racist eye witness testimony or even victims who blame a random black person to avoid social stigma and prosecutors who want higher conviction rates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Not to mention that not everyone has fingers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, it seemed cliche to me. Maybe it surprised some people because it wasn't a thing in Disney movies?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It’s funny people talking about how things are done in the U.S. and giving different answers.

Yeah, different states have different requirements and processes.

In Kansas, when I got my original license in the 90s it cost like $60 total to get the first one and ever since it has been somewhere between 10-30 or so to renew every 6ish years or something. Originally you had to take a written test that you could fill in at home. Just ridiculously cheap and no real barriers. We also don't have any kind of emissions requirements for non-commercial vehicles. The lax requirements for driving and emissions is probably the result of the farming lobby.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Everything can possibly be construed as X.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They aren’t going to make this easy cause it quite literally means giving the shareholders less profit, which is illegal in the US.

Making less profit than previous periods of time or even operating at a loss is not illegal in the US. Many companies have periods where they lose money or sacrifice short term profits for long term growth.

Investors with enough control might boot the leadership out, but they can also do that for whatever reason including unrealistic expectations.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

The whole Lovecraft universe is sort of a hog podge of other's authors work as well who sort of expanded and formalized parts of it.

It is a shame that the other authors are overlooked because it was an awesome collaboration.

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