HonorableScythe

joined 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Sometimes when I have to answer a call from an unknown number, I'll pick up but won't say anything. A human will say something when they hear it stop ringing, but most bots listen for voice activity before they start their recording so they'll just stay silent as long as you do.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Arbitration is overwhelmingly resolved in favor of corporations. The company pays the arbitrator, which means they will generally rule in their favor if they want to continue to be hired. Complainants get a fraction of the amount of money they'd get from a court case from arbitration, and it keeps the public from knowing what the company did. That's why so many companies are trying to force arbitration clauses on consumers.

It's speculated that the reason why Steam backed down from their clause in this case is that it was getting too expensive for them. Paying so many individual arbitrators and lawyers was costing them way more than resolving a single class action lawsuit. Hopefully more companies are forced to come to this realization in the future.

Edit: Article about why they may have removed the clause TL;DR Valve doesn't want to deal with 50,000 separate court cases at one time

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

The only reason I knew peanuts could be bad for your kidneys is watching Dr. Glaucomflecken and seeing his sketch of the nephrologist at Halloween. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAghdVqVJUg

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You have fallen through reality into the Trekrooms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Seriously? I just got mine done using the paper method and it was so annoying! Hope this is still around in 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'm looking at it the other way. He'd probably use it to fundraise and rally his base. Better to delay so he can't juice it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Pumping room? You mean the closet with the free yummy milk?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm not vegan but I eat plenty of incidentally vegan meals, and all of the best ones have been the ones that weren't trying to imitate another food. They just can't get the texture right and I'd rather not eat some squishy disc of beans and wheat while trying to convince myself it's a burger. It's not. I know it's not and pretending doesn't make it any more of one. Give me a good soup or curry or pasta dish instead.

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

Hanging around the chive flowers in my garden this morning and loving watching all the little bitty bugs! There was a honeybee, sure, but also lots and lots of sweat bees and parasitic wasps and butterflies and ants too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Depends on the state. Some states are near impossible to get unemployment in. Others, it's almost impossible for them to deny you unemployment outside of being violent or stealing from them. Know your state's unemployment laws and use them to your benefit as best as you can.

 
 
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