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Roku Data Breach: Over 15,000 Accounts Affected
  • It probably wouldn't hold up in court, but it can be used as a bludgeon to dissuade people from filing in the first place. Roku is totally allowed to lie and say "You can't sue, you agreed to mandatory arbitration. // You can't join the class action, you agreed not to. If you do either of these things, we'll sue you."

    This could easily dissuade quite a few people from litigating, limiting how much the company needs to pay out.

  • Ford poised to fire all ~10,000 striking workers in Louisville, Kentucky and Sharonville, Ohio Plants
  • And if you rush them, then things go wrong in a hurry. It doesn't matter how much documentation you have if the operator skips steps or plain old makes a mistake.

    I've personally blown up thousands of dollars in tooling making stupid mistakes when I was a junior machinist being told we had deadlines to meet. I've seen other guys forget to probe a work offset and crash the machine so badly it needs a spindle rebuild. A press operator can wreck a $100,000 die set if they make even relatively easy mistakes, and if that happens to the wrong tool, it can completely shut down production for months for a repair or rebuild.

    If there's a 1 in a million chance that any of those 10,000 employees makes a big, showstopping mistake on a given day, then after 100 days, there's a 63% chance of that event happening.

  • Driverless Cruise car runs over woman hit by another driver
  • A car driven by a human is unlikely to need firefighters to lift the vehicle up to get at the woman pinned by its tire. Even if they're good at general driving they have an unfortunate habit of making emergencies worse.

  • Legal experts: Trump's unhinged attack on judge in court shows he "realizes he's going to lose"
  • Trump's PAC is paying his legal fees, not Trump himself. So far the Save America PAC seems to have spent at least 10 million on legal fees for the former president.

  • Oof ouch owie
  • This is per year. And most degrees are 4 years, though it's not uncommon for them to run to 5. So by the time a student graduates they have on average ~$37k in debt.

  • White House estimates 3.5M federal workers will go without pay in government shutdown
  • The House GOP voted down the funding bill the House GOP proposed: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4230386-house-conservatives-tank-gop-short-term-funding-bill/

    They may need to make concessions to Democrats that they would otherwise not need to make to get this passed, despite having a majority of the House.

  • Woah
  • context Caravan Palace -- Black Betty

  • Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule
  • Because once the firm is big enough where the decision-maker doesn't personally know the people they're laying off, it almost immediately turns into this. The severance pay and unemployment of 80 software developers is millions of dollars, enough for even people who are normal and nice to the people they know to look the other way and say it was for the good of the company.

  • Senator Tuberville: No truce over military blockade on abortion
  • The issue is that by Senate policy, one person can throw a massive wrench in the process and grind things to a halt. Progressives typically want to do things, which cannot be done by one person throwing a hissy fit.

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  • The horror! Some workers are making a decent living! This cannot stand!

  • [meme] Transit alignment chart
  • They're trams in the city, so relatively slow. Live and maintained vegetation has too much water to burn: boiling away the water takes more energy than the fuel provides.

    It's probably also got those pop-up sprinklers, so if a fire does happen, you just turn on the water.

  • Greetings
  • I'm just wondering what the prompt was that made this.

  • Youth Culture
  • I think anime eyes IRL would be horrifying.

  • The party of hypocrites
  • Both! Just because someone has a D next to their name doesn't exempt them from the law.

  • Turkish-Dutch Corendon Airlines testing an ‘Only Adults’ zone
  • As a supporter of the voluntary human extinction movement, I agree.

  • iCARLY.COM
  • Context: the song The Dead Flag Blues by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

  • Demanding selfie to unsibscribe
  • This is what I do when I can't unsubscribe in a minute. No reason to waste time on this, it is a solved problem.

  • Fukushima wastewater released into the ocean, China bans all Japanese seafood
  • Cancer risk from radiation is not just the absolute amount of exposure, but the duration of the exposure as well. Short high-intensity radiation doses carry higher risk than long, low-intensity doses.

    And 100mSv/yr is a rate, which is greater than 44mSv/yr. After 4 years, you will still have not had the dose needed that is linked with increased cancer risk.