Tesla broke the law on storing hazardous materials and as a result spilled 550 gallons of mildly dangerous cleaning fluid onto a public street.
It's not a national news story, you're right, but it's also not nothing. Mostly it's just interesting as one more tidbit of information about how they do things.
Hey guys we're going to blow up the maternity hospital and shell the nuclear plant: I sleep
You can't work on your software project anymore: REAL SHIT
Is lye a common thing for people to use as coolant? I’m not saying it’s not, I’ve just never heard of it.
Because cheaper. And now, I know why.
Any man who must say, "I am hilarious," is no true hilarious.
It's basic economics in its ugly application.
Usually, the people who are buying stuff come in different tiers: The people who want to pay the least at all cost, people who are careless enough to get fleeced out of a few dollars for the same crappy product if paying less is difficult, and people who are willing to pay a premium for really good stuff. There's an art to structuring your service to catch all of the tiers, and make sure that they're all going to pay the highest price they will accept, and I think "basic economy" is a new technological development in drawing a more effective distinction between tiers 1 and 2.
What makes it ugly is that they're designing deliberately punitive features into the service to push people up into tier 2 who would otherwise be going on Kayak and just clicking the "cheapest" button. If you have any willingness to pay $40 more, they want it. They're going to put you to the test a little bit, to make sure that you're committed to the lowest price, and then if so they're going to punish you a little for it, while still taking your money.
American and United are now both on the no-fly list for me, I think. I may have to see what airlines are decent, when you fly them one tier up.
Preemptive defederation, along the same lines as, "You can't fire me, I quit!"?
I'm just trying to wrap my head around it. I'm was asking because another of their communities is coming up for posting in my community tool. Thanks for the link.
We’re not federated because it’s just too much drama and not enough reward. There are too many instances, many of them inactive, lots of people uploading sketchy shit which federates across, it’s impossible to keep tabs on everything and lots of resources go into hosting that bloat which nobody here would care about. Fediverse politics are also cancer and every shitty admin thinks they’re important somehow.
I’m not opposed to federating selectively, with your instance for example. I mostly care about knowing that you actively admin it and I don’t have to worry about dodgy content making its way across here - if that’s the case and you’re keen, let me know.
My God.
Since they've decided I'm a shitty admin, I've instructed the community posting tool to skip over their stuff, and I consider the matter closed. I wish them luck.
That's what I'm doing, although anyone else who happens to know what's going on is free to answer as well. I don't feel like making an alt just to dodge around whatever they're doing.
Yes. The question I'm asking is, why?
The same thing happened in Australia. It is a tragedy.
You used to be able to carry on one reasonable size bag, and they didn’t stress about it because the total load of luggage / purses / backpacks and so on was fine. You could do what you wanted and they’d fly you where you were going.
Then some genius realized they could charge people $40 for checked bags, so everyone started carrying everything on, so it became a problem and they had to start checking everything at the gate for everyone who didn’t feel like paying the $40 extra for no reason fee, which was the majority of people.
This is just the natural end point of that evolution, where they initiate open hostility to the customer and try to force you into paying $45 more than the ticket price and actively fuck with you to try to bully you into submitting to it.
It’s partially the fault of everyone who just goes on Kayak and hits whatever is the cheapest option. That’s what I do, anyway. Or did, until this week, when I learned my lesson about it.
Because for people who lost loved ones in Gaza thanks to American aid and weapons, with her agreement and approval, it’s a painful thing for them to give.
And a clear indication of how terrifying the prospect is, for them, of what Trump might do to their loved ones, if he gets in.