I work at a bank and it’s mind boggling how often I encounter systems very similar to this. A signed PDF isn’t good enough but send it via fax and suddenly it’s secure 🙄

Heavy subsidies to our own industry are definitely a better alternative, but our politicians would rather cry “China bad” and further line the pockets of our ruling class

Not really different anywhere as far as I know. Old ships usually have tons of cancerous/toxic material as part of their construction so nobody wants to deal with salvaging them for free

Nah, people would be ecstatic to hear a US president say that today Edit: except maybe the Poles

Wtf do you mean he’s not denying it? He’s pleading not guilty and claiming the police planted all of the evidence! How could he deny this any further??

And what law is being broken by presuming someone is innocent until they are proven guilty?

This lawsuit is specifically about them breaking California law, so it still isn’t simple enough I suppose

And unlike the original trolley problem, pulling the lever will always kill more people. I’d wager most people wouldn’t pull this lever because of this, but I agree there’s no Nash equilibrium.

Can’t count on the library of Alexandria staying up over time either

Nah fuck that, IDC if Musk doesn’t understand how acronyms work, it’s DGE. Doge will only ever refer to the good girl in my mind

Yeah, and studios never cancel movies in production

I’m sure this was posted to floatplane though, considering they upload all of their videos there

You could still pay someone to deposit the $100 bills and it would take 1/100 the time to reach the same account balance

The US is already busy supporting two other wars right now. I doubt the Philippines wants to push their luck on how much support we would be willing/able to provide.

Not saying that there’s nothing wrong with microplastics or PFAS, but keep in mind there’s survival bias at play here.

If you don’t use it then how is it a big deal if it’s monitored?