"… The loan agreement has expired and the items are being returned (in May) to the owner which is standard museum practice for any loan.

None of these objects are leaving the Smithsonian.”

Wut? I feel like that last line is an error.

Whoa, now that raised an eyebrow. Doesn’t look like the truck bed is ridiculously high. This checks a lot of boxes, and my crap vertebrae agree.

Definitely following this company.

I wonder if this could be a gateway case to open up Rwanda as a new extreme prison deportation destination? Two Rwanda articles in one week?

It’d be a shame is spammers got a hold of this message to blast all of America.

Muhaha!

Oh, they are over designed and have all the “safety” possible. They commandeered an entire lane, divided with cement curbs, built bus islands just after intersections so busses no longer pull over but block traffic on green lights, all on a main artery serving thousands of residents.

And I can walk to that street, any time of day, take a pic with my largest telephoto lens and the entire lane will be void of bikes. It cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and sits entirely wasted space.

How about returning everyone who didn’t have due process? Ya’know, something something fucking human rights and all that yabba. Sheesh.

It’s easy, you do a budget.

Take the value of the product ($300) and log time, materials, and expenses of this project from start to upload. Add video revenue and calculate how much he made hourly, and how many contracts he needs a month to cover cost of living, savings, and retirement.

Then realize, as fun as it is, don’t quit your day job.

Sincerely, a fellow former post-production editor.

Ah! It’s a 2012! I was off a tad.

Anyways, it’s a Mac Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16G ram, 2TB drive, with an internal bluray drive.

Had certainly served me well over the decade.

It’s pump & dump time, boys! Squeeze those poors!

You got a bunch of friends there. Cool. But do you have respect 'cuz you haven’t written about that.

I won’t pretend to know your situation because it varies wildly, but one group vetting your social connections is generally a red flag in my books. Lots of friends doesn’t work for everyone and it’s not an autistic thing, but an introvert thing. I have very few, amazing friends and it’s the perfect balance for me.

I’d put a stop to the offensive behavior either way. Next time look them straight in the eye and say: 🤷"Hey, where’s the respect?" You’ll get your answer one way or another.

Built a gaming PC last year and a mini computer arrived last month riiiiight before tariffs kicked in. I think I’m good for the next 4 years at least. My daily driver laptop was built in 2011 so I’m used to hanging onto tech for a while!

I made that argument to my city almost a decade ago. I dug deep in our city traffic design and planning documentation to find bike lanes were the excuse to choke vehicle traffic. Their measure of success is a reduction of vehicle miles driven. It’s not actually about safety, walkability, or bikes; we have all that already. It’s about making driving undesirable. So we have 400 miles of empty bike lanes now and unpredictable congestion. Slow clap

There’s no point presenting a logical argument to someone with an agenda.

Your comment made me realize I’m (and I’m sure I’m not alone) sort of the problem with Linux.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the massive community of tools and programs out there like free open source software. But I’ve never actually bought anything for a Linux system with one exception: Debian in a box, on a CD for like, $15.

Buuuut, I have bought FOSS, games, and utilities for Mac and Windows that started as Linux apps and work on my new system.

I guess there is a mindset of get something free to suffice with Linux systems rather than pay for polished apps, and I totally get that thrill, but is there business to be made in this market, or a sunk cost at the end of the year.

I’d really like to see the app, and it takes bold risks to populate this platform, and there’s certainly pushback, but that’s also what separates Linux from windows. No point in having a machine if there are gaps in workflow or utility.

If anyone in my household clicked a thumbnail of a video provider through Prime Video on the TV, it would auto-enroll into a limited free trial, then renew as a subscription. There was no notification to the viewer of this behavior, and no authorization/approval from the cardholder.

My recourse has been to go into an obscure corner of my account to cancel after every erroneous click. (I know of the PIN thing, but that’s a headache for everyone; it should be a pin to purchase, not forced for all users.)

Sorry, I forgot this: /s

I’ve sent so many letters to my state’s attorney general over Amazon signing me up for subscriptions without notice and authorization.

It’s just a cost of business for them.

ooOOOOooooo! Someone is behind on their protection money!

FTC: Uber, you have fine print and use dark patterns! Bad!

All other tech companies: Whistling intensifies

What a coinci-dink. I just installed Ubuntu last week on a new mini computer. I like how easy it’s gotten over the past decade and pretty polished.

I still had to break out the terminal to install some utilities and programs, so that’ll exclude 90% of my family, and if something goes wrong, I couldn’t offer phone support.

But I do use Affinity and think it would be at home on Linux.

Ohhh maybe I can afford a million dollar 2- bedroom fixer-upper soon!

The biggest case of poison oak I had in the past decade was from avoiding a fallen tree. Where are these lawyers you speak of when I need them! Ha!

The way I read it, “verify your identity” means prove you’re not a bot, not that they had your number to begin with and need it to match.

But Google thanks you for voluntarily providing that data which is now and forever subject to Google’s privacy policy.