Blocking counts as engagement on every platform, even spam mail counts unsubscribing as being worth the same as reading it.

The only impactful way to block is client side, so that it looks to the server like you’re not engaging at all. Anything you do that tells them to not send you data generates value for them.

I would if I could, but I never made an account and I don’t visit the site.

If you want a comforting thought: Farts can cause pink eye.

India's laws, especially towards generic medications, make it pretty easy to develop medications there.

For the most part, we don't hear about too many product failures from them.

I know, but the previous comment, "I don't do drama" is the line that they would both say.

"I only have guy friends, girls are too much drama"

It’s going to be stolen and used for a reboot origin story of the flash.

It’s an understandable reaction. There’s a lot of people out there that are upset the economy is cooling due to increased rates. If you walk people through the logic of why they were lowered, and the downsides of long term low rates, they’ll agree they should go up, but perhaps to not what they were before. But also ignore that pre 2008 rates were also historic lows for the time.

While it’s certainly not without its downsides, rates needed to go up, and I’m glad it’s finally happening. The original plans which should have started several years ago would have been .25% per quarter for years. But no one wanted to pay that political price.

For those in the US who can afford to put away money, the most common retirement plan, is making a median wage (so somewhere around $55k), contributing up to the company match of probably 6%, using pre tax dollars, putting it into index funds, and relying on a 4% drawdown rate.

If a 25 year old did this, and wanted to retire at 67, that $275/month contribution would get them a nest egg of $760k, which would be 30,400/year, with no room for safety with market fluctuations.

Orca's eat a lot. Most animals in captivity take substantial effort to rehabilitate into the wild so that they don't just die. There's not really a good program to do that for Orca's. Seriously, it's orders of magnitude harder and more expensive to rehabilitate an animal.

Lets put this into a human anology. A kid who speaks only Japanese does something at age 15 and spends the next 20 years in the US in a Supermax with only Russian speaking cellmates. Then spends the following 20 years in solitary confinement with no language. Then is released onto a street in the US with no education, no assets, no job skills, and no support network. What do you think would happen? And that person would be much better off than the Orca.

It's unlikely the park could afford rehabilitation, even if they wanted to.

Putting money aside for retirement does work. The standard retirement savings advice is too low a contribution though. It’s made because people can’t afford the real rate. They used to be able to, but then the prices of necessities started taking more of peoples checks due to wage stagnation.

Raising rates is the correct move. It needed to happen a decade ago. This is still fixing issues resulting from the 2008 crash and an economy that has gotten too used to being subsidized by 0% interest rates.

Hate to break it to you, but check the voting demographics there. The only reason the people might not listen to Tucker Carlson is that he's on Fox, and they think Fox is too liberal and that it's Newsmax and Infowars that give them the real truth.

Nope. Microsoft effectively beat the lawsuit. It took about 20 years, but there ended up only being one small fine (we're talking single digit millions), with Microsoft beating most charges due to the government essentially giving up, and Microsoft having delayed everything until the charges were no longer relevant.

Same concept as a museum. But unreleased material typically isn’t in a release state, and especially not in a state to artist would want us to experience it in.

Sure, but even Christianity generally says that people have a duty to uphold their community and not ruin it. It even supports the idea of people changing their minds based on new information. And if we want to take the idea that he’s a Bible literalist, there’s still abortion instructions given in there.

Edit: I can give him points for ideological consistency I suppose, but I’m not sure how that actually rates a positive, either by the teachings of his religion or by the metrics of what makes for a good politician.

I don’t know about that. He has a political base that supports him, but this is also a guy who killed a bunch of his own constituents with an AIDS outbreak, with knowledge that his policies would cause that very thing, based purely on ideology. Because he didn’t like tax dollars going to needle exchange programs (even though this then lead to exponentially more tax dollars going to treating AIDS after the fact).

That’s not being a good politician.

I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t see that as even being a pro life position, it’s just telling women that a babys life is more valuable than their life. Additionally, even thought he told Republicans that, he didn’t favor expansion and funding to government programs to make the care for those people possible.

The way Pence has handled this search is the second good thing I’ve had to say about him, the first being his conduct on January 6th.

I disagree with him to basically the greatest extent possible on his politics and I probably always will, but at least from Jan 6th onwards I can’t say that he has acted in bad faith.

The kibble has a picture of a dog on it. Presumably that means dog food.

Which is a completely different type of targeting. That’s targeting people based on a product they’re looking at not something like “show this ad, to men between 30 and 40, who have gotten a car repair within the past 60 days”.

Do I know much about bankruptcy law? Not really.

What I do know though, is companies use this strategy, as mentioned before, to escape liability and pay less. That means the victims of their fraud aren't properly compensated. Meaning, that tactic is a system designed to say corporate fraud needs to be protected.

There is no other reason to split off an entity to pay for it other than to limit assets/liability.

Where did I say I thought that? I said they’re both crazy theories, to the point I’m not sure how you’re coming up with either being plausible.

I’m trying to figure out which of the two is the plausible one. That corporate fraud is in the customers interest or that sovereign citizens are maybe on to something.

Normally I would solve this via proof by contradiction but they’re both out there.

You don’t, but to generate targeted ad’s as well as content feedback loops which in turn get you more targeted ad’s does require personal data.