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[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 0 points 11 months ago

Agreed, they probably should have been ordered to stop a while ago.

That said, Apple is the largest company in the U.S. by a number of metrics, so the fact that the government would cross them at all is kind of a surprise.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oof, right before the holidays too. What a blow to their sales.

I wonder if Apple will use the estimated sales losses as damages when they counter-sue the other party in the patent dispute. Apple is taking “preemptive” steps to comply with an order that is not in effect yet – perhaps it’s a long con to entangle the patent holder in a prolonged legal battle so as to devalue and acquire them.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why the quotes around heat pump? Almost makes it look like a heat pump is some silly, make-believe thing, rather than being an appliance that’s existed for decades.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 31 points 11 months ago

limit how much it can reinvest into drug development.

Also, the taxpayers are the ones who funded the drug development in the first place!

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 2 points 1 year ago

I have “good” and was offered 9% in early October.

One good sign is that banks are lowering their rates for longer term CDs. I’m seeing 1 year CDs in the 6% range, but a 5 year CD is more like 2%-3%. This means that the banks expect the fed to lower rates in the next few years.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

From what I can tell, the primary ingredients are:

  • Pineapple
  • Cheddar cheese
  • Crumbled bacon
  • Mini marshmallows

The first three sound great on a pizza, but the marshmallows ruin it for me.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 3 points 1 year ago

I didn’t receive it as pedantic or talking down at all. I just totally agree with you as well!

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know, I was trying to tread lightly, lest the Zionist apologists show up to try and redefine “genocide”.

But the reality is this:

  • Tens of thousands of civilians are being murdered (shot, bombed, starved, water supply poisoned) by Israel’s military.
  • Israel is an ethnostate which believes that their race makes them god’s chosen people.
  • One of the Israeli government cabinet members has declared that the Palestinians in Gaza must be eradicated, and that he would drop a nuclear bomb on Gaze if he could.

When you use the U.N.’s definition of genocide (“acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”), the picture is pretty clear.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 40 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Not sure why you’re being downvoted… Israel an ethnostate, and what we’re seeing here are the early stages of a genocide. Look at any other ethnic cleansing in history, and you’ll easily see the parallels.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 5 points 1 year ago

I agree, I was just trying to be very conservative in my judgement. Realistically, a scenario in which you could be sure that it was safe to go through an intersection at those speeds is going to be very rare, even if you had a green light. There are just too many variables.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Every jurisdiction I have ever heard of (in the United States, at least) allows emergency vehicles to disregard traffic rules when they can do so safely. This is why you will often see that speeding police/fire/EMS vehicles with lights and sirens activated will still slow down for intersections, and then speed off once they have safely cleared the intersection.

The officer in this case was probably permitted to drive as fast as they were driving, and to drive through a red light, however they had a superseding duty to operate their vehicle safely. It doesn’t matter what kind of an emergency they’re responding to, that doesn’t give them the right to cause harm along the way. If the officer could not know with reasonable certainty that they would not collide with another vehicle (or pedestrian) when going through that intersection, then they shouldn’t have proceeded through the intersection at that speed.

Similarly, police officers are permitted to carry their guns under circumstances where most people would not be allowed to carry a gun. However, if they accidentally shoot an innocent bystander, they are still liable for that shooting. They can’t go waving their gun around just because they’re allowed to have/use guns under specific circumstances. Sounds like an extreme example, but cars can be just as deadly as guns.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 3 points 1 year ago

Hey man, I’m just another helpless non-billionaire pretending I can make a difference.

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