I worked at a place that used customer phone numbers for internal market research in a less-scummy way.

For instance, if the same customers (tracked by their phone number) purchased lots of X and Z, but not Y, we’d market X and Z together.

That’s your mistake.

You set up a situation in which he will end up being murdered by others.

I got called in for an inventory audit on my birthday and ended up working from 8am to 2am the following morning.

I think what he means is multi-player games are typically cheaper than single-player because the devs make 6 maps or whatever and let the players loose.

A full campaign requires a lot more work to keep it interesting for more than a few minutes.

$1200 was for a mini-split AC, plywood, insulation, and some Ikea Skadis boards to convert the shed.

Yeah.The laser was about 2k and the printers are about 1200 between them.

My setup is in an old garden shed I’ve converted to my tech studio.

I added insulation, radiant barriers, lighting, air conditioning, and have three 3d printers, a laser cutter, and a workstation for my laptop with a wide-screen monitor along 2 sides, and a workbench and tool wall on the third.

Whole conversion probably cost about 1200 in materials, and it’s amazing.

“Humans have limitless bacon, but force us to perform tricks and go outside to pee in view of the whole world before they’ll give it away as a treat.”

Article I, Section 8 of the New York Constitution explicitly allows for Jury nullification. It says directly that the jury may determine the law in their ruling on the case.

Jury nullification is absolutely allowed. It’s the entire reason citizen juries exist. Otherwise, it would be better to have judicial panels determine guilt based on strict interpretation of the law.

The last line of defense against unjust laws and a corrupt judicial system is citizen juries who can refuse to convict.

That’s a cheap ambulance ride.

I’ve got dozens of guns and a heck of a BBQ setup.

We can do both.

Pickups, SUVs, and Vans in America are getting unreasonably large because of poorly-written environmental regulation.

In the mid-2000s, automakers were classifying everything as a “truck” to skirt CAFE (fuel economy) standards. The tilling point was the PT Cruiser being regulated as a truck. So, starting in 2012, CAFE standards started to be based on vehicle footprint.

Ever notice how all the little trucks like the S-10, Dakota, and the old-style Ranger all had 2011-ish as their last year model?

Suddenly, small trucks became effectively illegal, and as fuel economy standards get tougher every few years, the automakers have learned it’s easier to just make the footprint bigger than it is to make the fuel economy better. They’ve since re-released the Ranger, but now it’s bigger than the F-150 used to be.

And now it’s hit the vans. CAFE outran the small cargo van footprints, so the Nissan NV200, Ford Transit Connect, and RAM Promaster City have all been discontinued in the last 2-3 years because they can’t make cargo-hauling vehicles that size any longer.

New York City’s Taxi Fleet changed to NV200s a few years back to improve accessibility, and now they can’t buy replacement vehicles without either dropping the accessibility and going small or moving to fuck-you-sized vehicles.

The one neat thing though is the Ford Maverick. It’s a small 4-seat truck with a half-size bed that comes standard as a hybrid (trafitional ICE is an “upgrade” so it meets CAFE) for like 25 grand. The only real problem is buying one since they only made like 4 of them.

Peaceful protests are the opening argument.

We have a second amendment specifically to give the citizens teeth. The idea isn’t to overthrow the military, it’s to make enrollee potential threat.

The more people those in power piss off, the more danger they’ll be in. The way they’ve been treating us, they should all be terrified to step outside.

It’s progressive. You’re still allowed to have a billion. That’s just a cap. Anything past that goes to the public.

I’m saying they’ll just say it’s a copycat and use that to go after our rights.

I’m torn.

Yes, murder is bad.

But when someone is responsible for thousands of deaths and will continue to willingly kill for money, is taking them out justifiable?

If the CEO had been firing a weapon into a crowd, there’s no question that killing him would have been justified. Is the fact that he killed with memos and board meetings rather than a gun actually relevant?

You mean a copycat?

Better make 3D printers illegal. It’s the only way to be safe.

I mean… a little bloodthirst is okay.

Insurance companies behaved themselves for a few days. That’s already saved lots of lives, making the whole thing balance out as a positive.

I’d be banned by the admins for suggesting how this momentum could be kept going.