In the Bay Area, I saw stores with gates and turnstiles which are presumably intended to make running out of the store harder, especially for someone holding a lot of stuff. I wonder if they work any better.
One store I went to there even had a guy letting people in one by one after looking them over, like a bouncer.
This logic frustrates me:
these claims were unfounded, with a mere 23 shoplifting incidents occurring between 2018 and 2021, according to police records
That's less than one shoplifter a month, which is obviously not an accurate count.
The police barely even respond to shootings. Are they going to do anything if you call them and report someone stealing a box of shaving supplies? Why bother even trying to report that?
It seemed like a good idea to me, given the information available at the time. I didn't believe that the American public could support a man like Trump. I don't think I was particularly uninformed, or that my judgement was poor.
Keep in mind that this is a state that bans nunchuks.
Never mind, NY banned nunchuks in 1974 but then in 2018 a federal court decided that New Yorkers have a 2nd amendment right to nunchuks.
Maybe there's a constitutional right to keep and bear 3D printers too? If your life is in danger, you can use the concealed printer you're carrying to make a gun and then defend yourself with that gun.
Wow, that is savage. Doubly so because it's coming from a man who chooses his words carefully. Lemley is doing the exact opposite of the obsequious grovelling that Zuckerberg and others are performing for Trump.
Those messages do make me feel bad, but not bad enough to turn my ad blocker off.
I'm technically capable of blocking ads but that doesn't mean that I am also morally entitled to access content provided to me on the condition that I will see the ads. I suppose the fact that these websites only ask me to disable my ad blocker rather than refusing me access entirely implies that they give consent for me to keep using the ad blocker, but would I really stop using it if they did refuse access but I could bypass that restriction?
I think that putting in the hours to be very good at PoE2 is more embarrassing than being an amateur who only played a little bit. I say that as someone who looks forward to playing a lot.
The story about selling to Musk is coming from Bloomberg. Meanwhile the "pure fiction" quote comes from TikTok's reply to Variety's request for comments. Variety is unlikely to have access to anyone at TikTok senior enough to know the truth and willing to talk about it.
The purchase of valuable assets by someone in the president's inner circle after the government forces their owner to sell them is the sort of thing that usually involves Russian oligarchs. It would be a shameful act by the US government.
One aspect of social media that surprised almost everyone at first was the popularity of outrage. Users seemed to like being outraged. We're so used to this idea now that we take it for granted, but really it's pretty strange. Being outraged is not a pleasant feeling. You wouldn't expect people to seek it out. But they do. And above all, they want to share it. I happened to be running a forum from 2007 to 2014, so I can actually quantify how much they want to share it: our users were about three times more likely to upvote something if it outraged them.
Were people actually outraged less frequently before social media? "Viral" outrage was limited to spreading through in-person interactions, but there was still mass media designed to generate outrage.
It would be very nice if being conventionally unattractive also made a person attracted to other conventionally unattractive people.
I wonder what hurts more: the unfulfilled asymmetric entitlement shown in the comic or intellectual honesty of the "I wouldn't be attracted to me, so I shouldn't expect most other people to be attracted to me either" sort. Probably the honesty, since many people pick experiencing the entitlement.
I would be surprised if hostile countries thought that Lemmy was popular enough to bother infiltrating. They probably haven't heard of Lemmy at all.
I think the explanation is simply that Lemmy's users are all contrarians, or else they would be using Reddit. Frequently they are of the international leftist sort due to the founder effect.