unrelatedkeg

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[–] unrelatedkeg 20 points 3 months ago

Google and Microsoft didn't "kill" the decentralised e-mail of yesteryear. They beat it fair and square

Sure, they might've cornered the market fair and square, but they're certainly doing anticompetitive things in keeping it cornered.

Just try setting up a mail server not connected to any of the big corpos (Google, MS, Cloudflare or their clients with more niche marketing) and see who will actually recieve your mails. You most likely won't land into the Spam folder either.

[–] unrelatedkeg 2 points 3 months ago

But is there any precedent in selling accounts due to a court decision? Does the social media company get to close the account due to the TOS violation?

In any case, if it does get sold, it'll create an interesting situation.

[–] unrelatedkeg 5 points 3 months ago

Microsoft should go macro-shaft themselves.

[–] unrelatedkeg 3 points 3 months ago

Dry snow doesn't sound like too bad of a proposition on its own.

[–] unrelatedkeg 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All math is a lib lie! Just look at those blasphemous arabic numerals!

[–] unrelatedkeg 5 points 3 months ago

Was McDonalds ever cheap in the first place?

[–] unrelatedkeg 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but framing is important. Saying "Oh look what our perfect corporate buddies over at Taylor let us do even though it's their call" (a huge lie btw.) vs. saying "We finally got this victory, we can finally do part of what we should've never have been unable to do due to corporate greed, thank you Taylor for getting some sense, it seems like your scrooges still have some semblance of a soul left" is a big difference. As always, the truth is somewhere in between these two extremes. However, I'm inclned to lean towards the latter more than the former on the spectrum.

[–] unrelatedkeg 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'd go with prison sentences as well, especially for foreign nationals. Doesn't need to be a long one (15-30 days) - just enough to open a international warrant.

Having an open Europol/Interpol warrant against them would hurt their job prospects far more than a ban (fully unenforceable outside the EU).

Their potential new US employer would see the conviction in their background check or the employee would have to tell any potential employer "Hey, I can't go abroad to 80% of the world".

[–] unrelatedkeg 2 points 3 months ago

Yes. Just as entering through an unlocked door isn't trespassing.

Most of the sources also have copyright notices the model gobbles up, effectively making it more like trespassing and taking the no trespassing sign home as a souvenir.

[–] unrelatedkeg 18 points 3 months ago

In a few years they'll charge you monthly for the priviledge of using/knowing what it collected on you.

[–] unrelatedkeg 2 points 3 months ago

Good thing they didn't sign.

I get corporate legal counsel are worse than fucking vultures, but this is on another level.

*"We tried to fuck you over big-time but it didn't work out for us. We're sowwy. Pwetty pwease come back. But sign away your rights to sue for the little fuck-up that we plan to do (not give you proper treatment due to our clear incompetence), or for the big one that we already did".

I hope the former patient gets a huge windfall and the hospital a good knocking down. The vulture getting sacked also has a nice whiff to it.

[–] unrelatedkeg 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Credit cards not issued in the US or UK often lack chargeback protections in non-fraud situations.

This part got me intrigued. Would not honoring a contract (letting you use your ticket) not constitute fraud?

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