For directories, it’s permission to cd into it. Read is whether you can list files, and write is remove, rename, or create new files. Don’t ask questions about the secret sticky bit

So curing chargeback fraud by helping businesses get in on fraud more easily. Got it.

Also, rim brakes make the wheel into a consumable.

Fascist pigs being fascist pigs. Civil forfeiture must be eliminated.

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Wow. What an incredible dick move. Thanks for the heads up!

While nice-looking, this bike is much more expensive than a Brompton, which is already not cheap. And there are quite a few other folding bike companies out there already; this one isn’t going to be some special “Brompton killer”.

Now it may be meeting an unmet need, for people who don’t need the most compact bike, and I wish them success. Just weird to frame the story this way.

How does anyone have the impression that the UAE is anything other than incredibly corrupt and fucking medieval?

Helpful to have a line on the movers and shakers to watch for in future fraud prosecution targets all in one place.

Observation is one I really enjoyed. Mild puzzling, tension but not really the sort that kills you, and a fun, mind-bending story. Also the title track is just amazing.

In an attempt to block kiwifarms, a site that organizes hate campaigns. I am not sympathetic.

I cried that whole bit with the controller feeling like you’re missing an arm. So exact a representation of grief.

But the last scene, where the father simply falls to his knees at his son’s grave. He’s been granted his life back at a price no human parent would ever, ever accept. I cried racking sobs. It was so awful and true.