The specific issue with heat protection is that some counties were trying to pass legislation to provide better heat protection, and the state government preempted that effort by passing legislation banning counties from making heat protection legislation.

This will be the plot of Oceans 14.

They should have just committed to the bit and demanded a googolplex of rubles from Google.

Oh? What’s wrong with hackaday?

It’s also just a good policy in general. Anytime you receive a communication that’s prompting you to do something that you weren’t expecting to receive you should ignore any links, phone numbers, replies, etc. in that communication and instead reach out using a known good mechanism. Doing that one thing stops the overwhelming majority of scams in their tracks.

If anything people living in a dictatorship are even less responsible. At least in democracies the people have a theoretical say in things to a certain extent. Not only does the public not have a say in a dictatorship, but they often don’t even have the option to leave it. E.G. China confiscating their citizens passports to prevent them from fleeing the country.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought Europe also had sanctions in place against Russia at this point now as well? Seems likely this would be an issue in pretty much any NATO country not just the US.

Yeah that was part of the brand reshuffling they did to obfuscate things. Lync was their shitty chat app they tried to convince businesses to use that everyone hated. They bought Skype, renamed it to Microsoft Teams, renamed Lync to Skype for Business, and killed MSN Messenger. When people still didn’t want to use LyncSkype for Business, then they killed that as well, and now it’s just MS Teams.

Short answer, yes. Slightly longer answer yes but there might be statutory limits on the cumulative fine as well as it depends what kind of a mood the prosecutor is in. Odds are he’d just receive a slap on the wrist, a nominal fine, and be told to stop being a dumbass.

Which Microsoft then shit all over (to be fair, Skype started that process even before MS bought them) and eventually renamed it to Microsoft Teams.

Holy shit what a nut job. Reading the comments the real gold is apparently their terms of service. They’ve got a giant laundry list of things that will get you banned including using Chrome or having a gmail email address.

Talk about making it hard to find the details. Neither the FDA nor the NPR article has the list of products in it. I finally found the list by using the link to the manufacturer website in the NPR article. Both the NPR article and the FDA website look like they copy and pasted the manufacturers press release and left off the only important piece of info in it.

Edit: weirdly the treehouse foods article list this as the original. This recall is seriously weird, with the linked PDF going through an ad tracking affiliate link and ultimately ending in a broken link.

I was similar, used Linux for work/programming but Windows for gaming. I refuse to update to Win 11 though, and with 10 going EOL I was faced with a problem. I’ve been using Steam Deck for about a year now with no problems so I figured I’d try going 100% Linux again. Ran my Library through protondb and nearly every single game was supported. I made the cutover about a month ago (just in time as well as literally a week before I made the switch copilot got stealth installed on my system).

So far I haven’t run into a single game that has failed or that I’ve even needed to change the options to get running. Now I don’t play LoL so I can’t speak to that specific game, and I have kept my Win 10 install if I do run into something that I can’t get running that I absolutely can’t live without, but so far I haven’t needed to boot into Windows since I made the switch. I think you might be surprised how few games won’t function in Linux these days.

While it’s true I haven’t personally tried more than about a dozen of my games I will point out that 1) that covers a wide swath of genres, publishers, and game engines, and 2) I ran my entire library of several thousand games through protondb before hand to have some idea of what I was in for and out of all those thousands less than 10 reported as not functioning. Of the ones that wouldn’t work most actually can run, but the publishers are banning people who play under Linux. The most notable from that list would be Destiny 2 and GTA 5. So yes greater than 90% of all games run fine in Linux these days either straight out of the box or with simple configuration tweaks.

Yeah I switched to Linux about a month ago now and so far every game I’ve tried has worked flawlessly.

Hmm, interesting, I’ve always heard them referred to as “The Church of Latter Day Saints” or LDS, I’ve never heard the longer version you used. I wonder if that’s an intentional choice by some of the other Christian denominations to try to distance themselves from the Mormons.

Any headline with the words “Trump donated” in it is false unless it’s some sort of convoluted tax avoidance or money laundering scheme.

Well ultimately I think it’s because the differences between the various Christian sects are very minor and trivial. At the end of the day any Christian church is going to agree on all the major points, they’ve just spent nearly 2000 years bikeshedding the unimportant details. In contrast the various “satanic” churches are very different organizations. I think a better comparison would be if for instance Hubbard had decided to call his scam religion Christianology instead, and then you’d see little notes popping up all over the place that say “The church of X is not affiliated with Christianology”. The closest to that that has actually happened is with the Mormon church, but since that doesn’t have Christ or Christian in the name anywhere the difference is obvious.

Another important factor is that TST is actually attempting to promote itself and the beneficial work it does so it cares about its image. Not being associated with CoS and its checkered past is important to cut off some of the drama that could be stirred up by people conflating the two even if CoS is largely defunct now.

Part of the reason is they have very different goals from each other. The Satanic Temple is primarily a secular organization that promotes scientific principles, separation of church and state, and education. The Church of Satan on the other hand has a long and often troubled history with an at best ambiguous take on secularism and promotes a mild form of hedonism. Compared to most religions the Church of Satan is fairly benign, although still far more controversial than TST.

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One of the most depressing things I’ve read today. This is why we can’t have nice things.