Nougat

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dad, trying to find jokes to bring light into his miserable liveR.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 8 points 8 months ago

True and irrelevant.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 37 points 8 months ago (4 children)

"Extremely unlikely" != "never"

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Nougat@fedia.io 36 points 8 months ago (12 children)

... the probability of the monkeys replicating even a single page of Shakespeare is unfathomably small.

But not zero.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 42 points 8 months ago (18 children)

It could happen the very first time a monkey sat down at a typewriter. It's just very unlikely.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's some serious scope creep there by TSA. I'm quite sure that airlines' business continuity is wholly unrelated to transportation security.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 64 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Didn’t Reddit do exactly this? Isn’t that why I’m here?

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 12 points 8 months ago

NCTA CEO Michael Powell claimed during a January 2024 hearing that "a consumer may easily misunderstand the consequences of canceling and it may be imperative that they learn about better options" ...

Perhaps the consumer has "learn[ed] about better options" at another company, or that a "better option" for them is to not purchase the service at all from anyone. I'm sure the ... ::flips pages:: ... cable company is offering a completely holistic assessment of the consumer's needs to help them make the best decision for themselves, right?

...and that the rule's disclosure and consent requirements raise "First Amendment issues."

"It is our First Amendment right to browbeat people into ~~not being our customers anymore!~~ staying as our customers when they tell us they don't want to be!"

(edit oops)

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Comments on the article say that it's not true, and new Kindles work exactly the way old ones do.

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