Nougat

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago

True and irrelevant.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 37 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

"Extremely unlikely" != "never"

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Nougat@fedia.io 36 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 12 points 1 month 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 1 month 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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