The person in charge of USIP should be a person not only with a relevant advanced degree, but also at least couple decades of experience in international diplomacy. A 28 year-old hasn’t been on earth long enough to even sort-of have the expertise required, even if we could charitably assume they chose a once in a generation child genius who got 2 PhDs by 16.

Wildly variable.

Not only would they hit you for $30 a pop, they would reorder the charges to maximise the number of hits. If say, your paycheck cleared a day late, pushing it to Monday or something dumb like that —when the mortgage payment that came through Monday morning would get processed first, then the bar bill from Friday night and the gas up on Saturday afternoon would get rung in all before the late deposit so they could ding you 3 times instead of 1.

My personal favorite was M&T bank (you scumbag fucking pieces of shit) right out of college, when I was barely covering my expenses, decided that a check I wrote for student loans was going to drop my account too low (I would have had about $4 left in an account with no required minimum balance) so cancelled it without even talking to me.

They hit me with a cancelled check fee from the bank and from the servicer which they then deducted before crediting me the cancelled check to hit me with two overdrafts, which with the extra overdrafts caused a third due to reordering. Total was about $150 in fees for writing a check I HAD THE MONEY FOR . And then, to add insult to injury, lost me my on time payments interest rate deduction forever which probably cost me a few thousand dollars more over the decade or so it took me to pay the loans off.

‘Please don’t go looking for other chats.’

It’s both in terms of fault. California is a comparative fault state. So if the guy’s injuries are worth 50 mil and he and Starbucks are each found equally at fault, them for giving overheated water and him for negligently handling a cup of potentially dangerously hot liquid then they’re each responsible for half the 50 mil. Or 70:30. Or 100:0. Whatever the jury decides.

OK democratic leadership, you win; I’ll quit voting for your party.

Yeah some folks in here are clearly out of touch with the capabilities of the average consumer.

I knew this day would come [gently pats 15 year old mumble server].

…they just make you do manual registration if you use third party toner

Man, if only we had a word for disabling critical features in this way.

Powerpoint, obviously.

Of all the leopards coming home to roost, these are the ones I was most anticipating.

What an insidious way to frame poverty and wealth disparity.

I cannot remember a time a headline filled me with such hatred and anger toward a person.

I hope Ms. Ensign gets exactly what she deserves.

I had an intro to sociology prof spend an entire lecture on full blown anti vax conspiracy shit.

Also had a bio prof take 5 during an anatomy lecture to give a teary eyed plea for the young women in class to not ruin one of the ‘fundamental joys of motherhood’ by getting their nipples pierced.

It’s because the first few generations of DRM were extremely poorly implemented. My og kindle keyboard still works and will ignore the DRM (that would be locking me out of, for example, a library book after its due date) if you just change the file extension to one of the DRM free file types. It will also then let me distribute that ebook to others without restriction.

In case any other parents wander in here late, the American Academy of Pediatrics operates a website specifically designed to help parents make informed health care decisions about their children called healthychildren.org, bookmark it as your list of reliable sources for that kind of information continues to grow thinner.

Any model from any major brand made in the last 10 years off craigslist?

With that kind of spec I, don’t know what you’re expecting—anything that turns on will be able to do that.

The discontinuation does not eliminate the ability to drag and drop files onto a Kindle; it simply removes a method that facilitated piracy by transferring older retail book formats via USB.

Err, what? So it’s only going to block certain file types?

Where’s Workaholic Dad who only comes around when your Mom who doesn’t really care if you lived or died unless you’re making her look good/bad to her friends asks him to beat you?

Also how to title a post.

It’s not just CBS, 538’s running average of many polls has his net approval at +5. It’s why I posted the link to begin with, it was their latest listed. You wouldn’t know it looking at lemmy but on average Americans think Trump is doing a fine job.

Accepting that reality and figuring out how best to handle it is probably the most important question in the world right now because so many other problems in need of a solution are dependent on getting it right.