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There's a ton of apps and watchfaces on the existing Pebble appstore that showed the weather back when the earlier Pebbles were new. I don't think any of them still work, because they depend on being able to access services that were around back then. These new Pebbles conspicuously don't list the ability to show the weather.

So there is no way to get weather on this? That's conspicuously absent from the features.

Different opinions: https://www.navalgazing.net/Millennium-Challenge-2002

You said "Being an unpaid volunteer, I also don't really care about external deadlines. I'll just make the issue and the fix public and people can patch libxslt themselves." But that's what they were going to do anyway if you didn't fix it--they were going to make the issue public. What's the problem?

>The UI for this gets in the way and should only ever present itself if I happen to have both kinds of devices registered.

I disagree. It is very annoying when some service fails to show an option on the grounds that I can't use it. It makes it difficult to resolve problems. If the option is just missing, I have no way to tell whether the company doesn't provide the option, whether the company made some sort of mistake (they can't provide an email option because they lost my email), whether I made a mistake, or whether the company just has a bad UI that tries to hide the option. And don't forget the situation where I tried to google online for some help in using the UI, I found a 6 month old Reddit post showing the option, and I can't figure out if the company changed the UI in the past six months.

They should show it greyed out with a note "no key of this type registered".

>Why can't these measures be handled via parental control?

Because the government is lying and this is about spying on the populace, not about parental control.

Mothra is a naturally large creature, not a small creature that was enlarged.

I seem to recall that when conservatives were getting banned from social media (or any place else), the prevailing attitude was "it's a private company, and they don't owe you anything, so they can ban someone for any reason they want." Now when it's a sympathetic target suddenly nobody is saying that? People are even invoking the First Amendment, which was laughed at back then.

"If I asked the other two goblins if you are the truthteller and they both gave the same answer, what would that answer be?" If you are talking to the truthteller, the answer is no. If you are talking to the liar, the answer is yes. If you are talking to the coin flipper, he cannot answer because it is not possible for the other two to give the same answer.

This or similar was the solution, but I don't believe the solution works. A false proposition implies any proposition--"if (impossible scenario) then what would someone say" can be truthfully answered with either yes or no.

If you read the wording of this article carefully it says that the employees were fired in error. By referring to several different firings and by juxtaposing statements, the article tries to give the impression that Trump's rules demanded that they be fired and that Trump then had to change his mind, but it doesn't say that. Don't believe it when articles insinuate more than they actually say.

Google up "hostage puppy". I could give you a link, but I'm not trying to claim that any particular person who said it is an authority.

The idea is that your organization may be doing inefficient or horrible things, but it also has one cute puppy who depends on it. Any time someone wants to shut your organization down, you just point to the cute puppy and say "you wouldn't want this puppy to die, would you?".

Naming these people this way is a blatant invitation for harassment by signal-boosting their identities, even if technically their names are already known. This is one step away from doxing and we should not support it.

I noticed that pretty close to this post is another one "Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”."

If you're going to be consistent, it should be fine for companies to delete people's accounts arbitrarily because their AI flagged it. After all, it's their own website, and if they want to use AI to make inaccurate decisions about accounts, that's their right, isn't it? So there's nothing to complain about.

I've never yet see someone admit this. It's always "when it's my political enemies, it's the company's website and they can get rid of anyone they want. When it's anyone else, making arbitrary decisions is a great injustice".

... after they unconditionally surrender.

The people deliberately hiding behind the babies were armed.

There's a problem which he misses in this which appears in this game and almost everywhere: Games that don't have any useful words on the board, presumably because the game is to be sold in multiple countries. For instance, the question about what the crystal icons mean could have been resolved if the game had had words like "per round" or "additional" on them.

Also, stamp collecting is almost dead (in the West anyway).

Although it isn't just the lack of mail that did that, it was also countries putting out huge numbers of stamps to milk the collectors for money.

gwern thinks we shouldn't be writing any more books anyway: https://gwern.net/culture-is-not-about-esthetics

D&D isn't American history. It's fantasy fiction. The "American History"-like elements come from fantasy fiction, where someone like Conan could become a king and there are unexplored areas full of hostiles all over the place.

It's easy to say that forgetting is an ethical act if you're the perpetrator of things you want people to forget. Reading this article, it seems she once got her jollies making the world a worse place for her political enemies.

She seems to sincerely think that Twitter is bad, but it's not bad because of what she did with it, it's bad because well, you don't always win fights on it and when you attack someone you can get in trouble too and that's really messy and she doesn't want to deal with that. If she didn't want to deal with it, she didn't have to participate; the kind of political activism described in this article is not how most people use Twitter.

I can understand wanting people to forget if you said one or two things years ago and people took them out of context. Or even if you did one misdeed, but it was years ago. This is not, according to her article, why she wants people to forget.

McDonalds never does anyone a solid. As long as it's legal, you don't owe McDonalds a thing.

It's the flip side of McDonalds not owing you anything under capitalism.

The employers you want to work for are the ones that pay you a salary so you can eat and pay your mortgage.

Dilbert strip on "is our top priority": https://qhselife4business.typepad.com/qhse-life-for-business...

Google brings up a site showing that Wyoming does make money from taxing the oil: https://pawyo.org/facts-figures-2023/

>If a lease has value to me remaining undeveloped, and it has value to them being developed, then shouldn't we be able to compete to see how much the market values those priorities?

No, because the actual amount the lessee is paying is the $19/acre, plus the taxes on the oil they extract. The fact that the $19 is a separate transaction is just an accounting convenience.

The state could say "place bids of price per acre plus taxes. Highest bidder wins. We'll refund taxes up to the amount you paid in the bid." It would be inconvenient for multiple reasons, but it would average to the same thing, and it would stop the conservationists cold. The fact that the state doesn't do it that way and so the conservationists can pay the price per acre by itself is just a loophole.

The state is basically selling the oil in the land on consignment. The state sells the oil rights, the group who buys the oil rights sells the oil, and they send a part of the profit back to the state (there's at least taxes, and maybe fees or royalties--I don't know the financial details of the oil industry).

If someone "buys the oil rights" and doesn't sell any oil, they're cheating the state.

Saying "Obama killed Americans" is really demonstrating a problem with birthright citizenship. Without that, these Americans wouldn't be Americans.

Ensuring a "correct labeling and clean environment" is really expensive. I mean, really expensive. It's not going to be practical.

Giving the impression they have a relationship with the restaurant is exactly why it's damaging the restaurant's reputation. The distinction you make doesn't exist.

They established an unreasonable standard for standing that doesn't match previous cases. There won't be future cases where standing is established, by this standard.