I'm currently working with a client that doesn't have a health endpoint or any kind of monitoring on their new API . They say monitoring isn't needed because it will never go down.

Naturally it went down on day two. They still haven't added any "unnecessary" monitoring, insisting that it will never go down.

Ah, old Red Hat. What memories. When I tell people my first distro was RedHat 5.2 I need to explain that I don't mean RHEL.

You called him a pedo, but he doesn't appear to be one. Correcting your mistake doesn't mean anyone is defending him.

If Lemmy becomes a source of enough information like Reddit is, search engines will index it. SEO is a marketing thing, and a place like Lemmy doesn't really need that. Google, DDG, etc. all put engineering effort into making sure sites with lots of information are indexed and available in their search results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

I hate ads as much as anyone and have been blocking them for almost as long as ad blockers have existed. I still acknowledge the fact that ads are the primary revenue source for a lot of things on the Internet, and I selectively enable them for content I want to pay for.

How do you think Youtube is supposed to survive without ads or subscriptions? When they puts ads on their site, the unsaid agreement is that you exchange your ad views for their service.

He took records to Chinatown? Like, he went for noodles at lunch or something?

I'm not sure I want this to happen. I'll read the bill, but I'm not convinced they'll do it right. For example, UBI is supposed to replace other need-based social programs such as disability, welfare programs, government housing, etc. The entire point is that the money from those programs, which collectively have quite a lot of waste, goes into UBI so everyone can participate in society on a more fair level.

For example, I have a neighbour who is on some kind of government assistance. He gets very little money, and his rent for an entire house is $105/mo. With UBI, he'd get a full basic income, but his housing would no longer be subsidized, removing the need for a public housing corporation known for being awful and wasting money.

That's the first thing I thought when I heard about his death. He should have known that Putin would likely want him dead, so pretending to board a plane that gets shot down is a pretty good way to fake your death. Does he use his fake death to plot revenge or to escape, never to be heard from again?

It's a hospital. They don't tow because they charge you on the way out. This guy's estate is going to be broke!

Change the apartment to a condo and the answer shifts quite a bit. Condos offer lots of amenities and more luxury. Many people choose condos over houses because they like the lifestyle of not maintaining property and living in a dense area with lots of things to do. Even people living in suburban houses like dense cities, they just spend an hour driving to the city for evening or weekend recreation activities that a condo resident can walk to.

One problem with the picture is that if you want to spend much time doing certain things in nature, such as camping or kayaking, you need storage space for equipment. Condos and apartments tend to lack storage space.

Over 1000 calories in a plastic cup

That's awful, but no worse than half the stuff at Starbucks. Nobody should drink any of it more than once every couple of weeks, if that.

For the record, 17 glazed doughnuts have more than 4000 calories, so they're still way worse even if the sugar is equal.

If you know you can't be evicted unless you stop paying rent and the rent is cheap enough, it's not a bad idea to renovate it a bit. I told my friend he should quietly renovate his rental apartment because he hated the kitchen and all the flooring. He was paying $2k under market price, had rent control, and because it's a corporate landlord, they can't evict him unless he misses rent a lot or harasses other tenants.

My friend opted to buy a condo instead, so while his mortgage is more than his rent was, at least he's earning equity and a rising housing market.

they can lose the trademark if they don’t try to defend it

This is true, but that's if another company is using a similar logo as their own. Like, if a pet store used the Mickey Mouse logo, of course they're going to be sued.

If a daycare uses Mickey Mouse to decorate their classroom, Disney doesn't have to sue because the trademark isn't be used separate from Disney. The Daycare, and kids, are using it because it's Disney, so there is no confusion about trademark ownership.

At the very least, Disney could simply write them a letter allowing them to use depictions of Disney characters inside the school so long as it's not for advertising or commercial purposes and the art is done by a student or teacher.

Thanksgiving, where we celebrate what we did to the natives.

Despite all the awful things that settlers have done to Aboriginals in Canada (and Native Americans in the USA), neither country's Thanksgiving is about that. Canada's Thanksgiving was originally a celebration of arrival in the New World. Over time, it became a harvest celebration.

I'd argue that any accused criminal should remain unidentified until proven guilty or if there is an important reason why their name should be released.

Good cops are usually punished for calling out bad cops. The system is broken.

An early meme in a more modern format is this one.

Why would they have to keep up with their appraisal? There is no downside to not doing it, other than not being worth as much if they want to sell or IPO, but that would be true even without the equity firm's investment and appraisal. No law says they have to meet the expectations set by a single investor. There is no legal duty requiring a company to maximize profits or shareholder value.

However, even if such a law requiring them to maximize profits existed, it's very reasonable that they would legally continue making the same types of movies that earned them that value in the first place. There couldn't possibly be a requirement for them to change business strategies, else every company would eventually all end up in the same, most profitable industry. They'd all be selling movie theatre popcorn or something.

Including that she was an ogre, too. She would have expected Lord Farquaad to kill her once he found out.