McDonald’s found liable for excessively hot coffee

Written on a window: “Please use door ->”.

The window only goes down to waist height, it doesn’t even look like a door. I really want to know the story behind that sign.

I don’t think there ever was such a time. I suspect that you (like me) just didn’t need things to work as a child, so didn’t notice when things didn’t.

There are some very old complaints of things not working.

€120M compared to his promised $700B (€600B) bonus is 0.02% or (assuming 365 days per year, 12 hours per day) is equivalent to 56 minutes of work.

It has about the same disincentive as a $7 fine for a minimum wage worker.

This is only considering the bonus and ignoring any income on top of that. He can afford it without even thinking.

New challenge to try at home: “plug a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs”

Also, recipes for poison sandwiches and chlorine gas.

People get treated for hoarding junk, but not for hoarding money.

With bi-polar disorder, primarily depressive people will get treated, but primarily manic often won’t. When was the last time you went to the doctor and said “I’m feeling too good today. Life feels great even though it shouldn’t, and I want medication to feel worse”? *

When a mental illness causes people to be successful, it’s rarely treated because it’s only harming other people and not them.

* This example is an oversimplification and ignores the many real issues caused by manic episodes.

How could anyone get $1,000,000,000 and think “I really need that another 700 times this year”?

That’s

• 1.9 billion dollars per day
• 80 million dollars per hour or
• 1.3 million dollars per minute

I don’t think I could spend over a million dollars a minute for an entire year.

I never play PvP (skill issue).

I will always cheat, but only by making the mods myself. I often find that I learn more about the game and have more fun modding than actually playing. For PvE, I make sure that everyone is aware of my mods and OK with them, or I turn off the mods they don’t like.

I am not OK with ruining other peoples fun. I’ve even permanently deleted a mod which could cause issues in the wrong hands, because my hands were definitely the wrong hands. I’m still sad, but everyone else in that game is better off.

Everyone has fun in their own way. If a game is not fun for you, sometimes the right mods or cheats can make it fun. If no one else is harmed, then you’re playing it right.

That is a strawman argument. I did not say that, and it is not relevant to what I did say.

anyone has a fair shot

Try talking to a person who grew up in a primarily black neighbourhood in America. Or a poor person who had to skip school so they could work to afford food.

Almost every rich person now had rich parents and rich grandparents. Even the “self-made” rich people had access to opportunities not available to poor people.

It’s easy to risk everything to try starting your own business when failure means going back to your parents for food and housing. It’s so much harder to justify trying when failure means starving on the street, and not trying means continuing to live in a house.

Capitalism does not give people a fair shot. It takes wealth from people with capital to give to people with capital, and by necessity, oppresses people to stop them from gaining capital.

The vast majority of people simply do not have a fair shot.

My 2012 Nissan Leaf is still doing fine.

Maybe it’s not an issue with EVs, but with overbearing automakers.

My package manager has an old version that doesn’t work. I had to download from a browser to get a working version.

Specs

It doesn’t look like it. They had to make compromises on what to include, otherwise they’d end up with smartwatch that’s larger than a phone.

With it being 100% open source, it should be easy* for someone to add these features.

The founder explains in this blog post about the original failure of pebble, and why pebble shouldn’t have focused on fitness.

They’re coming back as a tool/toy for the enthusiasts who want to tinker.

What would happen if a browser never saved those cookies? Would the website fail to load, some elements not run, or something else?

I’m always curious about edge cases and failure modes.

I hate the websites that have “Accept all” or “Accept necessary only”, but if you use a privacy browser that refuses all cookies the site works anyway.

Their “necessary” cookies aren’t actually necessary, you just can’t reject them.

I wonder if there’s even a difference between “all” and “necessary”.

I gave up after reaching room 46 and just watched Aliensrock. I’m glad I did, because the game just kept going every time I thought it was almost over.

I have so much respect for this game, and I don’t regret buying it.

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