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[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

or prison for the chump you suckered into cheap labour.

I'm not seeing the 'or' bit. The article says the driver was already sentenced to nine years back in 2019. So it might be prison and deportation.

It also says he was a new permanent resident when the crime was committed. I'm surprised how they can so easily deport someone who has PR.

allow this situation to happen and all its gonna be is a civil fine for you

Alas, this is the real problem. And this case/hearing isn't going to affect the precedent on that, it will only affect the precedent for the future chumps.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

David Weber’s Honorverse and Mother of Demons by Eric Flint both come to mind. There is also the Little Fuzzy series by H. Beam Piper.

Edit: Also, The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Honorable mention also to Dragons Egg by Robert L. Forward (humans start out more advanced in the beginning but get surpassed) and the Uplift Storm trilogy omnibus (or books 4-6) from David Brin (humans aren’t the most advanced in the entire universe but are in the planet that the stories take place on).

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty impressive! Wonder where kbin instances fit in those stats.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It did work well for reddit imvho as it's understood that reddit definitely lost revenue and users as a result - but that might also not apply to FB so well in this case; as the reddit one was global rather than specific to a single country, and reddit was already unprofitable to begin with - whereas this is boycotting what's likely an already unprofitable line for a very profitable company.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Just goes to show how low the new owner is...

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is former Twitter even doing that? I thought only G and FB were affected, as it was based on company size. Supposedly Twitter is (still) not profitable, even.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved this movie

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is just ...

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

kbin is newer and less polished. But yeah I personally recommend kbin over lemmy for exactly the reasons you posted.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I mean maybe that's the plan. He tried to back out of buying Twitter because he knew it would hurt him - now he's trying to extract as much wealth as possible from Twitter before making it self-destruct, so he at least breaks even and can pay all that debt back without taking any losses himself.