bookcrawler

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[–] bookcrawler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Honestly I assumed they were pushing this simply to drag out the proceedings. That would force the widower into a position where they couldn't afford to continue, ensuring they would take whatever NDA Disney offered for whatever amount.

[–] bookcrawler@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (8 children)

They fear becoming a minority.

clutches pearls Goodness gracious, someone might treat them like they treat minorities!

That is literally what the white "christians" have been stressing about here. As a minority mutt that "passes", maybe try being less of an asshole?

[–] bookcrawler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks to William Pickard , and Clyde Apperson for their contributions. They provided an estimated 95% of the world LSD supply until 2000. Then Gordon Skinner turned them in :(

The quality and availability has dropped hard since then.

[–] bookcrawler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends, but if it's a panic spiral I'll try to make myself as big as possible for a moment. It's a nice stretch but also helps reign in my brain.

[–] bookcrawler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Honestly looking them up now was the first time I'd seen anything good related to them. They made presentations in school as I was growing up that were...off the mark. Pushing for a "child" to be released when they became an adult but had committed some truly heinous crimes was not relatable.

This person is your age or younger and committed multiple murders and rapes. Could you imagine having to spend the rest of your life in jail for a mistake you made as a child?

Maybe if the murder had been accidental or the rape/sexual assault had been done by someone not old enough to understand. E.g. a 5 year old that was being abused and abused another child because that was all they knew. Or someone accidentally making mustard gas while cleaning.

Nope. Not the cases they showed off. These details and such are not exact because it's been decades. I do distinctly remember that the students were horrified and stopped volunteering with them. They brought gems like a teen (15?) murdering a family because the pre-teen daughter didn't want to date him. He then raped her, her mother, and the infant/toddler. Or an older teen that was killing people and eventually poisoned the community water supply. Not by accident. Trial and errored until people stopped just getting indigestion and started dying. Caught when they tried to replicate their "success" at a different water supply.

Otherwise they've shown up for gems like a toxic workplace, screwing over Navalny based on posts from a pro-kremlin source, poor spending practices by an excess of upper management, claiming credit for things they didn't actually contribute to, and trying to throw Ukraine under the bus but being fine with Russia's actions.

[–] bookcrawler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I miss when they had good hardware for a reasonable price. Some of my cheap original Logitech laser mice are still going, almost 2 decades later. Obviously not super heavy use as the switches have not worn out, but they've been shifted about the house as other mice break. So certainly not 0 use either.

The tasks have been things like our old media centre mouse died, the old Logi mouse "temporarily" replaced it until we replaced the media centre. It's not been unused any longer than a few months at a time.

We tried buying some recently but the new ones are all optical so they had shit performance and died after maybe 3 months of light use.

[–] bookcrawler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

All I can think of is #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin. Still impressed someone created a site to coordinate all of it arriving together.

[–] bookcrawler@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks! Did not know about the Nestle connection. We stopped going to Starbucks when it moved to a fast food type experience vs the cafe feel it had at launch here.

Will be verifying they moved the hell away from Nestle before we consider returning.

[–] bookcrawler@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bit torn. This would be amazing when I'm a bit deaf (screw you pollen season). But where is this being transcribed? I strongly suspect that even if it's done phone side Google will send a recording and the text output to home base for "training" purposes.

[–] bookcrawler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have some friends that are into cyclocross, 10K is a very nice bike but certainly not top of the line. High quality beginners is usually ~5K mark, but most start with a road or mountain bike for ~1K. With the electric components I was mentally budgeting at least 5K before I looked so I could get at least one or two upgrades.

I was not expecting all the e-cargo bikes to start at ~10K. That is insane. I can't even find a place that rents them so I can get a feel for them. As a car replacement the price makes sense. The high entry cost for beginners/testing is a shock.

[–] bookcrawler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I was amazed at the price but a quick search shows that's the standard price for an e-cargo bike here. I don't understand the emphasis on price.

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