unwarlikeExtortion

The only innovative thing most companies' R&D budgets support is making stuff spy on you using either WiFi or GPS. And old solutions are a no-go, of course. They're people with standards, you see.

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Gasoline-laced wooden beam catches fire, leaves OSHA Pro shocked

Sounds lovely, until you and the employer stop being on the same page about the tiniest of things.

Then it starts spiraling into a personal housing security crisis.

And you can forget about thinking of changing jobs any time soon. The moment your 2 weeks end, you're homeless.

The tenant and labour union stuff sounds nice, but they're not a magical fix. They can and often are bought and controled. While better than the alternative, they're not a guarantee of protectedness.

This doesn't mean the model is dead on arrival. It's just not one I'd choose. I'd rather have a seperate boss and landlord, thank you very much.

Not necessarily.

I remember this very good charging cable from a premium phone I bought way back when. Truly felt premium in the hands with a matte finish and soft to the touch.

Lo and behold, after 6 months of regular use the cable started staining, and cleaning only made worse. Then after a year it frayed. 6 more months and I'm sure it would have looked like the one in the picture.

Moral of the story: there are good and bad products in all price categories and no, not every single product design is foolproof. No matter how universal and genericized the category it's in is, as innovation sometimes also breaks stuff.

Bad stuff's also on the market.

Okay, there might be a misunderstanding so I'd just like to check.

Judicial murder is this death penalty exacution stuff. Someone does something bad and a judge tells them he'll have them killed off for it.

Voluntary euthanasia is different. It's where the person themselves wants to end their own life.

Medical ethics say "do no harm" among some otger thigs as well, and the modern interpretation is that a doctor can help with voluntary euthanasia in certain cases. Usually there's a government-mandated checklist to decide there's less "harm" in helping the person leave this world behind that there would beto let them suffer in their chronic ailments. And this is only for some places (jurisdictions). Adoption of voluntary euthanasia is pretty slowgoing.

Medical associations in the US specifically do not want anything to do with executions. They bar their members from taking part in them. The main argument is that the people on "death row" are healthy and taking part in their killing goes against the "do no harm" doctrine.

However, nothing can truly stop a determined medical professional from taking part in an execution. The "only" consequebce of doing so is losing their licence at the medical association (if registered). Since registration and membership are needed to be able to work in the field, there's a huge financial incentive against it.

It's because judicially approved murder is extremely unpopular in educated and competent circles.

Meaning anyone willing to take part in the affair is most likely wholly undercompetent to try.

Not only are the vast majority of doctors and nurses personally against it, but even the few that aren't won't do it because the medical associations would have a hell of a time revoking the executioner's licence.

You'd be wrong. I had the great opportunity of figuring out one store I know sets the "removable scanned item without supervisor input" at 3. For a cashier-operated register, mind you. The limitis for the shift lead to override for the cashiers and not for the person standing around the self checkout isle for customers.

And you'd think this meant 3 items on the bill regardless of their amounts. Nope. 3 items.

You can imagine how the rest of the business's operations looked like. I have to say, I'm impressed they somehow just... chug along just fine. A multinational chain in Europe.

Hmm...

I'd wager KYC applies either way (anyone placing a bet should be known, not just who ends up winning) and not paying out wins is a clear breach of contract.

So very clearly doubly illegal. First they let any rando gamble, and then they don't pay out wins.

Why not?

End of life care is different from "normal" care. Hell, it's a specialization with its own name: palliative care.

And you know the most likely outcome is the person going through the same torturous ordeal again, switching over to palliative is a reasonable decision grounded in medical ethics.

Had this happened in any other way the police would be called and the perpetrators put in prison, which is improbable in this case for obvious reasons. And this wouldn't be possible in a non-backwards society.

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Water tebds to be wet. Dehydrating it is hard as well.

Technically in most jurisdictions in the USA you’re supposed to make a reasonable effort to find the owner (eg asking nearby people if they dropped it)

This makes no sense for loose money. There's no reasonable way to ID the owner. Anyone can say it's theirs.

For a wallet, that's a different story. Even without documents you can ask them to describe how it looks and what's inside.

The sudden death stuff sounds pretty wild. I wonder under what explanation regulators just accept 1 in 10000 patients will just randomly die from the drug.