Given the extraordinary number of violations, NDEP has decided to exercise its discretion

Oooh this ought to be good!

to reduce the penalty to two $5,000 violations per permit, which it believes offers a reasonable penalty that will still serve to deter future non-compliance conduct,” regulators wrote in the letter.

… wt actual f?

Why isn’t this getting upvoted more? Lol

I had no idea.

This guy gets it.

All the more reason for them not to log any of their users activity!

And of course it wouldn’t be owned by pornhub. It would be owned by MindGeek, their parent company.

Since they’re ok with stores banning masks, they would be ok with stores banning masks for people in uniform too, right?

Or would that somehow be discrimination?

No it doesn’t.

It just needs to know what cities you care about.

This will not affect sale of smartphones.

FTFY

Yup. There are dozens of these contractors in our modern surveillance state, and it’s all bought up en masse by the government (and others!) for all sorts of purposes.

Here’s a pretty good book on the subject

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706321/means-of-control-by-byron-tau/

The radical left.

The FBI is leading the investigation and considered it an “act of targeted violence,” said Ruben Coleman, a special agent in charge for the bureau.

Thank goodness it wasn’t a terrorist attack!

That might be true but there’s OpenJDK so they still don’t have that as much of an excuse

She took a break from gymnastics for mental health reasons. I expect this is why she is “weak”.

I’m sure the real reason to attack her is to convince others to see metal health struggles as weakness, so they don’t stop producing capital.

No.

Doesn’t make me any less apprehensive about meta putting cameras and microphones on everybody’s face.

Exactly my first thought.

Hope it doesn’t turn out the same way this time around

Never heard of him.

¯\(ツ)/¯

Quick googling comes up with only people refuting this claim.

Sure, we had signal gate, but the way that was received should make it pretty clear that it’s not supported for official use.

forever

Maybe like 10 years? That seem about right?

Some searching seems to suggest that “Lil B” started the words come back around 2010

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_B

Yeah I guess this is more likely than rabies, though rabies is also referred to as hydrophobia.

I’ve heard of materials being referred to as “hydrophobic” but never heard the discussion around that property as “hydrophobia.”

It’s a bad example for a bad argument.

Yes.

Username checks out.

Oh, jesus christ. 98% of the time, “hydrophobia” does not refer to fear of water.

Perhaps true. What would you call somebody who was afraid of water, though?

You cannot divine the meaning of a word you’ve never seen before by breaking it down into sub-word units of meaning.

You absolutely can for many, many words.

Not all words, of course. And some words, like hydrophobic, gain additional meanings over time.

you cannot definitively know what a word means

Sure, but this is a new standard that you seem have come up with in your rage.

But especially Kim