Court documents in the case revealed that Facebook’s parent company Meta supplied police with the private Facebook messages that Celeste and Jessica Burgess had sent one another.
They routinely held an end of year meeting at the start of December that was a bit of a Christmas party. The meeting was always a show of appreciation that ended with the boss handing out bonus pay.
One year the boss finished thanking us for contributing to the busiest and most profitable year in company history. He then announced that all that big profit would be used to open up a new location! And for that reason nobody would be getting Christmas bonuses because the new location was really expensive. The next year he sold to a corporation who immediately fired most of the senior staff due to their high salaries, myself included.
It’s to prevent fraud by taking out a huge policy and then killing yourself. However, as others have said, it’s limited to 2 years. You can still take out a huge policy and kill yourself, but you have to pay into it for 2 years first.
I’ve heard romance scams are on the rise again due to the prevalence of online dating. If the hot girl you matched with starts asking you for money, or nudes (for extortion), or your mother’s maiden name (for identity theft), she might not be the person you expect!
Bill S-275 seeks to amend the Bank of Canada Act and address what the bill calls “the impression among some Canadians that there is a democratic deficit in monetary policy management.”
When money should be printed should absolutely not be a democratic decision. It absolutely should be the decision of highly educated professional and impartial economists. Otherwise you get “vote for me and I’ll lower interest rates!” Which is what Zimbabwe did right before hyperinflation created the need to print 1 billion dollar notes.
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger told investors the company will "quiet the noise" in a culture war that has pitted social conservatives against the global media and entertainment conglomerate, according to an analyst note on Wednesday.
Late Tuesday, the U.S. vehemently denied the idea that it has been reluctant to speak publicly on Canada’s behalf amid allegations by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the Indian government participated in the extrajudicial killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil....
Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a Canadian Sikh separatist activist (or a terrorist) who was shot dead in Vancouver.
Sikhs are a minority religion in India, less than 2% of the population. By contrast, 80% of India are Hindu. Most Sikhs are in Punjab, India. Outside of Punjab, Canada has the most Sikhs. Hindu nationalists have controlled the government of India for some time and never played well with others. Sikhs have been wanting to separate from the rest of India and form a country called Khalistan because of it.
In the 1970s and 1980s there was a crackdown on Sikh separatism and the Prime Minister of India ordered the raid of a sacred Sikh temple that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people. A pair of the Prime Minister’s Sikh bodyguards then assassinated him in retaliation. This sparked a religious war that saw the deaths of thousands. Hindus would raid the homes of known Sikhs, drag them out into the streets, and beat them to death.
Being a Sikh separatist in India is deadly, but Sikhs in Canada feel safe enough to voice their opinion. Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a Canadian Sikh who was very vocal in his opinion and rallied other Canadian Sikhs behind him. India’s current government is Hindu nationalist and wants Canada to put these Sikhs in their place. They claim they are a terrorist group that Canada is harboring. Canada has always refused stating that there is no evidence of Sikh terrorism. However, the deadliest plane bombing before 9/11 was carried out by Sikh terrorists in Canada.
The India government claims Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a terrorist leader who got what was coming to him. The Canadian government claims the Indian government carried out a political assassination on Canadian soil.
The US Military Academy at West Point is being sued for its race-based admissions policies by the same group that won a landmark case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Supreme Court over affirmative action earlier this year, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
It’s like asking if investments are good or bad. Depends on a lot of factors. Affirmative Action is meant to be an investment in an underperforming, underdeveloped, section of the population.
Education Is directly correlated with long term income. The more educated a population is, the more money they make, the more taxes they pay. In most countries, free education pays for itself as the educated citizens earn so much more than uneducated citizens that their increased taxes easily pays for the cost.
I think everyone can agree with the above but the questionable part is: What does being Black have to do with it? There are a lot of Americans who are born into poor and uneducated families. Why can’t Affirmative Action apply to anyone who meets that description regardless of skin colour? I think the general argument here is that Black Americans faced historical oppression and there needs to be some kind of amends for that. Which brings up another contentious question: When does it end?
This was the actual reason if I recall correctly. He lived on a small side street that suddenly had lots of traffic. He realized Google maps was suggesting that street for directions and came up with this ingenious plan to get Google to redirect traffic elsewhere.
Hello, Canadians of Lemmy! Down in the USA there is a lot of conflicting information regarding the efficacy of y’alls healthcare systems. Without revealing my personal bias, I was hoping for some anecdotes or summaries from those whom actually live there.
I have no experience with healthcare outside of Canada but as a kid I was always taken for routine checkups. As a young adult I don’t do regular checkups but that’s mostly because I’m lazy and finding a doctor who will agree to give you regular checkups can be difficult.
I did have an experience where my vision became blurred and I passed out. Someone called an ambulance for me and I was seen by a doctor as soon as I got to the hospital.
They did some basic tests and decided whatever it was it wasn’t immediately killing me so they referred me to a neurologist. Their office setup some appointments for me over the next week and I had all kinds of tests run. Then I was sent to a heart specialist who scheduled me for a bunch of tests the next week. At the end of it all both specialist decided I was perfectly healthy and I passed out because of an anxiety attack. They recommended I be less stressed. Thanks!
Between the hospital visit, the tests by the neurologist, and the tests by the cardiologist, I paid $45 for the ambulance and got my clean bill of health in about 2 weeks.
The long delays in resolving landlord-tenant disputes are worst in Ontario but other provinces are experiencing it as well. Experts say those delays will have an impact on the already-stressed rental market.
where landlords feel that the tenants are extremely lucky to have them
This pisses me off so much! I’ve even seen it posted on Lemmy and I wouldn’t be surprised if a few show up here with their “without me these people would be on the street!” rhetoric. Without landlords there would be lower competition, lower demand, and lower prices. I think these people forget there was a point in time that houses were less expensive than cars and people paid them off in a few years. This was before “income property” was a concept.
More players means more smurfs. Playing at a time when lots of people are on makes it more likely you’ll run into someone who lowered their rank on purpose just to stomp lower level lobbies.
DotA2 recently banned 90,000 smurf accounts. They have about 400,000 players per day. That’s nearly 25% of players smurfing!
Maybe I’m just old, but I don’t remember games being like this. The amount of crybabies in Rocket League is insane. People leaving the lobby less than a minute in because of a goal (or even just sometimes a bad play) happens all the time. It wouldn’t shock me if people smurf because they hate losing so much. If you follow the pros they’re not any different. They’ll cry on social media after every loss blaming everyone but themselves. It’s sad really. It’s a game! It’s okay to lose!
Georgia will likely run into more problems like this. Their RICO case against Trump and his gang of bandits is massive, involving 19 defendants charged with racketeering, 41 predicate offences split across the 19 defendants in order to prove they were involved in racketeering. Not every predicate offence involves every defendant. Most of these predicate offenses involved many more people than the 19 defendants and happened entirely outside of Georgia. Several of the predicate offenses focus on speech and political activities which is going to be incredibly difficult to argue isn’t protected by the first amendment.
This case is massive and messy which means it’ll probably be a very long time until it ends.
I’d probably want to use his powers of clairvoyance and superhuman intelligence to decide on what to do next.
But with my average human intelligence, I’d materialize money so I can retire. Wait…Dr. Manhattan is immortal…yeah I’m really going to want to use the brain power thing to come up with something better.
I used to be a funeral director. The majority of outsiders were unaware of pretty much everything we did. Often on purpose because thinking of death is uncomfortable.
The biggest “secret” is probably that the modern funeral was invented by companies the same way diamond engagement rings were. For thousands of years the only people who had public funerals were rich and famous. It was the death of Abraham Lincoln that sparked the funeral industry to sell “famous people funerals at a reasonable price”. You too could give your loved one a presidential send off! The funeral industry still plays into this hard, and I’ve found many people are simply guilt tripped by society to have a public funeral.
While I do think expensive caskets are a waste of money, they’re actually one of the least marked up products sold at a funeral home! Typically, caskets and urns are sold for twice what they’re bought for wholesale. This is mostly because anyone can sell caskets and urns so they can’t have ridiculous markups or people will go elsewhere for them. Urns for example are almost always bought off Amazon instead of at a funeral home.
The products with the highest markups were insurance based. Estate Fraud insurance (if someone steals the dead person’s identity, the insurance company will pay any costs involved in correcting it) and Travel insurance (if you die on vacation, the insurance company will pay any costs involved in bringing the body home). Both of these insurance policies had real costs of about $10 or $20. They’re often sold for $300 to $500.
The minimal services are essentially transportation, government documentation, and disposition (cremation, burial, entombment, etc). Some funeral homes won’t charge for a private viewing by immediate family, some charge a small fee. Typically there’s a cap on number of people and amount of time, something like 10 people total for 30 minutes.
Anything more than that will require you pay thousands of dollars extra. Hours of receiving guests, a published obituary, a mass or ceremony, musicians, clergy/celebrants, reception. All of those are pushed as “traditional” or expected but they’re incredibly expensive.
I also had the pleasure of working for Service Corporation International. Thankfully solicitation of funeral services is banned in Ontario, Canada. So no cold calling or bugging people at cemeteries. Their way around it was to hold seminars about Last Wills at places like retirement homes. If someone had a funeral related question the staff would get them to sign a form agreeing to a phone call or visit from a sales person.
The pre-arrangement sales people were all on commission and it made them very pushy. The pitches were so manipulative I couldn’t listen to them. Our government is throwing around the idea of banning commissioned sales in funeral services as well because of it. Some other Canadian provinces have already banned it.
This. I feel the drop in users are the people who came here thinking it was a place for “free speech” and are upset for being downvoted for shit comments.
In reality it’s probably people who checked out the site, saw its mostly software/tech and political communities, a handfull of communities for trans people and reposted memes, and a dash of “the West will fall and China will prevail” communist communities, and decided to leave.
Also the porn is hidden too well, and even when you figure out how to find it, the porn that exists is 90% furry and hentai. Reddit has a huge amateur porn community that I’m certain keeps much of their users coming back.
I once had a chemistry professor who used to work as a senior drug researcher at a major pharmaceutical company. He often joked about how the company treated the monkeys used for testing far better than the PhDs. If a monkey suffered a negative reaction there was a major investigation. I’m incredibly surprised Musk can be killing monkeys left and right and hasn’t been thrown in jail.
Basically my interpretation as well. There’s also a bible verse in the bottom right corner. If you look it up it talks about one’s face being changed when they find God, which is why his former partner in crime doesn’t recognize him. I think the comic is also trying to explain the “changing your face” thing is metaphorical. His face didn’t change, his attitude and life did.
I know you said you don’t want to watch videos where people explain the problems with carbon offsets while citing sources, but for those that do want to know, here’s another video: The Carbon Offset Problem - Wendover Productions
There are little regulations surrounding who can sell offsets meaning many companies vastly overstate their offsets (typically the ones selling the cheapest offsets, which are typically the ones major corporations buy).
Even legitimate companies can overestimate how much help they’re doing by accident. Say a company pays to plant an entire section of forest. It’s calculated that section of forest will absorb 10 tonnes of carbon over 20 years. Nice! A year later that section of forest is destroyed in a forest fire. Does the company that bought the offset need to pay to replant it? Nope! They still get to say they bought 10 tonnes of carbon offsetting even when that’s objectively wrong.
The video I linked also talked about a company that tried to improve energy use in developing countries. Most places burn wood for cooking but often do it in open air. That’s really inefficient! So this company provided efficient wood ovens to these communities (by charging others for carbon offsets). They then calculated how much carbon they’ve reduced, only to find out that these ovens increased the amount of wood burned since the communities loved using them so much! However, once again everyone who bought the offset still gets to claim they reduced carbon!
I can't disappoint anyone (lemmy.world)
US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills (www.theguardian.com)
Court documents in the case revealed that Facebook’s parent company Meta supplied police with the private Facebook messages that Celeste and Jessica Burgess had sent one another.
what's something your company did that totally killed morale?
Sticky anon vs a battalion (sh.itjust.works)
Do life insurance rules that deny payment after suicide discriminate against those with mental health issues? If those rules didn't exist would suicide rate increase?
Is the discrimination worth it as a deterrent? Or is it just to save the instance companies $$$?
Texas proof Anne Frank graphic novel (youtu.be)
Dutch late night show about the firing of a teacher in Texas. It’s a snippet from the show with English subtitles
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
Does the Bank of Canada’s mandate need to ‘modernize?’ A senator thinks so (globalnews.ca)
Bellemare's bill is the latest case of politicians weighing in on the institution's interest rate and policy decisions this month.
Disney CEO says company will 'quiet the noise' in culture wars (www.reuters.com)
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger told investors the company will "quiet the noise" in a culture war that has pitted social conservatives against the global media and entertainment conglomerate, according to an analyst note on Wednesday.
Cassidy Hutchinson Says Rudy Giuliani Groped Her During January 6 Rally (nymag.com)
U.S. asserts support for Canada amid confrontation with India over Sikh activist's death (www.cbc.ca)
Late Tuesday, the U.S. vehemently denied the idea that it has been reluctant to speak publicly on Canada’s behalf amid allegations by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the Indian government participated in the extrajudicial killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil....
An anti-affirmative action group is suing the US Military Academy at West Point over race-based admissions policies | CNN (www.cnn.com)
The US Military Academy at West Point is being sued for its race-based admissions policies by the same group that won a landmark case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Supreme Court over affirmative action earlier this year, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Relatable (lemmy.zip)
Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, could charge all users subscription fees (www.theguardian.com)
Sowing chaos (startrek.website)
gta going woke (i.redd.it)
Hey, Canadians. How's your healthcare?
Hello, Canadians of Lemmy! Down in the USA there is a lot of conflicting information regarding the efficacy of y’alls healthcare systems. Without revealing my personal bias, I was hoping for some anecdotes or summaries from those whom actually live there.
Kinda sus (lemmy.zip)
kesiYaNgamia (lemmy.world)
RimWorldPorn Hospital contest announcement (media.rimworld.gallery)
Landlords aren't being paid. Tenants are feeling squeezed. And the system that's supposed to help is broken (www.cbc.ca)
The long delays in resolving landlord-tenant disputes are worst in Ontario but other provinces are experiencing it as well. Experts say those delays will have an impact on the already-stressed rental market.
This is what that terrible song really means. (lemmy.world)
Drule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Smurfs only in the evening?
I wonder if others also have this feeling that during evenings smurfs are more prominent....
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Mexican drug cartels pay Americans to smuggle weapons across the border, intelligence documents show (www.cbsnews.com)
Link: cbsnews.com/…/mexican-drug-cartels-american-weapo…...
Listen here, kulak... (i.ibb.co)
Anon discovers a troubling secret (sh.itjust.works)
Judge delays trial for Trump, others in Georgia 2020 election prosecution (www.politico.com)
Two defendants are set for trial next month, but the former president and others charged are headed for separate trials later.
18+ What would you do if you would wake up with Doctor Manhattan like powers?
Asking for a friend.
It was necessary for the plot (startrek.website)
rule (lemmy.world)
Tim Burton Slams AI-Generated Artwork - IGN (www.ign.com)
Legendary filmmaker Tim Burton has slammed AI-generated artwork, saying it "takes something from your soul or psyche".
How many people actually dropped Reddit for Lemmy?
It is possible to estimate?
What is a well known 'public secret' in the industry you work in that the majority of outsiders are unaware of?
History is fascinating (feddit.nl)
Lemmy is losing users (programming.dev)
How can we make it more popular?
It's just a waste of my time! (startrek.website)
I'm confused Rule (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
rovole (feddit.de)
Same title (lemmy.ml)
What's wrong, babe? (lemmy.world)
What type of live streams do you watch the most?
Redd's really going to put his foot up Hyde's ass for this one (i.ibb.co)
AITA: My Starfield wife wants a divorce and all I did was chuck one grenade into a crowd of bystanders (www.pcgamer.com)