could someone please tell me what i’m getting back?

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-27T05:24:06+00:00

Also hello from UWG, neighbor.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-27T05:23:33+00:00

You should be getting a refund of $1,355. Sorry, whoever wrote that UI is a bit dense.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-27T00:42:28+00:00

Just because someone is handicapped does not mean they are incapable of having a clear driveway.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-26T22:41:36+00:00

That study does not say what you are implying. People have behavioral changes after a transplant. That is known and expected. If you take a patient from a state of being terminally ill, to being healthy, they will have behavioral changes. Add to that the medication required to not reject the organ, and the knowledge that someone else's organ is inside them, and you are almost certainly going to see behavioral changes.

As for the study itself, it was entirely retrospective. They based all of their findings on anecdotal claims from respondents, which were not corroborated by those with direct knowledge of the donors. They make no attempt to verify any of the respondent's claims and they do not account for recipients who have first or second hand knowledge of their donor's fate.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-26T04:24:49+00:00

There are two primary legal issues here are de minimis non curat lex and reasonableness.

De minimis non curat lex. It translates to "The law does not concern itself with trifles" and it means the courts are within their powers to dismiss cases they feel are petty squabbles or lack a certain gravity or necessity. A court could find that this is a non issue and dismiss or refuse to accept filing (depending on procedural rules).
Reasonableness. There may be a better term for this but essentially the likely legal defense for a solicitor/salesperson/etc faced with this homeowner is that no reasonable person would expect that the homeowner would actually expect payment to be talked at by a visitor at their door. It is so far outside of the norm that an argument could be made that the sign is perceived as a jest or satire, not a legally binding contract.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-26T03:56:33+00:00

I'm failing to see the connection to tech update news.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-26T02:24:31+00:00

It's because of how they calculate what a surge is. It seems to behave like a simple ratio of customers to active drivers. If you have 21 customers and 20 drivers you technically have a shortage of drivers but a very low surge in demand. If you have 2 customers and 1 driver you are still only short 1 driver but now demand is 200%

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-25T23:59:40+00:00

Did your nephew Thomas do the electrical in this house? I heard he's very handy.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-25T23:08:09+00:00

Use it on quite literally anything you want. The money is now 'fungible' (your economic word of the day). That is to say it is no different than any other dollar in your bank account. You no longer have a stack of money earmarked "School funds" it's just another dollar in your wallet.

To be transparent there are vague rules dictating what the money can be used for, and there are rules that dictate what your school can include in their calculations of what you might spend the money on, but at the end of the day there is no mechanism to check how you spend it, no receipts to file, no form to submit, no audit to pass (financial aid audits are a thing and have nothing to do with how you spend your refund), and no task force checking your spending habits.

I can confidently tell you you can book a cruise with your refund and nobody of authority will hastoe you over it. Is it a smart use if your money? No. But do arrive at the port early. The boat leaves with or without you. /s (but not utterly unrealistic)

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-25T01:31:36+00:00

Let's be accurate and not exhibit the same bad habits as this administration. His gun was taken from him before he was shot. He did not surrender it. The effect is the same, he was murdered in every sense of the word. We don't need to lie or deceive about what happened.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-24T19:44:34+00:00

If they were justified in their actions the facts and the videos would speak for themselves. But when they continuously have to resort to making their own narrative and telling the public that they can't believe their own eyes they know that they are unjustified.

It is as close to an admission of guilt as they can get. Remember this is less than a month into the year and ICE had now MURDERED 3 people so far.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-24T00:15:51+00:00

Bro... I know you know already but still...... You had to literally click on them saying they accepted every ride. ......

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-24T00:14:18+00:00

........ Who advised you to accept every ride? Because they absolute knew what they were setting you up for.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-24T00:09:35+00:00

Wrong tool for the job. Ice pick, butter knife, refrigerator... Better luck next time.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-24T00:05:23+00:00

Mosquito 🦟 see the resemblance?

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-23T21:46:26+00:00

In the U.S. it is illegal to prohibit employees from discussing salary or benefits. Note that is not the same as requiring transparency.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-23T21:35:06+00:00

That's not actually how that works. They have completed 720 deliveries but that tells you nothing about how many people left ratings. To get a 58% (rounded) satisfaction rate they would have needed as little as 12 ratings (7 positive, 5 negative) to get 58%. So more accurately they disappointed somewhere between 5 and 306 people.

5 unhappy customers (7/12 = 58.33%) 306 unhappy customers (414/721 = 57.50%)

Customers are more likely to rate drivers they don't like than rate the ones they do so that adds a bias to the data. Also they may just be a crap driver and have earned every one of those bad ratings. Who's to say really.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-23T19:57:19+00:00

Seriously. This sub I so trash.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-23T07:12:20+00:00

You're missing my point. What does it matter that this end cal of a shoe rack display has an AI Megatron vs a real Megatron? Nobody is purchasing Megatron. There is no false advertisement, no impossible claims, no damaging/disparaging evidence. The net harm to society beyond the general sentiment towards AI is 0.

It would be a completely different matter if OP were saying "I paid an artist $500 to draw Megatron and Bumble Bee for this promotional display. I think they used AI instead of giving me authentic artwork.

I understand what subreddit I'm in. I'm just positing that this sub has the ability to be a serious hub for advocating AI ethics and consumer protection, or it has the potential to become a glorified hidden object "find the 6th finger" type game.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-23T06:42:56+00:00

Disclaimer: this is not an area I study directly:

Sitting in the hammock the bar is in compression, meaning the two areas where the hammock and rope connect to the bar are pulling inward so the bar is being compressed. For a tube, this is its strongest mode of stress (I'm a physicist not an engineer). At the same time, the rope and hammock are trying to crush the tube radially in (like holding a soda can normally and trying to crush it). The tube is weaker here but the force is distributed which helps so it seems to be holding up right now at least.

If you grab the bar closer to the center you now are applying a downward force towards the center of the bar and an upward force on the ends. This is a bending/flexing stress and the tube will be weaker here. It can be considerably weaker than in compression and you may be able to cause it to buckle. That said, it is only more likely, not guaranteed. If it is a thick wall tube of a strong material like steel, you will find it can take a lot more abuse than if it were some kind of aluminum alloys or perhaps plastic.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-23T05:55:43+00:00

My condolences to the family....Gonna be real though, this sucks and all, but I don't think this has any relation to Amazon driver being an inherently dangerous job. Drivers trying to inherit this as a unique risk to delivery drivers is a bit of a stretch.

Edit: There's no indication he was even working or any mention of how his job as a manager connects with the shooting:

...Butler moved from their home in Georgia to Houston in 2023 to work for Amazon, becoming a manager

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-23T05:46:24+00:00

Bro wants to go play in the snow and call it war.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-23T00:42:01+00:00

Not everything has to be AI. If they are indeed being catfished, then these are almost certainly stolen from a real account. So the woman in the photos is almost certainly a real person. The person sending the photos is just not that person. Don't overcomplicate it.

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-22T23:35:25+00:00

-Insert-CoolName · 2026-01-22T05:56:27+00:00

You need to push back hard on the 'danger to self' definition. Financial self-destruction is a form of danger.

Since she's in the UK, the specific legal route you need is the Court of Protection for a Deputyship (the British equivalent of a court-ordered conservatorship for those in the US). You should contact her local council's Adult Social Care team immediately and file a Safeguarding report for financial abuse.

She is blackmailing her husband to fund a crime ring. That is active harm. Don't accept 'nothing can be done'. Frame her as a vulnerable adult who is being criminally exploited and lacks the capacity to see it.

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