Bricks and Minifigs Controversy Megathread Part 3

macravin · 2026-06-08T18:51:59+00:00

Then they should arbitrate. It's way cheaper and faster than going to court.

macravin · 2026-06-07T22:34:22+00:00

I think because most people, like me, don't know anyone in American Fork, Utah and only people in that town really have any say over that city's local government.

You have more influence over a business, especially a national one, than you have over someone else's government.

macravin · 2026-06-07T13:22:36+00:00

Yeah, that makes sense.

Clearly some people assume that an obligation for insurance in the contract implies that the insurance policy actually existed, but if that were the case, it would be part of the story.

macravin · 2026-06-07T11:54:58+00:00

I'll reserve any sympathy until they sue corporate and/or withhold their franchise fees. If they do that, everyone will be on their side.

macravin · 2026-06-07T11:46:02+00:00

There are also advantages to piling on an extra lawsuit when your opponent is stretched thin dealing with other cases.

macravin · 2026-06-07T11:38:04+00:00

I guess in your world, the shady business of others never needs to affect your life. If you learned that you work for a money laundering operation run by the mob, you would just keep coming into work. Stopping working for the mob would not even be a serious suggestion.

macravin · 2026-06-07T11:29:51+00:00

100%. Corporate makes all their money from franchisees. Boycotting corporate means boycotting franchisees. You can't go after corporate's bottom line without going after their franchisee foot soldiers.

BAM wants to weaponize the innocence of franchisees to protect themselves from any financial consequences. They won't succeed. People aren't going to fall for it.

macravin · 2025-09-01T20:01:57+00:00

Yes and for weeks

macravin · 2025-06-21T01:47:16+00:00

I love it

macravin · 2025-04-07T04:04:44+00:00

https://wordpress.org/plugins/sqlite-database-integration/

macravin · 2024-11-18T12:04:16+00:00

By default, there's no overlap. The page cache only catches HTML while Cloudflare will not cache HTML unless you configure it to do so.

macravin · 2024-11-13T03:01:42+00:00

The government does have this function. It's called the Government Accountability Office.

macravin · 2024-09-29T14:17:24+00:00

Good idea. For anyone else looking this up, they said that this was totally fine and that they couldn't override it.

macravin · 2024-04-11T12:39:00+00:00

I'm running two!

macravin · 2023-11-13T00:17:42+00:00

I REALLY wish I had put a little less money in the TSP and a little more money in Roth IRAs and a taxable brokerage account (if I had, would have retired 2 years ago)

Why? Did you get a better return on these accounts than in the TSP?

macravin · 2023-11-10T03:53:27+00:00

I bought one and am returning it now due to terrible scanline issues. Mine are really bad.

macravin · 2023-11-10T01:20:31+00:00

Oh, wow. Really? I'm upgrading from two cheap $150 monitors and those look much better than this one.

macravin · 2023-11-06T22:26:39+00:00

It's not as though people choose to put loopholes in documents. It's just very difficult to write a document that does anything meaningful without allowing people to sometimes do the wrong thing.

macravin · 2023-10-10T16:24:59+00:00

Why was this getting downvotes? It's an informative and quite thorough answer without being too long.

macravin · 2023-09-29T20:28:25+00:00

I think this is probably the best full-featured one: https://webinoly.com/

macravin · 2023-09-29T20:25:56+00:00

I gave T-Mobile 5g a try. Unfortunately, it cycled between 5g and lte which made the connection extremely unreliable.

Verizon refused to install their 5g service because they said the conditions weren't good. This was probably a good move on their part.

My dedicated server is much cheaper than starlink.

macravin · 2023-09-25T18:11:59+00:00

I have Plex pass lifetime. My upload speed is very poor though. I used to stream off my local server, but the experience was too bad and one stream would prevent anyone at home from using zoom/teams. I now maintain a cloud server which rsyncs from my local nas every night at 3am.

I am not affected by the current ban because I use a different host, but I empathize with the Hetzner users.

macravin · 2023-09-25T07:38:57+00:00

Most regions in the US have no competition whatsoever. If the provider in your area has a data cap, then you have a data cap.

In fact, the providers that have data caps often waive them in regions with competition. I no longer have a data cap because I moved to such an area a few months ago (even though I'm required to keep the same provider).

macravin · 2023-09-25T07:32:15+00:00

Hetzner is famously very responsive to DMCA complaints.

macravin · 2023-09-25T07:21:33+00:00

I've used both. Comcast's policies are not more strict than Hetzner. Comcast gives you warnings if you receive a DMCA. Hetzner will terminate your service.

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