The Consumer Review Fairness Act makes it illegal for companies to include standardized provisions that threaten or penalize people for posting honest reviews. For example, in an online transaction, it would be illegal for a company to include a provision in its terms and conditions that prohibits or punishes negative reviews by customers.
As if conservative Americans have read the bible. They’d be the ones crucifying Jesus for being too “woke” if they knew what it was all about.
I hate that it takes away from the overall point being made, but the “Top 8” list doesn’t agree with the table it’s (apparently) pulled from. New Mexico should be 6th, not 8th.
On top of that, there’s room for disagreement with how the table is calculated: Mississippi, for example, lists 25.4 deaths/100k, but the figures presented only list the number of crashes, not deaths. Crashes/100k results in either 23.2 or 34.1 depending on if you use population or drivers.
I won’t challenge the deaths/100k exactly, but putting it that way does seem to “punish” states with more people per car that are in a crash. Carpooling is good, but does result in more deaths per crash. Number of fatal crashes per 100k drivers is a bit more fair to reality, IMHO. It doesn’t change the big picture, but does put New Mexico up to 3rd.
The Red/Blue state thing gets more complicated when you take into consideration that Red states tend to be bigger and more rural, resulting in more miles driven. IIHS has “Deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled” for 2023 (https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/fatality-statistics/detail/state-by-state), and the top is still dominated by Red states, but New Mexico drops to 9th, while Oregon jumps all the way to 6th.
tl;dr: It doesn’t matter how you slice the data, Mississippi sucks.
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It wasn’t a riot, it was a job fair.
While not a “review” in the traditional sense, I hope it would fall under the CRFA anyway.
The Consumer Review Fairness Act makes it illegal for companies to include standardized provisions that threaten or penalize people for posting honest reviews.
They can’t necessarily use a “contract” as a defense.
From the king of “free speech.” 🙄
“douche”
Dumb question: which one draws more media attention in Chicago?
In my own experience (not Chicago), the local news is dominated by where the rush-hour crash is today, while national news talks way more about gun deaths.
I’m going to go with the general vibe of Lemmy here and assume you mean that auto deaths need to get more attention in America. To that I would say there is a general cultural attitude that cars are a necessary evil (even among most people who don’t outright love them, which is a huge demographic), and fixing the zoning and infrastructure would take decades and many tens of billions of dollars to restructure a large city around public transit. Besides bumper-sticker-slogan politics (“more public transit!”) there are precious few real, concrete plans for getting from the current situation to the car-free utopia.
Even then, you’d not eliminate cars entirely. Among the more developed western European nations that are known for good public transit, Ireland seems (at a quick glance) to have the fewest cars per person at 536 per 1,000, while the car-happy US has 850/1,000. So best case, you reduce cars by ~35%.
Gun deaths, on the other hand, are easier to imagine as a problem that can be solved relatively quickly and with less disruption. From an advocacy point of view, it’s the lower-hanging fruit.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religious-landscape-study-methodology/
A total of 205,100 sampled addresses were mailed survey invitations. Respondents were given a choice to complete the survey online, by mail, or by calling a toll-free number and completing the survey over the phone with an interviewer. Of the 36,908 U.S. adults who completed the survey, 25,250 did so online, 10,733 did so by mail, and 925 did so by phone.
It goes on to say the results were then weighted to get a representative demographic sample, e.g. if more older people answered, younger responders would count for more.
Even if you discount all other forms of taxation, and only focus on income taxes, the sentiment is irrelevant to this particular vote.
His support appears to be concentrated in the middle class. (Median household income in NYC is about 80k, right about the peak of his vote share)
You just know somebody in that meeting suggested adding “copilot” in there somewhere.
TIL notepad has spell check.
For all we know, in that moment Elon was standing on some dirt, making him the wealthiest person on lower-case earth.
Remember when the GOP sued google because its spam filters were too effective?
Practical Engineering?
10295 Porsche 911
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Bringing home the bacon
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These types of machines certainly have their place, and if it meets your needs, go for it.
The big downside is going to be a lack of upgradability. Most of the core components will be soldered to the motherboard, so no CPU or GPU upgrades, and no replacements if something breaks. I know the one you linked was just an example, and not necessarily “the one,” but its on-board graphics are similar in power to a GTX 1650. Lots and lots of games available at that level, but you’ll be locked out of anything newer with no clear upgrade path later.
For reference, I own something similar, but even older, as a secondary machine. It’s fine for what it does. Just be aware of the limitations. There are ways to build a similar-powered full desktop for about the same price. At that point it’s a tradeoff: would you rather be able to upgrade later, or do you want the simplicity and small form factor (portability, aesthetics, etc)?