How about arrest and prosecution under a completely reformed legal system?

I don’t have any horse in this race but… how ugly, dirty and bloody can this get in a state where gun owning and carrying is very common?

And I’m not even considering bystanders caught in crossfire.

How ugly can it get if someone decides to shoot on sight a gang like this? And other people join as they start hearing exchanged fire?

People eat badgers in my country… stupid people will eat anything.

We could just regulate tech companies and outright ban some practices but since we apparently don’t have time for rational solutions…

Well thought out sabotage can be written off to causality or involuntary human error.

Not giving notice of lay off is an abusive work practice and only shows how far we’ve allowed work conditions to degrade.

And that practice itself can be highly dangerous, if we consider a person can be midway into a complex task that can turn extremely difficult to follow by another: waste of time, resources, energy and money.

I do know they enjoy eating eggs from birds nests and other small animals are on the menu. But murderous?

Small acts of sabotage are easy to write off to causality, if well planned.

Stupid question but what is stopping the software engineers to poison the well?

Insert malicious code, self destructing functions, have entire batches of code lost or corrupted, hardware damaged, etc?

Cute as these animals are, considering their invasive status, I expect culling efforts.

Nice! Good to know.

But why have an evaporative cooling system and not use a system similar to internal combustion engines, with a closed circuit system? It would be more economic.

But I wouldn’t want to have to replace the gasket if it broke!

Depends on the amount of treatment steps it undergoes.

Standard procedure is aimed at just removing solid debris and organic matter, to return clarified and chemically balanced water to nature, with no excess nutrients that could feed algae in water streams.

From that point forward, it is just a question of how far the treatment can be taken.

For reuse for cleaning, washing, etc? Maybe it just gets a minute dosage of sodium hypocloride.

Highly sensible areas, like beaches or lakes? UV treatment, maybe followed by micro filtering. Extreme scenarios? Reverse osmosis.

If the protocols in place are strong, it’s safe.

As someone that works in waste water: do it.

The company I worked for made a show of signing a partnership with a beer maker to supply them with water to create a unique batch.

The water had to be mixed with regular water in order to balance out the profile, as the treated water had underwent an aditional step to make it safe for consumption (UV treatment and micro filtering); it was closer to filtered water than anything else.

Odourless, colourless and tasteless.

Who tried it, said the beer came out just fine.

Using treated waste water for cooling datacenters would be trivial. And cheap.

A national supermarket chain has its own foundation and sometimes runs fund rallies for it, which they collect through their store front.

What I stated comes from an explanation I was once given by an accountant. It works (or worked, hopefully) like that here, Portugal.

I don’t doubt your word. I paraphrased the explanation an accountant in my country (Portugal) gave me. It may work differently in other places and I sincerely hope so.

I stand corrected.

That one.

Never used it for personal ends. But I’m curious to see if all the companies using as a work tool will divert from it.

Signal.

And IF I learn how to run Jammi, it will be my default communication application.

Only in America.

No ballots, not the problem for the voter. If the voter wants to vote, get them a ballot, even if you have to order a transfer.

My country is on the fast lane for fascism as well but we still follow electoral law.

I wasn’t going to comment initially but, thinking again, I will.

According to what I was once explained, the scheme runs like this.

a) organization X starts a fund raising campaign

This alone can be deducted as an expense, as any amount of hours can be attributed to planning, preparing, etc, the entire thing.

As this time as no profitable end, it can be deducted.

b) You donate. But now it’s their money.

Your money is siphoned to a separate bank account or just tallied and earmarked as for charitable purpouses but this does not mean the entity needs to hand it over immediatly.

That money is held within the company’s vaults, figure of expression, and, as such, counts towards the overall financial assets of the company.

It still needs to be handed to the end recipient but until it does it can be used to leverage loans and be invested into short term investment products, like overnight deposits (with hundreds of thousands or even millions it does gain interest overnight).

c) the money gets donated eventually but not by you

Eventually, all that money gets handed over but it is now their money, not yours. And as such, they get the tax deduction. And, again, with hundreds of thousands to millions in donations, the deduction gets very high.

This deduction, on your expense, goes towards clearing more of their profits.

Want to do something good?

Volunteer. Help your neighbour. With your own efforts, actions and work. Don’t hand over money.

Considering the actions currently being perpetrated against children (and women, elderly and civilians) by the the nation at the zero position, being in the negative range of that scale sounds pretty good.

Considering the zero, I’m fairly comfortable the average human is pretty well situated in the negative numbers of that scale.