As a cat owner… house cats are definitely terrorists but I love 'em.

Class action lawsuits are very rarely lucrative for the harmed party but they often result in sizeable penalties for companies. They’re essentially just punitive.

Is the fine more than a hundred billion? If not it’s fucking chump change to Apple.

Extremely safe - just be careful about where your feet are if you’re next to them. More people than you’d think have lost or seriously injured a foot because a cow or, especially, a draft horse, can’t see where they’re stepping.

If you get a chance and it’s just cows then go up and say hi, they’re wonderful animals and unbelievaby chill. I’d honestly be more comfortable petting a strange cow then a strange cat… if they shy away or noticeably get irritated when you approach be smart and give them space, but you’re probably just going to get licked and mooed at.

You have the option to sue or join a class action lawsuit - there is currently a class action lawsuit. If that interests you (and it should) be careful not to agree to anything with Ticketmaster.

The chances of you personally recovering much compensation unless you can show real personal damages and pursue Ticketmaster in an individual lawsuit.

Not all militaries are equal. Iran != Canada - don’t fall into both-sidesism.

That’s some exceptional watering down of the word terrorist you’re participating in there. Keep going and your both-sides-ing will make it so the IDF’s actions don’t seem abnormal at all!

I am sure the bizarrely numerous Greek billionaires are completely unrelated to their economy being fucked and not a clear sign of how deeply inequal and stratified the Greek economy is! Lots of hyper wealthy and destitute citizens means that everything is working, right?

To be fair, it’s a needlessly permanent and scary sounding term for a regular part of the functioning of a parliamentary democracy.

Most parliamentary systems also allow snap elections - there is usually a maximum length allowed before the next election but the PM can always call one earlier.

This has happened pretty frequently up here in Canada and Trudeau will time elections after good news if the LPC polling particularly strongly.

I think this is an overall good thing, it means that as long as a party is delivering success about once every four years it can remain in power - while allowing it to do the unpopular but necessary things in the interim. A hated party can’t survive in power, but a party that invests in the long term can thrive… it does have a dark side though. The party in power may engage in frivolous bullshit before the election (like unproductive handouts) to try and sway public opinion. It’s up to the public to see through short term bullshit and judge a party more long-term.

Shock therapy produces a twitch in the economy. Whether we’re reviving the dead or whether this is just an on-paper improvement has yet to be seen.

Is that some weird shortening for People’s Republic of Chinamen? Wouldn’t that be too easy to confuse with Republic of Chinamen?

'Murican seems pretty unique and generally accurate. Just to be clear - that is a two syllable word.

They’re both aposematisms - they’re meant to be a clear signal to discourage interactions.

Also, in Deutschland, the descendents of the Alemmani are called Germans for some awful reason.

I believe they’re properly called New Zoolanders.

People from Indiana are called hoosiers - this, like many things in English, doesn’t have a hard and fast rule… the sounds at the end of the word certainly impact it, but there are exceptions. Just ask a Peruvian.

One of my proudest university moments was getting a 50% on an exam. I built this absolutely fucking glorious solitare implementation in Java as a first year student that dove deep into how image buffers work and stayed up all night doing it. I got 100% on the project and 0% on the presentation that I slept through (my prof did offer me some extra credit which I took advantage of).

Never have I ever felt more validated in preferring to be a code monkey with zero interactions with clients than in that moment - I produced unimpeachably perfect results and completely fucked the communication side (thankfully, I’ve worked through a lot of my social anxiety but I’m still strongly in the introvert camp).

Honestly, yea… badass.

Honestly, it’s nice to hear that the developer considered the exif data and scrubbed it… even if they did it poorly.

People on the internet can be really creepy.

A person on the internet