Clearly it’s because they stopped him to verify he was a Nazi. When it became obvious he wasn’t, everything else is the natural response of the ICE immune system of course. Purging anything non-Bald Eagle Screeching Aryan.

ICE is of course verifying if this German is a Nazi. Once they verify that, they’ll let him go with an apology. If he is not well right back to El Salvador of course, because sending anyone back to anywhere remotely close to their country of origin is too much hassle. It’s not like ICE agents can read anyway, that’s why they ended up there in the first place.

To be fair… A year ago they were very close to the same price.

A reminder that tariffs are actually a thing.

A 25% tariff on a $600 item is $150. Even taking into account the tariff applying to the import cost instead, sales margins aren’t the majority of the cost. The tariff is applying to the wholesale cost to import the product, sales margins are then added on top of that.

I haven’t seen a single thing from AMD about whether the MSRP was set taking the tariffs into account or not. If not, then that should only apply to the devices imported before that went into effect. And everything after would be at least 25% more, more like 30% taking into account sales margins are based AFTER import costs.

On flights between major airports, with no inclement weather, and ignoring direct human control like taxiing and communications, many commercial flights are already effectively there. Automatic takeoff, autopilot in the air, and auto land systems handle nearly everything else automatically.

A reminder that for the McDonald’s claim, she only wanted her medical bills covered, it was McDonald’s that refused a much smaller claim of some tens of thousands and instead insisted on taking it to court. Plus they had been advised numerous times previously from customers about burns due to their decision to maintain the temp of their brewed coffee so high for so long after it was made, solely to minimize profit loss. They were scraping pennies and ignoring customer warnings.

“Starbucks offered $30m to settle but wanted confidentiality. We said we would settle for $30m without confidentiality and only if Starbucks agreed to publicly apologize and promise to change policy to prevent this from happening again,”

Starbucks offered the guy $30M with a confidentiality agreement. They were already clearly thinking it warranted an amount in that region, which would only be if they thought they could be liable for even more.

As with most electronics, the most likely times for failure are shortly after manufacture and years later after use. Failures in the middle are generally rare, hence the warranty.

There are components where quality testing can only give a pass/fail so there’s no way to know that it barely passed until it fails shortly after.

This isn’t unique to Tesla, or even EVs. This happens with nearly all electronics. Many things can be tested more thoroughly and have lower quality limits set above what’s actually required, but some stuff just can’t be tested like that ahead of time.

And there’s always just real life. They could have driven it home and parked near to a packrat who decided that a wiring harness looked like a good snack overnight. The car can’t tell that a rat ate the wiring, it will just give generic errors for whatever isn’t working right. Is that likely? No, but it is possible, and not something we would be able to tell from screenshots of the generic error screen telling the driver to schedule service.

That McDonald’s case is going to fuck them up. It’s clear precedent for a largely similar case. The extreme publicity around it also means Starbucks can’t claim ignorance of the danger of hot coffee via the drive thru as any sort of defense.

I mean we realistically do know the answer, because some have asked that question, and the answer is always “yes” they would vote for Trump again.

This is a fairly consistent through line with a lot of conservatives in general. It’s always about punishing others, even when they’re part of that same group, because they’re the “good” ones, as of that’ll make any sort of difference to law enforcement.

September, October, November, and December are named after the Latin numerals 7-10 (septem, octo, novem, decem) because they were originally the seventh through tenth months in the Roman calendar, which began around the spring equinox in March.

No, right article. Grants, tuition, etc., all of it is used as justification for those inflated salaries.

Do people actually think that inflated salaries have absolutely nothing to do with the overall funding going through the University, including those grants?

Ah yes, of course the massively inflated admin salaries aren’t on the chopping block at all, gotta gut the school instead.

Looking it up, She played the vice president’s daughter. The vice president wanted to use the extremis serum on his daughter to heal her lost leg.

Her part was almost entirely removed from the film apart from the minimum for the story and with no speaking lines, she’s effectively an 11 year old extra in the final film. It’s not surprising at all.

That requires the rest of the government, namely Congress to stop the President from directing his branch of government break the law. And they’ve shown no intention of starting to do that.

That doesn’t require the patriarchy, just the fashion industry in general trying to sell as much as possible. Adding an entirely different and otherwise unnecessary article of clothing is a brilliant idea honestly.

I mean, when you don’t give a shit about whether your actions have any basis in legality at all, you can do whatever you want and leave it to others to try and clean up after your decision.

It’ll take more than that. America had concentration camps for the Japanese while we were actively fighting the Nazis in WWII and their own camps.

Easy to say people are dead and collecting benefits when you are the one that marks them as dead when you know they’re still alive and will continue to collect.

I don’t believe for a second that people at DOGE didn’t do this on purpose a few times to have examples to point to.

Punitive damages are about punishing a company so they actually feel some sort of pressure to change whatever behavior caused the incident. It’s not about the specific single incident.

The fact this is similar to the McDonald’s hot coffee incident from a couple decades ago means that Starbucks already had a clear indication similar operations could lead to this, and did not have proper solutions in place to prevent a known possibility from happening. Looks like pretty clear negligence, to maximize profits, which means massive punitive damage to offset those profits.