Who would be the defense attorney? Clarence Darrow?

Well after whatever period of time, the option to even request a chargeback on your account portal goes away. Not sure how you’d even proceed at that point, but I imagine it involves an incredible amount of being on hold.

If tens of thousands of people started requesting chargebacks for the same product at the same time from a new vendor, I don’t think Visa would be quick to side with the vendor.

As I pointed out a year ago, this phone never existed.

They just waited until it was too late to do credit card chargebacks before pulling the rug. I’ve seen it on Kickstarter dozens of times.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/to_be/

You can be too close to a door to close it.

The Truman Show didn’t have commercial breaks or ad reads. People in his environment may speak highly of a product (sometimes to a suspicious degree), but they only spoke to people inside the simulation. The products had to naturally fit into his environment.

Knowyourmeme references both.

Viewership would probably drop, and the product placement embedded in the show that funded the whole program would be difficult to do in jail.

What’s the significance of “one mile”?

If all the medium range stuff is just last year’s high end, I can live with that.

i cri evrytim

He was surprised it was $8 in an amusement park.

This was also like 14 years ago. Might need to update the dollar amount when I tell this story.

A friend of mine moved to SF right out of college. A year or so later, he told me that he visited Busch Gardens Williamsburg which is a theme park near where we grew up. It was originally owned by Anheuser-Busch, so you can get beer basically anywhere in the park.

He had this to say:

“You know, this is the first time I’ve been since turning 21. I was surprised to see how cheap the beer was. They were only charging $8 a pint.”

so 1b is 1 butt or approximately 481l.

Orion is one of my favorites. One of the few deep space objects that can be faintly observed with the naked eye even in suburban light pollution conditions. You just need to know where to look and what you’re looking for (faint smudge).

If you want to go really old school, get a ham radio license, then buy a handheld with APRS.

You can send out 5W packets with your GPS coordinates, that can be received and relayed by any radio in range. This can work completely off-grid, so no cell service required.

Getting your Technician license is super easy.

especially ironic since it’s a post about spreading misinformation for free.

The book about sentient apes spreads misinformation for Exxon?

I read the book a few decades ago, and I don’t remember that part.