How much paid vacation did he get?

A big part of the problem here is this licensed fruit.

It seems like the guy agreed to grow this fruit that needed to be exclusively licensed or you wouldn’t be allowed to grow it.

He also agreed that the company he licensed the fruit from had exclusive rights to buy and market the fruit.

The company with exclusive rights apparently wasn’t paying for all the fruit that was grown. Unclear why.

The jury ruled that the farmer broke the contract, but there’s so much fucked up about the contract to begin with.

If the company didn’t want the fruit, the farmer should be able to sell it or give it away. They decided NOT to exercise their exclusive rights.

And now the trees will be destroyed because they are unlicensed… What a dumb system.

The Garmin vivoactive 5 is the one I was considering since it seems relatively affordable and apparently once the card is on the watch through the Garmin Pay app then it works without the phone being connected.

The reason I’ll never pay Google a subscription fee is because they still spy on you and make money off your data even if you pay them.

The deal is supposed to be either:

• I get your service for free, you spy on me and sell ads to cover the cost of the service

OR

• I pay for your service, you will NOT show me ads or sell my data

Any service that doesn’t fall into one of those two categories can GTFO.

They claim that “well regulated” doesn’t mean “well regulated”. They claim that it means “in good working order”.

I don’t know whether that’s really how the phrase was used at the time, but if they want to play that game… How was the term “arms” used at the time? Did it refer to weapons that can mow down an entire crowd in several minutes with one pull if the trigger?

NFC pay is not ubiquitous enough in my area so I use a phone case that has room for cards. I still need to carry a physical health insurance card and a physical ID as well so my wallet case is not going away. I actually bought a pixel 9 instead of 10 just because my favorite wallet case was available.

I’m considering just getting a Garmin watch that I keep disconnected from my phone to use for NFC pay. Seems like I would be able to set up my cards in Garmin Pay app and then just disconnect it.

It doesn’t even need to be in the store, just let me order one online and check off a “GrapheneOS” box, the same way that I can order a Framework laptop with either Windows or Linux.

But I get your point, I can see how someone could get confused when their phone arrived and required some extra tinkering to get Google stuff to work.

Wouldn’t it be better if it DID? Wouldn’t that get around all the “tamper” detection stuff?

Right now I have Google Play disabled in my owner profile, but it would be nice if apps in secondary profiles could pass the full Play Integrity checks… even though I’m actively trying to transition away from them.

For example Cisco DUO says my device with GrapheneOS installed has been tampered with, and I was hoping that would go away if I could just buy the phone with GrapheneOS installed.

We make no-stir risotto in a Dutch oven, I’m sure a deep-ish cast iron with a lid would work as well. We use a cast iron camping pot from Ozark.

Yeah… for the most part they just double down. You can point out the war in Iran that they supposedly didn’t want, the deficits they supposedly wanted to reduce, the prices that they thought would go down with tariffs somehow, and they will just say that doesn’t matter because the Democrats were going to turn their boys into girls.

The average number of Palestinians killed per day since October 7th, 2023 is around 70. Is he advocating that the Israelis take their foot off the gas a little on their genocide?

I’m in a red region of a blue state. There’s a good amount of Trumpism around. Most people I talk to made it through school without learning history or civics. They don’t understand the economic issues and mostly vote red because they believe that the Democrats want to take their guns away, turn their sons into daughters, or give their money to brown people both at home and abroad.

Steaks

This is interesting… but I’m not sure if the presence of a leak backs him into a corner. He could even refuse to confirm it’s true once it leaks, which probably would have been the professional way to handle it.

Someone should tell the politicians of both parties that, because they are still bending over for big tech.

I don’t hate him. He’s a typical rich asshole who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

I’d have no problem with him if he spent his time playing golf and sailing yachts, as long as he paid his taxes and would be held accountable for any fraud he commits.

I hate the people who looked at this guy and said “he represents me, I want him in charge”. Or “I don’t understand what the words communist or fascist mean, I just want him to hurt those other people I don’t like”.

The people who put him in power are the problem. Without them he would just be another rich asshole saying bigoted shit on social media that we could just ignore. If they didn’t put him in the White House, there’s at least a chance that he’d be held accountable for his crimes.

His social media posts would be a case of “say whatever you want old man, you’re just making yourself look foolish.”. Instead he has a platform to make the entire country look foolish.

Is there a place in Europe that does NOT already have the kinds of policies that AOC supports?

He’s going to have to flee to Argentina like the rest of the Nazis.

Isn’t this just a way to keep out women and trans women?

This is what the Trojan War was fought over

I wouldn’t mind that so much if those payment methods were more universally accepted, but they aren’t.

I use a wallet case so I can put cards in the back of my phone case instead of carrying a wallet.