Also why the fuck would they charge for it?

Because they have long since moved away from selling worthwhile products to selling anything they can trick people into buying. Providing value is no longer a concern, only short-term profit.

Some replies in the Reddit thread confirmed that they had also gotten their money back, while others claimed that their request for a refund was denied, so the decision seems to be made on a case-by-case basis.

Or use a scale.

I’ve read a few articles on this over the last few days. I feel like this one (and it’s well cited references) finally gets me to the point of being confident that Target is full of shit.

The articles I read before this tended to be vague and focusing on data that is at least a year old if not from 2020 which, while helpful context, doesn’t do much to counter the claim of rapidly growing theft. Additionally, they often focused on national trends instead of store or store-area specific analysis. A particular store or area can have a big problem even if regional or national numbers don’t show the same issue.

This didn’t mean that I thought target was telling the truth—just that there was still room for doubt about the article’s conclusions.

I really like the crime data analysis linked in the article, which is looking at very recent crime data for a couple of the specific stores cited by Target. That analysis is very strong evidence that Target was full of shit… along with Targets continued failure to actually produce any of their own data supporting their claim.

Is the email itself real? The email doesn’t read satirical enough to me, and I would think if The Onion had written it, the boilerplate at the bottom would contain jokes.

Agreed, but looking in the bright side: it would kill the diamond industry, which is a fucking awful blight on the world :)

how is gun control going to help the fact that some people out there want to kill as many lives as possible?

By reducing access to a very powerful tool for murder. Here is a comparison of USA and Canadian homicide rates

Are you pointing to a single incident from 5 years ago as evidence that non-gun mass murders are common in Canada? Do you think that when gun control is enacted, all the people that would have committed murder via gun would instead commit as much murder using improvised weapons? If so, can you show any data that bears this out?

Even though other methods of murder can be devised, restricting access to the easiest, fastest method is effective in reducing murder.

Thank you for working on this great app! Unfortunately, it looks like 1.0 has some big wrinkles to iron out. Here is what I experienced:

I lost all my settings. I had to log back in, then try to put my settings back to how they were.

Many items in settings are non functional. Off the top of my head, most of the problems were on the link items under settings, such as all the stuff in “about”. Other settings I noticed aren’t working were Allow NSFW and Blur NSFW. These can no longer be toggled; both toggles immediately revert to off when you press them.

I can’t find a way to add a second account. If I hold down on my account icon at the bottom like I could do in 0.6.0, nothing comes up.

This was on 1.0(21). I reverted to 1.0(20) to see if things were working there. My login and settings I set in 1.0(21) stuck, but the other issues persisted. Reverting to 0.6.0(2) still functions, with my accounts still in place.

I hear you. I’m trying to be hopeful, but agree there is a good chance the shooter was looking for a reason to shoot.

Morbius isn’t a great one to point at as an example where this rule of thumb fails because the reviews were brigaded. It was a huge meme and would have been flooded with meme user reviews.

As a layman, this doesn’t sound any different than what my (vague) picture of what the “great firewall” already is. My assumption is that the great firewall is generally about:

-preventing those inside China from access unapproved content from outside

-preventing those outside China from accessing unapproved content from inside China

-monitoring and controlling content inside China

Can anyone speak to how this could be notably different than what China has already been doing in that realm? Or correct my understanding of what we believe China already has in place?

As the spouse of a teacher, I completely agree. Add to that the complete lack of authority the schools and teachers have. You can have a child that desperately needs assistance but if the parents say no or are just lazy, nothing can be done. I have repeatedly been exposed to just how gutless the school district is here and I assume it is the same in most US schools. They are terrified of parents being upset with the to the extent that classrooms become unmanageable because of one troubled student who is allowed to run amok because the school won’t do anything and their parents don’t care.