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they were two miles deep. sending up a tethered buoy means holding two miles of string on the sub, which would be completely impractical. sending an untethered buoy doesn’t really help anything, because by the time it goes two miles up to the surface, it could have drifted way further than that in any other direction.

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the government might have a case to sue for negligence and get some of their costs recovered. but the company is going to go bankrupt anyways, so even if they win it’s not like they’re actually going to recoup any money.

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another cause of the infinite spinner: you are trying to sign in, but you haven’t verified your email address yet. solution: check your email, click the verification link that was sent to you.

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This is astoundingly good. Like, I didn’t know webapps could be this nice. It’s kind of amazing.

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For context, this is the same designation that bacon currently has, amongst a whole bunch of other things we all eat.

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people really need to get over this nonsense. yeah, twitter wasn’t paying their bills. but now they have paid it. it was just for some internal analytics services, not the main site, and had nothing to do with twitter’s recent downtime.

google’s not going to retaliate against them after they paid.

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i checked out three or four instances and this one seemed to have the least amount of bullshit to deal with

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This announcement is supsiciously light on NFTs.

Will there be any new collectible avatars to help commemorate this occasion?

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we shouldn’t do anything.

Isn’t the whole promise of the fediverse that whatever the policies of one instance are, that doesn’t necessarily affect all the other instances, and each can do their own thing. If an instance doesn’t want to accept traffic from threads, good for them. But to try to organize a fediverse-wide response to threads seems a whole lot like the centralization the fediverse is supposed to not be.

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In most regions, you’re right: you can put a noncompete in a contract, but enforcing it is another matter.

But noncompete clauses are explicitly illegal in California, where Twitter is based.

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