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Rhinox

too old for this
Citizen
And the solution is more funerals?
I understand the irrationality of my statement. I'm also emotional enough on this subject to not currently care.

This is the bastard that killed my friend, Scott. Scott was literally 1 year into his career. He and his wife just had a daughter. He was a good man who had his whole life ahead of him. Not only did he take Scott from us, but he took every good thing Scott was going to do in his career. A good man in a position of authority. He would have made a difference in countless lives.
This little shitstain was underaged, at a casino, and also put the other 2 people in his car into the hospital.

And thats just one. Shall we talk about my friend Platz, who died after being hit by a car on his motorcycle on his way home to see his mother? Or Shawn, whose wife and kids died?

I am done playing nice or giving a damn about mercy for drunk drivers. hug every goddamn one of them. May you kill yourself instead of someone else.
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
Citizen
At least you get that you're being a wee bit irrational about it.

I get it: you're angry and hurt, and it never goes away. It never gets better. And the drunks never suffer the kind of fate they deserve. But short of putting cops on every corner, and breathalyzers in every car: killing these people for their very real crimes doesn't solve the problem. You want your friends back, and you want this kind of tragedy to never happen again.

But... killing these drunks only causes more pain, to their families and friends. They're people too. The goal is to alleviate pain, not create more.
 

Pocket

jumbled pile of person
Citizen
Meanwhile, Steam got rid of their arbitration clause this week. I wonder what motivated that.
 

Ungnome

Grand Empress of the Empire of One Square Foot.
Citizen
Once again, arbitration clauses should be illegal. Valves reason for ditching them isn't exactly altruistic, though.
 

Pocket

jumbled pile of person
Citizen
I assumed as much. The fact that the new agreement actually forbids using arbitration tells me that there's something sinister at play. You don't tell people not to do something unless they have a valid reason to want to.
 

Ungnome

Grand Empress of the Empire of One Square Foot.
Citizen
I think the issue was they were getting so many arbitration requests that it was impacting their business. Probably figured it was easier just to get a judge to call the cases meritless and get them thrown out of court
 

Rhinox

too old for this
Citizen
I think the issue was they were getting so many arbitration requests that it was impacting their business. Probably figured it was easier just to get a judge to call the cases meritless and get them thrown out of court
That's exactly it. I assume several of us have seen that commercial where that kid lawyer insists that if you have a steam account, he can get you money? They've flooded steam with arbitration demands. Enough so that steam's lawyers have decided life would be easier if they got a judge instead of an arbitrator.
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
Citizen
I mean... exclusively used to find, analyze and then publish pictures on social media using an intuitive hands free interface.

Counter: where are the three people whom still wear them? We can just schedule around them being in public.
 

NovaSaber

Well-known member
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Pocket

jumbled pile of person
Citizen
Wait, which two browsers is she talking about? Because I'd put both Edge and Chrome in the "actively malicious and not remotely reasonable choices when it comes to security" category but they're also the exact opposite of "third parties" depending on what platform you use.
 

CoffeeHorse

Exhausted, but still standing.
Staff member
Council of Elders
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It's still possible to gut most of the bad out of Firefox if you're willing to tweak about:config settings you don't understand and are not documented anywhere.
 


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