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- 2023-01-02 15:52 more ads coming to windows
- 2023-01-02 15:52 defamation lawsuit against fox news
- 2023-01-02 15:52 corporate profit is driving inflation
- 2023-01-02 15:52 facebook tracking illegal in europe
- 2023-01-02 15:52 chatGPT and rot13
- 2023-01-02 15:52 Alfalfa farming represents 0.2% of the Utah economy but uses 68% of available water.
capitalism
- 2023-01-02 15:52 dwarf fortress sells 160K copies in 24h (at $30 each)
I will be buying it soon. I'm super happy for the Toady and I expect he's feeling overwhelmed.
- 2023-01-02 15:52 40% of global shipping involves moving fossil and other fuels (oil, gas, wood pellets) around.
- 2023-01-02 15:52 Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying
- 2023-01-02 15:52 bike helmet laws don't work
- 2022-12-04 13:59 no one wants to work anymore
- 2022-12-04 13:59 genetic engineering fears
- 2022-12-04 13:59 homeland security tried to manufacture fake terrorists for former president
- 2022-12-04 13:59 no clouds security camera uploads to the cloud
- 2022-12-04 13:57 tickemaster for public lands
Want to pay your $7 to hike the prized Coyote Buttes North at Arizona’s Vermilion Cliffs National Monument? Sure, just pay a $9 “lottery application fee.” Even by junk fee standards, this is a very junky fee – it’s not a fee for paying a fee, it’s a fee for the chance to pay a fee.
Only 4-10% of lottery entrants get a permit (Coyote Buttes is a very fragile ecosystem and entrance is severely limited), which means that Recreation.gov’s rake from this junk fee is about 1,000% of what it actually makes on hiking permits.
Well, at least that money is going to Coyote Buttes, right? Preserving the petroglyphs and the dinosaur tracks and whatnot?
Nope. The Bureau of Land Management gets the $7 entry fee from the 64 daily hikers who are lucky enough to visit Coyote Buttes. The $14,400 in lottery fees that the day’s hopeful hikers pay to Recreation.gov for a shot at a permit all go to a giant military contractor: Booz Allen.
- 2022-12-04 13:57 google changes the maps root domain
- 2022-12-04 13:57 adobe requires a subscription to rotate PDF pages
- 2022-12-04 13:57 tax preparation companies sending your information to facebook
- 2022-12-04 13:57 hello
- 2022-12-04 13:57 rich people bringing eugenics back
- 2022-12-04 13:57 least favorite bodies of water
- 2022-12-04 13:57 wildflower search
- 2022-12-04 13:57 Action driven AI
- 2022-12-04 13:57 gallagher is dead
- 2022-12-04 13:57 facebook messenger testing in-call video ads
- 2022-11-15 20:20 disney+ wants your age and gender for advertisements
- 2022-11-15 20:20 anti-vaccine doctor group implodes in scandal
how surprising
- 2022-11-15 20:20 tearing down twitter
- 2022-11-15 20:20 there is no cloud music library that won't delete your music
- 2022-11-15 20:20 terms of service didn't read
- 2022-11-15 20:20 weird baby names are a mormon thing
- 2022-11-15 20:20 train spotters are terrorists
- 2022-11-15 20:20 tumblr succeeds by being honest
I wonder if there's some critical mass where this stops working.
- 2022-11-15 20:20 adobe built the barrel it's now over
I’ve been corresponding with an Adobe PR flack doing damage control after the Pantone scandal broke, and as far as I can tell, she wants me to “correct” my article to blame Pantone for this mess, because it has Adobe over a barrel. But Adobe built that barrel. This hostage situation was a completely forseeable consequence of redesigning its products to treat its users like hostages. Pantone are greedy scum, but so are Adobe - and it was Adobe’s greed that exposed its customers to Pantone’s greed.
- 2022-11-15 20:20 microsoft adding ads to sign in and log out menus
- 2022-11-15 20:20 apple tracks you despite your privacy settings
- 2022-11-15 20:20 the most unethical thing I was asked to build at twitter
- 2022-11-15 20:20 10G IPv6 home network refresh
- 2022-11-15 20:20 the positive moral benefits of shitposting
- 2022-11-15 20:20 uber's getting desperate
- 2022-11-15 20:20 use RSS for privacy and efficiency
- 2022-11-15 20:20 if the replicator were invented today
- 2022-11-15 20:20 firefox usage is down 85% despite executive pay going up 400%
- 2022-11-15 20:20 propaganda as local news
- 2022-11-15 20:20 corporations are driving inflation
- 2022-11-15 20:20 FCC deadlocked because of corruption
- 2022-11-15 20:20 slow web as a service
- 2022-11-15 20:20 early pregnancy images
Wait, have the pro-life people been working from the assumption that a 9 week pregnancy is a fully formed but really tiny baby?
- 2022-11-15 20:20 france pulls out of the energy charter treaty
- 2022-11-15 20:20 the energy charter treaty allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments if policies affect their profits
capitalism
I will be buying it soon. I'm super happy for the Toady and I expect he's feeling overwhelmed.
Want to pay your $7 to hike the prized Coyote Buttes North at Arizona’s Vermilion Cliffs National Monument? Sure, just pay a $9 “lottery application fee.” Even by junk fee standards, this is a very junky fee – it’s not a fee for paying a fee, it’s a fee for the chance to pay a fee.
Only 4-10% of lottery entrants get a permit (Coyote Buttes is a very fragile ecosystem and entrance is severely limited), which means that Recreation.gov’s rake from this junk fee is about 1,000% of what it actually makes on hiking permits.
Well, at least that money is going to Coyote Buttes, right? Preserving the petroglyphs and the dinosaur tracks and whatnot?
Nope. The Bureau of Land Management gets the $7 entry fee from the 64 daily hikers who are lucky enough to visit Coyote Buttes. The $14,400 in lottery fees that the day’s hopeful hikers pay to Recreation.gov for a shot at a permit all go to a giant military contractor: Booz Allen.
how surprising
I wonder if there's some critical mass where this stops working.
I’ve been corresponding with an Adobe PR flack doing damage control after the Pantone scandal broke, and as far as I can tell, she wants me to “correct” my article to blame Pantone for this mess, because it has Adobe over a barrel. But Adobe built that barrel. This hostage situation was a completely forseeable consequence of redesigning its products to treat its users like hostages. Pantone are greedy scum, but so are Adobe - and it was Adobe’s greed that exposed its customers to Pantone’s greed.
Wait, have the pro-life people been working from the assumption that a 9 week pregnancy is a fully formed but really tiny baby?
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