They have stated they have measures in place to detect anyone trying to do that and will require them to return the TV or pay for it.

Requirements for officers to wear body cameras are meaningless without significant penalties for turning them off when on duty

"average person changes sheets 4 times a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person changes sheets 25 times per year. Sheets Georg, who lives in cave & changes sheets never, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Per Newsweek

"In the week ending June 3, Bud Light's sales revenue—the brand's dollar income—was down 24.4 percent compared to the same week a year ago."

"The company's global CEO, Michel Doukeris, said on May 4 that the declining Bud Light sales represented about 1 percent of Anheuser-Busch's global volume.

Don't forget Connect

The developer has been incredibly responsive to community feedback and there have been almost daily updates.

There's also a guy cryogenically frozen in a tuff shed in Nederland,, CO. They have an annual festival called Frozen Dead Guy Days.

A Norwegian woman and her son brought the woman's father's dead body there from Norway and planned to start a cryonics (cryogenics refers to freezing things in general, cryonics refers specifically to freezing dead bodies in hopes of future revival) facility. The son got deported, the woman got evicted for living in the partly-finished facility which wasn't up to building code and didn't have plumbing or electricity, and the town passed a law specifically preventing storage of dead bodies on public property. For some reason there was a lot of public support for her and they ended up making an exception for the one body that was already there.

Also cryonics doesn't work. The idea is that if in the future people find a way to bring physically intact dead bodies back to life they can be revived, but because water expands when it freezes it destroys the bodies at a cellular level. There are reports of bodies literally cracking apart even at the most "state of the art" cryonics facilities.

There were some experiments on rodents with limited success in the 50s but it just doesn't scale up to larger organisms.

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What about elephants? Or blue whales?

Per the bible humans were created after all the other animals IIRC.

Why the first reaction frame? Instagram is owned by Meta, of course they're going to have incredibly invasive data collection policies.

To answer the "why not" part of that question, copying from one of my previous comments:

There's an enormous amount of content uploaded to YouTube, as much as 30,000 hours of video uploaded per hour. That's around 1PB per hour assuming most videos are uploaded in 1080p.

I wasn't able to find an official source for what YouTube's total data storage is, but this estimate puts it at 10 EB or 10,000,000,000 GB of video.

On Amazon AWS that would cost $3 Billion per month to store. The actual cost to Google is probably much lower because of economy of scale and because it is run by and optimized for them, but it is still a colossal figure. They offset the cost with ads, data collection, and premium subscription, but I would imagine running YouTube is still a net loss for Google.

Schools cannot force students to learn. A lot of people are having kids because of social/societal expectations, lack of sex education, or lack of access to birth control rather than because they actually want to. As a result they are much less involved in their childrens' lives and expect schools to take care of raising their children for them. Stagnating wages and rising cost of living from inflation or corporate greed or whatever you want to call it means that even parents who do care are often too busy trying to make ends meet to be active parents. I suspect all of the above factors also correlate to parents who are not very well educated themselves.

If kids do badly, rather than encouraging or incentivizing them to do well or addressing their behavioral issues, these parents will instead blame the teachers. It is getting to the point where this is the case for the majority of students in many places. I have friends who teach in selective private schools, which would in theory correlate to more resources for students and more involved parents, but even there they are starting to see this.

Schools don't have the resources to address this crisis properly; schools are funded by tax dollars so teacher pay and overall school funding have stagnated along with wages. Schools cannot fail every student or hold them back a grade, and they are also incentivized to have high average grades, so they end up lowering their standards and graduating students who are not properly educated.

My personal, cynical take on this is that a subset of people in positions of political power realize that uneducated people are easier to manipulate for their own gain, and therefore deliberately support policies that have lead to the deterioration of educational standards. Additionally, business profits are maximized, at least in the short term, by maximizing the number of people living on the brink of bankruptcy. Every cent that the average person saves or invests or passes on to their children is a cent that is not being added to the billionaires' hoards. Less educated people are easier to manipulate into voting politicians who allow this to happen into power, which gives large corporations an incentive to help the aforementioned politicians get elected.