It appears to have 30 days in October and 31 days in November.

Sorry about that. The perils of artisanal calendaring.

https://i.imgur.com/AoH5A67.png

I think you're missing August 13th. As the other commenter pointed out, 13*28 = 264.

I think you may have a point.

Not that big of a deal though. I have nothing planned for that day :)

Thanks, you found it! I was going nuts.

Such as?

All non-trivial encryption algorithms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars

Many small aircraft are still required, by law, to use leaded gasoline. Meanwhile, leaded gas has been outlawed for use in cars for decades.

Fuel additives in any vehicle can put stuff in the air. If you look at these sites to see what they are intentionally spraying into the atmosphere, you will never look up at the clouds and airplanes in the same way.

What is Google paying for, exactly? Reddit's content is already public. Even free tools like F5Bot are already continuously downloading all of Reddit, and I'm sure they aren't paying $60M.

I suspect they're paying to avoid any future lawsuits or changes in the laws. Realistically they only need to scrape Reddit once, because the vast majority of useful training data will be years in the past.

If this deal lasts for more than a year I'll be shocked, and like you wonder even more just what the hell they're buying.

I installed Windows 11. A couple hours later, I was horrified to find that Windows 11 uploaded all files on my desktop to Microsoft. There's no warning or opt-in. OneDrive is set up by default to silently copy all your files. How is that legal?

Windows 10 had the same behavior. MacOS has also done this by default for years now. I don’t say this to excuse the behavior. On the contrary, I’ve seen many a small business owner run afoul of compliance requirements because they aren’t aware of the default behavior. Slurping data to consumer-grade cloud services ought to require informed consent.

I recently got a new Windows 11 computer. I was forced to create a Microsoft account to login in. There is no reasonable option to bypass it. I copied some files over to the Desktop, and I was later completely horrified to realize that Microsoft had uploaded everything on my desktop to their servers (OneDrive). They shouldn't copy all your data to their cloud without making it explicit!

Right on all accounts. I've serviced MS shops for 3 decades. Presently, I approach Windows (and most MS offerings) as a hostile product.

Income tax is specifically prohibited under the original US constitution. The modern federal income tax was enacted in 1913 at 1% for incomes over $3,000 (about $93,000 in today's money). By WWII, we had universal payroll withholding.

Thinking the government will be satisfied with taking only a little bit from the wealthy, is like thinking your drug addicted friend will be happy with only a small bump of heroin on weekends.

>You see, the reason you pay so much money on your tax income...

Or is it because government spending has gotten so wasteful? It's interesting to think about how much government used to accomplish with less, or even no, income tax in the past.

Frankly, I don't see how discussing the expense side is useful in a discussion on how we distribute the income side of the government over the population.

You could literally have "firearms, drugs, cats, dogs, alligators, and weapons" in your car and still not be breaking any laws at all. None of those things are a priori illegal in all, or even most, cases.

Reddit has been on a downward spiral for years. I guess they are in a tough spot, because they're trying to monetize it, but the way they are simply ignoring the needs of their users will surely lead to their downfall.