Hopefully with kids in private school you’d have more savings than that, but that’s an easy $15-50k/yr per kid.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the monthly cash burn for a truly middle class family was $5k.

The rule of thumb is 6 months of expenses.

That case is still being litigated:

https://ipwatchdog.com/2023/02/23/allen-v-cooper-back-queen-annes-vengeance/id=156986/

It is fairly clear the parent isn’t a lawyer. It’s also fairly clear they have very little interaction with law in general. I’m guessing more of the sovereign citizen camp.

I do frequently. If you’re going to be so smug, you should also be correct. They purchase a copy of each media that they loan at any single time.

If they have 5 copies of digital media, 5 people can use them simultaneously. Not more.

It’s why Libby has a waiting list.

The internet archive would have been legal if they had a) purchased the copy and b) had not lent it to more than a single person simultaneously (or purchased more copies). They weren’t doing that. They were acquiring (legally or not, I’m not sure) copies and putting on their website for as many people as wanted to read them.

That is not what libraries do.

It’s why libraries don’t photocopy infinite books so there’s never a waiting list. You can’t do it with print media, and you can’t do it with digital media.

Copyright is federal, not state law. The state or municipal library system would get sued and lose in federal court.

Copyright is federal bub. They get sued in federal court. Or the FBI shows up and takes all their servers.

The congress could choose to alter copyright laws of course to make this legal. But they can’t just do it. And states definitely can’t.

Listen, I love libraries as much as the next person. We have very clear laws that protect libraries.

Is copyright a little fucked and a little too slanted towards those rights holders? Yes.

Did anyone really think it was OK to start adding books and movies in? And provide those for free to everyone simultaneously? Libraries don’t do that.

Is it stuff she actually wants or needs, or is the garage full of junk she won from defunct companies and a years supply of RC Cola?

I’m not sure what you’re getting at. He broke the law, the government investigates and enforces the law.

What do you expect to happen? Should the government not investigate crimes against corporations? Should corporations be required to pay for the government investigation into a crime perpetrated against them?

Seems like pretty quickly the governments would only be incentivized to investigate financial crimes against corporations.

Seems like a worse pay-to-play scheme than the alleged thing you’re mad about.

Probably not. I’m sure the tools and parts are prohibitively expensive, and they don’t need to weasel out, AppleCare will still make more sense.

Probably not. Tesla is very dysfunctional as an org. He flattened it so much, and hasn’t appointed a real leader, while he’s distracted I bet they’re basically in a holding pattern.

He motivated them by setting insane goals then driving them insanely hard and sleeping in the office and shit.

If he’s not doing that, the company is, pardon the pun, on autopilot. Watch out for stopped emergency vehicles.

I had the SNCF jingle as my notification sound for meetings like 10 years ago. I loved the sound of it. But I was a tourist and didn’t have to listen to it play 700 times during my commute.

https://youtube.com/shorts/aqq654RNL-k?feature=share

Just want to say thanks, I’ve been really enjoying Avelon.

It looks wildly different than what social interactions with any people I know in real life.

It’s a super small percentage of the population that is wildly over represented in lemmy.

It’s definitely not “regular” outside of Russia and China.

I think it’s one of those things where it has to match the rest of the home.

If you have a fairly standard modern home and just slap a turret on it, it looks ridiculous.

This is the way. Any medium fill power down will be like that in a few weeks.

Everything I’ve tried is worse than down. The memory foam pillows are better than the synthetic fake down pillows that are hot garbage.

If your pillow is $10-20 it’s probably not a good pillow.

But pillows are super subjective. My wife grew up with the thicker synthetic ones and hates my pillows. Upside is hers are cheap I guess!

Not for nothing, but pork bun has been great for me.

Smart, put your headquarters somewhere that takes freedom of speech seriously, just like…. wait, where did you say they were headquartered again?

People in suburbs often do have the room for a home office though. And if you prefer to go to an office, it’s probably to work with your coworkers. No chance they want to drive to your suburb.

The people in the city that live in a 1-2 BR apartment definitely don’t have room for home offices.

The real problem for wework is it’s an insanely easy model for LLs to copy and disintermediate them. If it were worthwhile business.

It’s much too expensive at any scale - and subscale, well, people outgrow it.

That’s not quite right. Preexisting assets kept separately don’t just become marital assets. If you owned a home prior to the marriage and you then live there together, it almost certainly would be considered a marital property.

But certainly every dollar you make or asset you acquire while married counts.