It is intentionally vague, because companies want to be able to weasel out of any and all accountability whenever possible.

But Mastercard isn’t off the hook either way even if we accept the rules as they are currently. Before this incident, Mastercard has been starting to censor adult content in general with rules changes. To the point where there was already a petition on the ACLU site about this exact type of censorship.

https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy

Mastercard is trying to weasel their way out of this particular instance because they didn’t directly have a hand in this video game situation, even though they clearly would agree with it based on other recent changes. They’re trying to play both sides by assuming that people didn’t know they were already doing these things.

What I see is Mastercard hiding behind their generic rules for processors and being fine with the processors taking unilateral action that could damage their brand.

Mastercard should demand they rescind the decision based on a flawed interpretation of their rules since the content IS NOT ILLEGAL where Steam provides it, or drop those processors entirely due to the brand damage their unilateral decision has caused. If Mastercard lets this sit, that signals that they agree with this decision, regardless of what they say, and they should be treated as such.

People ignore speed limits. You design the street to feel best at the speed you want people to go.

One of the States, I think Maine? Took a road and adjusted the posted speed limit at various points spanning like 20 mph differences, and at all posted speeds the average actual traffic speed was still the same. Because that speed felt right for that road to most drivers, regardless of what was legal.

If there are good alternative options for public transport, then the slower speed limits and roads designed to slow traffic will gradually shift people to use those options instead.

There’s enough MAGAts online here that actually believe that shit, and post those exact types or comments. Hard to tell the difference anymore.

It’s not about hurting the case, it’s just irrelevant to the charges in court. How a suspect is stopped while fleeing isn’t usually relevant to the charges against them. Especially since it wasn’t an officer that stopped them, but a civilian. That information will of course be in the report, but it wouldn’t be relevant in the court proceedings, especially not needing them to testify in person.

Bullshit. This is the propaganda employers use so employees don’t have information to make educated decisions. There are already industries that have payroll information available to all employees, or even fully publicly available.

The simple fact is most people don’t resent each other for being paid less, they resent the employer exploiting them, as they should.

I think that’s why they’re having the National Guard do it. Turns out the ICE employees aren’t even as qualified as a fifth grader.

I’m getting really tired of Congress abdicating their power of the purse to the Executive. They talked about that shit like it was the holy grail for decades and then one shit for brains comes along and they decide they don’t care about anything anymore.

That’s almost surely a result of how Valve works internally for approving projects. They operate with a flat management structure. With no bosses or managers, the employees themselves choose which projects to work on. The philosophy is that Valve only hires the best, and they should operate at their best doing what they enjoy instead of simply being told what to do.

Every employee at Valve is given the freedom to join whatever project they choose, or to create a new one. They are encouraged to work on what they feel if the most important project to the company and what will have the highest direct impact on their customers.

If the Valve employees wanted to make Half Life 3, they would. At this point the joke is that Valve simply can’t count to three. It feels like they want to keep that joke going more than make another Half Life game. Half Life 1 and 2, them Episode 1 and Episode 2, Portal 1 and Portal 2, Team Fortress and Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike 2. Several of these have had other interim releases, especially Counter-Strike, but those were always based on the previous game and not a totally new game from scratch, much like the Half Life Episodes.

https://medium.com/@dperciv1/welcome-to-flatland-valves-unique-culture-8372e63d664e

Don’t discount the PR from Exelon being complete dogshit. Actively lying to the public instead of actually explaining what was going on and when getting caught by the public and called out by the media trying to double down.

It screwed the entire industry. It proved to the public that they couldn’t trust a company to tell them the truth when the issue wasn’t really bad. There’s no way they’d tell the truth when things were actually bad.

It destroyed the entire industry’s credibility in just a few days.

The worst part of that is The Mike Island wasn’t so much a nuclear disaster, it was a PR and communications disaster.

You know what else is efficient? Actual security instead of the theater they put travelers through currently.

Oh I wouldn’t be surprised at all, most businesses are pretty small. I would be surprised if a Bank was that irresponsible, although not very surprised.

Yeah at this point they only have to be slightly better than the Fascist party to have a chance with half the voters.

This doesn’t matter, it’s a distraction.

A Grand Jury is there to decide if there’s even enough evidence to bother with a trial in the first place. The only time Grand Juries don’t indict is when even the prosecutor knows it’s pointless but they’ve got to look like they made an attempt.

What is shown to the Grand Jury has little to no bearing on an actual trial, it’s just a first step that ensures time isn’t being blatantly wasted by frivolous charges.

NTSB demanding zero margin for safety…

Not zero margin, zero tolerance in the margin. Very different things. If you have a margin of error of 200, and each side has a tolerance of 100, both can be technically in tolerance but still collide. You want that margin to be larger than the tolerances combined, plus additional margin for human error and real world conditions. And then, if possible, double or triple that.

The altitude systems being able to be 100 feet off while at low altitude and a separation of 75 feet is absolutely insane.

Spoofing a MAC is easy but it still requires knowing both what an existing valid address is, and ensuring that it’s not already connected to the network. It’s only operational overhead when a new device is onboarded, after that the impact is minimal.

A policy that requires sending a tech is fine, but if you have hundreds or thousands of individual locations then you aren’t going to have a tech onsite at every one of them to quickly check and fix an issue, and you don’t really want to have to trust an end user to verify and/or make physical changes on site if you can avoid it.

Better than paying Intuit to lobby for you to have to pay Intuit.

Also our bank had some kind of port security so if it wasn’t a recognized MAC address, the port just switched off.

And serious company will have this as basic security. It’s a fundamental function even available on your consumer grade router at home. While it’s overkill for that use, it’s basic security for a company.

That’s why it’s not surprising at all that a bank didn’t bother to do that. Banks have some of the most egregious security issues.

Wait, so they’re still being sold correctly, but the can alone is mislabeled? The Variety pack is sold as a High Noon product which you expect to contain alcohol, presumably in a box or something similar, and the cans themselves inside have the correct product, just with the wrong labeling?

That’s not nearly as big of an issue as the headline wants you to infer. These aren’t individual cans sitting on a shelf mixed in with non-alcoholic versions.