No conspiracy here.

Brewdog had a loss of 37m GBP last October, and went into something similar to Chapter11(?), american company bought the remains and saved what had any value left.

So not really "evil company buys good company and fires everyone" IMHO.

edit: useless at spelling...

Evil company took money from customers with promises of a different kind of company, too their own fortune in hiding and let the company explose the face of the customers is the news.

You might say "but that's nothign new" but that is what makes it news because Brewdogs campaigns where exactly focues on selling cutomers the idea that they where inf fact something new.

The fouders are rich any any customers who invested is left with nothing. That's the news.

I know the times are changing and people now take it for granted that a cab driver might be selling heisenbergs securities while he drives around customers, for someone to pick up a bit of crypto gambling while they wait to reach their destination. But it used to be that financial investment was somewhat protected exactly to avoid these types of companies defrauding non-investment savy customers, but brewdog did just that. They claimed that getting a couple of shares along with your beer was ok because it was a new type of company sticking it to the man, but at the end of the day they wheren't punks they where just capitalists putting on customes to scam as much money from their customers as possible.

If you visit US, I really recommend a detour to the Kennedy Space Center if you can, there's a ton of interesting stuff especially about the Apollo program.

Especially if you can time your visit to Florida with a launch. Seeing the Shuttle launch in real life made me realize what a poor medium television is to actually show you reality.

(I don't know what the current policies are but you used to be able to apply in advance for VIP tickets, or buy them on the secondary market, which gives you much closer viewing of the launch)

Make sure you look at ALL the stuff in the rocket garden and make sure you take the bus to the Apollo center and make sure you do them in that order.

If you've never seen a gator then looking in the ditches by the road during the bus tour is a good bed.

Yes! I just got to go there earlier this month for the first time. They even have the lectern from the Kennedy speech (and the speech itself)!

Went to Florida some years ago when my kids were all teens and pre-teens. Did Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World, the works.

We unanimously agreed KSC was by far the best of all. If you only do one thing in Florida, that would be it.

Been once as a kid and once as an adult. Wonderful place. The rocket garden is wonderful.

Well, you may not like it, but BK probably have done their research and found that employees positive interaction with customers equals more sales.

Yes, there are probably a thousand other actions they could take to increase number of sold meals, but my guess this one is easy pickings, i.e. cost vs return.

Around where I live (Chicago suburbs), BK restaurants are closing often. Even new ones, open for a year or so close down (many buildings are turned into dispensaries for some reason). Their issues are deeper than how employees greet customers.

"The Beekeeper's Corner", excellent if you are interested in beekeeping.

Just create a new password manager using SQLCipher then? If it is good enough people will use it.

It is weird when people wants to change something that works just great.

KeePass have served me well for years on Windows, Mac, Android, Linux using Dropbox and Syncthing as storage. Don't mess with it.

It's even weirder when people dismiss real issues as "works just great". Just use the great old version and ignore all future changes if they scare you!

Haha, this is essentially what the original maintainer (Dominik Reichl) does. He keeps a 1.0 and 2.0 version depending on which format you use.

I am interested in his new book, "Six Math Essentials", but I doubt it will be on my very low level of math understanding..

It is not strange if you ever had a pet that meant a lot to you.

I know people who have grieved for months after losing their cat and their dog. Their connection was much more than "just a pet", it became family and as important as a child, sibling or parent.

Cloning is of course not guarantee the pet will be exactly as the original, but if there's a chance it will have similar personality I can very much understand the willingness to pay for it.

I get missing a pet dearly. I don't get how the clone fixes anything. Replacing them with a clone that has no memories seems like declaring the memories and history mean nothing, and that to me is a strange betrayal of the lost relationship.

Grief is hard, but going back is impossible.

The cloned cat may still have the opportunity to interact with the original, so it could just be taken in as a "child" kitten of the cloned cat.

The project is mostly to prove viability as I've seen focus on dogs and horses.

There is a great documentary on a scientist who is cloning Saudi Arabian horses.

Ah, I see. Well it's viable as people are doing it, but as well as being expensive it leads to multiple other cats needing homes: https://www.catster.com/weekly-mews/the-dark-side-of-cat-clo...

Seems best avoided.

That's fair. I'm not an evil cloner.

I was just curious, one could say, more or less.

Day, Dusk & Dawn cats. The idea seems something out of Issac Asimov's foundation.

Grieving for a pet is totally a thing. Comparing its importance to that of a child might be taking it a little far. Nothing would compare to losing a child.

I agree with you. I can imagine that people without children that have pets might feel like it's similar, but there's definitely quite a few several hundreds of thousand of years of evolution driving very distinct reactions.

Losing a child must, by force of nature, be much more difficult to handle than even a 20+ year relationship with one's dearest horse or Galapagos turtle or tiger cub or something.

It is interesting to think about, in any case.

We also don't allow cloning children, no matter how much you miss them. It's an ethical quagmire, and doesn't really address the problem (dealing with grief is hard, transplanting that grief onto a surrogate creates more problems)

Don't be surprised if products are sent abroad for destr^Wrecycling.

No I am not joking, some german company hid an airtag in a old computer that went to recycling. It ended up somewhere in Thailand, being not very environmentally friendly taken care of.

Remember when UK council recycling bags were found in rubbish dumps in the Myanmar jungle?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7070709/Plastic-pac...

Not just that. I have seen Morrisons supermarket bags in some weird places around the world!

sure, but within an EU context, the company should still get fined as if they destroyed it themselves

How do you know was destroyed when all official records say it’s recycled?

By investigating said recycling process? I mean, if a company can figure out that vendo X is a shadowy cloth-destruction syndicate, that state can as well, then that vendor can be banned from doing business in the EU or the companies dealing with them can be fined.

Local producers.

Businesses importing from non-EU countries have to shoulder the responsibility in stead of the manufacturer.

What most people here seem to forget, is once a social platform gains traction and especially attention from the main masses, it undoubtedly require checks and balances.

Predators, racism, gore, pedophilia, harassment, stalking and so on..

No matter how high you value security, these are matters that hurt real people today. If you attract the mainstream, you must deal with it.

Tradeoffs are made based on the likelihood and frequency of risks vs the perceived reward.

For example - we let people drive cars despite the frequency of deaths that happen in car accidents.

Please don't kick people with mental illnesses off the internet. I barely have anyone to talk to as it is

I don't think that post was made in jest.

The number of people with mental illness is estimated at over 20% of adults in the U.S.

I strongly doubt that was a joke.

And who gets to decide the membership of those groups? You?

If I'm going to take part in lawmaking, then yes, of course.