I don’t think the just stop oil people are advocating a sudden immediate and 100% stopping of oil use…

Rather an aggressive elimination of our reliance on oil.

Several corporations in the United States have been reported to use prison labor Walmart: Utilizes prison labor for manufacturing products and for supply chain operations.

McDonald’s: Uses prison labor to produce uniforms and other items.

Victoria’s Secret: Has used prison labor for manufacturing lingerie.

AT&T: Employs prison labor for call center operations.

Starbucks: Uses prison labor for packaging products.

Microsoft: Utilizes prison labor for refurbishing and recycling electronic equipment.

Boeing: Engages prison labor for manufacturing parts.

Nordstrom: Uses prison labor for product manufacturing.

Target: Employs prison labor for manufacturing and packaging.

Whole Foods: Uses prison labor for packaging products.

BP: Utilizes prison labor for various operations. Caterpillar: Engages prison labor for manufacturing parts.

Chevron: Uses prison labor for various operations. Eddie Bauer: Employs prison labor for manufacturing products.

Kmart: Uses prison labor for manufacturing and packaging.

No doubt fiscal policies put this (and other) councils on the back foot, but it’s reductive to ignore that the thing that tipped them over the edge was bureaucratic incompetence combined with being fucked by the Oracle Corporation.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/05/birmingham_city_council_oracle/

What are the multiple purposes of this vehicle?

Just looks like a jacked up six seater truck.

The original had to be one of the most underrated (or just undermmarketed?) games of all time.

Absolutely fantastic RPG.

A no bullshit approach well done Norway!

Although it seems strange that altering teeth colour is excluded.

Finally a proper vertical tabs option!

Personal preference ofc but after trying it on a whim I can’t go back.

TLDR because their owners are more likely to use them.

Meh, time for another fork.

To those people saying switch to MySQL, they miss the point - MySQL and Maria are basically interchangeable, Maria was made to replace MySQL like for like when oracle took over. It was made by the same guy (et al) and he he named both after his daughters.

When Maria is taken over the same thing will happen. I for one hope that it is named for Widenius’ other child, max.

The king is dead, long live the king! (MaxDB)

Please tell me this is real

Haven’t played fifa but understand that loot boxes are basically gambling. Arguably worse than gambling because with gambling at least you might win something “real”.

Curious though - there was a screenshot in the article where you could preview a loot box before buying - does that not make it more like “buying” the players instead of “gambling” for them?

Google preferring https sites was the motivator I saw for client demands.

SEO scores feed into the PPC cost in AdWords so all of a sudden people were crying out for their sites to “have the padlock icon” because what’s 20 bucks for a cert when you’re spending thousands of dollars a month