Squeeze a third of the bottle into the trash, replace missing portion with Underwood ranches Sriracha, shake well and squirt on anything edible.

Overly simplistic and assuming you are talking about the US: So you spent 80M making a movie but for whatever reason it never makes it out of production, you never see any return on this investment. But overall this year you made 100M from something else. When you do your taxes, you can “write off” this 80M spent as a loss, so you only have to pay taxes on the remaining 20 million. It doesn’t deduct 80M from taxes owed.

Usenet is a decentralized network that works very much like the fediverse here. Anything uploaded to one server gets sent out to all the servers; that’s why you can log onto lemmy.world and see posts made on say lemm.ee. Likewise something posted to one usenet server gets sent out to all the others. And these servers are being operated by individual entities (again, much like lemmy). Whoever owns the server you’re downloading from is having to pay for everything it sends out. Which is why most of the free ones will let you access the text portions but not the file downloads.

A VPN isn’t necessary. But you do need a special program to connect to usenet. It’s built into a lot of older email clients (thunderbird is a good option).

There’s no one single usenet company for the same reason there’s no one single lemmy instance. (I’m sure someone has explained it better somewhere else in this post).

in the era of free services, why do you still have to pay for Usenet access?

Bandwidth costs money. And usenet isn’t collecting and selling your info to recoup those costs like most “free” services. A lot of ISPs do offer free usenet access to customers, albeit somewhat neutered. You can browse the bulletin boards but most of the file downloads are going to be filtered out. That’s the part you have to pay for.

Quick answer. Yes.

Is it actually illegal? Has anyone in the US ever been charged for selling digital software they had legally acquired?

Authorities used a technique known as encapsulation to destroy the drug, pulverizing the seized blocks with waste before mixing the resulting fine powder with cement, sand and glass.

Someone totally took that home. “We turned that 20 tons of coke into 20 tons of concrete. Job well done pack it up.”

3rding possible botfly. The wound looks a lot like the one my cat had.

Warning: gross botfly wound

I enjoy them, especially the surrealist stuff.

Reminds me of The Love Toilet from SNL.

My cat wipes the condensation off windows so she can look out.

Yes. The same as alcohol.

Legalize all the drugs. Stop providing them a market.

Brass and Polonium most likely.

Calling it naive doesn’t give proper credit to the pair of huge brass balls it took to come out and say this in the first place.

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Yes, that’s another way of saying the russians shot down their own jet.

The article title makes it sound like they found them in a couch cushion. TL;DR The Greeks offered to sell the US 5k rounds to pass on to Ukraine.

You can get new WD drives for ~18usd/Tb. https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-sata-hdd?sku=WD60EFAX

I wouldn’t mess with older drives unless they were less than half the price. In that case set them up raid 1 and send it.

The store shoppers are usually gathering orders for multiple people. If they weren’t there, 3 other “average size Americans” would be in your way.

You know who doesn’t get inconvenienced? Me as I sit in my car listening to the radio while someone loads my groceries for an extra 5 fucking dollars. My entire bi-monthly shopping trip takes 15-20 minutes vs. an hour or more inside the store (and also having to deal with the people inside). Money well spent.