Yes.

Fine is a general deterrent, restitution is separate.

Think fine for running a stop sign - that’s a deterrent for running the stop sign.

Yea, I don’t know how you drown in one, they’re very shallow. So shallow canal boats have a draft of 2-3 ft and still often have to stick to the center to avoid grounding or dragging along the bottom.

So yea, something in this story doesn’t add up.

I will often not mention my company in conversations, as it’s well-known and I don’t want anything I say or do associated with the company, just in case (risk management is a primary driver of the business).

So “Independent Contractor” is good enough, and vague enough.

That’s why you hire a caulkender!

Hahaha, oh, yes, compare an ideal system to reality.

Sheesh

Clearly you’ve never heard of plurality

This is already covered by existing laws

It protects everyone

Or are you OK with someone yelling “I’m going to kill you” and you have no legal recourse?

Define “hate speech”

Jealous!

Haven’t seen one in forever

No.

1. Use proper capitalization

2. Don’t attack people when they state they’re trying to understand what you’re saying, like you just did here with HikingVet.

You’re the issue here, as you demonstrated the exact same behaviour here with HikingVet, and are looking to blame others.

This isn’t about restrictiveness - it’s a problem of RCS being ass-backwards garbage.

This isn’t a an Android issue, it’s a Google and cell provider issue. And that RCS (like SMS), are based on ancient technology/concepts, and both need to just die.

SMS is based on the physical architecture of cellular networks, and has no error handling whatsoever - it’s a Best Effort transmission.

RCS uses a hardware-bound ID, something we decided was a Bad Idea 40 years ago, and is wholly dependent on cell provider support.

We have a protocol, TCP-IP, that eliminates all these issues. It’s been the networking standard since the mid-90’s when even Netware decided it was a superior solution to IPX/SPX. It’s wholly hardware independent (it’s not tied to a physical device’s ID), so you can transmit/receive from any device without having to update everyone else that this is your new device.

We have numerous IP-based instant messaging systems today, with one in particular (XMPP) being open, flexible, extensible.

There’s no use for an archaic solution like RCS, except keeping your messaging in a system controlled by Google and carriers.

Now that’s just mean!

(Enjoy my upvote, haha)

My pronouns are fuck you AI

You’re overlooking 500 people in congress, their hangers-on, governors, their hangers-on, etc.

Politics is the nature of groups of people.

Al you always completely honest with everyone you talk to?

Read Machiavelli. This is all just human nature at scale.

Are you me? Lol

Even driving cross-country when I can get to cruise it’s hard to make a difference.

I can make a significant dent in time, but it’s over an 8 hour drive with no traffic. Then I can cut perhaps an hour if I’m doing 10 mph over consistently.

But this only works if you’re on a quiet road, say a “blue highway” in the midwest/western US, not an interstate.

I’ve driven like an old person since forever.

Done the math too many times - you can’t out-maneuver traffic or time.

Hahahahahahaha