ImplyingImplications

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They're owned by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners. It's just their way of saying they're gutting the staff to increase profits for shareholders.

In 2006, CVC and Permira were accused by Labour MP Gwyn Prosser in the House of Commons of "greed" and "blatant asset stripping" of The AA "to borrow £500m on the basis of The AA's assets in order to pay themselves a dividend."

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Very true to be tbh

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's stopping pornhub from having a similar strategy in France? Continue to accept French IPs for the international version, paywall the French version.

Pornhub is ideologically against having to collect and verify data on their users for the government. They block traffic in all areas that pass these kinds of laws as a protest.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Great drag name!

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The timer is just the difference between the timestamp when the timer was started and the current timestamp, but I don't know of any timer app that let's you import/export timestamps as easy as that would be to implement.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How could they not have English food like pizza, curry, or kebabs??

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

You know it's bad when even the French think you've crossed the line.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Because these "teacher is dumber than a child" pictures are always fake. I've never seen a teacher write corrections on a student's paper. Are they doing that for every wrong question on every paper? That would take forever!

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 334 points 2 months ago (7 children)

It's all water under the fridge

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Many whelps! Handle it!

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

Honestly, good on the judge for throwing out the case even if the guy was breaking the law. The evidence they collected was done so against the rules and the police officers worked together to lie to the court to hide that fact. Just because officers found evidence of actual crimes doesn't make it okay to break the rules.

It was also completely unnecessary. They arrested the guy for impaired driving when they saw he had a gun with an extended mag in the back seat? Why not just arrest him for the gun??

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

The foundation was rebuilt in 1990 to prevent it from collapsing, but it did stand for about 600 years before that! The tower's foundation was originally built on silt but that silt has clay underneath. It's why modern construction does soil analysis first. Or, at least they should.

Things still collapse because soil analysis is skipped, like this bridge in Saskatchewan that collapsed in 2018 on the same day it opened to the public and before anyone actually crossed it.

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