A couple of days ago Tom Scott released a video about a remarkable invention called “Old’s Elevator”, Old’s Elevator is a take upon the Archimedes Screw

Because it’s a fairly common trope in movies?

Were you suggesting that we convert 1/3 of the existing fast food restaurants to a chain that is already doing so poorly that it’s actively bailing out of the business and attempting to get franchisees to take over for it unless things change for the better real quickly is expected to go under by the end of the year…

You can use Paypal without having a bank account. Paypal doesn’t know squat about my bank account and I’ve had a zero activity account with them almost since their start.

Yes and no, yes what you are stating is factually correct. No that doesn’t answer the question. Remember Paypal was originally suppose to be so awesome exactly for the same reasons as the Libra coin, they aren’t a bank, they aren’t subject to the same rules as a bank (though later it turned out that they are subject…

It’s almost as if the GOP got together and elected one person to represent exactly all the shit they knew they’d get flak for so that we could all hate him with an intense passion while ignoring ALL of the other shit that they are doing while he twirls his mustache and villainously pets his lap cat.

Instacart does door to door but their delivery people are essentially Uber/Lyft folk so the likelihood of any one person being willing to go to the full effort of carrying 20 bags up 5 flights of stairs for just a $4 tip is up in the air.

The real question that no one I’ve seen discussing this ask is how much government interference is this going to be open to.

ADP is nowhere near ubiquitous nor is it failproof. It’s just another 3rd party payee system.

Call me when they reboot this.

I think it’s less that people are unable to read intent as much as people are less willing to silently ignore faux pas that we consider to be harmful regardless of the intent. Not intending to do harm isn’t some magical indemnification against actually doing it.

You do understand that not a single one of these ‘written by an AI’ skits, especially those from College Humor, are actually written by an AI, right?

NEWS REPORT! Middle Class citizens being offered services that used to be reserved for only the Upper Class and Elite!

Don’t forget that they are also apparently grooming competing services since they also own VRV.

As someone born in the 70's and grew up in the 80's that poster is giving me PTSD flashbacks....

Nothing would prevent another company from purchasing the rights via the liquidation sale of TellTale’s assets. The question would remain however, why would a company pay for the rights to a game, pay for the cost of maintaining it’s servers, if it’s not receiving any money in return.

Hmmm... you might want to double check your library...

I’m assuming you’ve never heard of the Disney Vault and don’t remember the horror that the world reacted with when Google suggested an even more business rights friendly version of that for books back when they were going to scan the world’s libraries into their servers and allow folk to view them via Google Books.

They might own the universe but many of the characters, and all of the code were created under license by TellTale and the agreement might be that those remained the property of TellTale, and thus whomever their assets fall to now.