I was under the impression you could still do a cache:url style search, but it seems impossible.

They’re caching them, they’re just not sharing that with the public anymore. I know it has a cache because the Google result shows a bunch of text from the page that no longer exists. That “preview” text is pulled from a cache if the “new” page is resulting in a 404. I was hoping there some way for users to still access it, even if esoterically, but even those options seem unavailable.

https://www.meetup.com/fusion-la-israel/events/303578537/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

The meetup page is still up but Google Startups has been stripped from the image.

https://lu.ma/Israeli-Defense-Tech-Conf-Fusion-Google-Mafat

Also, the original page still shows up in Google searches, but was not archived on archive.org and I have been unable to find Google’s cached version of the page. Although they obviously have a cached version since the text is visible as a preview of what’s on the page.

Stay classy, Google.

The National Society of Certified Soil Scientists (defunct) wants you to know that they’ve always been cool.

I can’t be the only one who recognizes that making people in foreign countries, like say, Austria in Europe, have to file this is in King County Courts in Seattle seems a little fucking dubious. I say this as a Washington State resident. Because it’s super easy for me to commute to Seattle to sue Valve… but it’s not for everyone else.

I don’t know what, if any, options King County Court offers for people from other countries filing suit to be able to do it remotely. I get the distinct feeling this is a “fuck you, show up on our turf or fuck off.”

Looks like District Court might have remote-access options, but I’m not sure if you’ll still have to retain a local lawyer. It says any state or federal courts, but I’m not sure if District court counts more as a city-level court than state-level.

The Bubba Gump Soil Science Company

It seems like its actually a giant fuck you to anyone who doesn’t live in King County, Washington State, USA.

Everything has to be done in King County Courts in Washington State.

That’s some big travel costs for people all over the world.

Tryna steal the job from storks

“Thank you.”

Thanks, John Oliver, but I really wish we didn’t have to turn to comedians to publicize such serious issues.

I can never marry my partner without her losing all the benefits she needs to function. I worry about us getting separated in old age because we’re not legally married, like being sent to different homes, or her ending up in a home and me ending up on the street. Ugh.

Also, changing that was one of Biden’s campaign promises that everyone forgot about apparently. It seems mostly wiped from the internet, too, except for a few references from news articles around the time.

Thanks for the heads up, I thought it was just me and gave up.

I like to think that Balatro is so popular it crashed the payment system, heh.

Mountain Dew flavored condoms with the catchphrase “Do the Dew!”

And another one bites the dust

but am I just a buzz kill

Nah, I’m a longtime fan of absurd shit like Tim and Eric that is rooted heavily in a public television vibe of “doing things wrong and cheaply.”

I was never sure if this was trying for a similar vibe or what, but I’m definitely one of the people who firmly never understood it.

Last I checked so is Weird Al Yankovic.

It’s a pity they’re so rare, but they really are.

Having known some people in elder care, the reality is that some old people are nasty, brutish, mean, racist, misogynist, creepy, violent, you fucking name it, there’s some old person you’re going to have to take care of who matches that horrible personality. You’re paid the same whether you’re helping someone you like or someone who is rude and assaults you every time you enter the room.

I agree with you, elder care should still exist, but I can see why some people get tired of taking care of terrible old people who were likely terrible people all their lives and who are just allowed abuse you. Why are they allowed to abuse you? Because most people who do elder care and underpaid, overworked, and don’t have a lot of other options that pay nearly as well. Basically you’re accepting middling but better than fast-food pay to have abuse dumped on you. I can see how someone feels like its a karmic freebie because there’s no responsibility in any of it, generally management won’t do anything about “problem elders.” Get to be a fucking asshole your whole life and then get to be a fucking asshole to the person wiping your ass before you die.

I have a similar story from another friend who ended up at a mental health hospital in a violent youth ward. He was underpaid, overworked, and responsible for about 30 violent and dangerous kids with unstable mental health issues that made them difficult to approach. If he was busy helping one kid take their meds, and another kid on the ward was in the same moment trying to take their own life and succeeded, he would be the one responsible. He was not being paid enough or had enough support to justify taking full responsibility for things that are outside his control when he cannot magically manage 30 dangerous cases at once. He left the job after two months of assaults and scares. I don’t blame him, and he doesn’t blame himself, and we also understand that those 30 cases deserve better care than they’re getting but it’s not his responsibility as an individual to make up for the shortcomings of government funding for this.

Same with people who work elder care. It’s not their individual responsibility to make up for the fact that these companies don’t give a damn about the people they’re caring for, and each elder is just an income stream in a database. The number of people I know in elder care who now have permanent back problems because they’re being expected to lift 300lb old people off their beds and they’re not being given proper equipment for it is too damn high. These people do not deserve to have their bodies broken and paid pennies on the dollar to be abused by the elders in their care, not given the right tools to do the job, with a prevailing attitude of “they’re just old people, how bad can they hurt you really?” Pretty fucking bad, shockingly.

Elder care needs to exist. Does it need to exist as it exists now in the USA? Abso-fucking-lutely not.

Don’t have a cow, man.

Yet somehow the top comment is basically saying what I’m saying. Interesting.

I mean, that’s fair. I get it, I just don’t really find it very funny.

Literally all of these languages are rooted in English.

C: printf()

C++: cout

JavaScript: document.write() or window.print()

Java: system.out.println()

Python: print()

Rust: print()

Exactly zero of those reference a language other than English. I’m not even a linguist and this is just silly. It’s literally part of why English is becoming the dominant world language, because if you learn computer programming you basically have to learn English.