Companies should just be charged the fine multiplied by the number of offenses (like any individual being charged), then multiplied by the number of employees. Any amount over their available cash, becomes asset seizure (for “too critical to fail” companies) or make them go through bankruptcy to liquidate. Hell, you can even be nice and let them do a “payment plan” over a year or two, seizing all profit until the fine is paid in full. I bet companies would follow laws remarkably well if that were on the line.

The US would just be a couple Facebook privacy violations away from running a governmental surplus for the first time in decades!

A slap on the wrist for two of the tech giants is great progress. I would consider this a start, but not done yet.

The linked article supports this as well:

Tove Maria Ryding from the European Network on Debt and Development, an association of trade unions and non-governmental organisations, welcomed the ECJ’s decision but stressed “our tax problem is more than just one rotten apple”.

She said the case addressed tax matters dating back over 20 years and was “a perfect illustration of the chaotic corporate tax system we have”.

“What we urgently need is a fundamental reform that can give us a tax system that is fair, effective, transparent and predictable," she said.

PDFxchange is hands down the best PDF UI I’ve used. I switched from Acrobat a year ago expecting to be disappointed, but haven’t had any issues. The ability to customize almost everything about the software was what sold me and I’ll never be able to go back to the horrible experience of Acrobat.

Four… maybe even $10/mo after the manifest v3 chaos hits in full force.

I’ll miss my cozy little Lemmy…

The upsides are apparent for the platform, but there’s no denying that change will be inevitable for all of us, whether some instances choose to defederate or not.

Same, expectations are definitely in check, but cool none the less! I feel like there are a lot of hiccups here that would need to be smoothed out before this would become anything remotely feasible.

Yep, this was pretty much my exact reaction as well. I haven’t really dug into it since, but it was an interesting twist on fusion that would be sweet if it made some progress!

I know this is probably tongue in cheek, but I genuinely thought the same until recently. There’s a company called Helion which is developing a really cool fusion process that doesn’t use steam as an energy transfer mechanism. Obviously it has its own set of drawbacks and roadblocks, but still really cool tech in the making.

Here’s the video I saw going into detail on it if anyone’s interested:

https://youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38?si=iBpHfDxhRgHHRtN2