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tiefling , in Billionaire accused of stealing sand from Malibu’s Broad Beach, lawsuit says

Whatever they fine him is just the cost of materials

apfelwoiSchoppen ,
@apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world avatar

Plus a couple dozen million

voracitude ,

And it should be several hundred times the cost of replacing that sand, so that it’s a more economically sound move to not break the law and destroy the environment while they’re at it.

originalucifer ,
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the fine should be a percentage of his net worth. 10% sounds healthy

hddsx ,

10%?

Minimum wage is $15080. A speeding ticket can be $209-$409. That’s 2%. He should be fined a percentage of of his wealth equal to (cost of his douchebaggery)/(minimum wage yearly)*100. Multiply by 10 for a fine

originalucifer ,
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for this guy, 10% is at least $100,000,000.00 for this fine.

PoopDelivery ,

And he’s still a billionaire who can do whatever the fuck he wants

originalucifer ,
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what are you proposing, death? christ

whostosay ,

Not opposed to it, fuck those greedy bastards.

FlyingSquid ,
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If there is sand to replace it with.

Yes, everything is awful.

solsangraal ,

as with everything else, we’ll start fixing it when it’s too late to do anything

FuglyDuck ,
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Start with the cost of reparing/fixing/whatevering the beach; then add a fine based on income. 10% of monthly income sounds about right for this.

same with financial crimes. they seize any profits and then fin the shit out of them, based on their earnings for a given period.

speeding tickets, same. monthly income percentage.

9point6 ,

I think it’s only fair they fine him the maximum potential value of the materials.

Sand made of silicon, which is used to make CPUs

You can spend 25 grand on an intel Xeon weighing about 50g

A scoop of sand is probably 50kg = 25 million

How many scoops were taken?

FlyingSquid , in Billionaire accused of stealing sand from Malibu’s Broad Beach, lawsuit says
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Stealing sand, stealing indigenous land in Hawaii for your private bunker, never paying taxes, getting away with rape… when you’re rich, they let you do it.

snekerpimp ,

Well, it’s either justice or a yacht, which would you pick?

GBU_28 , in Billionaire accused of stealing sand from Malibu’s Broad Beach, lawsuit says

Make it such that anywhere the sand is is now public.

Rentlar ,

〽 Anywhere the sand goes

Property rights don’t matter

To meeeeee~

cheese_greater ,

This is the only correct solution. Otherwise, deterrance is never actuated

FlyingSquid , in Cisco slashes thousands of staff, 7% of entire workforce, pivots into AI
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Oh good, my router was missing AI.

zabadoh , in BlackRock, Vanguard big purchasers of Trump Media shares in Q2, filings show

There’s nothing to see here.

Index funds are required by their own policy to hold all the components of the stock index that they track, and DJT.O was added to a major index.

The moment the company drops in value and falls out of the index is the same moment the index funds sell their holdings of it.

The real batshit crazy part is that DJT.O was somehow deemed valuable enough to be included in an index despite having almost no revenue.

The only thing keeping the stock value up is the MAGA crazies pumping their money into it, magically thinking it’ll become profitable and make them rich.

coffee_with_cream , (edited ) in Homeowners are increasingly re-wilding their homes with native plants, experts say

I got rid of my very small front yard grass this year. Instead: some natural tall decorative grasses under the downspouts, but also some Dutch tulips, hyacinth, peony, daffodil. Cottage garden style. I got some good comments from the neighbors. And I don’t have to mow one freaking pass around the front of the house 😂 I ran drip irrigation to get it started and put down cardboard and mulch. I haven’t had any of the former grass try and poke up, thankfully. I’ve heard the best thing to do is just fill it with plants you want, so that plants you don’t want don’t have room to grow. Some of the tulips I got were bigger than my head!

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auzy , in Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

Moved to Firefox years ago. I wish they could diversify their income though

ravhall , in Medicare negotiated drug prices for the first time. Here’s what it got

Just threaten to manufacture the drugs and cut out the capitalist pigs. That way the government can sell them at-cost.

meldrik , in 5 people, including 2 doctors, charged in investigation into Matthew Perry's death

This is just awful. RIP Chandler Bing.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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I was not a fan of Friends, but I’m much more not a fan of preying on people’s addictions for money until you kill them.

disguy_ovahea ,

I loved him as Oz in The Whole Nine Yards.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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He created and starred in a very short-lived TV show called Mr. Sunshine where he managed a sports arena. I really liked it.

disguy_ovahea ,

Haven’t seen it. I’ll keep a look out for it.

Bonesince1997 ,

I don’t know. It should be easier to get drugs, and safely. Instead, this is the system we have. I don’t know his situation intimately, but I don’t know how this could have been better if you don’t take off the table that he wanted these drugs.

Having someone else inject you though sounds like a recipe for disaster. Don’t rope people in unnecessarily who could then face legal problems over it.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Some drugs? Sure. Ketamine? I would not go that far. There are certain substances the general public should not have easy access to, general anesthetics being one of them.

If nothing else, ketamine has been used as a date rape drug.

Bonesince1997 ,

I’m ignorant of a lot of things. But I watched a video of people drinking extracted thc circa probably the 50s given the black and white video. They were asking questions of the test subject throughout. 70 years later it’s finally becoming available. Nothing but lies on lies. I see mdma is being thrown under the bus recently. I’m just saying I’m open to more than what’s been allowed.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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And I am too. But not for things that people literally use for date rape because they can pretty quickly cause complete unconsciousness (as that is their purpose).

I have no problem with THC and its derivatives. THC is generally not something rapists use. Same with MDMA. MDMA might make someone extra cuddly, but they’ll still be able to fight back if someone tries to rape them. Because they’re still conscious.

Do you think Rohypnol should be freely available over the counter as well? GHB? Because I’m thinking maybe we don’t create a whole bunch of new Bill Cosbys.

darvocet ,

Could this BE any worse?

MisterFrog , in MAGA election official immediately spews conspiracies after conviction
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It is crazy that you have electronic voting machines in the US, you’re just waiting for it to be hacked aren’t you?

Pencil and paper folks, much more secure 👍

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in FTC bans fake reviews

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EndOfLine , in FTC bans fake reviews

The ban also forbids marketers from exaggerating their own influence by, for example, paying for bots to inflate their follower count.

I wonder if “followers” includes users and how that will impact Twitter, Reddit, Facebooky, Instagram, TikTok, etc who use stats like active users to drive ad sales.

Good_morning OP ,

I’m curious about that too, I assumed the main target was online storefronts but it seems more expansive than that. Was surprised to learn about Amazon suing admins of FB groups.

xmunk ,

But I thought Elon got rid of all the bots… does that mean my sweetheart’s link isn’t actually in their bio?

I am devastated.

massive_bereavement , in Billionaire accused of stealing sand from Malibu’s Broad Beach, lawsuit says

This is some captain planet bullshit.

gedaliyah ,
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FlyingSquid ,
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I always felt bad for the kid who got stuck with the shitty heart ring and couldn’t do stuff like shoot fire.

Reverendender ,

It’s ok. All of them failed at their jobs every single time anyway.

grue ,

Why Ma-Ti was the most powerful Planeteer:

FlyingSquid ,
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He might have been the most powerful, but he usually didn’t do much.

Also, where the hell did Captain Planet go when he left?

draughtcyclist ,

He was not.

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