Oh No! Think of the poor billion dollar conglomerates /s

If it’s frivolous they can prove so in court. Either way they (the company) will be fine, but someone really need to hold them accountable, for their bullshit. After all companies pretty much have same legal rights as people.

Stella Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, P.T.S., Inc. and McDonald's International, Inc. case is a great example of company PR being used to sway public opinion in favor of massive company who couldn’t give less Fs about anything but profit.

If before the meter, I get they wouldn't see it and it would depend how long a leak had been there and how often the water company monitored the difference between their output meter and a homeowners use meter. Ours are read bi-monthly.

We have glacial till where I am so digging holes by hand is super fun, more rock than dirt in each shovelful. Can't see sink holes happening here either unless there was some solid surface above it. However, I have seen abundant amounts of rain overwhelm drainage and undermine the ground around houses from time to time. I've also seen rain water running down a hill a few inches under the surface, only noticed when it was coming up through a friends water meter box. We also have underground springs that will wash stuff out over time.

It will be interesting to see if the findings are newsworthy. Not counting on it.

Thank you for the actual conversation. I wish more people could dialogue.

It uses the music, with entirely different lyrics the whole time. Doesn't that fall under parody law?

They are selling an identical looking product that has half as much alcohol. I didn’t even realize those things had half as much alcohol as the airplane bottle they sell in liquor stores. They were 100% screwing their customers. Who the hell wants a shot of whisky with 16.5% alcohol?

So usually I would agree with you but fireball is really disgusting so for the most part the only people who drink it are people who just haven't experienced enough different types of drinks.

I've literally never met someone who drank it that didn't also see it as a punishment for themselves/friends making them drink more of it via drinking games etc. That dumb "drinking to actually try to hurt yourself and others" mindset is one you rarely see live past those younger years of drinking.

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I've known more than one (high functioning?)alcoholic who uses them for portion control. If I buy a few of these instead of a bigger bottle, I'll still be able to get up in the morning. The bigger bottle is a better deal only if you can keep yourself from drinking the whole thing once you've opened it.

A more expensive empty bottle and possibly a lost job in the morning is a worse deal in the long run than a few shooter bottles.

Tom Waits v. Frito-Lay and Bette Midler v. Ford, the artists were both successful in their cases against sound-alike singers. Those cases, however, involved advertising, so there's a lower bar to cross when suing for rights of publicity.

It sounds like Yung Gravy cleared the song but didn't clear the sample. So, he instead created an interpolation that is arguably indistinguishable from the original.

If the break is before the meter, it wouldn't be on the bill. Nevermind the bill, in a Long Island home with a metered leak, you'll actually hear the meter buzzing away in the basement.

Weather is pretty unlikely, Long Island generally is not prone to sink holes as it lacks the "soft bedrock" geology that leads to them. Long Island is basically a long, extended sandbar that was pushed up by a glacier, sand and tumbled rocks, there just isn't any kind of limestone or carbonate bedrock to cause sinkholes

Dear god, looking at his photo, he's about a few rape accusations away from being a straight up caricature of white rappers

That's twitch streamer logic lol

There's only a few things we hold dear on Reddit: Shrek, Keanu, bananas, and Saint Rick.

You done fucked up, Yung. You done fucked up really bad.

Hence the reason I said location dependent. While I've been to Long Island, I'm not familiar with their meter location. Thank you for the information.

Even without any information on the investigation, I lean towards this being more related to the recent weather than a water supply leak. How does somebody not notice the enormous leap in their water bill?

any fellow american can tell you that if you want to reduce violence, you just need more guns!

Nope, nobody asked for my opinion. Nor did anyone ask for the opinion of the person I replied to. Except they didn't state it as an opinion but as a fact, throwing out an accusation against the city. I recognize that this is Reddit and that there are all manner of idiots behind keyboards up here, myself included, but just as in real life I don't stand for misinformation or unfounded accusations, I don't on Reddit either.

I'm not driven by caring what others think about me. I'm not driven by Reddit karma. It is more important to me that the correct information is given more weight than incorrect information. Unfounded accusations destroy people's lives. Even when the facts come out at a later point, the damage has been done. I recognize that an individual person has not been accused and the city won't suffer any harm by the comment I replied to, the principal is the same.

We live in a world of propaganda. We live in a world where people have serious difficulty differentiating between truth and lies. We live in a world where people tolerate rather than accept. These are major factors that on a grand scale lead to the downward spiral the world is currently facing. The history that repeats itself over and over. People get complacent. People accept lies and abuse because they don't want to get involved. I'm done doing that. Changes have to start at the smallest level. Even one anonymous person to another.

Besides, this is a 20 comment post. I'm allowed to rant and get it off my chest so I can get on with my day. While I appreciate the concern, your cheerful disposition would be better suited helping somebody who bleeds negativity.

Good day.

Long Island homes (with city water) usually have the water meter in the basement right next to their shutoff.

As far as Seattle... well, I don't know a damn thing about Seattle, or their water hookups.

The real question is: where is the leak, and what is responsible? Was it the developer? Was it the water district? Was it knicked by a landscaper or utility worker trench and reburied?

I'm sure we will find out in due time

Branding. That's the only thing that matters here. In the eyes of the law they don't care if you put shit in a bottle but once you brand it it's a big deal. If they wanted to do this they should have had China make it and send it over. Chiba does this with a million things already.

I assumed it was a Chinese food company.

Then he got .3 of a cent from me!

I've literally never heard about Gravy before this.

The remix is literally Astley's song with bad vocals layered on top.

The comments on the remix are a gold mine though:

> "this song is only generating more views to the original so not sure why Rick even gives a shit"

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He probably gets a tenth of a cent every time someone gets Rick rolled.

Or change the way we look at learning and educating.

Why is this not the onion?

AI is here and it isn’t going anywhere. The ship has sailed and the box is open. There were people wailing about similar issues when it came to google and the early internet 20 years ago and we somehow survived.

Teachers need to be fluid and teach in the confines of reality and look where society is going.

AI is the future of humanity. Anyone claiming it’s going to be the end of our species seems to be underestimating humankind and overlooking our resiliency. Every generation has people that decree x will be our downfall. Then people explain to them that x isn’t going to end us. Then the person wailing about x says, “yeah, but THIS time it’ll be different.” Are we so sure about that?

And if you wanna save bundling home and car insurance, you need Geico