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Oooh what an insult. I’m totally going to be embarassed by my public display name.

Yeah, it would not surprise me if the Supreme Court blocked it for being too reasonable.

Yup, gave mine to a neighbourhood kid that I babysat.

Honestly, over the years I think I’ve come to sour on the whole notion of collecting things as a hobby.

It’s one thing if you’re collecting stuff that no one wants and will be junked otherwise, or are collecting things to restore them and get rid of them again, but collecting stuff that is either highly desired or potentially used, just to collect it and have it sit there, feels really wasteful and self indulgent.

This judge actually fully understand how companies abuse two sided marketplaces and is thus forcing Google to open up both sides of the marketplace to competition. Both forcing Google to host new app stores inside the Play store so that they’re visible to consumers, and forcing Google to allow those app stores to distribute the Google Play apps so that the app stores aren’t crippled by a lack of developers.

This is a way way way bigger win than I could ever have hoped for.

PC Gamers think Epic is the devil incarnate because they paid for exclusive games for the EGS, meanwhile they have spent the majority of their fortune on massive legal fees making a bigger impact in the world of digital anti-trust than virtually anyone else on the planet.

Allowing companies to conglomerate is the single worst thing that prevents capitalism from functioning even a little bit, and tech companies are the worst at falsely claiming that every product needs to be tied to every other product, because they can use software and continuous updates to break any third party compatibility that is created.

Fuck him and fuck them.

America can isolate itself and see how well it does with 1/10th the resources per capita.

You sound like someone who has read a lot and understood very little.

You’re advocating genocide, or at least, one step away from it, and you don’t even seem to realize it.

You also seem to have no grasp of how complex systems or feedback work, given that feedback is a necessary and inherent part of many systems and cannot just be ‘cut out’.

Quite frankly, you’re more toxic then most of the men you seem to despise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback

The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled carefully when applied to feedback systems:

Simple causal reasoning about a feedback system is difficult because the first system influences the second and second system influences the first, leading to a circular argument. This makes reasoning based upon cause and effect tricky, and it is necessary to analyze the system as a whole.

Dumbass take.

A “skill issue” take, is just a republican “personal responsibility” take.

It’s dumb as fuck. How about you examine the systems that produce outcomes? Have you learned literally nothing from the last 50 years of the social justice movement?

Absolute zero cars is a naiively unrealistic goal.

Dr Saurab Kumar, associate professor in the GMCH Bettiah’s paediatrics department, told The Telegraph: “I received the child active and alert but his mouth and face was swollen because of the reaction to the venom in the oral cavity.

“We were surprised and cross-checked with his parents multiple times to ensure the child was not bitten by the cobra to rule out that venom had not gone into his bloodstream. They told us he bit the cobra and the snake died on the spot.”

He continued: “The child had eaten a part of the cobra and the venom had gone into his digestive tract, unlike in the cases where the cobra bites the person and venom goes into blood and triggers neurotoxicity.

“We gave him anti-allergy medicine and kept him under watch. As he didn’t develop any symptoms for 48 hours, we discharged the child on Saturday.”

Dr Kumar said the cobra had died apparently because of the trauma to the head and mouth from the child’s bite.

“Seriously we triple checked like 8 times, in our medical opinion, that kid just fucking mashed him.”

I’m guessing they’re worried about families being held hostage, threatened, and used for coercion.

This makes a lot sense, but the obvious question is how do you prevent people from being forced out of their homes, just because the government decides to spend it’s money on the military instead of building more cities?

Like right now, if you were to implement that in Toronto, a whole lot of people would be taxed out of their homes so that a developer could buy the land and build denser housing on it.

All the most valuable housing that’s near subway lines is already at a relatively ideal density, consisting of townhomes, rowhouses, and semi-detached houses, whereas our suburbs and in-city suburbs are generally not near transit, and thus not nearly as land valuable and not as well suited for density.

It seems like we would end up tearing down all our ideal housing and replacing it with over dense housing, rather than building transit out to the less dense areas where it’s needed.

Then youre miss informed about where our housing supply is going and who’s driving up rent. Here it is predominantly private landlords.

America is not the only place in the world. In places without mass corporate landlords, private landlords happily fill that void and are absolutely still the problem.

Show me a landlord that genuinely finds efficiencies that arent just ‘hire a cheaper contractor than they would hire for their own home’.

This is the first time I’ve ever actually intentionally saved a comment on Lemmy or Reddit.

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