The implicit song here goes hard

It’s almost like the “meritocracy” under capitalism is a bald faced lie.

Personally I’d make an exception to my moral stance that work as punishment is slavery, and would prefer to keep him around forcing him to work 70 hours a week, in addition to doing all the other chores required so that he can live - in prison - for the rest of his life.

Maybe we’ll make it 84 hours a week just for good measure, can’t be giving him a day off.

Seems more poetic

I feel like this violates the 3 rules unless you scope it somehow

I completely agree, well put

Does it really cost what Kagi is charging? I would love to see some research on this if people happen to know where to find such articles.

Like, in theory to pay for Kagi or a similar service but it’s just extrotionately expensive.

I pay for other service which are offered for free (like email hosting), but those are reasonably priced.

I’m not from the US, but it would seem to me that public cameras should only be accessible for legitimate purposes.

Police should need to request footage, but similarly, you shouldn’t be able to just request any footage willy nilly, because of stalking.

Seems that it should be tightly regulated and require multiple people to gain access, and be documented who was given access.

Overall your comment seems like a great suggestion to me. If footage “goes missing”, they had better have way more evidence to back up their charges.

The fact that each planet elects their representatives in different ways definitely fits the US though

Weird take.

I’m in the “car bad” crowd (actually, it’s the "car useful, but should be mostly for emergency services, disabled people, deliveries, etc. including in rural areas for people who need it)

I care very much about the rules, and how it affects everyone. Rules make driving safer. Having 30km/hr default doesn’t prevent a town from putting up signs on certain roads to increase the limit…

This law is also good for town life, because side streets become more pleasant and safer by default.

Like, it’s not making the limit 30 km/hr on a rural highway…

Unless it’s soft drink, right?

Side note on American metrification:

I do enjoy that the online calorie/macro counting scene in the US seems to be using grams now.

Wait until they realise they can do g protein/100g instead of per serve or cup, or hogshead.

One day you bastards, one day…

If it makes you feel better, this may be a mistranslation from German where saying “eine Software” is appropriate.

I have never understood the appeal of marvel universe movies. It just always came across as bad world building.

The whole reason super heroes with secret identities works is they are unique, and not a fundamental change to society.

Having a world that’s basically the same, with truck loads of super heroes makes no sense at all.

I have seen only a handful of these movies.

A tale as old as time. Perhaps we ought to limit maximum wealth 👀

Anyone who doesn’t reflexively proclaim DATENSCHUTZ!!! at this, isn’t a true German.

I’m a big defender of China when the “China Bad” crowd comes out, but this graph is meaningless beyond what people’s perceptions are.

Real trade unions are banned. All must be part of the party, workers rights are routinely not enforced, and given the lattitude the government has to act, there isn’t really much of an excuse.

The CCP enjoy massive support, though, this is undeniable. The reasons for this support is debatable and vary from person to person.

I for one, very much enjoy when the Chinese government does things in line with my socialist ideals. But let’s not pretend like they’re actually keeping the capitalists in check. There are many, many billionaires in China, something that ought not be possible under an actual socialist country.

It doesn’t take a genius to look at their system of voting to quickly conclude that you don’t really have a say, the People’s Congress functions as a rubber stamp for what the inner party has already decided.

Again, my opinions aside, people in China generally are supportive of the government at this present time.

I feel like this is shifting the focus to imperialism, where the US is overwhelmingly and undeniably worse.

However, domestically, if you wanna pretend that someone as a random citizen, has any chance of receiving political representation in China, well you enjoy your fantasy.

The US and China are both deeply undemocratic places. I’m saying this as someone from neither country.

Anyone who’s actually been to China would know this. It is authoritarian. It’s not even something viewed as bad by most people in China. It’s just the way things are there.

There is pretty strong support for the government there, albeit that could be argued as product of censorship, repression and also genuine support. Many see the CCP as having done a lot of good things which they are grateful for, which in addition to the bad things, in fairness, they have done.

I’m getting kinda tired of some leftists knee jerking “China Good”, just as much as I’m getting kinda tired of the “China Bad” crowd, when the truth is neither wholly good nor wholly bad.

We can be leftists and not have a hard-on for any country claiming to be socialist, you know

I can’t help but associate a W which should be an M with Wario.

McWario’s

What the hell

Because of using Shelter, this will make my phone practically unusable.

This is fucking ridiculous

Yeah I’m the same (not really into that type of posting).

I basically want what Facebook once was, but with e2ee. Something like: you make a post, only people you’ve added can see it. They can comment, and if they choose, your friends can see that comment also.

Something to prevent mass scraping and data collection, while retaining the ‘keeping up with old aquitances’ vibe old Facebook used to have.