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by 23B1 2y ago
Gosh, who will think of the shareholders?!
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by 23B1 2y ago
Yes, in the U.S. the obedient capitalists act as proxy censors for the government, in exchange for campaign donations, preferential tax treatment, and weak regulatory enforcement.
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by 23B1 2y ago
Great question. There is nothing stopping them. Which is why a privacy amendment must be passed and enforced with ruthless abandon if we don't want to pave the way for – and eventually become – an Orwellian panopticon in the service of
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by 23B1 2y ago
DOL
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by 23B1 2y ago
I don't believe so, I know so. Trolling doesn't work on me bud. Give up now.
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by 23B1 2y ago
> What has dying got to do with it? Because your time is not infinite, and therefore fixed. > how is that different from what you claim to do? Because theft under the cover of clickwrap is still theft. This isn't hard.
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by 23B1 2y ago
You may be confused here about github's more recent history.
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by 23B1 2y ago
It is a fixed resource for people; everyone dies. Git was fine until it became a way to launder intellectual labor to benefit MSFT shareholders instead of the people who did the work.
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It's not like I'm unhappy about people who are altruistic in different ways – indeed I am grateful! But any internet contributor who thinks their free work isn't being exploited in the most perverse and senseless ways is fool
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by 23B1 2y ago
Oh the link was just a 'get off git' page. There's plenty of other ways to 'go around' this consolidation – which is just another way to launder your work to benefit shareholders.
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by 23B1 2y ago
Maybe. But volunteering at a soup kitchen or mowing my neighbor's lawn is definitive.
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by 23B1 2y ago
I don't need to give my intellectual labor away for free in order to be altruistic.
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https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/ I was lucky to learn early-on that publishing important things to the web meant relinquishing control of not just the IP, but my own agency and fate. The cost far exceeded the be
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by 23B1 2y ago
Good. At this point I'd rather form my own army and build my own highways and teach my own children than pay for entrenched bureaucrats to further entrench themselves along with the powerfully wealthy.
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by 23B1 2y ago
Yep. A lot of people are unwilling to fight their insurance and the insurance providers are depending on this. Same with billing departments in the various healthcare systems, etc.
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by 23B1 2y ago
Also hard to just find a therapist, let alone one you like. The simple fact is that there's plenty of demand and zero supply. This is why you see so many 'personal' and 'life' coaches now btw. It's an absolute
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by 23B1 2y ago
Once again campaign finance reform should be on the ballot, and once again the duopoly has made sure we're not even talking about it let alone voting on it.
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by 23B1 2y ago
This is an interesting argument I've heard from various quarters but have never seen any evidentiary material supporting it. Do you have any reliable sources that explore this correlation?
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by 23B1 2y ago
Apologies, I totally forgot about the pedantry of arguing on the internet that really drove its adoption.
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by 23B1 2y ago
Well the whole 'creating gods' thing is just silly fantasy nonsense to cover up for what's really going on, which is novelty and gimmicks. It's okay, I mean even the internet started out as Charlie_Bit_Me.avi and free po
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Privacy amendment NOW.
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by 23B1 2y ago
Here's a pro tip to CEOs and wannabe CEOs; get a fucking executive coach and work on not being a bubble-dwelling turd. I swear to god American business has its head up its own ass, from the VPs to the ELT, and it's the easiest thi
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by 23B1 2y ago
Absent from this article: - Financing requirements & anticompetitive lending practices - Municipal/state building codes and the regulatory capture thereof - NIMBYism and activist urban planners - The tyranny of the commute
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by 23B1 2y ago
Because the courts merely interpret and reinforce the laws – as written by the people's representatives, not by an unelected official. The lawmaking body of the land is congress, and they are comprised of a fair representation of the p
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by 23B1 2y ago
Congress cannot delegate the lawmaking obligation to unelected agencies. That's... exactly what this ruling correctly determined; that the power must remain with the people and their representatives.
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> I would consider officials appointed by the regularly elected position of President as more democratically controlled than federal judges. the "more democratically controlled" members of government are congress, who make the
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by 23B1 2y ago
It took me six months to cancel and erase my data for Oura Ring. I was absolutely infuriated and ended up spamming the executive team until I got an answer. Turns out, they hadn't really had anyone ask to delete their data before, and
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A freshly elected democratic government can still be called a regime. Very normal use of the word.
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by 23B1 2y ago
The "clear cut" of the law you cited is anything but. The definition of hatred, for example, is not only insufficient for a just law, but can be – and is – reasonably stretched to encompass anything the current regime doesn't

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