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by moate 4y ago
Because the IRS tied their own hands when they agreed not to compete. You'd need to find political will to change that and "how you file your taxes" isn't a sexy issue that gets voters to give a fuck.
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by moate 4y ago
Hello. I would like to suggest bankrupting the company. It's not "fair" or "just" but it would be in the common good. Plenty of precedent for that from governments that give a fuck about the citizens and not the cor
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by moate 4y ago
Right, but when large "needed" industries fail and destabilize things, they just get bailed out. In the end, it all works out for the investor class.
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by moate 4y ago
If I say stealing a car is "criminal to the utmost degree" would you say "I'm sorry, but categorizing theft of property as criminal really dilutes the severity of real criminal violations that have actually happened&quot
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by moate 4y ago
I've frequently (more than once a year) seen "Free pound of bananas" coupons as part of circulars/loyalty coupons at supermarkets I've been to (sometimes not even requiring further purchase). I've worked in adv
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by moate 4y ago
>> So million and billion are close because they are spelled similarly and they deal with the same conceptual "thing. Citation needed. Is this based on any sort of formal linguistic/anthropological reasoning or just like, yo
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by moate 4y ago
>> Given that the bananas obviously aren't on sale for $0.0019, it seems idiotic to me ignore alternative explanations for the sign. "It's a banana Michael. What could it cost, 10 dollars?!" You say "obvious&q
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by moate 4y ago
"It's not my fault slavery is legal and I'm profiting off of it!"-Thomas Jefferson, probably Fully agree with you that saying "This rent seeking entity with a will of its own and deep pockets to spend on lobbying, i
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by moate 4y ago
I think you make valid points pretty much top to bottom. Less tracking on the internet would make me feel better. "Bad" content on a site will corrupt or ruin its ability to function. I just (ironically?) hate crusaders, and the t
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by moate 4y ago
I imagine the reaction would have been so much worse had it been a Waffle Party.
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by moate 4y ago
He got 120,000 for lost wages and the other 300,000 dollars was for mental distress. You could attribute that exclusively to the firing, or more reasonably, to his company causing him to had 2 panic attacks related to a birthday party. Titl
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by moate 4y ago
If someone says "do not do this no job-function related thing, it will be bad for me" and you do that, there's very few reactions that I feel would not still be the company's fault. Someone wanted cake and some goof off
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by moate 4y ago
>>If the concern is socioeconomic status: One could still edit from a library, for instance. Just to be clear, your response to "disadvantaged people would likely have a hard time editing Wikipedia from an 'anon' IPs&qu
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by moate 4y ago
My whole point is "reasonable" is an opinion, and really easy to justify when you're not part of the out-group. The stakes on this (who can edit one website that represents the de-facto knowledge on the internet) are either v
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by moate 4y ago
>>If you want anonymous editing, providing it to some is strictly better than providing it to none. Objectively: Not always. You're creating a tiered society. The argument is saying "Why do some people deserve freedom but no
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by moate 4y ago
This is a semantics debate, and a good faith read of each our comments seems to show agreement in our understanding of the situation. "Want" does a lot of lifting, and they want 2 contradictory things (no vandals, anyone can edit)
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by moate 4y ago
Because that seems to be what the people in charge actually want but are half-assing in the name of optics. IDGAF one way or the other, but if you're going to be banning millions of users from editing via their IP, just commit to sayin
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by moate 4y ago
Between this and the T-Mobile IP ban, why not just say "Only registered users can edit pages" and be done with it? When you're blocking millions from unregistered editing, just go full tilt.
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by moate 5y ago
There are no 3rd party trackers for the NYT on it was my point. I'm not in the mood to get into the semantics of "How the NYT is using Wordle to make money" but I think a good faith read of my comment and yours would say we&#
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by moate 5y ago
"The economy, stupid!" Because they want to make as much money as possible off their acquisition. If someone else is housing a history of the game, and people can go play the game there instead of on NYT, that's a net bad for
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by moate 5y ago
I (as well as most social psychologists) agree with you. Everyone's the hero of their own story. You bomb an abortion clinic to "save the children" and you bomb parliament because "the politicians are all corrupt" a
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by moate 5y ago
So we agree, the post I was responding to was confusing. If a system has been created (as our "kind vs nice" duality does) and you seek to expand on it, I think you should expand on it in "logical" (ymmv on what "
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by moate 5y ago
Just about everything you described (aside from "bureaucracy" which is a net neutral) could be considered Punishment, or punitive behavior. They're not doing Evil with the goal being harm, but some version of "this wil
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by moate 5y ago
So the stakes are low, but it's objectively harmful. If you cut in line, it takes longer for me to get through the line than if you weren't there. Compare this to the "Nice" act of throwing out "thoughts and prayers
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by moate 5y ago
So following the original Author's Nice (optics over results) vs Kind (results over optics) IDK how Mean (optics over results) vs Evil (results over optics) actually works. I don't believe many (any?) people think they're doi
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by moate 5y ago
*Citation needed for every sentence in this post.
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by moate 5y ago
No, you changed words there sir. "Product of the USA" =/= "Raised in the USA". I don't believe you would find a "Raised in the USA" label on any meat, but it's been over a decade since I took a m
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by moate 5y ago
None of the things you described have to be connected to the car (which is to say, the engine, wheels, and parts that prevent it from going into a ditch). The infotainment system is not "the car", lojack is not "the car"
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by moate 5y ago
This sub-thread seems to be about dunking on the sleep claims. Nobody seems to be doubting the effects on ocular health.
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by moate 5y ago
"When it comes to EV performance in the winter, you get what you pay for" feels like a much better (and equally snappy imo) headline for this.

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