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by pierat 3y ago
> It's mostly the poor and middle-class that use public transportation, so ending fares for it is helpful to their finances. Its the poor class that uses public transit because it is substandard, and they dont have other choices. P
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by pierat 3y ago
To see the case in point, this is a generic fractal zoom video. Go to the gear at the bottom of the video, and change bitrate. There is now a "1080p premium HD, enhanced bitrate". This setting is gated behind Youtube Premium. I&#x
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YouTube has started to gate higher bitrate videos behind YT Premium(youtube.com)
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by pierat 3y ago
Likely no. T1 or uhh, brittle(?) diabetes is where your pancreas just doesnt exist. Gone. I had a relative who got a nasty viral "flu". 2 weeks later their pancreas was eaten and gone. Thats when I found out viral T1 diabetes was
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by pierat 3y ago
The Federalist papers are the equivalent of a Medium blog post. And I will treat them as such. Edit: Evidently I've pissed off enough people who drink the red-white-blue kool-aid. -3 at the moment. These newspaper publishings were expr
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by pierat 3y ago
Maybe it's not well talked about enough, but I'm indirectly referring to https://www.realestatenews.com/2023/03/29/commissions-lawsui... When you sell a home and you hire a realtor (sellers agent),
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by pierat 3y ago
Easy enough. Then as a seller, I'm lowering the buyer's fees to 0% , and then negotiating my seller's agent as 4%. There's no way, as a seller, that I'm going to willingly pay the buyer's real estate agent any
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by pierat 3y ago
> Are you're saying that the unions representing the 8,000 or so Starbucks workers are required to bargain for the 200,000 other Starbucks employees, including for employees part of other unions? That's exactly what I'm s
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by pierat 3y ago
> Would you live in an apartment 15 feet wide and 50 feet deep? No. That's why most office buildings dont work Yes. I lived in this with my SO for 9 years. And I lived with 200 other families like this on small plots of land. Its ca
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by pierat 3y ago
Nope. A union in place is legally required to bargain for all employees, and not just under the union. The NLRB makes a distinction and disqualifies management for unions.
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by pierat 3y ago
Gladly! https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em... I would have to dig for the exact USC codes that construct the below paragraph taken from said website. I don't have that on hand.
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by pierat 3y ago
The NLRB forces unions to also negotiate for non-union members. When the NLRB no longer requires negotiating for free-loaders, sure. But if I'm part of a union, you damn straight if you're getting the benefits and getting negotiat
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by pierat 3y ago
But you know 100x hyper-libertarian-48lawsofpower-dude can definitely negotiate better than a dirty liberal... Union! (I swear, I've had that exact conversation here, with nearly that same tone. And of course, verbal contortions that t
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by pierat 3y ago
Sooooo.... Fraud?
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by pierat 3y ago
> How do you disconnect and shutdown the problem solving part of your brain? I dont. Instead, I substitute MY OWN projects and goals and things INSTEAD OF work's goals. So instead of killing my innate curiosity and problem solving,
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by pierat 3y ago
They could EASILY sign up for a Canadian Mastodon instance..... Or they could make their own Mastodon Govt instance. They don't control the man-child at the helm of Twitter. But they can definitely control their own servers. And I&#x27
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by pierat 3y ago
Who's going to "enforce" this? The UN? (HAH) The only way to force this issue is to "pirate before you buy-it" and save your money. Hard to get screwed by fake purchase buttons if you dont buy, and hit libgen, torre
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by pierat 3y ago
If "buying" a thing doesnt mean I own the thing and control and ownership is retained from who I "bought" it from, is it really buying? And is it really "piracy" when the only sale option is a fraudulent "
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by pierat 3y ago
Dun Dun Dun! Playtality! (In the voice of Mortal Kombat)
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by pierat 3y ago
Yes, because shitty-encryption-where-we-give-you-the-keys-but-dont-at-the-same-time has worked so well for.... DVDs, Blu-ray, HD-DVDs Playstation 1,2,3,4,5 games Nintendo SNES,N64,Wii,GameCube, Switch And plenty others.
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by pierat 3y ago
Cool. Add this to "Yet another reason why I pirate". Nobody EXCEPT the parasitic data miners/advertisement class want this. I'm certainly never going to entertain hooking up a internet connection for continual adverts an
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by pierat 3y ago
If you think its JUST ads, boy, do I have a bridge to sell you. 1. Data sold to Natsec/FBI/CIA/NSA etc 2. Data sold to IRS 3. Data sold to state tax authority 4. Data sold to police agencies 5.
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by pierat 3y ago
Holy bias, batman... "Men" or "Women" "I would save men and let women die. I choose men because I personally relate more to them and feel a stronger bond towards them." ... "personally relate"? "
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by pierat 3y ago
As a CTO, you should make yourself aware of what a scream test is https://www.v-wiki.net/scream-test-meaning/ Basically, you just turn stuff off, and make people scream, while they can turn it back on. You could have d
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by pierat 3y ago
Your experiences are absolutely out of date. For example, the recent (6th season) of JoJo, are all sorts of references that the fansubbers can make from the original material, but the corporate subbers aren't legally able to. In fact,
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by pierat 3y ago
I've argued before that when companies retain control of the device after the sale, that it should not be legally classified as a sale. It should be enforced as a rental . Either I own my property and control my property, or it's
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by pierat 3y ago
C'mon folks! MOD THIS UP This is the lead author of the majorly potential impacted extension!
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by pierat 3y ago
And by the time you explain it, you've already lost the narrative. A fact that we've learned in the massive social media sphere is that "Louder = right". And, I hate this. Someone screams their viewpoint? They must be ri
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by pierat 3y ago
You were also quoting what amounts to 1700's blog articles (Federalist) as evidence of an originalist thought. And I plainly read what was said in the constitution. You seem to be the one re-interpreting the document based on your own
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by pierat 3y ago
> Further still I am strict orginalist . meaning I do not engage in the idea of "living document" and that the words should be interpenetrated as they mean today instead they should be used in the context of 1776. I and other

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