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xkekjrktllss
3y ago
the internet is for marketing, like it or not. dates could deter sharing beyond a threshold of time and therefor limit the marketing potential.
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3y ago
Businesses control the government.
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xkekjrktllss
3y ago
> For what I would like to use it, I believe it would be ethical (as for what's considered ethical among street photographers and concerning street photography laws where I live). Define "street photographer" because I a
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3y ago
tell yourself whatever gets you to sleep at night, but the hegemonic consensus decides where the big bombs drop
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3y ago
> I don't think it's safe to write off that 1% if you don't first make sure you understand who that 1% is and how decisions like this, especially at scale, could harm those people. Businesses prioritize profit, not "
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3y ago
the west had a different opinion on russia doing the same in ukraine
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xkekjrktllss
3y ago
Always have and always will, but it's not mutually exclusive.
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xkekjrktllss
3y ago
Where are you located? Here in a busy midwest city, the police are too short staffed to even respond to a 3 car pile up in the middle of a busy intersection sooner than 2 hours after the fact.
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3y ago
14-19 an hour is atrocious in 2023, and of course most of these employees are limited to part-time hours so the company can avoid paying for benefits, all while advising employees to use food stamps. Medicaid is rarely available to such emp
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3y ago
How disappointing!
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xkekjrktllss
3y ago
Is this sarcasm? If not, why?
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xkekjrktllss
3y ago
By definition, elected representatives are not "responsible for" anything. At best they are merely accountable. Saying they are "responsible for" something is incoherent.
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3y ago
If politicians have more concern about this than the total credit card debt of US citizens, why should any of the said US citizens have any concern about this? We live in one truly sick society.
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3y ago
My argument is for nationalized healthcare. The NHS is increasingly not nationalized, so you're only proving my point if anything. Outsourcing the NHS has ruined it.
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xkekjrktllss
3y ago
They aren't necessarily cutting funding. They are cutting the amount of funding for nationalized services while increasing the amount of funding for outsourcing contracts.
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xkekjrktllss
3y ago
And proportionally even more of that budget goes to the pockets of politicians' donors who own the companies that displace the nationalized NHS. Again, the argument is for nationalization, which is the opposite of the direction the NHS
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xkekjrktllss
3y ago
Exactly why the entire system should be nationalized instead of outsourced. Further, nationalized healthcare promotes political engagement on a basis of material necessities that politicians must be accountable for.
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3y ago
the boss has entered the chat
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xkekjrktllss
3y ago
Then why do so many people use homeless encampments instead of houses?
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3y ago
> It works well in Tokyo. These are common housing for kids who might only have part time jobs at convenience stores. By this logic, homeless encampments under freeway underpasses work well in the US. They are common for people who can