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It’s trying to solve a problem created by SEO slop. “Find me the cheapest car rental”… That’s actually hard to do now bc SEO grift. Rather than building a more honest system, you get “agents” to do the searching for you

That just means you’d be taxing NZ citizens to pay the fee. Tariffs aren’t paid by the exporting country. They’re paid by the importer.

These morons would take us back to living in caves and knocking women over the head with clubs to claim their spouse if they had their druthers.

This juvenile “might makes right” perspective is so goddam infantile it’s almost laughable, if these weren’t the idiots with the guns.

People only band together and revolt when they prioritize the interests of the group over their personal interests. It takes a lot for people to risk their lives standing up against oppression. I’m worried that Americans are too self serving to be willing to stand up. We’d need to see a groundswell of solidarity before it’d be a real risk.

The American right is acting in a way that is identical if they were fully compromised and acting as Russian agents. Promoting the dissolution of the EU only benefits Russia.

Exactly. It’s like saying that since every president has been over 6’ tall we should only allow tall people to run for president.

There is no longer any one-child policy. In 2016 it was updated to a 2 child policy. In 2021 it was expanded to 3 children.

Yep. Running the standard playbook. They wouldn’t do it, if it wasn’t so effective. Today they’d be calling the Boston Tea Party a bunch of anti-caffeine health nuts.

Think of it this way … if you sign up at a karate dojo, there are a ton of rules and norms you’ll need to follow. And those rules and norms will be very different dojo to dojo. That’s an understood expectation. It’s similar to college. The professor is empowered to dictate the structure and norms of their course.

And sure… The professor will dictate their expectations on day 1. If you don’t like the structure, you have 2 weeks to change the course with no penalty.

Nah. You’re not thinking like a politician. The real answer is, “this will be a PR disaster for them. LOL this is really goin to help my fundraising”

If you’ve visited almost any website then Google ads are tracking you. Unless you’re a masochist running full lockout, noscript, and eliminate the use of cookies… Google is following you.

Eh. It’s always been a part of discourse. If they instead said, “our view of the administration’s workings don’t even rise to the level of observing shadows projected on a cave wall, we are truly in the dark”, I’m betting you would go right along with it, even though there are plenty of people that wouldn’t get the reference.

This just happens to be one you didn’t know … And now you do.

Don’t worry! It’s the types that need to launder money that this will serve. Problem solved!

Jan 16, 2008. Got me beat by a bit. Beat you to Lemmy though, so I guess I’ve got that going for me.

Repurposing existing pronouns is the problem. Other languages have nice, gender neutral pronouns. We just need a nice new, singular gender neutral pronoun.

Example…

He/she/fai Him/her/hai

Then make it standard to use the neutral version where gender doesn’t matter. Telling a story about your teacher? Is it pertinent we need to know the gender? No? Then standardize on the neutral version.

English has always been one of the most fluid languages. Why stop now? Just fix it.

It didn’t use to be. I remember most churches on the 80s had a message of, “try to be a good person” and then everyone would hang out and chat. Pretty chill space. Can’t stand going to any churches now.

All indefinitely means is “not certain”. So it could mean a week… Or a century.

These disks are pretty well understood. You should be good for a decade. At about 12-13 years it’s risky and anything after 15… If it’s still working, count yourself lucky.

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Exactly. The more claims you can deny the lower you can make premiums appear because you’re not actually paying out.

And I imagine it’d be even easier on a podcast with a production crew to edit the material to help craft and maintain an image.