“Hey, can we give each homeless person $2000? It’ll pull 90% of them out of poverty. Then they’ll become contributors to the tax pool!”
“No, I’d rather spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on hostile architecture and hostile police. Also we pay jails to house and feed them.”
You could also class it as a debt in your name.
I’ve paid my debts.
I’ve paid my taxes.
You shouldn’t be able to, because both lanes are full and moving at half speed.
Came here to find this argument.
Well done everyone!
Merging at the last minute is the correct way to do it.
Zipper merge, you fucks!
Would you care to elaborate?
Thicc Betelgeuse
Yeah, but up there all your water pipes will freeze and rupture. But you don’t need to worry, you’ll be dead.
Sure, fine. We can go with that, if you like.
Then my core point still stands; using a service gives the creator/owner of that service a platform to speak from.
Do note that the line between related and unrelated can be quite faint and blurry. How do you decide where it is?
It is not pointless.
Using a product gives its creator legitimacy. If that creator is a shithead, you’ve (in part) chosen to give that shithead a pedestal to speak from and have their words heard.
Mozilla get to speak with authority partially because they’ve been in the browser game since nearly its inception and partially because they’ve have a user base. If either of these things were not so, who would care?
If you don’t like what any of the major players are doing, you can grab an open source alternative, switch to a different browser engine and upset the metrics.
You decry people being arbitrary for drawing a line, but yourself are doing so from the other direction. Your refusal to take a position leaves you in an arbitrary place.
Life is too complex and nuanced to search for a hard line in everything. And things are always shifting. You can have morals the compel you, and so long as you make a good-faith effort and are willing to listen when people you disagree with also make good-faith arguments, then you’re doing alright.
Well I hung out with Mitchell Baker and she seemed pretty chill.
Yeah, Firefox fired the anti-lgbtq asshole when his donations came to light. So then he went and founded Brave.
How much did they make selling incomplete devices?
I am firmly of the belief that people with ADHD should be prescribed an air fryer.
It is such an incredible tool because it almost destroys the mental barrier that something like the oven has. I actually make myself food now!
They’re on the Leftest off-ramp that heads back the other way.
Very strong points.
That’s a fucking stretch.
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If you know you’re gonna get arrested; make the photo memorable.
“Yes we’ve made life harder, especially for the elderly and pregnant. But you must understand we needed to impart more misery on the homeless!”