Might take a few decades to properly sink in tho.

tl;Dr The court made a weird ruling that says there is no secondary liability (Backpage) but there is tertiary liability (providers they purchase or contract with).

If the garbage takes itself out, I won’t complain. YT doesn’t see how the cable companies dying is the exact same future it is racing to emulate.

I think you’re missing several things. First, if the phenomenon is accurate, and it is, then the burden is on you to figure out how to stop getting played. Don’t ask other people to solve your problems. Recognize your problems, and then work to solve them directly.

Second, the spoiler effect doesn’t exist unless you’re in a swing state. But how many Americans were told that they have to vote for Harris or they’re supporting Trump, when in fact their state was nowhere close to 50/50 so realistically they could have voted for anyone?

Third, there is no single leftist community. There are many different leftist communities that overlap and agree on various points. Also, you’re suggesting that leftists are idealist, but that’s not the truth. We all recognize the current situation, and we’re trying to make a better one, but you’re not. In other words, your cynicism has caused you to throw in the towel, and to accept the current reality as permanent, unchangeable, it sucks but there’s nothing you can do, and that’s certainly true if you believe it.

My friend, what you wrote totally ignores the passage of time. Everything you wrote is true if we only look at one election, and none of it is true if we consider the passage of time and how pressure operates. If the political party is not getting votes, if all of their candidates are losing, either they will disband or they will find different policies to push.

I think you need to look at the above the graph and try again, maybe with less f****** around and more using your brain.

Right. Bullying someone and making their school life painful is exactly the same as denying someone healthcare and killing them. Therefore getting revenge on a bully is equivalent to getting revenge on the healthcare company. Did I get that right? /s

It’s important to recognize that the system in the US is more convoluted than you believe. It’s not like we have totally separate drug manufacturers versus distributors versus hospitals versus insurers. There’s a fair amount of overlap, and a lot of it is relatively secretive, so you don’t know where the kickbacks are. You don’t know who’s jacking up prices in general knowing that they’re going to lower prices for the company that they are partners with. All of which is to say, this is not a fair market, this is not a market where you can reasonably compete if you play by the rules, but even if they actually bothered to follow the rules, you’re already screwed because they have market dominance.

The only path forward is through government run single payer healthcare. You can call it NHS, you can call it whatever you want, but it has to be run by the government. You need the government to set price ranges for drugs and treatments so that the drug companies and the hospitals don’t f*** over everyone.

But I don’t think Americans are ready for that yet. Obviously Trump winning the election makes it incredibly unlikely, but I think even large numbers of Democrat voters are still trapped in American exceptionalism. They know they’re getting fleeced, but they aren’t yet willing to say that they should probably copy what’s happening north of the border or across either ocean. They have good stories, things about super long wait times or lack of doctor choice, pretending that those things don’t happen in the US, and then pretending that those things do happen in every other country that has universal health care, which is laughable. But it’s hard, because so many people are desperate to believe that the US is the greatest country in the world, and they are desperate to avoid recognizing that they’ve been getting f***** right in the ear for the last few decades.

Define AI. Then you’ll see that it has been used to fight fraud for decades.

It was last week.

That’s often said, but is it true?

Cars because they are so big, and ugly when in disrepair. Small scale hoarding is a small scale problem.

RTO was always an excuse to fire people. Fuck all the media outlets who pretended otherwise.

Stealing is when you take something from someone illegally. What you described, and what OP described, is not even close to that.

First, what was taken from who? Money from the government, let us suppose. But legally. And even if it were illegal, which it isn’t, what is the damage? Of course there is none. It’s still 100% moral.

Comically, this is such a mild example of the Prodigal Son. Didn’t folks learn this shit in Sunday School?

The reason is clear, of course. Corporate Democrats don’t want substantive reform in Washington, so they act sad but never take real steps to solve the problems we elect them to solve.

The question is not whether it’s personal gain. The question is whether pardoning someone after unjust prosecution is reasonable, and it is.

I also agree that he should be doing more, but nobody seriously expected he’d magically change on this topic, after all these decades in national politics.

That’s not what the term means. It is a historical term with a precise meaning, and that meaning is not synonymous with “unregulated”.

Or not smug. There’s a problem with a solution. You think it’s a program problem, but maybe it’s actually an OS problem.

Of course there are reasons to use Windows, but that doesn’t mean OP has one.

Yes. Linux.

In a little hut that the chair lift operator of the ski area (closed in the summer, when I was there) would use normally.