Too small, but an interesting example.

In many countries, and across history, universities are the breeding ground of anti-establishment protests. Young people with a strong desire to change the world, not yet shackled by the burdens of society and all that.

Except that in the US, students are chained down with massive debt they can’t escape from, so that they can be kept on a leash.

Going by experience here, the American WILL question this idea the very seconds the foreign has a diverging opinion or calls them out on something.

Looking at US politics from across the pond, there seems to be a healthy dose of activism, except it’s exclusively online.

Unfortunately nowadays this is totally irrelevant, because it’s so easy to counter by anyone with money to burn.

When people have actually gathered (mostly unions) they have found success.

Judging by the backlash I saw online on that butter recall because of the missing “contains milk” statement, it seems like few will miss the regulations.

In the long run, looser regulations could prove to be a Darwinian solution to most current issues.

Ah yes the embodiment of the French Revolutionaries spirit. Paraphrasing the slogan, wasn’t it something like

“wake me up my brothers after the king gets beheaded, why would I go out with my pitchfork if nothing’s gonna happen”.

Wow, you totally misunderstood the whole issue?

The point of China subsidizing their industry and their universities isn’t so that their people can “buy a new car every year or two” because they’re cheap.

It’s because that way they progress their technology and manufacturing infrastructure so much that no one else can compete. They chase everyone else out of the market, while their companies pull in massive profits and keep the high paying jobs for their citizens.

Well paid workers can buy their own housing without government assistance, but what happened to all those tax benefits the US gov handed out for EVs? They catapulted Musk’s wealth, while the workers are nowhere closer to affording an EV, or a home, or even healthcare.

I don’t know if this is a criminal charge, but if it is, then this is the answer right here.

A couple of months behind bars would be a brutal wake up call to billionaires that money can’t buy everything.

Of course they’d just double down on buying more politicians and judges.

Gotta appreciate the level of commitment on this commit…

So let me boil down the list of arguments in your refutation:

• Assert a belief about wrongness.
• Assert a belief about lack of knowledge
• Disregard provided proof contrary to own beliefs
• Present zero proof supporting own belief
• Expletive

Masterfully done, you should run for president. Moron.

I’m sure they can be re-educated as well as any other minority… (/s but not really)

I unplugged the bassist and people went to buy the album.

Im using Firefox because fuck Google’s monopoly, but Firefox seems to care little for some stuff I think is critical, namely AV codec support. Lack of out of the box support for HEVC and a few others, which my underlying OS supports perfectly, is a big turn off.

May be time to give Opera a spin

Great, as soon as you have that working we’ll just make it useless in Ubuntu and rebundle everything plus their mothers in a snap

I can’t follow your reasoning. If companies cannot own houses, how do you propose this shell-ownership would work? Wouldn’t the owner just be free to sell the house at any time and pocket the cash for themselves?

As for tax evasion by foreigners that own real estate, I mean how is that even a problem? There’s millions of foreigners that do business in the US everyday, plus, these ones have actual immovable assets that can be seized…

Sounds perfect, do it. I wanna see your income statement when you own 20 apartments.

Definitely then the issue lies with click to subscribe, and not with click to cancel.

If the customer is insufficiently informed of any penalties for cancelling, then he shouldn’t have been allowed to subscribe in the first place.

You should get a prescription, it will do wonders to your humour.

For $2000? Is this comic from the 50s?

The secret here is to come up with a business case that shows management what an incredible ROI they should expect from this initiative.

Then you get to play with robots for a few months instead of actually working!

Yeah I occasionally run into that block that blames GDPR too, and it makes me wonder just what in hell they want to do with user data…

It’s not hard to comply with GDPR, unless you’re a shady scumbag, in which case, thanks for the warning I guess.