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  • Yea, that's right. To add: the argument that focuses on voters' individual behavior ignores the system within which they make their choices i.e. gerrymandering, private political parties, FPTP, winner takes all, Citizens United, Super PACs etc. It is a very low-IQ take to place the blame solely on the voters, and those unelected, unaccountable people who design the rules of the system would like everyone to have that take.

  • Yea, that's right.

  • Cowbee

  • Maybe, but a local credit union could create the money as a loan and it gets spent into the economy for a socially necessary purpose, which, counter-intuitively, does much more good than volunteers (setting aside the idea that paid workers are more reliable than volunteers). Technical solutions for all our problems already exist, finding them is not the issue, the issue is the political will to enact these ideas, which is just not there as a result of class war (which imo has also created the conditions that you can't find enough people with the time & money to volunteer for this size task). My 2c.

  • First I thought Trump's sending of $40 bn to Argenita was about this, but after reading about how Zionists are burning down Patagonia to buy it I'm not so sure.

    Edit: Aaaaand this

  • The point of the research, like everything that gets financing under capitalism, is to generate private profits.

  • Plus getting them all up to code is huge job creation, so it's win-win.

  • To each their own, no doubt. Personally I'm just in awe at how modern tech actually makes people tech-illiterate, and seemingly at a faster clip each year. Throw in an additional attack surface and that just makes it, for me, net minus. There are social and political implications to being tech-illiterate and tech-dependent (especially dependent on foreign and/or rogue states), which is another minus in my book.

  • It always starts with beans

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  • Americans have already done the math

  • Wait didn't we get women's rights in Afghanistan after bombing them for 20 years? Ah nevermind, I already moved on to the next big issue.

  • I mean, how do you think they got to be a trillion dollar company, R&D?

  • No, that's experiential appropriation of the Pinball Wizard and highly offensive.

  • "It is the duty of the poor to support and sustain the rich in their power and idleness. In doing so, they have to work before the laws' majestic equality, which forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

    Anatole France

  • Wait so it's not an accurate take?

  • GOOGLE DESIGNED THE wireless protocol known as Fast Pair to optimize for ultra-convenient connections: It lets users connect their Bluetooth gadgets with Android and ChromeOS devices in a single tap.

    Bluetooth pairing is not a difficult process, imagine creating a whole new attack vector for that. And of course security was an afterthought. Capitalism is amazing for wasting resources and getting bad results for it.