BorgDrone @ BorgDrone @lemmy.one

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Wouldn’t it be easier to budget for a whole month on low pay, especially since bills are monthly.

Paycheck comes in -> Pay all bills for that month -> whatever is left you can spend that month.

That seems very inconvenient if paychecks aren’t monthly.

Do bills also come twice a month? Like, do you pay your rent, mortgage insurance, internet, tv, cell phone, etc. every two weeks?

No it doesn’t. All it will do is get them into an even shittier situation.

Take for example debt bondage in India. Give a person in debt bondage a gun, what should they do with it, according to you?

It’s true though.

There are many forms of modern day slavery and the vast majority is not due to an inability of the enslaved people to exert violence onto their slavers.

That’s an extremely simplistic view of a very complicated problem.

And the decibels should be relative to the reference level, otherwise it’s still meaningless.

To add to this: Apple is actively working with Google and the GSMA to add E2EE to the RCS standard. Apple can no do this on their own, as RCS is a standard set by the GSMA. They need to go through the entire slow and bureaucratic process to add a feature to RCS, so while this will appear eventually I wouldn’t hold my breath.

This also shows exactly why something like RCS cannot ever offer anything other than the bare basic messaging functionality. You cannot innovate on RCS because every change needs to go through a committee who’s all want to have a say in it and before you know it you’re spending years in committee meetings to add a single feature.

Meanwhile, Apple decides they want to add a feature to iMessage, they roll it out in the next iOS update and it’s available to billions of users pretty much overnight.

The volume should be at 0, that’s how loud it’s intended to be. Fuck the neighbors.

Then what are you trying to say? I’m still not seeing how you bringing up slavery is at all relevant to the discussion.

You seriously think that the cause of modern day slavery is lack of guns?

Maybe you should call the UN and let them know you figured out the solution to the slavery problem.

Same, also autistic. There are very few people I don’t dislike touching me.

It also depends where people touch me. Shake my hand: that’s okay; touching my head/hair, big no. Haircuts are super uncomfortable.

I’m not sure how it’s relevant to this discussion. Are you some kind of vigilante who needs a gun to free slaves?

All of those things are because there are way more humans today than ever in absolute numbers. The percentage of people who die a violent death has never been as low as it is now, and that includes people dying in war.

So enlighten me.

How many people do you need to kill in self defence, in an average week?

Just leaving this here

What is it with Americans that they seem so be so afraid all the time. You see danger everywhere. Life now is safer than it has ever been in the history of humanity.

It has nothing to do with circumstances, it’s plain statistics. Look up the numbers.

Nice theory, but owning a gun makes you less safe, not more. You are way more likely to be hurt by your own gun than successfully using it to defend yourself.

The US healthcare system isn’t broken. It’s functioning exactly as it’s intended to function: as a way to extract the maximum amount of money from the US public.