Gabu @ Gabu @lemmy.ml

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Seems like the perfect way to stage a polyamorous wedding.

But I am Annatar, the Lord of Gifts!

Twitch, but that comes with its own problems.

What you're describing is effectively an attempt at security through obscurity, which doesn't work. If an attacker is interested on a specific target, going through the source code searching for bugs isn't too different from performing a black box attack.

Riiight, because the corner shop will start using signal just for you...

Where I live it sure as fucking hell isn't the case. Nobody uses SMS anymore, and effectively everyone uses Whatsapp.

Not popular enough. With Whatsapp you get to talk to pretty much everyone, from businesses to second hand sellers to your weird aunt that lives in the middle of the woods.

It probably wasn’t keylogging but it was probably not updating itself 24/7 either.

You'd be surprised at how shit Chrome's autoupdate is.

My dozens of thousands of hours on Skyrim beg to differ

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Always take that sort of thing with a grain of salt. The UK is by no means innocent, but Argentina had no real claim to the Falklands - they were the invaders. Can't really forgive others for a crime you committed.

The implosion of Argentina is a very complex issue, but, essentially, the country allowed itself to be informally dollarized and ceded control over most of its industries to international (read corporativist) interests. When Perón restructured the country, it was done with a limited scope and with relatively short term changes, causing their economy to collapse again later (it doesn't help that Brazil, a powerful potential ally, had undergone a rightwing U.S.-backed coup at the time). Then, the whole Falklands/Malvinas war happened, all rightwing bullshit, and the country still hasn't bounced back.

Who could've guessed that a rightwing government wouldn't solve their issues (which were originally caused by rightwing policies)?

So now you're moving goalposts - it's no longer about whether or not people got killed, but whether you find it justified that they died? I'm sorry, but unless we're talking about a literal Nazi, I can't agree with that sort of view.

Will our efforts in philosophy ever lead to a non-circular answer to the worth of life? I.e. will mankind ever create or find its purpose?

Yeah, they were just shot. There's footage of the bodies on the street, by the way.

That's the idea! They can just break even, if they bought a place but aren't currently living there. Otherwise, leave the property on the market so someone who actually needs it can get it.

It seems to me that if a house exists, someone owns it, unless you consider government possession NOT ownership.

Even if you argue for the ownership of a house, the land it sits on is ultimately owned by the state, so I don't think that's a very productive topic...

So if the government possesses the house, they should provide it as housing for free to someone, right?

Not necessarily for free (although, as I stated, that would be ideal), but certainly not for profit.

And a person CAN buy the house, but if that person is not going to live in it, he should provide it to a person to live in either rent free OR at a price that is not more than the taxes and costs so that it is essentially provided non-profit. Correct?

That would be incentivised, yes.

That's the ideal solution, but not the only solution.

So there should be no land ownership

There already isn't, in absolute terms. A government can reposses any piece of land within its territory (maybe with the exception of embassies) at its own discretion.

Another simple solution is that the taxation on any land should be proportional to its market value deduced from a "usefulness" score, i.e. tilled land used for farming is very useful, therefore shouldn't have increased taxes. Empty houses aren't useful at all, therefore high taxes are justified. This is a developed application of Land Value Taxation.