LostWon @ LostWon @lemmy.ca

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Fair point. While I could argue they're also voting for a dwindling consumer base, I realize the incentives that likely drive them the most are heavily weighted toward the short term.

Seems the lowest cost trains are double the cost of the lowest airfares (at least that I checked), but I bet the train is still more comfortable. I've only ridden trains in other countries though, so I can't say for certain.

Rich people aren't automatically smarter than poor people. Both groups are misinformed, likely in large part due to circumstances they were born into.

Or they eat processed foods, most of which have additives.

Cool, if that's the case then it actually was the same thing I was saying. If someone had just made harmless fun of the misunderstanding I would have laughed right along. Too bad the atmosphere got weirdly ugly for some reason. Anyway, thanks for taking the time.

OK, sure. I appreciate that explanation but I wasn't unsure about how ways the Flipper Zero or devices like it might be used (just as I'm aware there are reasons for and against the existence of backdoors in software). Based on your response, did you think I was in favour of banning it? I never intended any value judgments about how it might be used, but perhaps some people are reading into my use of the term "exploit" even though it's not always a negative term.

I added the edit above because I was trying to figure out the intended meaning of the comment I was replying to, since it didn't make sense to me. Probably it's just awkwardly worded and that threw me off, since it doesn't make sense otherwise.

Also, he should reinstate funding for UNRWA and stop aiding the IDF effort to starve everyone in Gaza (*also applicable here in Canada and several other countries). Even if the Israeli allegation that UNRWA staffers are all Hamas-affiliated was true, we're talking about fucking food, medication, and survival essentials for 95% of the world's most starved people (up from 80% as of recently).

Wow, I check back to see if clarification is available and now I have downvotes? People really are getting meanspirited on here.

Seems more to me like vulnerabilities are widespread in everything, and this thing ended up being made to exploit them?

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Wait, did you mean the same thing I said? Phrasing wasn't clear to me.

I've never heard that and I'm pretty sure I used two in the last year, with no issues. I can't find an article about it. Can you link one?

W = win
L = loss

Thanks for the article. Private business models have no place in our healthcare of course, but this is actually the tip of the iceberg. I find it disturbing how easily the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater because if profit-seekers can't have the business model they want, apparently we're to assume nothing else can be done and the whole concept of a virtual service must be scrapped.

I wish the focus for media stories about shitty implementations of tech was to highlight the very large gap we are seeing between how tech can and should help the public (especially those who could use increased accessibility), and how it is instead being used by all forms of private industry to manipulate markets and control people. Instead it's a shoulder shrug and people keep getting progressively trained to believe any and all innovation has to benefit shareholders first, and everyone else last (if at all).

We can't ever move past racism or other forms of prejudice by ignoring them. Rather, that's how they get preserved. But more important than that, African Canadian history isn't just about slaves or oppressed people any more than European Canadian history should be considered to be about slave owners or oppressors.

Polls these days aren't necessarily that accurate (though they can skew things when they get used in media so much and people believe they are).

I wish it were, but why should Canada be at the front of the pack in human rights?

Real estate investors often try to "limit liability" by creating multiple corporations.

"It's not that uncommon, but it does create this really complicated corporate structure where you have multiple companies, multiple lenders, and sometimes the links between them are hard to unravel," Fellowes said.

You don't say?

It's scary to think how far they're willing to let environmental devastation proceed. Merciless-but-accurate ridicule and shaming are warranted for responsible parties in both the private sector (for polluting and leaving citizens the bill) and government (for allowing this / selling out). I'd love to see more media figures (particularly comedians) consistently exposing and speaking truth to power. But I guess "power," so to speak, owns most media. So that's not likely to happen.

The political ones are new. The others have worsened.

All I did was point out facts and perspectives you seem to have missed. I thought we were having a constructive conversation in good faith, and was giving you the benefit of the doubt. I'm sorry to see that wasn't the case.

The reason it seems "muddled" to you is likely because bigotry itself is based in ignorance.

Many people just accept and absorb what they've heard or seen in cartoons and popular media while growing up, lumping different groups of people together based on oversimplifications and misrepresentations of who they are. The assumptions on which people base their Islamophobia are quite racist, conflating Arab identity (which people think they know by a person's appearance based on racist stereotypes) with Islam. The point is to be able to identify the bigotry for what it is.

If you try to define a form bigotry by the actual reality it's misrepresenting, you'll miss the bigotry itself.

Islamophobia is a type of racism. Brown people who aren't even muslim (like Sikhs) often get caught up in it, precisely because the ignorance that fuels it is based in racism.

So we argue that “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/15/islamophobia-racism-definition-free-speech-theresa-may