RustyWizard @ RustyWizard @programming.dev

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It's more sinister than that. The article points out that the way the ownership of the yacht is controlled allows Crow to claim operating expenses as losses on his taxes, lowering his already low tax burden. Essentially, this bribery is occurring at the expense of taxpayers.

Chromecast, Kodi, Roku, Apple TV, Nvidia shield, fire TV, etc.

Nah, smart TV with media box. You get the ad adjusted price, you merely don't hook it up to the Internet.

Mine is also a cuddler

Look, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here in assuming you're asking that question honestly and not trying to start a debate about whether or not this dishonest nature of the comment constitutes a lie.

So why was she protesting the building of a wind farm a few weeks ago?

I find it funny how her protesting something hugely beneficial was met with general silence.

The comment is set up to try and make Greta appear hypocritical. She's supposed to be an environmentalist and she's protesting wind farms? The comment goes on to extrapolate that to the entire environmentalist community being hypocrites because the protest "was met with general silence".

What it leaves out is the context of the protest, which had absolutely nothing to do with the windmill, but rather the development of land use by peoples who don't have the political power to prevent it.

It's akin to you protesting a children's hospital being put in your backyard and then being accused of hating sick children.

In other comments, OP says "I work in the industry and windmills aren't a problem", blah, blah, blah. This purposely misses the point that the problem is development of these people's land against their will, whether it be a windmill or a Walmart. You can be an environmentalist who is pro windfarm and still have an issue with exploiting people, even if that exploitation is to put up wind farms.

To be more blunt, the comment was an outright mischaracterization, and if not out of ignorance, then a pure lie. Typical bullshit used to discredit people offhand.

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Both open and closed source software share this problem, so this doesn't really answer the question.

Lemmy drag Deez nuts across your face?