Stumblinbear @ Stumblinbear @pawb.social

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So... A form of democracy?

For reference this is about $20 USD

Dunno. I distinctly remember doom and gloom that he'd get away scott free.

I went to school in Kansas. This was all taught, even there

Eh, they have about as much power over that as they do any other privacy breaches. It being DNA doesn't make a huge difference

They don't own the DNA itself, but they do own the rights to the resulting sequence. It's akin to a biography--you don't own the person's life, but the author put it down on paper and owns the rights to the book.

Multiple companies sequencing the same DNA don't end up in copyright spats because the DNA itself isn't copyrightable.

Software engineers make buku bucks

JWST isn't going in circles, it's orbiting the sun. If you look at it relative to that, then it looks more like a sine wave rather than going in circles. However from the perspective of the earth, it looks like it's going in circles

It occurs to them, but sometimes you just don't want to.

Yeah but if it gets lost, they have to replace it, and if they leave it in a terrible place that's ripe for theft I can claim I never received it. Stealing from multi-billion dollar corporations is always morally correct. Plus, I get free shit out of it and they stop doing that pretty quickly :)

Modern societies crush people. It breaks them.

The world has been pretty shit for the entirety of history. Working conditions are better than they ever have been. People make more than they ever have. Crime is dropping year-over-year.

Arguing that this is occuring because everything is getting worse is just completely and utterly wrong. Quality of life is increasing greatly for the average person.

laTe sTAgE cAPItalIsM

I really hate that this is used as though it means anything at all to most people. It's not an argument by itself.

Amtrak is actively building dedicated rails in quite a few places

... They mean that you're supporting free speech by disabling and block and supporting them

The redirect thing is definitely just Firefox being weird. It's generally a basic redirect that triggers a return-to-app, and Firefox isn't following the redirect properly

I have been poor if you consider making 15k a year for five years and having to live with three other people to make ends meet poor. Also, I was being somewhat facetious.

Then... Don't live in SoCal?

I had an 8k bill for a TIA I had last year. It's a lot of money, but if you have a job that will cover most of your hospital bills, you can probably pay for it without drowning

To be clear, I'm not saying it's a good system

I have 15 years of experience in software engineering, but that's only because I started when I was 12. Experience is experience. Now, if they meant professional experience that's a bit different

The actual middle class generally has a job that gives health insurance which will pay for it almost entirely. If you don't, you're probably not middle class unfortunately