TemporaryBoyfriend @ TemporaryBoyfriend @lemmy.ca

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Suicide is a symptom of mental illness in the absence of an obvious physical ailment like cancer, ALS, etc. We shouldn't stigmatize mental illness further by drawing arbitrary lines when the result is the same.

The stupid part is that they're allowed to make exclusions to a "life" insurance policy -- the idea is that they pay out when you're no longer alive. If they take your premiums, they should have to pay out when you die -- the only exception should be if you're provably alive.

But they were restoring all my posts and comments for weeks after I deleted them.

You simply tax the things that harm society until those things go away.

Corporations owning residential homes should get taxed an extra 1% on the total value of the home every year, increasing at 2x the rate of inflation every January 1st. Do that for 5 years, then apply the tax to individuals who own more than one home, same deal - 1% + 2x the rate of inflation.

Combined with actual rent controls, this solves the problem, and it won't shock the system and cause a housing crash, because various homes are at different stages of profitability.

I'm just some idiot on the internet. Why can't some idiot in government come up with a similar plan?

I think seizure of a passport for 5 to 10 years, plus compensation to the victim is an acceptable punishment. If you commit a dickish crime and make us all look bad, stay the fuck home.

I never use the self-checkouts. That's bullshit. I don't work there.

I don't blame anyone that takes advantage of the system that corporations are building.

This is what Superchargers are. The snag is that during busy weekends, the batteries eventually hit zero, and everyone is capped at 72kW, because that's what the AC/DC transformer can provide.

That whole area is pretty much MAGA territory.

See: Local morons trying to arrest cops at the police station.

You can make the tax apply only to corporate owners, or properties that are not an individual's primary residence.

Yup, I've always advocated for a punitive tax on owning more than one residential home. Start with corporations, 1% extra tax on the value of the property each year, increasing at 2x the rate of inflation each year. Two of three years after that, then apply it to privately owned second homes... Within 10 years, the annual tax on any second, third, fourth homes will be greater than any possible profits, and those houses will come on the market as various properties pass into not being profitable investments anymore.

And as others have said, use the collected tax for affordable housing. The best thing to do is for this money to be used to buy condos in existing buildings, and place families there, to prevent "ghettoization" of neighbourhoods.

Just to delete the comments that reddit restored after I deleted everything in my account.

I work in IT. Most systems have laughable security. Passwords are often saved in plain text in scripts or config files. I went to a site to help out a very large provincial governmental organization move some data out of one system and into another. They sat me down with a loaner laptop and the guy logged me into his user account on the server. When I asked for escalated privileges, he told me he'd go get someone who knew the service account passwords.

After a few minutes, I started poking around on my own... And had administrative access within an hour. I could read the database (raw data), access documents, start and stop the software, plus, figured out how to get into the upstream system that fed data to this server... I was working on figuring out the software's admin password when the guy came back. I'm sure that given some more time, I could have rooted the box because the OS hadn't been updated in years.

Oh, yeah... But you have to admit, it kinda explains the behaviour in a concise and plausible fashion though, based on the facts we do know.

Heh. Can you tell my parents? I'm pretty sure both of them would suck this guy's dick if he showed up at their house. I've tried various ways to explain that they're in a cult, but yeah, they're in way too deep.

I find it hard to believe that the folks in France who work in government have forgotten that protesting is the compromise people made to have their voices heard... The alternative being the separation of heads from necks as the first step in the revolution.

This is dumb anyway - nobody is going to pump 1MW into a car, the grid can't support it, never mind a supercharger-style station with between 8 and 20 plugs. A 20-plug Supercharger needs around 1.5MW to serve each station with 72kW.

And really, when I'm on a road trip, after 3h in the car, I need a break that's long enough to hit the bathroom, grab a bite to eat, and stretch my legs. The car is usually charged to 90% in under 45 minutes anyway, even if I roll into the charging station at under 5%...

Funny, I don't even live in the USA, and I know about Tulsa, who the people that died were, and whose homes and businesses were burned to the ground... How is it that someone who lives where it happened doesn't know?

That's some serious weapons-grade ignorance there.

Strange how people can be so oblivious as to the role they play in the consumption of energy and materials...

I've recently started to believe that the only way climate change is going to end is if a very, very large percentage of the human population dies off very quickly... like... 70-80% or more. One billion people still seems like too many.

Yes, in very poor countries, they subsidize the data usage for WhatsApp, so that it's free to end users. It's extraordinarily popular in Asia and Africa as a result.

And now Meta knows when she's having her period, the phone number of her gynecologist, and what period products she buys... thanks to the app spying on her health and fitness, contact, and shopping data.

#WTF