TheSaneWriter @ TheSaneWriter @lemmy.thesanewriter.com

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You and I have the exact same ice cream preferences.

That's true, the problem is just it's really hard to have properly localized representation on a national level when your nation has millions of people. U.S. Representatives oversee hundreds of thousands of people and many senators serve millions, there's no way for them to get to know their constituents.

Beyond the irony of the name, this is genuinely an excellent idea and I wish you luck selling them! Are you considering making these for any other recipes?

Thee developers really crunched over July. It went from a niche beta platform to fully featured third-party apps and a ton of platform optimizations in a month, which is really impressive.

They probably paid for the title but the article isn't actually that peachy, I'd say its assessment is accurate. The Reddit sub protest is over, and technically spez got his way, but the platform has been damaged and may recover or may begin to die out and be replaced.

When a 2-day task turns into a 2-week task 🙃

They are attracted to power. If a democrat managed to seize the throne from the Trump royal family, then that democrat is powerful and thus now respectable, as long as they maintain the monarchy.

Indeed. All the claims about Russian interference were that they used propaganda to push people to vote for Trump, not that the election itself was fraudulent. It's ridiculous to compare "Hostile foreign actors are manipulating people" with "The outgoing president actually won the election and thus should remain in office despite all the evidence to the contrary."

Strong disagree. I believe in proportional representation, if Democrats get 50% of the votes for a given legislature, they get 50% of the seats, and vice-versa for the Republicans. Neighbors often have different interests and I believe that in a democracy decisions should be made by the majority.

I hadn't heard of it either, this is super useful! It's funny the things you'll find just around the place on Lemmy.

Interesting. Is retirement just a sabbatical until death?

There are fundamental differences between physical and digital surveillance, namely when you are in a public space there is no expectation of privacy because there are other people there looking at you. When there are other people there that can actually see you, a camera also watching doesn't make much of a difference.

Absolutely. Turning those features off is a safety risk and should probably be illegal. Imagine the world of cringe where you tried to pull on your seatbelt but it was locked because you didn't pay for your seatbelt subscription.

State-run authoritarian economies generally aren't so money-obsessed that they pull weird shit like this, but generally suffer from drastic inequality, distribution inefficiency, and a general lack of freedom and innovation. The most effective economic models from what I've seen are hybrid models, with a regulated market system with some nationalized industries. Morally though, I also believe that a nation's economic system should be democratic and that people should have a say in how their workplace is run and who their workplace leadership should be.

At Toyota, you pay for the premium shit to get installed, you most certainly do not pay a fee (recurring or otherwise) for them to turn it on.

It's really cool they're considering a Mac version of Proton, it shows to me a more genuine attempt to improve the gaming ecosystem than I'd expect from most companies.

It really is, it's how my probability class finally got me to understand why this solution is true.

Indeed, for better or worse nothing here is private. My instance database has all user activity stored even from other instances, such is the nature of ActivityPub.

To be fair, the platform is not free, the instance admins pay for it. Also to be fair my instance currently only costs $7 a month, but that's more than nothing.

I hadn't heard free as in beer free before, apologies, I was just being a pedantic ass.

I'm not using a DNS ad-blocker and I've only seen two or three ads over hours on the service. I personally find that tolerable, but to each their own.