just_change_it @ just_change_it @lemmy.world

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They're pro-power. They want to be the ones getting the kickback from policy decisions since whenever you change policy there are winners and losers - and the ones who bet on your side tend to win (because then they make you win in other ways. Big roles for your family, giant donations to keep you in office, business deals with your family so you get more income.)

They use:

• Christian Guilt (#1 - "Pro Life", WORK your life away because it's what you're supposed to do/REPORT YOUR NEIGHBORS FOR NOT LIVING A GOOD CHRISTIAN LIFE)
• Fear (#2 - anti-vax/conspiracy shit/racism/"guns protect people"/"strong militaries save lives"/Anti-LGBTQ/'THEY'RE COMIN' FOR YER GUNS) and
• Hatred (#3 - OTHERING: racism/we're better than them/don't work with the other side they're the enemy!/The LGBTQ are gonna rape your kids!)

Fear and hatred are extremely powerful motivating forces and Christian guilt rolls into all of it. Presidents and most politicians can't get elected without being publicly Christian, especially in conservative majority districts. I'm atheist myself, so forgive my improper categorization of denomination, but everybody knows what I mean.

The platform is not the same as the objective. The objective is to gain personal wealth and power and build a dynasty for your family. Helping your wealthier buddies out gets you a bigger share. There are certainly people who intend to get into politics without these opinions and attitudes but it's far from the majority.

Okay start calling gas engines "Internal Combustion Motors" around some car types. See how long until someone calls you out as an idiot and you can bring up your dictionary and show them how you're right and they're wrong.

I don't think everyone agrees with that statement. https://www.kia.com/dm/discover-kia/ask/is-an-engine-a-motor.html

If you work with this stuff often the vernacular is a bit clearer than the typical person off the street.

They are not including any electric motors. They have included two more Internal Combustion Engines.

Important to make these distinctions in the age of ICE, Hybrid and EVs being common. People don't really know the difference usually but motors are usually a lot less prone to failure than engines. Explosions aren't healthy!

I have seen this same headline about ten times this week. When will the regurgitation end?!?!?

Have you looked at where you can even buy these? US and Canada are 2 out of the 3 countries...

Does no one remember Captain John Sheridan?

Do not follow illegal orders.

Sure in some countries you'll just be shot on site but we're talking about an american company... so I was talking american law...

Their federal funding should be revoked and they should be audited every year by the SEC, also separately be audited for HR violations, and be a hotspot for any investigations based on whistleblower reports to various agencies imo.

They want to make a trillion dollars off a vaccine that was bought and paid for many times over by the federal government. They had been trying to find other treatments for years in other avenues with no success. They don't seem to be bringing much new innovation either, just milking this one treatment with minor tweaks between one strain and the next.

Horrible bullshit, typical pharma.

There is no privacy in public areas

Also already legal to take overt photos in public areas within some rational parameters (no upskirts, but otherwise it's pretty open.)

People HATE the idea that they are being recorded but the reality is it's already happening every single day in all kinds of places you'd never expect. Never forget every phone has a camera on the back... and on the front... Ask yourself: Does yours notify you when it's in use?

Then just think about things like key fob cameras, button cameras..

Edit: Note, the Meta Smart Glasses are only releasing in the US, Canada and the UK. All three countries have no laws protecting privacy from photography in public, though my original comment was clearly about the US. Your local area will have it's on laws and restrictions, enjoy your regulations!

YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT 2 TRICKS PEOPLE HAD TO SAY IN THE COMMENTS.

It's not new, it's just asshole web design and misleading pages when you go to cancel. I went and cancelled a couple minutes ago.

Wow, you're right. I just ended mine.

Their website has an asshole design. They make you click through two pages before telling you the truth.

I want this but I don't see any way of it happening in current republican controlled states. Seems really difficult in democrat ones too.

How important are tanks in modern warfare?

I've been under the impression that infantry, drones (both recon and attack), mortars, artillery and guided missiles are kind of the thing to focus on in modern war. I think of tanks as big expensive targets.

I don't think people should be profiteering significantly off of stuff like this, but I do think ADA compliant websites should exist. Why alienate people with vision issues just so you don't need to build a website that has appropriate descriptions of your website elements?

It's one of those things when threatened someone should have to fix or otherwise get a not-insignificant fine scaled appropriately based on revenue if they don't fix it.

You don't need paid education or significant experience to modify html and css to include the appropriate information. There's even some free testing tools out there which will tell you about things that are problems.

The upside to private actions being allowed here is that you could have a nonprofit going around doing this for people, or even an individual trying to do the right thing. With the volume of ada-noncompliant websites out there I don't think a government entity could keep up without efficient organization and automated tooling - both things I don't really trust the government to do.

It literally doesn't matter. The republicans don't care and they've gerrymandered control away from the democrats so it can't change.

Even if democrats had control it would just be more of the same bullshit with some sugar coated feel good nonsense that still funnels wealth to the real owners of the country while appearing to make a difference.

What do you do with the democratic process when the same people control the judges, the legislative branch, and the executive branch? The answer is nothing. You just continue on getting f'd like the cows we all are.

This is not a nation of the people, it's a nation of the owners.

Seriously. Lock them fucking in until they figure the shit out if they haven't gotten the votes within 3 weeks of the deadline.

I'm not dumb enough to be interested in a first generation brain implant, but surely someone is.

That being said the car thing is a bunch of bullshit. Separate OTA software patches from physical drive-the-car-to-a-dealership recalls and get back to me on the real "recall" count.

I'm not really interested in driving a full electric car (hybrids seem to be the sweet spot until we find better batteries) but people cling to arbitrary metrics for all kinds of criticism in a red vs blue or console war fashion to proclaim why their chosen product is better. It's so asinine. All of the electronic systems in modern cars have issues because all software has issues. The ones that are the worst are the ones with no OTA patching, of which there are many.

Remember folks who are currently subscribed: They do not give prorated refunds for full year subs. When you cancel the service ends immediately. Setup calendar reminders or eat the sunk cost now because Amazon Prime is just a typical subscription entrapment scheme that will only get harder and harder to cancel, like a gym membership.

Edit: Thanks /u/@firadin - Cancel now, you don't lose anything and the membership simply won't renew on your renewal date.