mPony @ mPony @kbin.social

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to be fair, "doing shit" really means "doing shit that benefits people without much power and influence", so, there's basically no incentive other than "because it's the right and just thing to do" which has never been the M.O. , despite everything people have been taught in the movies you make.

we also have a historical problem of demanding a perfect solution to a complex problem and then being upset when nobody can provide it. Even if someone provides a Very Good solution, the moment it causes financial discomfort for wealthy people you'll see next-level lobbying and media saturation of "the plan isn't working."

Seeing as we're currently lacking a multi-faceted plan for this multi-faceted problem, I'd settle for taxing the fuck out of those who own more than 3 single-family houses as a good first step.

Any decision made has to be supported by 51+% of Canadians

A referendum model? Best of luck with that. We don't even elect political parties that represent 51% of voters. You'd end up with a) almost nothing getting done , and b) probably no way back to the current model.

In Canada in the 1980's there was a short TV commercial about media literacy portrayed as a nature documentary, about the endangered Canadian House Hippo. After 15 seconds the commercial pauses and a voice asks if you actually believed what you were seeing, encouraging viewers to think critically about what they saw on TV.

These days the closest thing to that is snopes.com , and people have to actively seek that out. Without the House Hippo it is us who are endangered.

maybe you just hate your coworkers? :)

Microsoft submitted video evidence during their Antitrust trial in the late 90's that had been edited together, but was being presented as unedited. i.e. they tried to pull the wool over the DOJ's eyes, because why not? https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-on-trial-ms-videotape-not-what-it-seemed/

They included IE4 in Win98 - that was seen as anticompetitive. Compare that to everything they do today. Or everything Apple does today (like, literally everything). It's shocking that something like including IE with win98 was worth pursuing, but yet everything since then was just how big business does big business.

I was just about to mention the goldfish "driving the tank" robotics project. I'm still betting it was inspired by the old joke:

There are two goldfish in a tank. One says "How the hell do you drive this thing?"

Don't we all.

that site has a great interface, lots of ways to sort data in useful ways.
Other sites could learn a thing or two from whoever did their UI

Good! Use your distracted feelings, boy. Let the scroll flow through you!

I know how to say "appelmaus" but I've probably spelled it wrong.

Cotton-Polyester Christians

Martha did time. She should pick who goes next.

hey, thanks for letting me know about that. ugh, as if it's not difficult enough to get people to hear our music in the first place.
try this link instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd1k3KZfbJc&list=OLAK5uynLuE9tm1FmcFjHCghwQAhFP9BnPdnthyk

Here it is on Spotify if you have that:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ooObDXLNwS6FgGoJCeGkR

I owe you one :)

@CedarBlankenship that albatross song is pretty decent

This song is awesome.

au contraire, mon frere. There were plenty of AOL users on Usenet, stinking up the place.

I had someone try to convince me that Young Lust counted as progressive rock because Pink Floyd performed progressive rock and The Wall was a progressive rock album.

Not a persuasive argument, but a memorable attempt for sure.

yeah they should at least mention how allowing America to easily get Online caused a dramatic downturn in the quality of online discussion at the time.

that's fucking impressive