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If there is still one company pushing their own strongly opinionated client, how does having competing options available to power users detract from that? Like I'm not saying Signa…

Mission Accomplished! (I miss the days when evil was halfway competent at working to further the interests of the domestic power structure)

Just because someone can find or create lengthy logical rationalizations does not mean they're arriving at universal truths. Gödel's first theorem says that a logical system can ei…

This relies on an implicit idea that a system being closed is required for encouraging adoption, but without actually stating a concrete mechanism for that. One such mechanism I of…

If we're just throwing around straw men, then a good example of "opinionated" is websites repeatedly hassling you with CAPTCHA "security checks". They're really concerned that you …

It's even worse than you say. When that jig was up, slave owners (ie the upper class) moved on to new oppressive dynamics. Their grievances were ingrained into people in the lower …

So finally a basic feature they should have had at the outset, and as a paid option? I'm left wondering if they just purchase a SIP DID in the background, solely to allocate a phon…

I've lived in the same district for a while, have recently called my national senators, congressional representative, and state representative, and I'm still coming up hazy. If you…

> his bar is beneath the ground I agree. In general you're pointing out one failing of this post, but I think there are a whole host of things that are missing from it to be anywhe…

Much more likely! Zoning exceptions can be opposed and construction is very visible, as with this trend we're starting to see. Whereas once a structure is built the owner will stym…

I'd say you're trying to define some ambiguous criteria to keep harms illegible to the analysis and thus deny that they exist. Noise pollution is very much pollution, certainly cau…

Before an edit, you had made an analogy to whether it makes sense to judge individuals' behavior the same way that datacenters are getting stereotyped. If there was no recourse thr…

Everything with this regime is yet another Big Lie - a bullshit assertion that directly contradicts reality, meant as a purity test of who is willing to swallow their pride, eat, a…

> None of those let a random person Hawk Tuah their way to reaching millions Onlyfans was included under " almost every single aspect of the internet ".

Yeah, the US regime has basically been speed running the impotent dictator's playbook. Start from a place of weakness and incompetence, and cause a bunch of senseless destruction t…

IMO the solution is antitrust enforcement that considers hardware, software, and services all different products/markets, and prohibits anticompetitive tying between them. Having a…

I'd love a dumbwaiter simply for a place to queue items "this needs to get put away downstairs (next time I am downstairs)" etc. Instead I just use the shelf next to the stairs. Wh…

I hate that I'm being an advertisement for the corporate appliance dystopia. I'm sure it's somehow loaded with a whole bunch of surveillance, ads, and other anti-features. And I'm …

I've got a neighbor who I'm pretty sure would still be out there.

So wait, you're looking forward to the Grump catastrophe being over, not to have a break from an overtly malevolent government that actively hates our civil liberties, not so we ca…

There is no way this would be "the best" or even a good thing at all, any time before we have the US equivalent of the GDPR that keeps every company from simply demanding full ID, …

I don't think bringing in "bought and paid for" makes sense in the context where we're talking about which policies are even sensible. For example if we do assume that, then this i…

As a third party observer, it feels like "work with" could still be hiding a lot of thorny differences in judgement over what constitutes material that should be removed. That's wh…

As a former professional embedded design engineer, I'm not terribly swayed by arguments that "real engineering" involves licenses from the state. Nor do I think that personal liabi…

The Iran War was a war that even the military industrial complex had resisted starting for decades. This should tell you what a generally bad idea it was. Normally, if such a war h…