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If you consider only the product is relevant and not how it is made, then no it does not matter; or at least it doesn't matter as long as you don't personally attach any emotional …

True. Let's post the URL to a popular website to add noise to the data.

Teen titans as reference xD stop it you're killing me

Are you aware there are artistic styles beyond photorealism?

This is unreal, do you think people who face the choice between lifelong debt and the loss of a loved one really are comparable to people wanting a six pack? Do you think people re…

You just assert "no" to my suggestion that people don't pay for these things because they just don't value them enough to pay for them, which doesn't really move the conversation f…

In some sense I agree but there is a fundamental difference. I pay for my groceries because I have the fundamental need for sustenance, and that requires land and toil. I have neit…

People are willing to pay for things they value. Those people who "refuse to pay money for content" probably go to the cinema, perhaps purchase magazines, purchase drinks with frie…

Our culture values the act of buying things for social status (consumerism), and one of the main reasons for that is advertising. You're assuming people would still have the same a…

The same could be said with all advertising and surveillance. No one wants to be advertised to, but powerful lobbies argue that ending ads will lower consumption and thus harm the …

I disagree with your assessment, the poster is obviously disillusioned but they just detail their point of view. You can't just write off safety violation and toxic environment as …

> The western companies aren't using the business as a strategic tool to destabilise the host country. What is your source for this claim? Wouldn't companies destabilize the host c…

Alcohol concentrations over 20% kill yeast, so adding sugar to distilled spirits will not create more alcohol.

Possibly it's just a one time thing that was limited to just these companies. Or possibly the incentives that led to this are still in place, and the current judicial climate is wa…

What happens when the companies band together to compress wages? Like what happened with the high-tech employee antitrust litigation. Individual employees are far more numerous (th…

> Well, I imagine more people kill themselves after reading Nietzsche. Must be nice to base your world view on things you imagine.

Just curious, how are Europeans "milking the US on trade"?

> Group 2 will not fare well in the coming months. If it's a matter of months then latecomers will be up to speed in months as well, which isn't really that long a time.

> see the unreal crap DOGE unearthed in the US for example I'm surprised to see DOGE referenced as a source in jul 2025, are the savings from that particularly significant? Only a …

> The super-rich don't stay rich by just sitting on their money, they invest it. The specific issue here is that revenue from capital is taxed less than revenue from labor, thus di…

Alright, but one of the central findings of software engineering of the 80s is that software engineering cannot be driven rigidly, unlike other engineering fields.. Such as railway…

You only have to serve those requests if you distribute your changes yourself. So presumably as a hardware company you'd be offering your hardware with your custom linux installed,…

I'm comparing the stated goal of Israel (dehamasification) with denazification. The allies' strategic bombing campaign was intended to destroy industry and infrastructure and was n…

> You used to word indistinguishable, the other person used "deep". You are factually wrong since the ratio of Hamas to Gazan casualties does not represent random targeting even by…

> Guess why they're keeping the Palestinians on a run: to ransack the entire place for weapons caches or Gaza Metro entrances. Let's say Israel finds all caches and tunnels, while …