“The working classes have control of the state” good one lmao. They have so much control that millions protesting in HK just got violently beaten back and ignored.

Iirc the idea was that it’s tracable on the seller side, but not the buyer side. So anonymous, but tracable for tax purposes. It’ll remain to be seen how much data about the buyer can be inferred anyway.

You have to be seriously delusional to not see the difference between the president routinely ignoring laws and all the other ones that at least pretended to want to follow them

Yt adrev highly varies based on type of content

We tried something like that in germany for a while, then it was deemed ineffective and got reverted. Any flat fee also has the usual issue of disproportionately affecting poor people - 150€ a year (ik you used usd but close enough) isn’t a lot for me, but for some people it can be more than they can afford.

Assuming you mean the one with the woman asking chatgpt how she feels about this? It’s the precise exaggerated joke I’ve seen at least 5 times by now. I don’t have a need to hate on it but there’s just nothing interesting about that comic.

This one is also rather predictable but at least there’s a weird burns/hal hybrid that is mildly amusing because it’s unexpected. The comics are similar but they don’t have the same punchline.

Because the concept of “masculinity” and “femininity” is at its core made up, so by just swapping in a woman and keeping everything the same you’re showing a massive middle finger to gender stereotypes and roles.

Having frequent or traumatic experiences with members of a group is not a good reason to hate that group at all unless it’s actually the group’s defining feature directly causing it, and it’s their own choice.

That’s different to suffering from trauma as a result, which obviously you can’t control, and might result in some behaviour that looks similar on the surface.

I mean the relation between those isn’t wrong but like… we can’t simulate complicated physics. At least not at any reasonable speed.

The wealth of industrialized nations is only possible through exploitation of developing countries. When conditions there become literally unlivable, everything collapses and everyone loses. maybe russia could slightly benefit since they aren’t doing super well as is and have a lot of land that will become pretty good. Even then, they can kiss goodbye to seafood forever, and it certainly won’t be easy.

Cleaning sewers? Generally anything waste related?

There are some people that actually kinda love those jobs, but idk if there are enough of them. And a game of chicken where the first person to become too annoyed at the smell in the streets fixes the issue would be… not great.

But anyway that’d only ever be an issue if there’s no market at all but that’s not a necessity to not have capitalism

…is that first part supposed to be a serious argument? The other side would say the exact same thing. It’s also an issue that inherently will never be black and white because children don’t develop in discrete stages, you can never point to a specific time and say “until here it’s ok”. Some of the arguments for abortion even still apply post-birth, such as the parents not being capable of caring for the child properly, making everyone including the child miserable. And the child a day before birth isn’t all that different from the child the day after.

I’d choose birth as the arbitrary cutoff point just because the child stops being part of the mother at that time and we have to put a limit somewhere, but I’d probably lose a lot of people with that (and I’d also still say that’s the right thing).

When there exist people unironically making the argument that factory farming is good actually because any life is better than no life, of course there will be a lot more wanting to just defend life for the sake of it even if it just makes everyone involved more miserable.

The eye brows visible under the hair and the eye style feel pretty anime coded to me tbh

It’s a reference implementation, this stuff is intentional for debug purposes.

Not that I have much faith that final implementations will be secure lol

Just in case you don’t know since it seems like it might interest you, there is a game called powerwash simulator where you just pressure wash various things.

Especially at the start of words, see also e.g. pterodactyl, which from what I’ve gathered native english speakers just pronounce without the p.

…why is it this meme making me realize that the name is a pun on warui, meaning bad

Yeah, lots of correct observations, but also lots of wrong conclusions. I’d even argue the very first point about culture is very relevant, because japanese culture inherently puts a small bit of breaks on the aspects of capitalism that spiral out of control (they have tons of hypercapitalist issues too, though).

I think it’s correct that having private companies compete has certain advantages in railway infrastructure, if the right framework is given. Imagine someone from here was to start a railway company - they would know about induced demand, about the importance of having frequent service even at times of lower demand to enable rail as primary transport. They wouldn’t have to convince rightoids that spending public money on that is worth it, they could just do it and see the results. In general the good thing about markets is that they enable less planning overhead as everyone focuses on their own thing. Loosely some sort of swarm intelligence.

But none of that will ever work when cars are effectively subsidized and even private rail companies would still be beholden to massive political hurdles for building new lines. Though especially the latter is a real question about tradeoffs of benefit for society vs. individual preference with no single correct answer.

You can even have a child be the abuser. One community I’m in had a case of a 13 year old lying about their age and manipulating MULTIPLE older teenagers. People are just complex.

It can be rather helpful for some things but I’ve yet to see any actual data supporting it being “substantially faster”. To make something that works and is of equal quality, that is.

I mean if you’re just making the same slightly different website for different customers or similarly boilerplate stuff, I’m sure it’s substantial. But that’s not really most of dev.