If only there was some kind of legislation that protected an open and fair internet...
OnlyAwfulNamesLeft
joined 1 year ago
Selfishness is coded into us by evolution. It's genetic. Lots of people will agree with me on this.
What I get a lot of pushback on, is that selflessness is the same. It has evolutionary benefits for a familial group, and so gets selected for.
I loved the "anyone can be special" message, even when rammed down our throat by having the slave stable boy force pull the broom to himself at the end of the movie.
I hated them undoing that and going "hahahaha, no, you're actually one of the two special families!!" in Rise of Skywalker.
I quite enjoy the Baroque Cycle. I am yet to read Snowcrash.
Federal law enforcement agencies can request app Devs put backdoors into their apps, so the cops can steal data. What's more, the Devs aren't allowed to tell anyone that they have done so.
Very important legal distinction here: we have laws about spying on our own citizens, so we let our allies do it for us, while we openly spy on our allies citizens, and then share that information back with each other. Totally different bro! /s
Tax incentivsed rubbish cover is the best way to put it. Taking out private cover (and never using it) is cheaper than paying the lifetime loading Medicare levy surcharge for most households earning over $100k a year. And all that money goes into some corpo's pocket rather than to the government to help fund our public health system (although, let's be real, even though it's labelled as a "Medicare levy" the money would probably still go to buying nuclear submarines).
I was a terrible salesperson for this reason. "Here's a machine in your stated price range. It will die in 18 months. And it sucks."
I think Jordies wording of "police terror units to prosecute and intimidate me was deeply unsettling" was very smart. When anti-terror units are used in the way they were against him and his editor, they themselves become the source of the terror.