Not unintentionally correct…because that was my very intentional point.

In spite of car manufacturers claiming seatbelts and air bags were unnecessary, the sheer number of resulting deaths caused us to actually do something about it. I don’t look at the lack of driver’s licenses as anything approaching a rosy past. I will never be sympathetic to the argument that a lack of common sense safety regulations which saves lives somehow grants us more freedom (other than to abdicate all of your freedoms instantaneously via early death, which overwhelmingly impacts the poor and marginalized); sorry.

He may get a short term gain

He was elected to run the government like a business; this is the CEO signature move.

Like all the car crashes that now require us to get a driver’s license…; can’t mow down the government if you’re trained on the rules of the road!

People can’t just use tools that impact the lives of others outside themselves in peace; smdh…

Hate that you put the sweet on the same plate as the savory but you did a great job: it looks delicious.

So…the proper correction turned out to be much less dire.

I saw this, reposted to Twitter, just the other day…

Very first reaction I had and thankful I wasn’t the only one…

My parents were absolute craftsmen of that particular school of thought.

Understanding disability thought and theory is one of the foundations of marginalization justice but one of the most invisible such that, once you understand certain tenants, it’s impossible not to see the impact of their ideas in everything in daily life.

I mean, last insane homeless person I ran into threw his arm around me like we were lifelong buddies and told me all the things he’d seen that day that he found cool/interesting, not tried to assault me.

I was reading an article where he claimed he wasn’t as hardline, as some, and his immigration policies were actually motivated by the guaranteed safety to everyone when we follow the rules (he gave the example of a migrant nearly dying from falling down a ravine during zir trek).

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Anyway, color me surprised~

Associating this man is an insult to the mentally disabled, actually.

I mean, that’s the biggest counter-argument I’ve always seen against it. Similar to being against capital punishment: sure, you could perfectly execute (pun slightly intended) it if it was a perfect system devoid of bias and personal interest but, in the face of that lack of reality, giving that much power to the State is inadvisable on reality-based principle.

You’re assuming they wouldn’t find this agreeable to get rid of “undesirables”.

It’s the nature of conservatives to break things into simple concepts and metrics that are easy to comprehend and conceptualize because facing the nuance and complexity of reality requires work and bravery.

Dual-booting was how I first got into Linux; it truly leaves open the ability to keep everything you’re worried about not having.

What’s the VPN?

First I’m hearing but that doesn’t surprise me; it’s probably better than most companies you could give your money to but, in any way they could, they don’t do anything truly groundbreaking such that I can justify to myself giving money rather than just keeping said money in my pocket (and, in turn, much more likely to go to mutual aid, charities, non-profits, or coöperatively-owned or union-backed businesses).

They could have done a more traditional coöp, open-sourced their infrastructure (even if it was just the app.!), or really emphasized a particular stance or message they as a company would stand by…but they haven’t done any of those. They basically are just offering up YouTube but as a streaming service. But that doesn’t solve the myriad of issues that make a streaming service a business that (like most businesses) prey on their customers.

Don’t threaten me with a good time, Mr. Paul.

If it helps, one of main arguments of the antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that the Biden administration opened was that Amazon routinely, actually, costs you money because they use their platform to offer more expensive options in your searches first and other means: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power (I’m not sure if that link with detail or with a much clarity as wherever I first read it but I can’t recall where I originally read it 3 or so months ago, I’m afraid).

The only major advantage that I’ll fully admit Prime has is speed of delivery; I admit I do use it when our cats run out of food and I dropped the ball on making sure we had more or I need filters for our air purifiers that just noted they need new ones.

But, even if you can find cheaper versions on Amazon, it can become easy to fall for the setup of their site if you use it by default all the time.

To be fair, Lemmy’s UI does it no favors; I can’t entirely blame your friends for thinking it looks sketch.