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I'm not talking about Valve giving things back to us. I'm talking about the fact the owners of the company get money simply by owning the company. They take money they didn't work for. Even if the company isn't manipulative or scummy, they're enriching people who don't deserve it.

And benevolent capitalism

Don't make us look shittier than we already are

I reported harassment from other students to teachers. They ignored it and did nothing for 8 years. I stopped asking for help.

Are you lost? I'm responding to the previous comment

People should be able to live where they want, and any government that demands participation must provide equal services to everyone.

The American government is not giving Ukraine bags of money. They are giving them weapons. These weapons were made by American companies. All of the money spent on these weapons was either spent years ago, or remains in the American economy. The only thing that is moving is metal, plastic, explosives, etc. Money is being pumped into the defense industry, which you would think would make conservatives happy.

I'm guessing the reason for most things forcing you to use an app is less because of data harvesting, and more because it increases repeated use.

When you have to go to your browser and remember to check a website it's harder to create a habit. If you have an icon flashing on your home screen every day it's much easier to remember to go to their site. Sure you can "Add to Home screen" functionality, but average users don't even know that exists.

It also feels like a bespoke app is more "professional" than a website, despite many apps secretly just being a website anyway.

That said, they are definitely harvesting your data. I just don't think that's the main reason for most apps.

I agree with all of this. I think almost all of Canada's gun control laws are sensible. We have sensible laws about transport, storage, safety training, and other things. Magazine size and banning weapons that look scary is not effective though.

It's easier to build, but much less efficient to operate

I personally think the biggest driving factor in the rural/city divide that causes rural populations to skew conservative is services.

Rural communities are criminally underserviced. It makes sense why from a logistical view. When people are gathered in small areas, they are easy to provide services to. It's much easier to provide quality power, plumbing, roads, essential services, and prettyich everything to high density areas. It's more effective to service cities.

It's hard to provide reliable services to rural areas. With everyone spread out so much, you need longer wires, longer roads, longer pipes, more people, more everything. So it makes sense to allocate less to these areas. But it's also horrific.

These are people. It makes perfect sense why rural communities distrust and resent government, and oppose increased spending on social services. They don't see the benefits. They see money being spent on things they can't use. Then manipulative politicians swoop in and tell them that these services are bad.

The solution is to suck it up and give everyone equal access to services. Spend more money on rural communities, even if it's less efficient. Because they are people and deserve roads and hospitals and internet equivalent to cities.