icydefiance

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[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

No one is preventing you from leaving the USA. Most countries are just making it difficult to enter. I'm all for having more open borders, but that's probably not what you're arguing for.

No one is preventing you from starting your own community either. There just isn't any land remaining that isn't already owned.

And the "punished based on the rules of the given community, or expelled" thing is describing a government, although because of the aforementioned lack of unowned land, they only expel immigrants nowadays.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Housing and healthcare are essential for survival. If anyone doesn't get those things because they can't afford them, while others have far more than they need, that's cruel and unjust. You should include both of them under "assistance for less fortunate".

Schools have more benefits than I can list here. It's absurd to not fund them.

Culture attracts people to spend money in your city, which benefits business owners and many laborers, and generates a lot of tax revenue. Usually that brings in a lot more money than it costs, and that turns into extra money for essential services, instead of taking away from them. Sports can fall into this category as well, but those have gotten out of hand lately and sort of turned into a dick measuring contest between different cities.

I'm mostly with you on tax breaks, though. They're supposed to incentivise corporations to create jobs in your city instead of somewhere else, which should have a good ROI, but in practice it's almost inherently corrupt.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Congrats, you reinvented the government.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well yeah, they're just blocking known fingerprinting services. If you use a tool that they don't recognize, it'll still work, but their approach will still block the big companies that can do the most harm with that data.

The only alternative is probably to disable WebGL entirely, which isn't a reasonable thing to do by default.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The fans of some streamer are not going to kill you.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Yeah, I manage the infrastructure for almost 150 WordPress sites, and I moved them all to ARM servers a while ago, because they're 10% or 20% cheaper on AWS.

Websites are rarely bottlenecked by the CPU, so that power efficiency is very significant.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure, if she finds a lawyer who will work pro bono.

Even then, she and her son will be homeless for a long time before winning anything.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We're in this situation because people don't vote.

All other forms of political activism, aside from murder, exist to convince people to vote.

Activism without voting is worthless.

You want more progressive candidates? Vote for Democrats until Republicans are forced to move to the left, and then Democrats will be able to move to the left as well.

That's how the Overton window works.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

You want to make Trump the first king of the United States to punish Biden for... what, exactly? Failing to stop Trump?

What the fuck kind of logic is that?

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