Seems like Starbucks is wasting time with this dress code. Good on the union for fighting back.

You can always count on republicans to have a bad idea

The stories about that dude are so good. The sheer pigheadedness of some players. Like the guy who spent like 8 hours fighting that boss instead of just walking around. he eventually won, to his credit.

I gave up after a couple tries on my first dude, but when Margit kept kicking my ass I restarted as a sorcerer. Killed both of them with the trusty pew-pew magic pebble.

Zuckerberg is garbage and shouldn’t be allowed to keep living with his tremendous, ill-gotten, wealth.

It can be accurate or biting satire, but I didn’t enjoy it. It’s a long game to spend so much time annoyed at a main character.

I didn’t finish gta5 because there’s a lot of just driving around doing nothing. And then the missions are very restrictive - you pretty much do exactly what it says or you go back to the checkpoint.

I’d rather they were more like Deus Ex or Dishonored (I think those are called immersive Sims now?).

Also Trevor is just unpleasant

It’s probably not cheaper if you consider the externalized costs. Sure, you don’t personally pay up front for all the pollution, traffic, and poor use of space, but everyone does.

I’m not sure!

I’d guess maybe the code would be open source, or at least freely shared among everyone who works on it. Then anyone can use their personal computer for the code, like anyone could use their personal guitar to play a song you wrote.

The computer can then remain personal, and the code itself is treated like the means of production that is collectively owned

Yeah, can’t disagree with that.

When I give people dating app advice, I tell them if they don’t have the emotional resources to full-ass it, delete the app. Half-assing it is likely going to make things worse.

But humans aren’t rational creatures.

You should realize that companies need to compete with each other, and because of that they cant visibly increase the price of a good too much or lower its quality because they will lose sales. Anywhere where this doesn’t happen laws can be written to force them

Meanwhile, we have “shrinkflation” and consolidation into fewer and fewer companies.

For vital services, what are you going to do? Not get health care? Not buy fruit anymore?

The natural end state of private ownership is monopoly/cartel. We’ve done all of this before and it sucked. Being “beholden to customers” doesn’t matter much if they’re a captive market, or there’s really only one seller with no vote

Maybe if we actually enforced laws about competition it would be better, but good luck getting people to learn from history.

after a few times putting in effort and getting ghosted, you start to be a bit more frugal.

I see why that would happen but it seems like a self destructive strategy. The other person wasn’t there for all your other attempts. This is your first interaction with them. If you half-ass it, all they see is you’re doing a bad job at conversation. You only get one first impression with someone.

I dont want to drink water from govt owned companies because at that point it truly is authoritarian simply because the govt has way too much power over your life

I’m pretty sure private for-profit water is absolutely worse than government run water. Everyone can at least nominally vote to change the government. A private org is beholden to no one except shareholders (if they have any), and maybe laws (if they exist, are relevant, and are enforced).

We already had a gilded age where we learned how low for-profit entities will go. We had saw dust in bread, chalk in milk, and worse.

For profit food production is giving us price gouging and a water crisis. Would government do better? Well, given the current administration maybe not.

One of my friends described it as there’s difference between private property and personal property. Your toothbrush is personal property. No one cares about that. Your factory where you assemble widgets is private property, where you’re paying people to convert labor into stuff you can sell.

I should read more left-wing theory. It made sense when he explained it.

Right-wingers remind me of that meme template where the dog has the ball and it’s going “Throw! No Take! Only throw!”

They want a thriving economy, but they don’t want to pay people wages. No pay. Only spend.

We will see who’s society is better

Did you ever read “A libertarian walks into a bear”? It’s a non-fiction book about a bunch of libertarians that moved to a small town, and used their new voting bloc to try to bring about their libertarian paradise. It went badly. There were bears.

The author points out how a nearby town that was otherwise very similar. It had prospered during the time libertarians were driving their town into the ground

That’s kind of fascinating. and sad. It sounds kind of self-defeating- If the other person is reasonably well adjusted, they’re going to take feigned disinterest as just regular disinterest, and move on. (Or think that the other person can’t hold a conversation, and move on.)

Maybe this creates a self-selection effect where the people who are afraid of being enthusiastic eventually meet each other? That would probably be best for everyone.

Republicans aren’t fit to govern.

banning opinions just drives them underground

which means fewer people will find them and engage with them.

You’re going to get more people turning to Nazis if it’s just out and about in the open. If YouTube was running ads for nazisim, they’d get converts. If the only nazi stuff you see is scribbled on the bathroom walls, it has less legitimacy and thus fewer converts.