[-] 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 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Lmao no it isn't. It's completely insignificant and barely even qualifies as news.

The US Dollar is strong because we have the largest economy in the world, not because of the good will of some oil exporter.

At least google things before spreading insane misinformation.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Statistically no, it's not very dangerous as far as big cities go. Its homicide rate is ranked 30-something in the USA. Pretty much every city has "bad areas", though.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Tourists choose the safest areas of the country to visit, and they don't stay very long, so yeah that makes sense. You're not really escaping gun violence in the USA if you only leave the country for a few days, though.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

American conservatives haven't done or said a single thing in good faith in the last half a century. You don't get to ask others to do what you're unwilling to do.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

People didn't used to need a second income to afford a house. Now they do.

Household income doesn't show that change. Individual income does.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Household income is absolutely not the right metric to use here, because it'll always be proportional to the cost of the house out of necessity.

For example, if the cost of a house goes up relative to individual income, then more people in the family need to start working more hours, and more people live with roommates.

Household income stays proportionally the same, always, but individual income shows you how much people are struggling.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think so, but you can always write the file somewhere else and then sudo mv it back.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fair point. I always disliked the design because ORMs pretty much always use quotes, so an entity-first approach can create a lot of tables with capital letters if you're not careful, which is then really annoying if you need to use raw SQL for anything.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How exactly do you think someone can be anonymous to the government if they're not anonymous to the public?

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Abducting thousands of Ukrainian children, indoctrinating them with propaganda, and forcing them to live as Russian citizens is genocide.

Performing forced sterilizations on Uyghurs is genocide.

Thanks for demonstrating what I said, though. It's clear you don't see any problem with those things.

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