[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Libertarian cannot work without socialism essentially. You cannot have a free market where the worker doesn't own the means of production. Power will always pool to select individuals and those who have collected power have shown no remotely reliable track record to serve humanity's best interest over their own. In fact, it's regularly shown the exact opposite. Libertarianism is just an excuse to act against the good of society for your own benefit and fuck anyone you step on along the way. I've never heard a defense of libertarianism that is actually good for society. It's basically just dressing up the belief you can't be forced to do good, so you can't get in trouble if you do bad.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Do they not put beacons on their seats either? How did they find the pilot? I'd imagine if it were an issue, it could be deactivated in wartime or over enemy lines.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They could easily make more money with the same image by limiting how much revenue goes to the charities. You can choose to not give them anything.

I'm not saying they aren't in it for the money. Most people need to make money to survive. But I think it's disingenuous to say they don't care at all. I think they do good and I feel many others agree.

A corporate marketing tool that costs such a large portion of your revenue is an inefficient tool. There must be some other value in it for them.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Granted it's not all the time, but I do agree that a lot of the time, the rule breaking is incentivized by cars' problematic driving and not sharing the road well. If cars were on a whole more friendly with cyclists and knew the proper rules as well, it probably wouldn't happen as often.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Introverts are not by definition antisocial though they can be. They just spend energy to be social. A shut-in is likely an introvert. An introvert doesn't have to be a shut-in. I don't know the mass public mistake where folks assume introverts are the same as people who don't like social interaction. So an introvert can easily enjoy socializing in NYC and seeing people. It just uses energy.

That being said, if you're not going to leave your apartment, choosing a place that's super expensive due to all the things you need to leave your apartment for, you're not making a good choice.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Eh, I dunno how I feel about simplyfing communism to be representative of all leftist beliefs. Moreover, it's still less cringe than spelling out how an acronym sounds. This isn't elementary school.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

It looks like support is either up to the developer or simply optimization is up to the developer. They mention that extension devs should start optimizing their desktop extensions for mobile but doesn't say whether that's required or simply suggested as a non-optimized extension may not work properly.

But theoretically, any extension at the very least could be made to work on mobile. It appears to be an open system as opposed to now where it's only approved ones.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

Trains are not solutions to many kinds of necessary travel, either, at least not in the current landscape of travel options available to very many people in the United States.

That's kind of the point though. Trying to get folks in the US to support better travel infrastructure. Doesn't even always have to be trains.

Pointing out that "cars are 17 times more likely to kill you than trains!" does not serve the purpose of making a better world through transportation reform.

Why not? Everything you said honestly made it sound like everything else is a much safer alternative than personal vehicles. Why is that not an argument for better infrastructure and transportation reform? I've known people who have died in car accidents. I do not know anyone that's even been in a train accident let alone killed in one. Your numbers are not that supportive of cars being generally safe. Those are not great odds when considering the loss is catastrophic. It's probably one of the biggest risks folks willingly take and will actively avoid lesser risks.

Also not saying it's wrong, but why are we dividing by 50? It's per mile basis. If it's 20000 miles per year, it's already by year, no?

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

They work because they're family, right? Not for money.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Boimler is ambitious but kind of clumsy and awkward and stickler for rules (despite the boimler rule). Mariner is basically Ferris Bueller with the mouth of a sailor until her friends/family are in danger and then she's MacGuyver/007. (I also just realized I'm dating myself a lot of those references and I hope they still work.) The show is definitely written by fans of star trek that also are comfortable enough to poke fun at the source material.

Edit: that's probably enough to enjoy it, but I haven't seen it yet so don't know if they reference any lower decks story arcs heavily.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

I feel like if you elaborate on what privacy violations Ubuntu committed (or maybe whatever privacy it failed to simply provide), then folks can provide better recommendations. Otherwise you're going to get random distro suggestions. Privacy is a very broad topic so just claiming "privacy oriented" can get you a bunch of different ideas. Like, do you want something that has no cloud services available to it? Like, what do you want? There's no universal standard for what "privacy" immediately entails.

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