markr

joined 1 year ago
[–] markr@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Nothing written here can possibly be correct.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Everyone will be working multiple shitty service jobs that robots are not cost effective to automate. Our miserable wages will be just sufficient to keep the wheels on the cart from falling off.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Anything But The Guns.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That is almost entirely a myth. Yes, there are 'cross over votes' in states that don't have open primaries but facilitate party enrollment, but those cross over voters are almost always 'independent' voters who enroll and then unenroll and are not doing anything other than voting for the candidate of their choice in the primary that candidate is running in. So called 'strategic voting', as far as I know, has never made any difference in any presidential primary, but go ahead and bring up the bodies.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

For good reasons. Besides being a huge ongoing expense, they frequently end up amplifying the erosion, and would almost certainly degrade the public beaches adjacent to these houses.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (4 children)

" local citizens came together to take the necessary steps to protect their homes." - the steps they took were obviously not the necessary steps, instead they were unnecessary and in fact idiotic.

The Town of Salisbury did not 'grapple with sea rise'. An ad hoc association, Salisbury Beach Citizens for Change, basically the owners of multi-million dollar absurdly situated beach front homes, blew 500,000 dollars on one wall of a giant sand castle.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Except of course anyone can manufacture and sell plug compatible pipes.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 98 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I started out in the computer industry working for a company that reverse engineered and built IBM compatible terminal systems, This was more than 40 years ago, when that was its own large and profitable sector of the computer hardware market. It was absolutely legal to build 'plug compatible' reverse engineered third party systems. DRM is almost entirely horseshit that has helped turn the entire tech industry into silo'd enshittified monopolies.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 55 points 6 months ago (32 children)

It’s our version of China’s social credit score.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Critical that it is tied to inflation. Otherwise the system will just rebalance via price to protect profits. That has to be stopped. They have to give all of us a larger share.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I don't disagree, it 'ought to', but my point is simply that even if it doesn't the benefits of legalization to both the addicted community and society in general are more than enough to justify legalization.

 

As a boomer I just have to say that Nixon's goon squad was much higher overall qualify than Trump's goon squad.

 

Sorry, no link to some ‘news’ article. /s

I’m a newcomer myself, but it seems my feed is just filled with low-effort news links with no other content. It’s c/mildlyinfuriating at this point. Maybe moderators outside of communities that are specifically for current events could require at least an effort by the op to add some of her own thoughts?

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