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On top of which following your line of reasoning he should ignore anything you say as well.

Either way your comment is 100% pointless.

Every single landlord is stopping somone from owning a home. If people need to rent we can offer apartments.

This isn't rocket science.

How about people invest in businesses and not things we need to exist.

2- You are purposefully conflating imprisonment with slavery.

You are in a ridiculously privileged state to be able to simply afford that and you act as though it's impossible to get by without it.

Regular daycare costs multiples less than an at-home nanny, just as public school is far cheaper than private+tutors.

So again my point is that these are not necessary expenses but chosen.

And that I know right now people doing skilled and licensed labor-intensive jobs for less than 30/hr.

It's far worse in anime/video games. A lot of localizer stories running rampant over it- understandably the original authors weren't happy about Western pandering and DEI/political views were being shunted into their stories.

There's a reason the fansub community abhors anything from funimation et al.

Canceled all subscriptions now, and I'm much happier.

Companies made their beds, now they can lie on them.

There are many families in the US, in NY, that make less than 10k/year.

This is famously why shitty minimum wage jobs have endlessly changing schedules. Many companies have actual rules against setting regularly scheduled shifts.

Was interesting watching the shift happen, regular schedules used to be the norm and it was far easier to work several jobs. Especially once everything became part-time in the 90's.

Sorry for the caps but its deserved.

Dehydrated potatoes aren't graded. Read on for gross information.

I recently had the pleasure of doing HVAC/controls for potato/onion storages in Washington state.

Some storages are so gross I couldn't believe it was legal. Dead and living animals/rodents and nests etc. Mold and bacteria, rancid water pools, truly disgusting. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with the videos I took. Some of the climacell water tanks (some the size of pools) hadnt been cleaned in years and had so many dead frogs and whatnot they were literally bubbling cesspools. And had been running that 'water' over the climacell pads to then be blown all over the storage, products, and people working in them.

And that wasn't the bad part.

The bad part was seeing piles of rotted and disintegrating potatoes go to dehydration machines to become pringles, dehydrated mashed potatoes, etc. They don't throw away the piles that go bad. They let them sit and stew until they've a full load and truck em out.

The trucks would literally have black horrible smelling slime spilling out all sides of the trailer, the weighing station was beyond disgusting.

Sure, heat will kill the bacteria, mold, fungi etc, and they will all be bleached- but once you've seen it, it's life changing. I shop mostly at farmers markets now for my veggies/fruits. After seeing potato and onion storages, processing plants and whatnot, the things foos companies can legally do is fucking frightening. I used to love Pringles.

So CEO's are supposed to be magical super-rare humans who do nothing but are worth 1000s of regular workers and take all credit for good returns...

Until things go bad and then it's all the worker's fault! The ship was too big to steer!

If CEOs are worth as much as they think they are then they should have no problems taking all of their comp in stock, and bonuses (if any!) should be handcuffed to hard goals.

I'd argue posters are appropriate at any age. I, myself, have several galaxies as well as 'The Kramer'.

Also photographs in a nice frame are just posters with borders.

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What op said very much lines up with my own experience.

I remember flip phones with all kinds of stuff on them.

I've never heard of such a thing but if so I'm glad there's something to at least try.

I don't personally know anyone who still hasn't regained their sense of smell, but for some it was a year or more before it returned fully.

I do know 2 people with 'long covid' who are just super low energy (not a severe case).

Im just excited it's all being looked into now as opposed to being blown off or labeled misinformation.

[1] https://www.uab.edu/reporter/patient-care/advances/item/1000...

They have ignored user requests every iteration.

Check the play store you can see their score is gamed. Most reviews are 1-3 stars and all have the same complaints for years.

It's been a steady downward trend since google started financing them to have someone to point at and say 'see we have competition, no monopoly here!'.

They removed almost all addons and are barley (like 10+ years later!) bringing some of them back.

Pocket spam. Collections. The list is ridiculous and getting to Google levels bad.

I especially love the part where she laid off hella employees and gave herself a 1/5 raise.

Then there was the previously mentioned rounded corners etc.

This is all the end result of allowing businesses to perform regulatory capture.

'Bout time it bit apple in the ass

We live in a world where companies want us beholden to them and not the other way around.

How many people have made mistakes and learned/grew from them.

He's a child give him time.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/2018/02/26/americans-dont-think-ea...

As always you can tell who makes on ads by how fervently they defend the bullshit.

Mental gymnastics dont even change they dont bother to learn new dismounts.

Trying to escuse this bullshit is what's going to lead us to the black mirror episode '15 million merits'.

In their future you have to watch ads. Advertisers and businesses have the rights, not the people.

That future can get fucked.

Not because google took it away to protect that sweet advertising money.

The amount of ppl shamelessly stanning for companies has just gotten ridiculous.

Capitalists always say the market will work it out, but all I see are entrenched companies who think customers are beholden to them, not the other way around.

Piracy wouldn't be needed if it weren't for the studios shooting themselves in the foot.

Why do people keep trying to derail the conversation. This is about the US market.

Samsung gets to have it both ways. They get paid by google to force their apps, and then Samsung can force whatever shovelware they want under the huise of 'security'

Samsung locks all of their bootloaders citing as always 'security.

I own currently the Samsung s20+ and the Samsung s21 ultra and all the models of both phones have locked bootloaders and Samsung's garbage, unused Knox security. Samsung at one point had a hardware fuse that blew if you tried to bypass it.

I speak from first hand knowledge of working on hardware and rooting phones since they were introduced.

We've known for a decade or more now that was all of this was bullshit to preserve all the pre-loaded bloatware.

Google phones having unlocked bootloaders is besides the point. Google phones aren't being discussed here, Samsung are.

You simply stated my position was ridiculous without offering a single cogent counterpoint.

Gapps takes up I don't even know how many gigs of space. Then Samsung decides to put their apps on top of the gapps and all the other garbage they stop us from uninstalling.

We need to own the things we buy. Period.

See- you made a choice, but we aren't allowed to.

Having an ad doesn't mean we have to watch it, same as with any radio or tv commercial it can be muted or the channel changed until it's over.

youtube wouldn't be the platform it is today if it hadn't begged us all to host videos in the past.

And since when does posting something online just entitle you to money?

People forget the internet existed before people got a share of ad revenue. It used to be for love of the game, now it's all just gimmie $.