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You don’t have to look at 1918. You can just look at nearly every other country in the world and how it’s been impacted. South Korea, Italy, China, and so on are all reopening or have been reopened despite having been hit just as hard as the US in the beginning - they just acted much more swiftly in the beginning. The less action our government takes, the longer this is going to go on.

> The Constitution is meaningless without a culture that backs it up.

This is true for corporate charters as well, but it doesn't mean that either a corporation or a government "don't have purpose" without a culture that drives towards that purpose. You could also say that in spite of any corporate charter, the only true purpose of any public corporation is to provide value for shareholders, and the culture of many companies is often not aligned with that.

> you have more legal right to an abortion in this country than you do a firearm

This is blatantly false.

Yeah, this was my exact problem with that comment. They ended it by saying apps like Facebook/Gmail/etc don't collect nearly the same amount of data, but I'm very hard pressed to believe that. I'll believe it when they show a side-by-side comparison of what portions of each category they listed TikTok is accessing/Facebook is accessing, with the accompanying bytecode they claim to have decoded.

> The west offered two-way street which China declined to walk on.

What?

No more so than Gmail/Yahoo Mail/etc is for the average end user

What? In what world would anyone find that offensive? It sounds like you're making up a situation, then using it defend not speaking up about things.

Could this be used to run an iMessage proxy on a server?

Not OP. I've been providing my own meals and snacks working from home (like I'd imagine most people are?), but the free food at work is usually better/more expensive than I'm willing to make for myself for any given lunch, and I'm not big on spending money on snacks. The free food + the social interaction + the increased productivity I get from being in an office all make working in an office most of the time way better.

Why do you say Google is worse than Amazon and Facebook put together?

Gitlab's compensation calculator will show you how much less or more you can expect to make based on where you live (if employed at Gitlab, of course)

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...

Fortunately, Facebooks ToS[0] is not full of legalese or jargon, and I'm sure anybody with enough technological education to sign up for Facebook can understand it too.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/terms.php

I think the biggest assumption you're making here is that most people care about ads - and they don't. Fundamentally, when I'm scrolling through Facebook or Instagram or Reddit or whatever, I just don't care that I see ads while I'm scrolling. I'm not going to pay $1/2/3/4/5 a month to avoid something I don't care about, and that's really only the value add of a subscription-based service. I'd also say most folks don't find Facebook's data policies as egregious as the tech community does.

Is this "the free market regulating itself" I hear so much about?

Is pinch-to-zoom native on Firefox yet? Last I attempted to switch, you had to install an extension to enable it, and even then it was far "choppier" than Chrome's pinch-to-zoom experience. I've got pretty bad eyesight and zoom consistently so it was a dealbreaker for me.

In what world is having an Airbnb empire, significantly increasing rental costs for actual residents of the city, morally equivalent to childcare?

I wonder how many short-term rental owners are unable to pay their mortgages without Airbnb revenue

That's fairly cruel of you.

Literally the only middleman in the healthcare industry is the insurance giants, who Bernie is trying to push out. None of what you're saying is true.

Would you rather have hundreds of billions of dollars going into the military-industrial complex than going to healthcare and education? You didn't bring up any concerns about how Trump would pay for his military budget. Bernie has already laid out his plan for an extreme wealth tax, which would raise $4 trillion over the next decade, more than enough to pay for his proposals (and wouldn't raise taxes on anyone with a net worth of less than $32M)

You'd only see tax increases if you make more than $32 million per year. I'd imagine that none of you, your family, or your friends have been "forced" to vote Trump in 2020 - you're just afraid to admit you support him, and are trying to pin the blame on Bernie.

Hell yeah.

I wonder if this is due to stagnant wages, excessive home price inflation, or both.

This is a great option for stacks not built on Django!

> Striking out on their own is the benefit I am talking about.

So are you saying we should keep employees overworked and underpaid so they're more likely to leave their current employer...?

If it can't afford to provide for its employees, why should a small company exist?

Do you have any sources to back that up? The film industry is one of the most heavily unionized industries in America (if not the most!) and indie films are as popular as ever. The only way I can think of a union hindering independent content is that more people actually enjoy the company they work at and attempt to "strike it out on their own" less often.

> This constant outrage at every perceived slight is a recent phenomenon of the Facebook/Twitter decade and it is suffocating.

Frankly, the OP said something rude. It's not a "perceived slight". It was unnecessary, offensive, and presumptuous. Why shouldn't they be called out on their behavior? Congratulations on your ability to ignore the first sentence, but that doesn't excuse OP.

Being progressive and being a NIMBY aren’t compatible ideologies.

Wow, that was fast. I guess The Verge article[0] struck some investors.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20995453/away-luggage-ceo...

I don't disagree :) I'm just trying to push back on the narrative that there's a cap on how much value an individual can bring to a profitable company.