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We'll never make the world perfect, but we can try and make it better. Less exploitation seems like a good thing to do. Don't you agree?

Some people like to post a word or a short sentence or some kind of artwork many, many times, everywhere they can. They enjoy knowing their message is seen by many. For them, it's not pointless.

At what point does it become spam and we restrict what these people view as free speech?

>Artists are no different than all the people who tried to destroy the cotton gin or the automated loom.

Yes. They are angry that their labor was used to create something new and arguably more efficient, but they don't get a appropriate compensation for it.

Snail mail is still scanned for illicit content. Also many times in western history letters were read and then possibly censored at processing facilities. Back in those days, it was a human opening letter/package and inspecting the content. They had rules to respect the privacy of the sender/addressee, like not sharing the content with anyone else if the content is OK.

I'm not sure who considered these services to be one of the most private.

Also in those days, one could make use of a secure private mail service, bypassing the normal processing facilities and have grantee that the letter remained sealer the whole journey. To be even more secure, basic encryption could be used, or even invisible ink.

Today, things just got more sophisticated.

Even their website uses frames. https://framework.com/

Maybe you don't care, but I care and so do many people. I'd argue you should also care.

Knowing where the money comes from is fundamental is so many aspect of our society.

Getting a loan from a bank will require you to disclose some information about your money getting activities. Why? First to make sure nothing illegal is going on, and second to make sure you will be able to pay back the loan.

Running your political campaign will require you to disclose how it's financed. Again why? Because people realized long ago that you don't bite the hand that is feeding you or something. Meaning you should expect a strong bias by that politician for their backers.

And so why care about a public figure getting money from the Koch Industries? Because it adds a crucial information on how to process the opinions coming out of that public figure.

Yes it's possible that the source of money doesn't affect anything, but it's also highly possible that it does and many times it does, so why not care about it?

>exceptional people Why would you only provide free/subsidized schooling to exceptional people. Why not all people? If you truly believe in meritocracy, wouldn't you want everyone to have a fair opportunity to prove themselves?

The chain of events:

Step 1: Tweak settings and type text

Step 2: Look at the result

Step 3: If you like the result, go to step 4, otherwise go back to step 1.

Step 4: Save and share the result

Feels like art to me. Ultimately it's still a human using a tool to create art. For me AI art is just the name of the art style.

After further examination of the cat pictures, I do agree with you. I still prefer the dog website design and it has better performance on my machine than the cat one (the scrolling is laggy on FF).

Cute. Clearly the superior version of http.cat

If choose to not make any money and own nothing, you pay no taxes. You can also "just move lol" to another country where there is no taxation.

>tax evasion is simply a moral obligation for everyone who believes that people should not be subject to violence.

Some people should definitely be subjected to violence. It's not hard to find examples where violence is justified. Even a Buddhist monk will forcefully stop a child from touching a venomous snake and make the child cry.

You don't enter life voluntarily, you don't go to school voluntarily, you don't go to the hospital voluntarily when you fell on your head, become unconscious and slowly bleed out...

That's a great requirement imo. For short term stay, we already have hotels, hostels and regular BnBs. Apartments and houses should be reserved for long term stay and regulated accordingly.

The original idea of AirBnB was to easily rent your couch or guest room for a few nights and I think regulations should be made to keep it this way.

A subscription usually imply you lose access to the software when the subscription ends, which is not the case here.

What utility? In the Funded work section of the article, I don't see anything that web3 is making more useful or that could not be done without it.

I hope they simply cash out the fund they received and implement none of the IPFS crap.

On April 1, 2021, the date of the archive.org article mentioned in this f-droid article, FIL jumped literally to its all time high. The 50,000 FIL archive.org received was then worth $7,965,000. Today, the same 50,000 FIL are worth $919,500.

It's almost like it's all about speculation and the actual utility is making early investor rich.

>despite

I'm getting strong "I'm not racist, but..." vibes mixed with "MLK said judge character not skin color".

They're just stating facts. Good or bad, antidepressants help people cope with life just as opioid help people deal with physical pain. Chronic usage can become a problem, but short term usage is unquestionably beneficial for many people.

Sometimes your mental state is so bad you can't make any decision or improve your current situation. Maybe you're working during the day and dealing with your family the rest of the time and feel stuck and sinking. Antidepressants can help dissipate the fog in your mind, allowing you to think clearly and actually make the decisions you needed to make and improve your live to a point where they are not needed anymore. You also talk with the doctor prescribing the drugs, if it's not improving how you feel they will suggest other solutions.

Also I totally agree with parent. Decent material conditions and the knowledge that they are stable are absolutely needed for a healthy and flourishing mind.

The homeless issue is in the name. It's people without a home. The solution is to provide people with a place they can call home, like a house or an apartment.

Why focus on drugs? Do you believe that some people deserve to have no home if they have a drug problem?

With the security and comfort of having a home, becoming a productive member of society becomes much easier if that's what you care about.

You missed half of parent logic.

>it's okay because society is stacked against them.

If you can't find a job in the US, you won't go to another country to find one. After all, you're already in the "best country in the world".

The streets are accepted as the home of failed people (but only if we can't see them).

Medical care is provided only to people who can pay for it. That's only fair.

Also racism was solved with Obama, so just pull yourself by your bootstrap like everyone else.

Just work multiple jobs if you can't afford rent, maybe then you'll save enough to pay for education and get a higher wage job or start your own business.

/s

>For example, saying that a man is a man and a woman is a woman can be considered hate speech against the trans community.

If you can't understand why this is the case, then I'm sorry for your lack of critical thinking.

I think that seeing a overwhelmingly positive like to dislike ratio might hide signals that what you're viewing is propaganda.

"If so many people like this, it probably has value." "There is always a few dislike from haters, safe to discard them."

Very nice, I like the concept how easy it is to get things up and running.

The obvious problems I thought about yesterday when I first saw this was spam and at some point moderation. I looked the homepages this morning and sure enough, someone created hundreds of sites with 8 random letters. I guess you could also create a script to update your site every X seconds to always be on the frontpage to promote a crypto or something more nefarious.

Anyways, I'll still keep updating my own site from time to time for fun, thanks for sharing this.

Yikes...

But no seriously, you oppose social security and the minimum wage? We should let corporations exploit workers as much as they please and provide no care for the ones who can't work?

What the conservative libertarian says:

>Personal responsibility! The free market will fix everything if only it was truly free! Charity will provide for the miserables! Real capitalism was never tried, we just need less government intervention. Freedom > everything else.

What the conservative libertarian probably believe:

>** them, I only care about my interests. Why should I care about dumb people loosing at the game? Not my problem. I'm smart. I deserve to win.

The video is as bad as PragerU videos. They misrepresent statistics and historical events to push an agenda backed by multi-millionaires magnates. They use the biases the viewer have to gently confirm beliefs that were never really challenged in their education and work life. Most viewer won't check the sources and take at face value what is presented because they trust that the professor is a good guy acting in good faith and that he did the research and knows what he's talking about.

>Good rebuttal to all the points, you have convinced me that everything is terrible and we all should embrace socialism as our one true economic model /s

Maybe one day you will come around and say the exact same sentence but without the /s.

From the wikipedia article:

>The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is an American conservative libertarian economic think tank.

>FEE, founded in 1946, is considered the oldest free-market think tank in the United States. An early aim was to roll back policies of the New Deal. FEE opposed the Marshall Plan, Social Security and minimum wages, among other American social and economic policies.

Points of the video:

- Mainstream media sells entertaining truth that are mostly negative

- People think gun violence is getting worse every single year over a span of 25 years, but it only got worse for 8 of those years! There is a 50% decrease from the 90s.

- Conveniently remove suicide from the gun violence data and ignore the current up trend in homicide

- We shouldn't look at wages, but look at total compensation and it's up by 45% for the median worker since 1979!

- We have more household that are rich according to this data despite what the media says

- You don't need a cellphone, just cancel it if you're poor, also don't get medical treatment that didn't exist in the 70s if you want to have the same cost of living than your grand parents

- Let's compare the average middle class American 100 years ago to one today and you'll see how much better you have it now! Especially if you are a racial minority (he don't mention this last part)

- omg, look at how much hours of work was required 100 years ago to purchase these products (stamp, bread, movie ticket, gas, coffee, eggs, butter, milk)

- only movie ticket are more expensive today, but we get much nicer movie like the Marvel movies! (But remember to cancel your 10$ Netflix subscription if you can't afford it) (a previous point he made)

- back in the days, it took 4 years to raise money to buy a car, but only 2.5 years now!

- He mention that the minimum wage worker has to pay more for housing today, but it's because they are much more technologically advanced!

- house 100 years ago: no electricity, no running water, no indoor toilet, no AC

- Houses like that are now illegal to buy!

- Thus, the minimum wage worker can't buy house like that anymore! (he also can't buy a modern house, but nevermind that)

- So poor people today have a better living standard than the middle class had 100 years ago and in a 100 years the next generation will be even better off with private jets and yachts to travel around!

- There is less child labor in the world, less wars and stuff!

- So in summary, be humble! Appreciate, be thankful for the fact that the world has become a better place. (i.e. stop complaining about society because the iphone exists type of arguments)

Yikes.

Thank god.

If I can get a train to go from A to B, I usually take the train. You can arrive at the train station 5 minutes before departure and make it to the train. It's just an overall more comfy experience, mostly thanks to the seamless process of getting on it, not having to worry about the water bottle in your backpack and arriving almost directly in the city center with just a few minutes to get off the train and train station.

You can't hijack a train or a boat and make it crash wherever you want. I also assume it's much easier to respond to a train or cruise ship hijack and avoid having to kill everyone on board.

I keep my journal in a private git repository. I hope one day someone from my family will read it if I'm gone. Maybe I'll share it with someone I love if they ask. I had the fear that it could be leaked, but honestly I realized I didn't care that much if it gets public as no one will care except maybe the ones mentioned in it.

I find it therapeutic to write things down.

The access information is printed on a sheet of paper somewhere and I will probably just print the whole thing one day.

Tim Cook can pay the Chinese workers rounding errors on his net worth because they and the other workers able to do similar work are not organized. They have no power. They can't ask for better working condition and better salary.

Also, he really cares about making money, so since the workers have no power, why give them anything else than the minimum and get yourself the maximum?

Who cares about some random oversea workers? Their problem, not mine. /s

>The privacy/tracking aspect of Braves Ads (which you don't have to use) seems to be way, way better than Google Adsense

Exactly, "seems". Once again, good marketing from the Brave team. Heck, they even sponsored chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura on his Twitch stream.

I feel the author is on point. Brave is all about marketing and surfing the privacy wave to make profit.

Take a look at https://brave.com/brave-ads/

Brave goal is to acquire as much users as possible to sell them to advertisers. They are no different from Google. Might as well use Chrome with ublock origin and farm crypto on your own.

I removed Avira antivirus from my grandma low spec laptop and switched to the builtin Windows one. My suspicious was that it was constantly scanning the HDD and running a bunch of processes that overworked the laptop limited capacities.

Boot to Firefox was improved by at least 30 seconds, navigating the file explorer felt much smoother and security was probably improved as well.

For home users, I don't see any reasons to use a third party antivirus nowadays.

Totally agree with you.

Universities need ways to finance themselves.

Tech companies are expert at avoiding paying taxes that could be used to pay for the research and this patent trolling could be an attempt to get some of that money back using the broken rules of the current system.