firadin

joined 1 year ago
[–] firadin 4 points 1 year ago

Is it the FTC's fault at all? Lina Khan is doing great work, and the US has fought against Microsoft's monopoly before. The real problem is the judicial system has no interest in joining this fight.

[–] firadin 10 points 1 year ago

Lina Khan is staking her career on this one, but the way the US judiciary looks there's no way Amazon suffers.

[–] firadin 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I still use Chrome when I need to Chromecast, any way around that?

[–] firadin 19 points 1 year ago

Inflation is important because it punishes the hoarding of wealth and encourages spending. When investments grow greater than inflation but wages grow slower, it's problematic because the investing class is rewarded for having money while the working class is punished.

[–] firadin 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit admins note: "you’ll receive a new shiny badge on your profile indicating you’re in the program and can earn cash! "

Hoping that reddit mods have the balls to auto-delete all posts from users who are approved for the monetization system. Knowing that they won't, I'm waiting for the Firefox extension and Revanced patch that auto-censor posts by those users.

Of course reddit will quickly remove that visibility.

[–] firadin 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not accurate, they don't stop your benefits when you hit the cancel button. I just cancelled today and have my benefits until the end of my yearly subscription in November.

[–] firadin 23 points 1 year ago

Do ISPs actively encourage you to watch extremist content? Do they push that content toward people who are at risk of radicalization to get extra money?

[–] firadin 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't check out Japan

[–] firadin 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE

[–] firadin 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you heard of a national or state park?

[–] firadin 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly, you can't just drive without verifying that you're a safe driver. That's why we have a process to get a driver's license. Has Autopilot passed licensing?

[–] firadin 64 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you were curious how rich people justify this to themselves and whitewash their behavior:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/

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