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Companies issue stock grants in lieu of additional salary to incentivise employees to stay. any impact to stocks would also take away money from labor.

would also open up corporate warfare to who can fund corporate espionage or politicians to close down competitors.

salsa is my favorite fruit salad though

honestly the statement "contains as much caffeine as our dark roast coffee" is misleading since that would be comparing an 8oz coffee to 8oz of lemonade. if you drink the coffee you're most likely getting a cup that is 8-16oz. however the standard soft drink size is 20-30oz which would mean one cup is basically your daily serving of caffeine.

if i saw the sign saying "same strength as our coffee" i would assume it's one cup of coffee is equal to one cup of lemonade. who would only fill their cups half way? it's insane to sell one cup that is almost 100% the daily value while it's known bad side effects can happen after 400mg.

It's a slippery slope because social mores are, well, social constructs after all

which is why tolerance isn't relative to social mores. lookup the word in a dictionary, you're fundamentally not understanding the concept.

Debate on tolerance and free speech should be thought more as a metaphorical court rather than a marketplace of idea.

why do you keep grouping these concepts together? you can have intolerant free speech, thats why westboro are allowed to protest at funerals. the point is you don't have to tolerate that speech or platform it to a wider audience. In order to be a tolerant society the majority of society must denounce the intolerance.

Restricting women's rights in Afghanistan is not up for debate

so we have established that societies can be intolerant. just because a society says something is acceptable does not make it a tolerant society which is what this paradox applies to.

Merriam-Webster: Tolerance - sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own

you're trying to change the definition of the word to justify intolerance based on societal norms. by your logic would you consider the Talibans oppression of women tolerant because the powers in charge say it's the societal standard?

tolerance does not equal free speech, laws or societal norms.

Long ago, blasphemy is a punishable offense because the then more religious society deems it to be-- many were killed.

would you say this was a tolerant society? do you think if people tolerated this behavior it would no longer be acceptable?

you're free to say what you want but that doesn't mean the statement is tolerant or intolerant, it depends on if you're infringing on someone else's right to existence.

i really hope you can clarify, are you saying genocide is justifiable to have cheap bananas?

volunteers on false promises will become victims. let Elon get it first if he really believes in it, just like the ocean gate CEO believed in his submarine.

Elon and the Twitter company are not anonymous? They're using their position to actively bury opinions they dislike. by removing a blue check it means less people will see union organizing efforts and messaging.

The Nazi started deporting after they came into power and again they came into power and held their power by silencing their opposition. Stop being a Corpo fasist apologist.

before the Nazi party came to power, they would show up to rallys, protests and town squares to silence political opponents through intimidation and physical violence.
A lot of people would consider Twitter a modern day digital "Town square". i would say it's eerily similar, the main difference is that there's no physical violence just the silence.

This is simply false. Google is in a lot of places. But it isn't Google forcing 3rd party sites to use Google.

it's the choice of a company not of the end user, which I feel is a more apt comparison to Apple. None of these products are being forced to use but when you look at the current state of things, the companies choose to use Google/Facebook because it makes them money. From a user standpoint there's not a lot you can do to avoid them if you want to use the Internet.

I think we both agree these companies are monopolies and need to be broken up, but you have to start somewhere. imo Google+Amazon are the biggest threats to consumers followed by meta, apple and Microsoft.