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el_abuelo ,

Because you can't afford to buy a property? So you need someone else to do it for you and then pay them a service fee for living in their property.

There's a lot of smaller victories to win before we can have the big victory of outlawing landlords, so we should fight those first imo.

I am not a landlord. Yet.

When i do buy a 2nd property I do intend to rent it out at a reasonable price - and I have no guilt over doing so because all of our country's private property is being bought up by foreign "investors" driving up the cost of ownership and rents while leaving properties unoccupied. It's disgusting and I'll fight it directly when I can afford to.

el_abuelo ,

That does sound like it would be of benefit but I'm not sure how realistic it is to set up a system like this and it work for everyone - would the government just start buying property off people? Would that crash or balloon the market? How do you ensure that families aren't priced out of moving home either by higher property prices (from the government buying up everything) or from a catastrophic crash caused by no one wanting to buy property as investments?

Also how would the government provide attractive housing options across the economic spectrum across the whole of the country? Sounds like a monstrously large government department would need to be formed, which amongst other things would be very inefficient and goes against the objectives of the government. Take for example state health care- there is only one tier of care, and if you want anything better you pay for it privately. If we had the same for housing but didn't have the private option then in all liklihood the government would be thrown out and the next one would be the one who promises private housing. Because like it or not, the middle class doesn't want to live like the working class.

As I said, there a lot of battles to win and I think this anti-landlord stuff is just short sighted because there is no realistic solution that could be implemented today even if a country was willing - which it isn't. Instead we should focus on fighting the smaller fights that would lead us towards the utopia: rent control, taxation, foreign "investors", empty dwellings, single-family properties etc....all of these things could be vastly improved today for the benefit of everyone except those leaching on society.

el_abuelo ,

Which client? Voyager doesn't show this AFAIK

el_abuelo ,

Omg thank you!

el_abuelo ,

!subscribe

el_abuelo ,
  • sees someone disagree with their mythology
  • proceeds to assume they must be a communist and try and insult them

You're not a very good Christian.

el_abuelo ,

55499345

Why do I still remember this number.

el_abuelo ,

What did car mode do? Was it when it switched to big old buttons? Mine used to do that until I got Android Auto in my new car...so up until about a year ago

el_abuelo ,

IANAD so seek medical advice, but exercise more and sit less. You want to strengthen your glutes, core and I think your quads. You also want to loosen your hip flexors.

el_abuelo ,

You can see the finish line at nearing 40? Man that's a sad thought....what's the point of life if you can see the end already?

el_abuelo ,

Thanks for your input.

el_abuelo ,

To some people in some places Facebook is actually necessary in order to have a social life or run a business.

We all know Facebook would die if it charged for access, because it would lose its ubiquity that makes it necessary for some people.

What would actually be good is if instead of charging for privacy, they charged for enhanced features - similar to how discord charges for Nitro (I am not defending discord, just using their payment model as an example)

The problem with that payment model though is then you have to actually develop features people want to pay for. And we all know Facebook is creatively bankrupt.

el_abuelo ,

To me, shop lifting is taking small value items.

What you described is, to me, theft.

IANAL

el_abuelo ,

For stellar technology you need to go to SpaceX. You've been shopping at the wrong Musk store.

el_abuelo ,

Why is 2x2 meant to be 1.5x1.5 and not 2x2?

el_abuelo ,

And do what instead? Serious question as I'm about to buy my 2nd roku product

el_abuelo ,

I have a chromecast but I found it a bit annoying having to use my phone to do stuff...if it's low on power it's a problem, and it can't be chucked around the room really

el_abuelo ,

Woops! You forgot the /s again

el_abuelo ,

Unless that's just the nearest analog they had to describe the relationship?

el_abuelo ,

So that tells us they can at least take the required form, but doesn't tell us they are necessarily fixed to it?

I know nothing about this lore so I'm really just fishing for someone with more knowledge to give definitive answers based on the literature.

el_abuelo ,

Excellent thank you. Cited on the wiki too - neat.

So I take this as an affirmative to my original suspicion - given they can change form at will, they could be any sex they like today, tomorrow and then be a tree the day after I guess? So they do just use the analog to represent themselves, as their existence is not constrained by such biological limitations like "sex" and they would be even less constrained by societal structures like gender!

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of "Twitter.com" to "X.com" automatically....

el_abuelo ,

What happened to Xitter being a paragon of free speech? You can't even say "twitter.com" without them censoring you.

How unfortunate they can't deal with the spam bots quite so effectively.

el_abuelo ,

Sure...where the failure of the device does not lead to inevitable death.

In a situation where my life is 100% dependent on a device, said device must have gone through appropriate design and testing procedures.

el_abuelo ,

Well you're clearly better informed about the status of the sub than i, but I'm just saying it's unusual for a life support device to be something not designed for such a purpose.

el_abuelo ,

In this context it absolutely is a life support device - if it fails, the occupants are dead.

Do you have any other examples of a time where such a device is used in such circumstances?

The best anology I can think of is planes, and none of them are using entertainment input devices AFAIK?

As a scuba diver I have a buoyancy control device, which I am totally reliant on for life and thus I take 2. Did they even take spares with them? If they did then i can see this being a legit way of being safe.

Not taking it as being mean - its an interesting conversation, hopefully you feel the same.

el_abuelo ,

Hundreds of millions of people is likely an overestimate given the PS5 has sold only 50m and while there are likely sometimes multiple users per device, and likely some PC users, it's unlikely there are anywhere near 200m. Additionally most of these users will be using Sony controllers - which I believe was not the case here.

Further: all of those users are not expecting to rely on this device for their personal safety and continued existance.

So just in the same way I don't use a straw for breathing underwater, I also don't get on deep sea submersibles controlled by a PlayStation controller that, at the point of design and manufacture, did not have life support anywhere near its specification.

So to answer your question - no, an imaginary "hundreds of millions" of users using a device for an entirely different purpose is certainly NOT enough for me to entrust my life to. But that's just me - you feel free to do you.

el_abuelo ,

And?

The discussion is around what the controller tells us about the approach to the design and development of the vehicle.

The fact that there are people readily defending the use of an entertainment controller to navigate at the limit of human endeavour tells me how they managed to find people to sign up for this death ride.

el_abuelo ,

Look I get it, you want to argue about the cause. You go ahead and do that...but I'm here discussing the merits of inference in order to make judgements that may well affect longevity.

Good day.

el_abuelo ,

Thank you

el_abuelo ,

Such a shame your billionaires aren't friendly

el_abuelo ,

Why? You only have checks notes the majority of the world's population.

el_abuelo ,

Exactly

el_abuelo ,

True...and you don't need to live in a house, or use the Internet, or have a bank account, or have a computer/mobile...all things that have caused catastrophic damage to the environment and killed countless animals.

One has to draw a line somewhere- perhaps you shouldn't be holier than though just because you draw the line at "I don't want to see the evidence of the death"

el_abuelo ,

I found the comic amusing..so does that make me a boomer? Even though I'm not yet old enough to be a boomer?

Is boomer a way of life rather than a generation?

You know what...I'm just gonna go look at my wife's boobs and forget this ever happened.

el_abuelo ,

What's that got to do with the question?

el_abuelo ,

Site reliability engineer

el_abuelo ,

They're also really good at murder, a much more serious crime.

While we're at it let's just ban all metal cutlery, just to be on the safe side.

el_abuelo ,

That's not irony, that's hypocrisy.

Their source is better than your source. They at least indicated that it was word-of-mouth and didn't try and present it as anything but that.

el_abuelo ,

So we're still using nonce then?

el_abuelo ,

How do you know this?

My first thought was "they probably want to ensure they are who they say they are and so want an authenticated request" - while that's against GDPR, not everyone is as educated as they should be, and not every mistake is a nefarious activity.

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