ActionHank

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Or the Mullvad browser, Mullvad's fork of FF with zero ads with help from the Tor project.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This sounds good, but I don't fully grasp the covered loan aspect. So the bank is required to sell a matching bond on the open market. What's the difference between the rate on mortgage and the rate on the on bond? Is it also matched or just the principal? Does that make the interest a wash for the bank, so that their primary motivator is fee collection?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Dang I'm in a northern climate and though we get them occasionally I've never seen anything like what people have been posting. Typically I see green and blue dancing waves, but this looks like a full sky, full color gradient. Looks absolutely amazing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I would auction shelf space at my mega chain grocery store to large brands. The highest bidder would have the opportunity to buy up all the shelf space in order to bury any potential competition. The bidder could create 100s of different labels of essentially the same goddamn product, in order to maintain the illusion of choice, maximize consumer confusion, and thus maximize the time a customer spends thinking about the shelf-dominant brand, for some otherwise dead-simple purchase, such as toothpaste.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Its sexy because everyone is fit AF. and look even sexier with their glistening bods!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And I'm sure there was nothing going on there but well paying jobs for the local inhabitants. What a cool guy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Mustard only?! I am definitely the dog in the hot dog car.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

No one's disputing the utility of wireless. But it's not harming anyone to have a device with both mini-jack and bluetooth; the way it was for nearly 2 decades without any complaint.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

or a adapter at greater than 20x cost

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

On "mutual ownership". I'm not convinced that anything, whose agency has been removed through confinement, can be said to have equal weight in the decision to be owned, and thus be claimed "mutual".

You give evidence of our like behavior with other animals, and claim that my position MUST operate from the belief of our "difference and superiority".

Consider the inverse: Humans are not distinct and not superior. Therefor, all animal behavior is acceptable human behavior, for we are not but animals.

Its not exactly the society most would want to live in. People can and do use animal nature as means to justify horrible behavior. "Its a dog eat dog world, the villain proclaims", as if the only surprise is that their victim would have expected it any other way. Mantises devour the male after copulation. Why then do you demand I not do the same?! Pointing to the way things are in nature as a means to find justification for human behavior doesn't seem to lead to a useful foundation for ethics; maybe it even to to its dissolution.

So yes, I think we're different. I think that in many ways our difference comes from our responsibility of stewardship. Because we do have knowledge, agency and control to the degree that we can destroy or restore environments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Picking up wild animals which would much prefer to be left alone, so you can get your picture taken, is not loving them. Keeping animals in cages so you can have something on your shelf to look at, is not loving them. Most animal ownership is possession for the possessive, masquerading as caring.

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