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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

Who defines "good hands"?

How do you assure the dictator stays good (corruption, dementia, general personality shift)?

What happens if the dictator is no longer good (died, see above, the world has changed and the dictator can not adapt)?

Sure the dictator can assign ministers for topics outside of their skillset and similar and a head physician to determine when a replacement is needed due to health reasons etc, but a dictatorship is always unnacountable. What if the physician coludes with the vice-dictator to declare the dictator unfit? What if the dictator is actually unfit but accuses the physician of colusion? It has no safety checks against its rulers other than revolution and coup.

Democracy has flaws but so does dictatorship and they are not limited to "what if dictator evil"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Its not about getting money. Its about, in that case Sony geting a clear "this decision cost us money".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

No!

That means people are still buying and using the device. This is a case for returning the product to Amazon/the store you brought it from citing the product is no longer fit for purpose because of changes made by the seller/manufacturer. If you live in a sensible country (sorry US) this should work.

This only stops if there is a clear and attributable loss of sales/increase in returns.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

But what does that mean? Does Australia span all timezones? Take its zone of UTC+9:30 and then go all the way around the globe to the east until you hit UTC+8 which is also Australia. Congrats you passed through all timezones and are in Australia again.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

In germany the lottery is state owned and the tax is applied before money is added to the jackpot. So if the jackpot is 50mil you get 50mil

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

There are many breeds of cattle. Some which are on their own for most of the year. I am sure with some carefully selection (and maybe a few generations of crossbreeding) there could be viable breeds for reintroduction to most biomes which historically had wild cows

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You can win one war and loose the next one.

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