It's no accident that fascism is increasing as the wealth gap is increasing, and more and more people are being pushed from the middle class and into poverty.
lemmyhavesome
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The Paradox of Tolerance:
"In a free society, tolerance is a virtue, but it cannot be unlimited. If we are tolerant of intolerance, the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
I think the real reason Google is funding Firefox is because they're afraid of being targeted in antitrust lawsuits. As long as Firefox is around, they have someone they can point to, to say they're not a monopoly.
Some Viagra should take care of that right away.
Yea, you have a point there. My cynical streak got the better of me there for a bit.
Logitech stuff is already sort of a subscription based service, since their stuff is designed to fail after around 2 years.
He sure grabbed that flag by the pole.
Sounds like the whole hard drive recovery industry is about to go poof.
I think the non-native US population has some unique characteristics due to having been settled by immigrants. No matter how desperate the situation was back home, you still have to be a certain kind of person to leave behind most or all of the poeople you knew, and set out across the ocean. On the positivie side, I think this makes for a resilient and adaptible population. But I think it also makes for a population that is self-centered and lacks empathy for those worse off.
We can probably thank Lina Khan, chair of FTC for this. It's amazing to finally have someone back in the FTC that cares about protecting consumers.
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The clock should go from 0.0 to 1.0. Dinner time would be around 0.7083 o-clock.