I think the issue is the politicians who should be regulating these things are being funded by the companies. Eliminating lobbying and corporate political donors (or anyone with specific corporate interests) would go a long way to removing the corruption and conflict of interest in the government. I think anyone in politics taking money from corporations, or participating in any quid pro quo should be removed from their current position, fined (lets say double the pay the received for their entire time in office), and barred from holding future public office. Don’t make it worth the risk. As things stand right now, they don’t even really have to hide it.

TIL

I might like this some things, like the Saw example. My biggest issue is movies like the James Bond series, where the name aren’t pre-fixed. I’m going to expect GoldenEye in the Gs, not in the Js. I also have a collection for the whole Clerks series, but include Mallrats, etc as they all play off each other. The MCU is another one where the titles are dramatically different the pre-fixes on the sort title could go a few different ways.

I will definitely keep the sort title in mind for when there are small tweaks.

Then this is what should be said, and I think most would agree. Throwing out capitalism entirely (which is mostly the calls I see on Lemmy), when there aren’t any viable solutions, seems silly.

This is where media managers are nice. I used Plex and when the sequels have completely different names I can put them in a collection and sort by year. I’ve started making collection for any series of movies that has more than 4 or 5 movies.

I take if you’ve never seen Rainbolt?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD_rtwofvgU

Does no one on Lemmy have original content to post? It’s not like a dog tied to a bike is some big story that everyone needs to know about.

The hardest part of getting people to pay for a site is that first sign up and getting the credit card. If $1 feels like a deal and gets them in the door, he can then add micro-transactions and all kinds of stuff, and all of that will feel more fluid, because they can charge the card on file. Imagine paying to give a tweet a super-like, or paying to promote your reply to a post so the person is more likely to see it. He doesn’t even have to raise the yearly fee, he can nickle and dime everyone to death once he has their card and makes it easy.

If he wants to be extra shitty, he can hide all that stuff behind some kind of point system, so people don’t know how much they’re spending and don’t feel like it’s real money.

This was what I needed to make me care enough to delete my account, and my 3 tweets from 8 years ago.

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I’m in the US, and while I only recall using cash 1 time in the past 5-10 years, and that was a very specific case, as I normally don’t carry cash… I think all businesses should be required to take cash, including these order kiosks. It’s not like it requires new technology, the self-checkout at the grocery stores have been taking cash for a long time.

so we can deal with the customers the old fashioned way.

With the judicial system?

The guy probably had a word-a-day calendar. I worked with a guy who had one, it was awful. No one ever knew wtf he was talking about.

But does it actually pay well? Is it safe? Having a union doesn’t guarantee those things. I’ve have union jobs that paid a lot less than other non-union jobs I’ve had.

It was a moped, the normal street legal kind. They should not have been on the sidewalk at all. The person was definitely in the wrong, but they were still doing it.

Did you delete or just deactivate? Also, did you login after doing it by mistake, as they take that as a sign to cancel the request.

I have deleted a Facebook account in the past, and my current account was deactivated about 3 or 4 years ago. I never got a single email like this… but I also proactively disabled all emails when first signing up for the account.

Is this new? I had a similar experience where I was banned and had to go hunting to try and find what it might have been. I really had no idea; I still don’t.

One sub that banned me, for what I felt was a completely unjust reason, told me the process for lifting it was to write what would have been a 10 page letter/research paper going into why I was wrong and they were right. I wasn’t going to spend hours of my life bending a knee to power hungry mods who were asking me to lie to them to inflate their own egos, so I moved on with my life. I replied to a joke comment with another on-topic joke in a sub that allowed for jokes… I can’t and won’t say I was wrong about that.

I’m saying you don’t know what everyone in every large group you’re apart of does. If you claim to, you’re lying. The groups some passer by could associate you with number in the millions or billions.

I’m saying that “religious people” is a massive group… 2.4B Christians, almost 2B Muslims, 1.2B Hindus, 500M Buddhists… and on we go… 6.6B people, or 85% of the globe, is in the group of “religious people”. Source.

To say being apart of that groups makes some antilgbt is crazy, as there are many lgbt people are members of that group. Are they all self-hating? You can’t assign guilt to a group of 6 billion people based on the actions of a few. I mean, you can, but no one should take you seriously. In a group of 6 billion people you will have a complete cross-section of the human experience. Everyone and everything, other than the specific thing you’re grouping by, will be represented. And since you’re controlling based on religion and not by opinions on lgbt people, all opinions on lgbt people will be represented in a group that large.

Add a little CSS to the HTML and it doesn’t look ugly anymore, and it will be much more simple and lightweight than any off the shelf thing you’re likely to find.

I suppose. I don’t really even believe in a literal heaven or hell. I think it’s more that every religion lays out some ideas of things you can/should do which will be a net positive to yourself and the world around you. If you do those things, you’ll generally be happy with happy people around you… which can be akin to heaven. Do a bunch of bad stuff and don’t take care of yourself and turn the world around you into a mess… you’re basically living in hell. Heaven and hell both exist simultaneously on Earth, and you can live in either one depending on how you go about living your life. The biblical heaven and hell are just extreme versions, spoken about metaphorically, to help illustrate the ideas through stories before things could be written down.

From that perspective, all 4,000 are right, and the non-believers can be right too.

Sure, but it’s like the lottery, right? You gotta play to win… but most lose.