I appreciate your nuanced answer. That’s something a lot of “why not just pay for YouTube premium” guys don’t

You raised good points and if you’re happy to pay for the convenience, I’m not going to fight you on that.

While I don’t fully agree with paying for a service that doesn’t listen to their customers(bring back dislikes), I can still see where you’re coming from.

Except those mosquitos with antifreeze for blood. God damn GMO monstrosities

Alright where are all the YouTube premium apologetics that keep appearing everytime someone discusses any sort of Ad-blocker?! What do you guys have to say now?!

Fines sound like a good idea.

After all, if you live in a democracy, voting is not just a right, its a responsibility. You fail to meet your responsibilities, believe it or not, fine.

RIP democracy :(

I knew all those Linux users were dirty sluts.

You need to be a naughty slut that deserves a spanking for that to appear.

You get a choice of free maid/nurse/lab assistant outfit as well.

Linux Syndrome:

When nobody asked but somehow the solution is Linux.

Skill issue

Praise the machine god

If you’re going down that road, you’re never seeing anything in its present form because even for an object a meter in front of you, all you’re really seeing is the object as it existed nano seconds in the past. Hows is a nano second in the past different from years in the past?

I can the universe 40b light-years

Who is your favorite fearless hero?

One second guys, I thought OP meant he’d be drowning in pussy not actual cat and kitty litter

Multiple sexual harassment claims and lawsuits, including incidents of stolen breast milk.

• Alleged cubicle crawls where drunk employees go cubicle to cubicle harassing females.
• Multiple C suites resigning due to personal indiscretions.
• A “Cosby” suite
• Suicide due to extreme harassment
• Multiple allegations of breast milk missing from office fridges.

You can’t make this shit up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Department_of_Fair_Employment_and_Housing_v._Activision_Blizzard

Build the economy and fund education and social programs. Fight corruption hard.

Its not glamorous or exciting but its what works in the long run.

Why do people turn to crime? Maybe a few idolize Pablo Escobar and the like, but the vast majority are trying to get by, feed their families and bring their kids through school. If legal work has you slaving away for a pittance that won’t even feed your family and corrupt governments take away money meant for the betterment of the community you start to see why some people stop caring or see illicit means as their only way out of poverty.

Education. An educated populace means a skilled workforce, which leads to better paying jobs and a chance out of poverty. I don’t think the choice between a good paying job in an international pharmaceutical company and a dangerous drug lab is a difficult one when you have legitimate options on the table.

lemmy.ml: autistic screeching

Saint Winnie the Pooh

Seriously the onion can’t keep up with reality.

That’s how these types of collapses work though.

Everything just barely holds together and then the literally straw that breaks the camel’s back hits and then it all goes to shit in an instant.

They’re keeping it together but at what cost? We can clearly see the social and demographic cost that will hit in a decade, we can see the economic costs hitting but how long till that manifests into something they can’t policy their way out of is a big question.

Death is it’s own problem.

The part that’s less known is smokers tend to have other nasty health problems like COPD where even having a conversation needs a breather and climbing a flight of stairs in one go is entirely outside the realm of possibility.