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  • They have a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholder and therefore will act in a way that maximizes profits. It's just what they do as a consequence of what they are. In candyland this leads to overproduction as companies race for existing markets and seek to penetrate new ones, and as a consequence they end up making a hell of a lot more than what they need, which leads to better access and lower prices for the consumer. In the real world? The classic example of something capitalism is really good at making is a pencil, and you have to hand it to them. Pencils are in fact cheap as hell and very readily available. Food, shelter, and medicine, on the other hand...

  • Presumably there's a way to make literacy tests make sense too but we don't live in that world. The history of American voter suppression says voter ID laws in the United States are a form of voter suppression. One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson is a great read. It should make you angry.

    1. White people
    2. The kinds of IDs white people are more likely to have
    3. Whoever will go along with our bullshit (realistically state governments; no idea if he'll actually try to force blue states to go along with it or just use it to deny unfavorable election results)
    4. We totally thought about this, and we have a great idea for it
    5. Women can't vote, stupid
    6. See 5
    7. See 5

    /s, in case anybody reading really needed it

  • 4chan is a very stubborn website

  • Right up until their door gets kicked in.

  • I'm hung over, can we reschedule?

  • Talk about putting it mildly

  • No, see, we can't raise minimum wage because of the - hmm, right.

  • Thomas Paine was pretty cool

  • The people who like guns so much aren't the ones opposing Trump. You should take notes, because it's coming to your country next.

  • The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • That's what would make him good at the job

  • No, that's not what's happening. They're preventing scrapers from accessing the content at no charge. They're totally willing to make deals for access to their content in exchange for money.

  • If you didn't turn out to vote you didn't oppose trump.

  • Where has anyone told you what search engine to use? I just wanna know where you get the idea that their pricing structure doesn't make sense.

  • Duckduckgo is not free. You pay for it by looking at ads. How much do you think it would cost you to run a service like Kagi locally?

  • How much do you figure it'd cost you to run your own, all-in?

  • And when they don't it'll be "oh, it's hard, folks. It's so hard to build in America. Nobody knew it was going to be this hard, but we're working on it"

  • They can say the weather is caused by sunspots or windmills or Mexicans or Jewish space lasers or some dumb shit