The first one is a blue checkmark. They get a free n word and unlimited personal attacks.

When all other options are removed by market forces, the consumer role is diminished.

We used to have lots of choices for quality clothing at multiple retailers. I have shirts I inherited that are 30 years old that are in better condition than ones I bought last year.

The the retailers decided they wanted to make more margin by reducing the quality of the product, while keeping the price the same. They then pushed their suppliers to provide cheaper and cheaper products. At that point, when price is the driving factor, the quality manufactorers are outcompeted by the sweatshops.

The retailers and major clothing brands made those decisions by removing the quality products.

This corporate obsession with profit over all other concerns creates those toxic work environments.

I found it with google image search for river map usa, but it was not from the original source, so I did not want to credit them.

DISH!! AHAAA!!

Human leather bound books!

Both are wrong, one enables the demand, the other enables the supply.

The consumer is the least at fault, but keeps getting blamed to divert from the role of middlemen, who silently go unnoticed.

The idea is not to have a subscription for having the content. As you say, it’s just files.

The licence, should be for the ability to create new files based on the actors voice.

I like the idea, but the voice should be licenced like a patent.

Much better to organize it by water systems, with some additional divisions for the Mississippi system ans consolidation of smaller systems not seperated by mountain ranges.

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All the retailers use these same factories. Shein just skips the middleman making the fat margin.

Instead of blaming the consumer, blame the retailers and middleman who made this level of quality and working conditions the standard over the last few decades.

Game developers should have to purchase a subscription licence in order to use a voice actors voice in AI generated content.

If they don’t renew it, they cannot use it for any new content.

I had a thought the other day. That attacking Israeli civilians was a losing strategy.

Instead the attacks should be on the bad people in Israeli leadership.

I would much rather they get Nintendo-ed if you know what I mean.

Why is there foil/bag over the sunvisor?

When I look at his background. 19 years of military service at the sharp end, does not leave a person “fully whole”. The US also has a history of neglecting the mental health of its service members.

This suicide might have more to do with those factors, than politics. The apparent political statement might just have been a final cry for attention.

Time for Nato to blockade all russian ports in the baltic and require military inspection and escort of all ships in and out.

Little girls however…

Agree. KDE neon is my daily right now. Very good out of the box. I just had to nuke snaps on it. Plays very nicely on laptops in terms of battery life, noise and temperature. Sleep and hibernate also works very well.

I see what you mean. It’s not directly connected I see. Only indirectly via electrical pump as you pointed out.

It is curious that no flaps or spoilers were deployed. Maybe the control was not as great as it appeared. The plane did touch down a long way down the runway.

Having one thrust reverser deployed on the side of the bird strike was super weird. Both thrust reversers can be controlled by the APU hydraulic system