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  • On the post: Trader Joe’s United Union Seeks To Dismiss Grocer’s Bullshit Attempt To Bully It Over Trademark

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2023 @ 01:50pm

    Fair

    In a fair society trader Joe would be able to just fire any at will employee who joined a union. And hire non-union employees.

  • On the post: The Pillow Guy Unveils Nonsensical Plan To ‘Monitor’ Imagined Election Fraud With Drones

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2023 @ 01:42pm

    Except

    The idea is ridiculous! Yes. But those machines are, at least in some areas, very much online. in 2018 our local place went to paper ballots only because the connection failed and the machines weren’t working. I only knew because I’m a tech. And I overheard the volunteer stating they had to call the support line to reconnect the machines. And in yet another case of election stupidity (NOT fraud, stupidity) they only had a few hundred if the paper sheets for the laser printer that printed the ballots. The quiet panic was both very amusing and very concerning. There are real problems nation wide with the election process. If the two parties would ever address the reality of issues and fix them, we wouldn’t get the nonsense about stolen elections.

  • On the post: Huh: Microsoft To Sell Cloud Rights To Activision Games To Ubisoft To Placate The CMA

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2023 @ 01:25pm

    See!!

    Microsoft is doing this merger for the expansion of gaming. Not restriction. The Sony fans and sky-is-falling tin hatters are the only ones missing reality. Microsoft wants the money. That comes from putting games on more platforms. Xbox hardware sales are a writeoff for the company. Unlike Sony who was already facing a large reduction in sales and consumer support for its electronics decision. Their choices the last 5 years in content has pushed developers away from their gaming platform. Fans have left in the hundreds of thousands for other systems under the exposure of their censorship practices. Musicians are leaving the audio wing by the hundreds over lopsided and outdated payment arrangements. Microsoft are already prepping a halo release for MacOS. Microsoft is expanding, not restricting, game access with this purchase. Their agreements with Apple and Nintendo prove this. Sorry Sony diehards: nobody is looking to save you from your choice’s poor decisions.

  • On the post: Ohio Court Tells Cops They Need To Know The Law If They’re Going To Engage In Pretextual Stops

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2023 @ 01:13pm

    Surprised

    This case too a long time. Time hates cops and loves harping on them. This case is nothing unusual. More than half of states suspended vehicle registration. Often via bills that were hundreds of pages long (like this one) that nobody, including the voting politicians, actually read. And courts have consistently, across the country, dismissed or found for defendants in just about every case. Do keep in mind if the driver wasn’t a criminal he would have received a warning or administrative ticket. And been on his way. Administrative citations can be challenged without ever stepping into a court room in most states. Some people don’t like to admit that part. The stop was a mistake, not a targeted action after.

  • On the post: Today In ‘Here’s How Elon Is Making ExTwitter Worse,’ He’s Going To Get Rid Of Headlines & Snippets For News

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2023 @ 07:22pm

    For better or worse, the dual comparison… the one in the right looks better.

  • On the post: Lawsuit Claiming YouTube’s Algorithms Discriminate Against Minorities Tossed By Federal Court

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2023 @ 07:20pm

    Algorithms suck

    For anyone not the majority. It’s exactly what they are supposed to be, a way for most people to get what they think they want quickly.

  • On the post: Amazon, Wreal LLC Settle Fire TV, FyreTV Trademark Case

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2023 @ 07:03pm

    Literally playing with fire

    FyreTV
    Calling itself the “Netflix of porn” is a good way to find itself the end of a lawsuit if the real, and first company to advertise as such, decided to do something. DVD Empire is one of the oldest online sellers in the world with a single focus market. And for a long time one of the largest buyers of used DVDs. Their subsidiary Adult DVD Empire has been the ‘Netflix of porn’ for as long as it has existed, which is longer than FTV has. And there’s one reason giving ADE a better claim beyond age: it’s not just porn. Just like there is actual (euro-)porn on Netflix, ADE has a fairly large selection of soft-core, erotic, international.

  • On the post: How The Friedman Doctrine Leads To The Enshittification Of All Things

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2023 @ 06:14pm

    Sports in the US has been loosing interest for decades. From poorer quality play to protests on field to safety changes that are great for players but, well… Ever company with a large dependency on sports is in trouble right now. Reality tv and competitions are out scoring sports On a regular basis. Not sure what they can do about it but it is a real issue.

  • On the post: Florida’s Governor Continues To Abuse His Executive Power To Eject His Political Opponents

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 05:25pm

    Because of course
    What part of taxation loops do you not understand. I know you’re not dumb, but you just don’t appear to comprehend the situation. The more you raise taxes the more money people need to buy things. That reduces ability so spend. So you raise the money the get. To pay the extra money out you raise taxes. Cost of goods go up. People can’t afford it. So you give them………
    And if cities went poof gone, a lot of farms probably wouldn’t survive
    That’s an open debate. Non commercial farms would survive just fine they tend to be self sufficient and self sustaining. Outside of artificial pricing in states like California and Washington. Commercial farming, is a different story. Now if states like California and Washington and Illinois and new York all split apart, farmers would be selling the same or more products, to the same people, at a lower operating cost. Because they wouldn’t be paying the same prior tax rates for production foods.
    And yet
    Being content with a person’s opinions and actions on key issues of importance to me doesn’t make me more or less loyal to anyone. It is me agreeing on key issues to me. Those key issues were some of the same ones Obama ran on. Border security, Reduced military involvement, renegotiated trade agreements, reduced NATO spending…
    hoarding
    Is putting money in a savings account or under the pillow. Investment isn’t hoarding. Stock monies are used by the very companies to continue to grow and create and survive. Bonds are not hoarding. They are loans to operations. And again, such investments are not spendable by the investors, more is value stable. What you want to do is tax the same money multiple times. Without regard to actual usable value. How do you tax an individual item with no immediate value? The highest worth it had? Even if it’s 10% of that today? When it goes public? When it hits a milestone? And do you plan to return that over-taxing when the price drops? Of course you wont.
    near-complete isolation
    Is pure fantasy. I’ve not said that. Trump hasn’t said that. No republican president has said that.
    Missiles and bombs over queer rights
    A wall isn’t missiles and bombs. A federal id isn’t missiles and bombs. And what queer rights? Nobody is trying to outlaw cross dressing. Not wanting teenage boys in a girl’s locker room is not the same… Personally we are all focused too much on sex (the act) and gender (the three that are real). If we weren’t so repressed over all nobody would be talking about this in the first place. The problem isn’t queer (meaning different), the problem is antiquated social values and sexual beliefs.
    And what economic policies do the Trump-led Republicans have that are designed to let the poor progress
    None. The same as most democrats. Those at the top of both parties don’t care about the poor.
    This sounds an awful lot like “sacrifice the marginalized to save the rich
    That’s interesting. Because the progressive camp is the Uber rich, at the leadership level. Blocking every opportunity to create a social safety net.
    denounce Mexicans as thugs and rapists.
    Pointing out that thugs and rapists are part of the group coming in isn’t denouncing the entirety of a population. You may want to actually read the transcript of the speeches, not the bastardised spin on tv.
    he had one of the most diverse executives in history
    He still had…
    What should he have done
    Stuck to and (attempt to) do what he campaigned on. End the war cycle, pull out of civil conflicts elsewhere, reduce nato spending, build a border infrastructure. Fast-track asylum cases, build fair international partnerships. Oh, and how you forget, he supported a national ID in 2007.
    Tell that to the victims of racism
    Such cases are few and far between. Every country has racism. At some level. As long as they commit no crime, they have a right to their beliefs. And when they do commit crime, they should be charged, convicted with evidence, and punished. And… the Supreme Court can not create laws. Only judge laws. Any court must solely judge upon the laws as they are written, and judge the constitutional ability of the law. The fault of abortion rights issues falls completely and absolutely on democrats who had decades of usable opportunity and failed to act.
    WHY
    Because the government, could redirect the Apx 80% of tax funds we spend outside of the country. To our own desperate needs. And you could point out any who have stated that taxation in a flat tax implementation should start under $50k? Most plans that have been put to paper or verbal explanation have a minimum above 100,000k. This not taxing any of the poor anything.
    that disruption
    Is being caused by so many being forced to pay for failed policies they didn’t vote for on the first place. Gas taxes as 1.40-$2 per gallon. Crushing the farming industry. And everyone else. You forget that those city buses run on fuel in most locations. That increase goes to ticket prices. The higher ticket prices reduce spending ability elsewhere… there’s that nasty cycle again. Because democrats have never voted for a tax plan that didn’t hurt everyone. Except themselves. Just because you hate wealthy doesn’t make a need. We don’t need higher taxes. It is not a necessity. We need to redirect spending on other nations to spending on our own. Feed our nation before we feed others. Defend our nation before we defend ones that will turn around and use the weapons we hand them, against us. House our homeless, before we house South America bring our troops home, rather than spend billions In countries with populations that don’t want us. Healthcare here, before Africa. We don’t need more taxes. We don’t need more money. We need logical use of the excess we have.

  • On the post: Florida’s Governor Continues To Abuse His Executive Power To Eject His Political Opponents

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 03:03pm

    That’s only because you think you’re in the right. And that is only because if big cities were removed from states as their own states, the cities would fail quite quickly. A division I doesn’t need bloodshed. Be it more states, or dissolution of the union. There was no Bloodshed over the UK. And others are looking at peacefully leaving the EU.

  • On the post: Social Engineering Meets Hacking With Prompt Hacking

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 01:03am

    Seriously!

    I’ve been involved in tech for roughly 40 years and have come across more tears than I should from idiots. I’m sorry, when the “bank”’or “Amazon” calls you in a number your never gave them? When the IRS wants subway gift cards for paying your taxes? For a while I toyed with these idiots on the phone. I know both windows, 2.1 - 7, and MacOS inside and out. And can play Alain’s without ever stepping in front of a computer. Later I now just say I look forward to my new iPhone 7 thanks… or I’ll cover it in April, or call my lawyer, that’s his job.

  • On the post: Comcast, AT&T Try To Kill New Requirements To Be Transparent About Their Shitty Pricing

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2023 @ 10:49pm

    Maybe

    As long as their pushing to show costs up front, maybe the fcc could cut the forced tax on the general public that forces cable and other providers to carry broadcast free over the air television AND forces the companies to then PAY for carrying the stations they are forced to carry.

  • On the post: Sexy Sandwiches: PornHub Goes After Kebab Shop Over Signs, Logos

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2023 @ 10:38pm

    Wait…huh?

    Appears to me that porn hub would gain from such a parody. Not loose.

  • On the post: CFPB Looks To Restrict The Sleazy Link Between Credit Reporting Agencies And Data Brokers

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2023 @ 10:34pm

    As long as

    Consumers still have the option to willingly share info, good. In such a case “pro privacy” regulation would be good, I simply so the majority shut up about it and remove their tin foil hats.

  • On the post: Techdirt Has Again Been Removed From Bing And (Mostly) DuckDuckGo

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2023 @ 05:40pm

    Yes. And those known as web databases are still helpful when properly curated. Not /everyone/ likes people making suggestions to them based on the opinions of the one suggesting. A good number use sites and web apps that index without algorithms.

  • On the post: Florida’s Governor Continues To Abuse His Executive Power To Eject His Political Opponents

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2023 @ 01:39pm

    I never said we should close our borders. I said we should secure them. So that every person that comes in is known. There’s a major difference between the two ideas. I absolutely do NOT want to close the borders I don’t want to be blocked from international travel and I don’t want to be stuck somewhere else not allowed back. I don’t want, and have never said or implied, isolation. That hurts everyone. I call for spending our trillion dollars in our own country. We could have universal healthcare and education and income for every citizen if we simply stopped dumping money over seas. And we could reduce taxes at the same time!

  • On the post: Florida’s Governor Continues To Abuse His Executive Power To Eject His Political Opponents

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2023 @ 01:25pm

    His Republican acolytes are certainly working on doing that, though
    Not really. You confuse not wanting men in skirts intermixing with naked teenage girls and ‘lock them up”.
    Public monies are needed for public works
    Our government currently brings in Apx 12x the amount of money it needs to run. After! we had federal healthcare and education AND base income for all. We could re buy the post office and STLL have money left over.
    should isolate itself from the entire world
    Please, stop being a plank. I’ve not pushed isolation, I push America first. US money Should be spent in the US. First. Then global partnerships. If there’s any leftover surplus THEN we could donate to others, and look at reducing taxes further to not have a surplus.
    overseas
    Yet ignoring poverty and a broken education system here. Where the majority can’t afford healthcare.
    there’s only two kinds of Libertarians
    And the rest of your reply, makes my point. Admit it or not you make clear people should not have more than you. Democrats aren’t after “obscene” wealth. The methods they intend to push so often (stock portfolios) would gut the US middle class. Because they are trying to tax non-held money. Explain to me this, because it makes up the majority of stock holders: How does a family of 4 pay 4200 in taxes on a 20,000 stock portfolio? When they bring in 50,000 per year? Stocks are not stored value, stocks aren’t extractable money. Half the country lost 50% of estimated return after the 2019 election. Many recovered, Some did not. If you taxed them on nov 1 you would have excessively over taxed half the population. If you taxed them on Nov 29… you would have ‘under’ taxed them. The current method IS fair. The only way to be fair. You pay taxes when the money becomes a spendable unit. I can’t use my stocks to buy food at the corner store. Investments are already Taxed when started, When closed, and even when transferred on death. A child inhering a stock portfolio will pay twice. Despite the fact that there is no concurrent value to them. And they want to arbitrarily tax them yet again at some random point All at the same time they create an infinity loop in poverty by raising taxes to pay for services that increases the costs on the very people who can’t afford goods and need the services. The solution is not more taxes! The solution is not sending 80-some percent of US taxes overseas.

  • On the post: Florida’s Governor Continues To Abuse His Executive Power To Eject His Political Opponents

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2023 @ 12:43am

    areas. Don’t give me shit about hurricane-force winds because you want to scoff at a once-in-a-lifetime storm like an Internet Badass
    I stayed in place through two hurricanes in Georgia and another in Florida. I won’t yawn at it, but I call crap when I see it. 80mph gusts are par for the course in the mid west every year in July, August, and into early September. Our storms are why home insurance in the corn belt is almost the same as the south east hurricane states. In reality Cali has been exceedingly and exceptionally lucky for a very long time. If you don’t like the weather, move. That’s what every animal capable of self mobility does. Move, survive, or die. That’s the very basic reality of life.
    is your problem, not mine.
    Yes. That’s exactly what intelligence brings. See issue. Move.
    amirite
    Bingo. Drink more water. Wear less clothing. Keep wet. Don’t exercise.

  • On the post: Florida’s Governor Continues To Abuse His Executive Power To Eject His Political Opponents

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2023 @ 12:33am

    No, dude, you don’t get it. There’s a middle ground. Not America only, just America first.why does 80% of annual spending leave the country. What other country in the world does that? Show me one democrat that ran for president in the past 20 years that didn’t have the same level of money you claim to detest. Other than the young outsider of Obama. You are blind in your assault. You see the “enemy” that you were told to bake at and ignore the master that beats you. (That’s not a slave image, it’s a pet image) stop being the lapdog for the Uber wealthy. The party doesn’t care about you. Or anyone else nor donating million to them.

  • On the post: Florida’s Governor Continues To Abuse His Executive Power To Eject His Political Opponents

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2023 @ 08:28pm

    Then consider that, by taxing the wealthy, we could more than afford to pay for universal healthcare
    Or, we could close a few military bases, bring our troops home, not give away billions of dollars to other countries…. And not raise taxes because we’d have a surplus. And you make my point for me. We spend… there
    Like, we spend money to help combat famine and disease and human rights violations
    Rather than spending on their poor, we should spend on OUR poor. A doctor’s visit should be free. I do believe I said that. How much have we dumped into central Africa. How much have we given Ukraine. How many years of free for all public health could we have funded with those alone. Maybe if we stopped giving free resources to criminals trespassers and instead sent them home and used the funds for our own poor, …?

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