corporations can’t seem to ever accept a limit for themselves.

This is the result of competition. When success is measured relative to others, it’s forever a moving target. Under this definition of success, self improvement is equally effective as sabotaging another. And as we can see, it’s not just businesses sabotaging one another. If a business can get away with sabotaging its own consumers, as it can in the case of a monopoly, a cartel, or regulatory capture, it will.

Even if the arrest is unlawful, resisting arrest is clearly illegal.

And the punishment for breaking any law is death? Or from your prior comment:

They tried to stun him twice, use a baton, the only option left was to use the gun.

Yeah, the gun was the only option. You definitely can’t just let someone run away for resisting arrest at a traffic stop. Even if you impound their now-abandoned car, they might go on a whole spree of resisting arrests or something.

In case you can’t tell my tone is past sarcasm and well into disgust.

It’s just that, living in that moment, it appears that these companies are so unbelievably large and powerful that they could never be unseated

It’s also that the U.S. has shown repeatedly that it’ll prop up companies with ongoing subsidies, or even bail them out as in the 2008 crisis.

strictly speaking it’s

here’s a gift card so you can give us that money back again we can keep your money but give you something for free later.

communist because u want a commune = communist

communist because u want tanks and gulag = tankie

Maybe in a sous vide? But a separate issue will be already-quite-hot food being put into plastic. Think they let your takeout noodles/soup cool before putting it in a plastic container?

Hello Games had a similar issue with No Man’s Sky.

Having played at release, Hello Game’s issue was much less “large scope games take long to make” and much more “we explicitly lied about features that are strictly not in the game”.

if xkcd was right about jpeggy porn being niche, i’d bank on terrible AI porn becoming a niche in the future too.

Why the hell should i do that?

Read any chapter of history, particularly in the last several hundred years, and you’ll find no end of answers to this question.

Then the school district told him he had to cut a key point from his presentation — that the artist he helped rescue from obscurity had a gay son. Rather than acquiesce, he canceled the last of his talks.

“We’re long past the point where we should be policing people talking about who they love,” Nobleman said in a telephone interview. “And that’s what I’m hoping will happen in this community.”

They didn’t ask him not to “say ‘gay’”, as the title all but claims. They asked him to participate in the erasure of a relevant gay person from a story he was teaching to children.

Better education and better cultural norms that didn’t prioritize “things” and consumerism would go a long way.

So on the one hand I agree with you. On the other hand, consumer spending is 70% of U.S. GDP. If consumer spending takes a hit, we’re all going to feel it.

If this sounds awful it’s because it is. Our economy is not designed to benefit all, or even most.

people assume they already are [magic knowledge machines], and the little warnings that some stuff at the bottom of the page are inadequate.

You seem to have missed the bottom-line disclaimer of the person you’re replying to, which is an excellent case-in-point for how ineffective they are.

someone who’s into communism less for the equality and more for the dictatorship