Depends. Are you a Louisiana Republican legislator?
Depends. Are you a Louisiana Republican legislator?
It’s not a brilliant new idea, it’s a good old one. Jitneys are back baby!
It’s so stupid. Like, if the protesters do something illegal (actually illegal that is) then even if they have a mask on you can arrest them and make them take it off for mugshots. Also medical masks don’t really cover enough of the face to prevent identification.
So many folks at or just over the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid that even Forbes can see them.
I’m sure grit + wealth is far better than either alone. It’s really probably grit + wealth + connections + luck.
Xavier, Renegade Angel, biblically accurate? Maybe.
For all note taking, I enjoy ZimWiki.
How do you like it next to htop?
Yeah, I don’t know that it would work well in these particular protests.
Isn’t the old bit about organized crime how they always have a second set of books? After all they do want to be able to track their finances.
Or at this point, the one whose tracking is easiest and safest to avoid or circumvent.
Also mind that soon these new cars will be used cars with the same bullshit.
Yeah. No one ever gave me AdSense dollars for nearly busting my fucking head.
Don’t get me wrong, this is among the least offensive iterations of the phenomen, but middlemen can be pretty shitty in any transaction.
Sometimes they provide a useful service, acting as a sort of external sales and marketing department for producers who for whatever reason don’t have the mechanisms in place to get their products out to their would-be consumers.
But who likes a scalper? Who believes that a guy with an automated purchasing script is adding value to Taylor Swift tickets? Or that the people buying multiple PS5s during the early days just to resell them were providing a useful intermediary service? No one.
And likewise taking something you don’t want off of Craigslist before someone who actually wants it can get it, only to flip it on another site, doesn’t add value or provide a useful service.
But what if those coworkers sold my furniture instead of keeping it for themselves? Is that somehow dishonorable?
If you’re going to bring honor into it, yeah it can be pretty dishonorable. Your worker would be using his privileged position of access to people who are in a financial position to just discard valuable goods, and if he’s then reselling those at market rate rather than cost plus, then he’s not so much compensating himself for the work of reselling the products as he is exploiting the ignorance of his customers to maximize profit.
And if we understand honor be rooted in transparency, honesty, fairness, etc (which is what we immediately think of when we think of an “honorable” fight or dual, for example), then yes that can be very dishonorable.
The more I think about it, the more I think he’s right about these jobs adding no value.
It is honestly impressive that with (presumably) only hard work, an education, a lifetime of business experience, and the kindness of strangers, he was able to work his way up to 6.4% of his goal.
A regular Ozymandias, that one.
I’d like credit scores systems to be fully public and developed by the government. It would be far better than the three private systems Americans deal with now.
Looks like it’s written by AI.