Wait. Am I reading this right? Their punishment for doing something that they weren't supposed to be doing is just to stop doing it?
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r/whoosh 😉
#bandnames
trickle down authoritarianism
Probably not a great band name, but certainly a good album name.
Now I understand where ChatGPT hallucinations come from.
Not having to listen to you talk on the phone while I'm trapped in a seat near you is absolutely going to decrease my air rage.
The free market also dies when unregulated companies destroy their competition to become monopolies, destroy the environment and enslave people.
You're correct in that when companies essentially own politicians and get regulations passed that help them do the above, like the system we seem to have now, then that's a serious problem.
The answer to that isn't to get rid of regulations, though. An unregulated free market isn't going to stop factories from dumping toxic waste into rivers or spewing it into the air. It's not going to stop companies from paying employees slave wages. And it's definitely not going to stop companies from using dirty tactics to drive out their competition and become monopolies, as you seem to be suggesting.
A well regulated free market can both reward innovators that come up with new products or services that society values while also protecting the environment and the workers from exploitation, and ensuring healthy competition.
That's not the system we have now, for sure, but we're absolutely not going to get there by getting rid of regulations. We need to yank control of the government (and thus the laws) away corporations and the wealthy and give it back to the people.
RCV
"With this outstanding landmark judgment, the 'client-side scanning' surveillance on all smartphones proposed by the EU Commission in its chat control bill is clearly illegal," said Breyer.
"It would destroy the protection of everyone instead of investigating suspects. EU governments will now have no choice but to remove the destruction of secure encryption from their position on this proposal – as well as the indiscriminate surveillance of private communications of the entire population!"
I hope he's right, but I'll believe it when I see it.
The partnership between Google and the Environmental Defense Fund
I interpret that to mean that Google is getting paid for this work. They're not doing it out of kindness.
ETA: So, yes, PR BS.
Pretty sure the person you're responding to didn't think a /s was necessary, seeing how obvious the sarcasm was.
Exactly, and this also contradicts the "few bad apples" defense. If there were only a few bad apples, then the police unions should be bending over backwards to eradicate them sooner than later to protect the many good apples, not to mention improve the long suffering reputation of police.
Instead, they're doing the exact opposite, making it clear to anyone paying attention that it's mostly, if not entirely, bad apples.
I'm absolutely calling BS. I've never seen such a thing and wagering that you are just confused about what lanes can do what (or you're just making shit up). There are several roundabouts near me where an inside lane can turn out or go straight, but in all of those cases all lanes further out are required to turn out. The people that design traffic patterns aren't idiots, but there's no shortage of idiot drivers that can't follow even the simplest patterns.
If you want to insist, all you need to do is link to such an intersection in google maps so I can look at the aerial view. I'm honestly curious how they would paint the traffic lanes to indicate what you're describing.