Nah the factory in the West Bank was closed about nine years ago. So you’ll be happy to know Palestinians in the West Bank have a longer commute and have to pass through a lot of security checks if they want to work for Sodastream.

So you can buy a Sodastream with a clean conscious. Unless even employing Palestinians is somehow wrong. Which people will find a way to rationalize because everyone knows that people who have a decent job are less likely to fire rockets at Israel, and we want that to continue forever, right?

The country I live in has a leader of a fairly large church as it’s Head of State. It’s been this way going back generations. By the atheist definition, am I living under theocratic rule. It’s certainly more significant that someone simply saying the word “God” from time to time.

Nobody really worries about it. In fact most people probably don’t know who the Head of State is, and if they do, they don’t know he’s the leader of a church. In fact we have religion pushed on us far less than countries that have official separation of church and state.

BTW the Head of State I’m referring to is King Charles III, who is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.

Well the government can break up corporations which results in more competition. They can also enforce standards which also allows more competition. This gives people more options so they can’t just set prices in a monopolistic way.

Unfortunately there’s not much the Canadian government can do about Walmart and Microsoft as they aren’t Canadian companies. And Kamala’s opportunity economy has been cancelled so it doesn’t look there’s going to be any positive change in the US for foreseeable future.

But they could break up Loblaw’s at least.

Well the debate should be over whether the taxes cause things to be expensive or it’s corporate greed causing things to be expensive.

Next time you see one of the ubiquitous Poilievre ads claiming it’s taxes that’s making things unaffordable, think about where the problems actually are.

Given so much you know about the world comes from corporations, how do you determine what’s true and what’s a lie? Just based on your feelings which were formed by social media algorithms?

Sounds like someone that’s not on the right side of history would say. You’re going on the list!

Yeah I was talking about TVs… we are discussing movies after all. Moreover, TVs that the average person has.

There’s a huge jump in quality between the TVs the average person has now compared to 20+ years ago.

Yeah but I’m a little old fashioned so I like to sit on my couch and watch things. And you can get a TV that’s insanely better than anything that existed a decade ago for the price of a good smart phone.

Yeah but the others are US companies. They can be regulated. Which they don’t want and they will at least make an effort to get rid of at least the obvious disinformation.

With TikTok, there is no middle ground. Can’t keep them in line with the threat of regulation as they’re a foreign company. Operating in the country that has superseded Russia as the biggest source of disinformation. The only leverage they have is the threat to ban it outright.

Besides, Zuckerberg and Musk live in the US. They don’t want things to get too bad. Though they’re so disconnected from reality they may inadvertently make things bad. But they at least have an incentive to not have the US go to shit.

With TikTok, US cities could burn to the ground and they’ll still be fine. And we see TikTok making people particularly unhinged already.

The democrats that stayed home are most certainly in the group I called ignorant Americans. People couldn’t see the difference between Harris and Trump, “ignorant” is being generous.

If people understood how the economy worked at all, then it would have been a strength and she wouldn’t have been on the defensive about it. And do you think the majority of Americans who voted for Trump would have changed their mind if she was running on an “anti-business” platform? Trump who was proposing tariffs would solve inflation?

We literally had a candidate for President telling people to watch her opponents rallies. Why was that? Because the media only wanted to show pundits arguing over something because ratings. Everyone seeing him as the bat-shit lunatic he is doesn’t give them anything to debate. So they had to sane wash what he was saying to give the pundits something to talk about. Harris has to have an economic plan. Trump, well his plan is batshit so don’t talk about it. Why isn’t Harris doing more interviews? Trump… well he’s not doing interviews because he’s too batshit, nothing to discuss there.

But sure believe the media when they blame the democrats for not doing the media’s job. If I were more conspiracy minded I might say they didn’t want to explain anything so the dems would have to explain things via ad spots the media made money from. But never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

The media is failing to explain anything because they’ve been too distracted by Trump for a fucking decade. But as long as they can blame their failures on the democrats (which does have an impact on the dems getting elected ya know) they aren’t going to change.

This ain’t new either. I had to learn about how vaccines from a youtuber that plays Mario Maker. Despite the covid vaccine being one of the biggest stories of the decade, they didn’t bother to cover anything about it’s development and testing. It was just Trump Trump Trump Vaccine Trump Trump Trump… Why don’t people trust the vaccine? Why oh why don’t people know that the vaccine is safe?

Same fucking thing this year. Trump Trump Trump TRUMP ELECTED! Trump Trump… why don’t people understand that inflation has been handled and tariffs will only bring it back?

Which of these isn’t real?

• Most of Founding Fathers owned slaves
• Elon Musk treats workers like shit
• The Founding Fathers wrote pretty words about rights and freedoms
• Elon Musk writes words about right and freedoms.
• Founding Fathers were wealthy because of the work done by slaves
• Elon Musk is wealthy because of work done by oppressed people under apartheid

You keep saying I’m divorced from reality, but which of these things do you think isn’t real?

If you want to make an argument against that, you can do that in your head. You seem to be good at making up things you want other people to say, so you don’t need me for your imaginary argument.

The alternative was Trump. Harris posing for some photo ops to try to pick up some GOP moderate votes doesn’t change the fact her opponent was Trump.

If some people wouldn’t vote for Harris because of some photo ops with Cheney, those would be people in the ignorant group I’m talking about.

It’s almost as if ideology is just some made up bullshit.

Liberals like good government.

Both conservatives and leftists believe the government is fundamentally flawed. People keep electing conservatives who sabotage the government to prove it’s flawed (but not in a way that would negatively effect them and their friends). Young people support leftism at protests (which are really just social get togethers) until they grow out of it and vote for conservatives because they continue to believe the government is flawed. Or maybe refuse to participate in a system because it’s not perfect.

If a liberal admits there’s flaws to the system which they want to fix, they are blamed for it because they failed to provide good government. The fact that liberals aren’t in power long enough to make the government better doesn’t matter. They’re considered failures if conservatives prevent them from providing good government.

So people vote for the conservatives to run the government because they succeed in preventing liberals from making the government good.

You’re truly an examlar of good spelling :P

The huge improvements in TV screens have a lot to do with it too, I think.

When we only had CRT screens at home it was a big jump in quality to go to the theater. But when you have a 4K screen in your living room, there’s less reason to go to the theater.

Yup, the death of cinema has more to do with inconsiderate assholes and big screen TVs being affordable now.

Sorry to Marty Scorsese, but I’m not going to the cinema to see some septuagenarians talk about a hit they did decades ago for three and a half hours.

It’s internet real…

Somebody really posted that on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shitizdogra_firing-layoffs-job-activity-7271758403717214211-l-FG/

And if you search on LinkedIn for “Ashu Arora Jha” there is an account that looks real.

Whether or not it actually real and not just internet real is anybody’s guess. But it’s not something OP made up anyway.

Been using hotmail a lot lately to figure out why some emails my company is sending out on behalf of one of our customers aren’t being delivered to hotmail.com (and outlook.com, live.com, msn.com, etc) accounts. The customer we’re sending email for is Microsoft.

Hey they got good spam detection at least.