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Giving American fast food restaurants two paths:

1. automate

2. become a charity

> aren't paying enough money

Renumeration expectations are entirely malleable and subjective. When you've been riding the gravy train, even $15/h looks a pittance.

> Executives and shareholders have had decades of amazing wealth accumulation, but that has to end. The unwinding is happening and the gains from productivity, automation, and innovation belong to everyone and this moment in history may force government to adopt policies to make it happen.

What does America have to offer in 2021 that would prevent said executives (at the potential behest of shareholders) from jumping ship?

Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics are enough to explain the downfall of ACLU:

1. Everyone is conservative about what they know best

2. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing

3. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies

How quickly things change.

"In Soviet Russia, we too have freedom of speech. But in America, you have freedom after speech" -- Yakov Smirnoff

Twitter naively overplayed their hand. These are the consequences.

America extorts other nations by virtue of the $US being the world's dominant reserve currency. The federal reserve can print money unimpeded, with foreigners bearing the brunt of inflation. The math is simple.

> The government whose action you're commending quite literally has a history of arresting & detaining its critics, extorting & sometimes murdering its citizens in the street, supporting blasphemy laws, and blocking content and even financial transactions that it deems dissident (and those blocks are implemented with such a wide brush that plenty of completely unrelated sites often get caught in the net).

So has the US. Americans, and their mega corporations, have no moral high ground to lecture others.

> But of course, the real censorship is when a foreign social media platform that's used by a few percent of the population at maximum takes down a post.

Who elected Jack Dorsey and his band of far-left censors king? Twitter is a guest in every foreign country, as we're seeing play out.

> It's always funny to see people cosplay at caring about censorship by...jumping to support the first actual authoritarian in sight.

No. Rather the pot should refrain from calling the kettle black

> And all that's beside the fact that this had nothing whatsoever to do with elections.

Censoring politicians has everything to do with elections.

Censorship. World leaders won't be gagged by Jack Dorsey. India is next.

Lukashenko profits by playing the EU off against Russia.

Banning/sanctioning Belarus naturally drives the country further towards Russia. The EU attempts to offset this by simultaneously dangling a €3B carrot: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_...

It makes Putin a happy panda, Russia's buffer zone has now been set in concrete.

Three or four coordinated accounts is all it takes to have de facto editorial control over HN.

Yes. Ask your average Lebanese or Venezuelan citizen. Outside of privileged western states crypto has been a massive societal benefit. Crypto will jeopardise the monopoly of statists however, which explains the coordinated establishment pushback.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210331005682/en/Glo...

Sure, there are very few (if any) 350lb vegans though. Vegetables (even processed and deep fried) are too light on calories.

The most redeeming ingredient in a burger, fries, and soda combo is the meat patty.

> Which is not remotely representative of any human diet.

People don't come to weigh 350lbs eating vegetables daily.

Real meat to plant-based "meat" is one instance.

The most intolerant wins.

> It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences.

> Further, an optical illusion comes with the dominance of the minority: a naive observer would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

Katie Hill herself posted them to /r/wifesharing

The "hangovers get worse when you are older" tripe is a miscorrelation. Any ageing alcoholic can attest to that.

The majority drink hardest when they're in their 20s, start slowing down in their 30s, and all but teetotal as they progress through their 40s. Hangovers are all just a product of your tolerance.

If you drink 4-5 medium beers everyday, you'd need to drink at least 10 to induce a hangover.

In Australia, all alcohol (yes, even beer and wine) can only be bought at designated liquor stores. The vast majority of which are only open 10AM~10PM, with a handful in Sydney and Melbourne open after midnight.

Further, public drinking is all but restricted to destitutes outside of NYE and Aus day.

Contrast that with Germany. Every two blocks there's a Späti, many open 20–24h daily, each selling beer, wine, and spirits, at all hours of the day. You'll find hordes drinking in the streets, parks, and riversides anytime weather permits. It isn't unusual to see people sharing a beer on the U-bahn on the way to the work.

One culture demonises (although indulges in) alcohol, the other embraces it.