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Western democracies have resigned themselves, perhaps by design, to leaving the poor vulnerable to criminals. I have no idea why this is, maybe sadism. Forcing the vulnerable to live a life where they have to worry for their personal security and for the security of their property is something these democracies will fight tooth and nail for. And that’s also their most successful cultural export, perhaps after Coca Cola.

As long as I have an alternative I would never choose the ad blocker that doesn’t let me block the elements I want.

For most websites I don’t care but there are many websites that I visit very often and removing annoying or useless elements and padding is practically mandatory at this point - I wouldn’t want to go back to not being able to do it.

So, answering your question, yes, “useless” was hyperbole.

An ad blocker is useless to me if I can’t block whatever I want with it.

“The Blue Report” seems an apt name.

Deleted means the own user deleted his content. Removed means that the subreddit mods did it. Removed by Reddit means that the Reddit admins did it.

The agenda was to leave Ukraine and to have Europe pay for its own defence which is what’s happening here. Nothing more, nothing less. Don’t let yourself get manipulated by Reddit-tier arguments.

Good luck but I never saw any ads on your website and I will never see any ads on your website.

Use a pirated apk on android or use the website on iOS.

For this amount of public money, he should’ve said.

Workarounds don’t exist? Haven’t heard of ad blockers? Which, by the way, are completely legal.

That is completely false. Diesel cars, which are what the poors drive, are only allowed if they are from 2015 or newer (Euro 6)

A small number? In the UK there are more than 1 cars per household.

In London it’s 0.76 which is still far, far from “a small number”

Amazon -> 30-day return policy, they cover shipping costs, no questions asked, doesn't matter how much you used the item.

Law -> 14-day return policy, you pay for shipping, the shop will make it as difficult as possible to let you return the item (even if it's illegal), they don't have to take the item if you opened it (which makes no sense - how do I know I don't want it if I can't try it?)

I don’t know. You can ask those poor people who can’t afford to buy a new “eco” car and are now unable to drive if they feel like their lives are better now. Maybe they have something to say about it, but ecologists may not want to hear it. (Or, more realistically, they will ignore what people want, because intellectuals know better)

You can easily calculate the shipping costs of what you buy and see if free shipping is worth it for you. Nothing sinister about it.

This happened a few months ago. They changed the backend completely. You can also notice it’s much slower (say from 5 ms to 200 ms). But I don’t think it’s worse.

Maybe they are confusing cause and effect there.

I disagree, because I’ve lived it and I know how it goes.

It’s the same as unsending messages - you can ask people not to do it, but if the option exists, they will do it anyway. I’d rather that options I don’t like don’t exist.

Others will text you and insist that you keep the feature on for the conversation.

Very philosophical and completely empty. (Like almost everything in philosophy)

They can allow you to 100% say whatever you want as long as the law allows them to host your speech. If they try to limit you beyond that, they are censoring you, which is what is occurring here.

What are “European values”? I was born in Europe, been here all my life, and I don’t think such thing exists - values that are shared among all Europeans AND that set us apart from other regions.

Europeans are much, much more culturally segregated than people from outside Europe seem to think.

Because even if you don’t want to use a feature, others will use it with you.

It’s really fucking boring how every platform that hosts speech tries to nudge you in their direction these days.

She tried to kill herself three years ago so it seems she’s not fit to make such decisions.

I can imagine the very same thing being said if the USA had pulled out of the War on Terror. B-but they have WMD! The NYT said so!

Of course. How many climate change theory advocates do you know who are poor?

This sounds like some platitude out of a facebooks comment section.

I am very aware of this, which is why I mentioned corruption in my comment, and how the only solution is to make the government smaller. Should have read the comment to the end.

Not necessarily. The government will have several providers to choose from, which will have to compete in price. If the prices are still inflated, we are talking government corruption, which is yet another reason to make the government smaller, not bigger.