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It’s very easy. Waste in private organisations costs the owners money and the organisation disappears when the money runs out. Waste in public organisations costs all of us, including me, money, and the organisation never disappears, if anything, it keeps growing and consuming more money forever.

If Mark Cuban wants to spend his money on this I don’t see the issue. It’s his to waste.

Very unprofessional of Discourse to publicly shame a client like this. If they are not being paid and they care so much about the cost they should bring the website down instead of resorting to petty shaming.

From inside the poor community. You have to let them find out by themselves that living in squalor off side hustles is a bad alternative to finding a stable job, behaving, and then prospering. Giving them money for nothing perpetuates these issues, since they don't have a reason to improve their situation.

I'm saying all these things because I am from a poor community. I know how things work in such communities, and it's nothing like well off people (like most of you reading these lines are) think it is. Nobody is "keeping them down" but themselves.

Cultural changes must come from inside. Trying to make cultural changes from outside is unethical (and gross). But those changes will never occur if you give handouts. Giving handouts is making them stay poor, artificially making their culture not evolve.

No, the necessary changes are cultural; the government can’t and shouldn’t do anything about it. What they really shouldn’t do is give handouts, since that’s sure to perpetuate the inequality. Necessity is the mother of invention, teaching a man to fish, yada yada yada.

“Stealing from the rich to feed the poor” sounds very good in paper. I live in a country that does something like this and what you’re asking for is to steal from the already overworked and overtaxed middle class to give it to those who refuse to work.

Democrats vastly outspent republicans. https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/democrats-republicans-ad-sp...

Yeah… who dares interfere with US intervention of a country?!

If I had to delete an app every time I see something I politically disagree with I would have no need for a smartphone.

I’m pretty sure it’s completely legal to mention trademarks when comparing your product to others.

Google Play Music also used to do this.

If you cared you wouldn’t have bought an iOS device.

What does this have to do with the OP? It’s not reasonable for his server to be taken offline every time someone decides to post some dox on it. Small community administrators don’t have the means to do round the clock moderation. The purpose of these regulations is to make sure only big tech can run an online service.

Things would improve dramatically if everybody who lives off the state (including pensioners) couldn’t vote.

In some European countries public money has turned into a pretty transparent way of buying votes. These votes are used to make sure nothing ever changes.

Reading the most extreme advocates of progressivism here defend American imperialism just to oppose Trump is amusing to me.

I used to laugh at the idea of a “Trump Derangement Syndrome”, but now I’m not so sure anymore.

I had an ASUS Z97-K motherboard that used to do the same thing after I had been playing with the boot entries for a while. I never went as far as figuring out what the issue was. I theorised that it was a case of the motherboard not performing garbage collection of the deleted entries; it didn’t occur to me that it could have been a fragmentation issue. I always fixed it by resetting the BIOS…

I suffer from astigmatism and dark themes fatigue me a lot.

Between the fanboys and those who are consumed by hate the internet has been really annoying these last weeks.

It’s funny but predictable that the same website that has always said that piracy is a-okay changes its mind as soon as it’s Facebook who’s caught pirating stuff.

Not only is the supply side constrained; Spain has received over 2 million immigrants in the last five years who need housing and who tend to go live in the cities since that’s where jobs are.

I don’t know. Everything?

Given the rampant cronyism of academia and the government I doubt there will be any open positions to fill.

Well, good luck finding it - it’s always in the last place you look!

They mock fb whilst they use instagram and WhatsApp.

Luckily, with the technological advances in the last months, it is now possible to install more than one app on a phone at a time.

> I like cheap sunglasses and I don't like talking to chatbots. I don't understand why we can't have dumb tools anymore.

It really sucks that dumb, cheap sunglasses no longer are sold. It’s either these meta sunglasses or have your eyes melt

They have been ignoring almost all bugs in the goldsrc tracker for years.

This is nothing but propaganda. When your economy is shit any small increase will make it look like it’s booming.

I love being on Reddit

I tried using it on a 2-hour video and it said that… the video is too long?

Kind of like hiring a painter to paint your house and him refusing the job because your house is unpainted.