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Do you genuinely believe this, have you done any research, and are you happy to stick with this argument?
It isn’t that simple in the USA. Yet it literally is that simple in every other country in the world.
I don’t understand why the average American has such main character syndrome that they genuinely believe their country is so unique that they are unable to solve problems every other country in the world has solved. Ridiculous.
Why should the minimum wage bartender at Brewdog get an automatic 10% tip when the minimum wage employee at Tesco doesn’t?
I just don’t see how this is better than literally every other country in the world which sets sales tax at the federal level.
And please don’t hit me with ridiculous hypotheticals “if it’s set at the federal level, the government could just increase the tax to 7000 billion trillion percent to steal everyone’s money”.
I really wish it were outlawed. The price paid should be the price displayed, unless the circumstances are exceptional. You cannot display prices without VAT so how it is allowed to display prices without the forced tip?
“It’s optional”. Sure, if you enjoy having your food spat in the next time you return.
I don’t see the point making $150k a year if I’m literally exchanging my life for that money.
“Unemployment” is a dirty word, I think by design to keep people producing for the economy. It’s impressive how much of a stronghold this concept holds over people. How many people who already have more than enough, who could live out the rest of their lives literally doing whatever they want, instead continue to remain employed in a job they don’t like due to an irrational fear of unemployment?
I’m definitely one of the few people lamenting Apple’s forced hand in moving to C on the iPhone. Lightning is incredible. It takes so much abuse and yet still fits like the day I bought the phone. Not looking forward to having to baby my phone’s port as well when I upgrade.
I don’t know why the burden of proof is so difficult for people to understand. If you make a claim, the onus is on you to prove it, not for others to disprove it.
If only fruits and vegetables had robust, natural, bio-degradable packaging of their own. Some sort of peelable skin, perhaps.
Dropbox is not only the most expensive cloud storage provider, but they also refuse to offer lower tiers. Now, instead of getting less money from me in exchange for a lower cap, they get no money from me and I pay a competitor. I don’t really see how that makes business sense.
If your employer asks you to disable security settings on your phone to install untrusted software, this raises a lot of alarm bells.
AFAIK I can’t sign the APK to generate trust like I can with MacOS. Although I suppose if I could, then I’d still need to go through verification anyway.
But yes, it’s disingenuous to claim Google is forcing me to do anything. Currently I can distribute software to any Android device with the change of a setting.
You need to look at the bigger picture - first of all what’s the probability of having an accident, then within that probability what’s the difference between wearing a helmet or not. That then needs to be compared against the risks of staying sedentary. It’s complicated.
If I had an airline as a client and I wanted to change the upholstery on a plane, I don’t think I’d need to have the changes approved by Boeing/Airbus in addition to having my personal data (home address, phone, and ID) sold and used to target me with advertising.
I recently hired a small car for £20 a day. Not a special deal, that’s just the price. A week would make that £140. An old car would cost almost twice that in taxes. Then you have maintenance, insurance, MOT, and devaluation.
My clients have employees who essentially have two ecosystem options when buying a smartphone - Apple or Google.
I, as a developer, then have to bend to the will of both of these corporations which, no matter how they compete on other things, are just as bad as each other when it comes to developer treatment.
Monopoly, duopoly, whatever - it’s crazy. Why am I uploading my fucking ID to Google, giving them my phone number, which they say “they may contact periodically to ensure the account is still active”, because I distribute private software to a private organisation?
I develop internal apps for small companies. Apple still forces each update - to an unlisted app - to go through a review process.
Google on the other hand have just told me they need to collect my address, phone number, and ID documents next year or they will delete my developer account.
I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops, wait weeks for reviews, and have my personal data collected & sold, because I distribute private software to people who use one of the two vendors that make up 99.99% of the market.
“Ohh it’s not a monopoly because your clients could just carry around a lenovo running linux instead of a mobile phone”. How is this argument still passing the bar?
When people are deterred, they take less eco friendly forms of transport, and are less active. This has negative health consequences, although difficult to measure and compare. But it’s not black and white.
The entirety of Europe gets by perfectly fine with public healthcare and no helmets. So I don’t buy the argument that this is truly a problem for healthcare.
You could just rent a car for those two trips like you suggested yourself in your first paragraph ;). Optimise for the most common scenario, not the least common one.
> Would I still be able to run a 2023 EV in 2044? Will the batteries last that long, with any sort of usable range?
Replacing the battery pack on an EV once every 15 years is certainly cheaper than all the maintenance that goes into an ICE in the same timeframe. Hopefully we can start recycling batteries properly before the current generation of EVs is up for battery replacements.
Luckily there's a button that disables the system, which I need to remember to press if I need to get out of the car to open a gate or check I'm centered in a parking spot.
I am really trying to understand what problem the engineers at Fiat were solving when they implemented this functionality. What is the "problem" with the engine restarting when the key is in the ignition in the on position, when I'm sat in the seat, all doors closed, clutch depressed, while the car is still in neutral.
"Oh no! The driver is going to be really confused if they leave the key in the ignition, open the door for three seconds, then get back into the car, and the engine starts when they press the clutch like it would if they didn't open the door. Better brick the entire car until the key is completely removed and reinserted into the ignition."
Can do! Fossil fuels cause more harm than the waste products of batteries. The myth of batteries being worse for the environment has been _thoroughly_ debunked. Feel free to do your own research.
It is a very silly hill to die on. Phone numbers are garbage. Difficult to change (banks/govt/emergency contact/ etc), difficult to mask (ala no “hide my email” alternative), and extremely invasive (no ability to customise notifications per sender/caller). So yeah, it’s no wonder people are becoming more and more wary of giving their phone number out.
When the alternatives such as email and push are so simple, it really doesn’t make sense why the OP is willing to lose potential customers because of some weirdly held opinion.
Many countries also exempt sales tax from essential groceries, which is not true for all US states. So the idea that the US model is somehow good for lower-income consumers is laughable.
It’s always fascinating when Americans have problems other countries don’t have, and just throw their hands in air saying “welp nothing we can do about it”
1. There is no conclusive or even suggestive evidence that radio waves cause adverse health effects in humans.
2. There is no known biological pathway by which radio waves could cause adverse health effects in humans.
Let me know when a legitimate study performed by known scientists in a reputable journal proves either of these statements wrong. Until then, I’m not worried.