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Who do these pants -wetting idiots think they're scaring?

The boomers who grew up during the Cold War and who continue to have better voter turnout rates than Millennials, even as the latter generation sneaks up on their 40s.

Like...I don't agree with their policies, but their tactics are objectively effective.

This isn't an endorsement of conservative fear mongering but rather calling out my fellow Millennials, who've recently surpassed boomers as the most populous generation in the US.

Show up and vote, god dammit.

Which is why there should be legal mechanisms to place legal responsibility for decisions like this personally on those in leadership positions when they're being made, even if those people no longer hold those positions.

You bet your ass the chucklefucks who came up with this little stunt would've thought twice about it if they knew that there was a decent chance they'd go to prison for it.

Also gotta make this shit sting the shareholders too: make the company pay the victims not only the estimated value of their data but also a portion of all profits made while a policy like this is in effect. Since there's no easy way to tell how much money was made off their data, unless the company has the numbers, let's say half.

Suddenly the quarterly report's got a nice repayment shaped dent in its side and all the sudden the shareholders care about following the law and respecting the rights of customers.

Maybe not the best parallel but a good point nonetheless.

A more apt comparison might be:

"What's the best all-beef hot dog I can buy at my local supermarket?"

"Ugh! OMG! Don't do that to yourself! Why would you even want to bother with eating beef if that's the shit you're going to put in your body?! Just get some Japanese A5 Wagyu ribeye and thank me later!"

Most jobs like that, or really any pay scheme other than piece work or an hourly wage usually has the process of:

1. You can take as much PTO as you like.
2. You can take as much PTO as you like...provided you get all your work done.
3. You work like a dog, get all your work done, and take time off.
4. Since you were able to get everything done and have time left over to not work, your boss increases your workload, so now you have to work like a dog, all the time, or else you'll never get everything done.

It's like playing chess, and while the other player can't change the rules as they go, but a condition for playing with them is that they get two moves every turn.

I don't care about that so much as the hyper specificity of not only "you have to be on the political left here" but "being to the left isn't enough, you need to be this far left, and hold these specific views on politics, technology, etc.".

And the community that is here is, amazingly, somehow even worse than Reddit, on average, when it comes to being a hive mind that is wildly intolerant of any disagreement.

Not only that, but there's a 100% chance they sell this shit to you as a forever mouse, then in a few years if it's not making them money hand over fist, they'll discontinue it and keep your money.

It also wouldn't cover a meal from Uber Eats.

Definitely worse than nothing.

The amount of times I've struggled when setting up monitors over the past 5 years with HDMI and DP...only to have them eventually work in a way I had it previously when it wouldn't...is too damn high.

I feel like AIM was the de facto god-emperor of IM platforms and the rest were just also-rans.

Maybe that was just my experience tho, but I feel like ICQ and IRC were older but more clunky, MSN and Yahoo were newer or contemporary but less dependable and had less buy in from the community.

I think you'd be cutting out a significant portion of the workforce by excluding those in early adulthood.

I'm guessing their position is very much "oh they still need to work and pay taxes...and they shouldn't expect any more support than they currently have in order to do so...but they need to figure out how to manage it all without driving, and they should be disenfranchised as well".

There's more than one specific topic covered in sex ed.

We teach math to children, but nobody is suggesting that you need to get your toddler into differential equations.