Willing to bet they only pay enough to make it worthwhile for the property owner. In classic capitalist fashion, it completely ignores the externalities that the rest of society has to bear.
Property taxes on parking lots should be assessed on the full potential of the property. What kind of tax revenue could that same property bring in if it were an apartment or office building? That’s how cities should be looking at it imo
So? He’s the CEO of a company that already gets no money from me.
Online forums pick the weirdest hills to die on sometimes. You’ve probably used hundreds of products today alone made by companies whose CEOs are worse dickwads than Eich. But this gave you a chance to feel superior online so you had to take it lmao
There's a dude with a whip in the picture, so it seems like the artist believes it was slave labor
Better healthcare coverage*
You definitely don't want healthcare from 2000bce lol
The paradox of the internet is that people want everything:
but don’t want everything:
Yup.
Imagine your facebook-addicted uncle complaining about the woke platform that he uses all day every day. Then imagine he has the money to buy facebook, as well as the hubris to think he could do a better job running it. That’s basically what happened here.
Serious question, isn't this going to force them to release their trademark on the word "tweet"?
It depends on context, and I think most people realize this intuitively. If you put pumpkin in somebody's berry smoothie they're going to be pissed no matter what the scientific community says lol. It's the kind of thing that only matters for trivia.
And honestly science appropriated the term from common parlance, not the other way around. So a layperson could just as easily walk into a botany lab and say "fun fact, these actually are berries" and be completely correct.
Is that really how bans work? The admins of lemmy.world can’t ban a kbin.social user from commenting in their communities? I’m pretty sure if you get banned your participation in that community is over no matter what instance you’re on.
Good luck, piracy ain’t what it used to be. Denuvo is getting strong af