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A lot of the comments so far are trying to stay with the negative connotation to exploitation. You exploit your comfortable shoes to walk further each day. You exploit the microwave oven's ability to more quickly warm your coffee than the stove.
This is the same with discrimination. You choose the raspberry danish over the cheese danish. This is you practicing discrimination, and it's fine.
Any evil in it comes from abuse or impact to yourself with respect to others, that second definition of exploitation in the OP.
Yes. When somebody else has a better take and I want it to be the top comment, I will downvote mine.
I (age 60) remember buying my condo in 1991 or so, interest rates about 7% with a VA-guaranteed loan. My parent's first mortgage was 2% or 3% but my mom, a Realtor, said those days were permanently gone. (They weren't. I had that in the house I bought in 2010.) But it felt forever at the time, and she thought it would be forever.
Nothing is forever. It may crash, but something else we can't imagine might happen too. I think we all agree the present situation is unsustainable.
I use a credit card because our laws in the USA protect credit-card purchases better than they do debit-card and other electronic purchases.
Although I use a credit card with revolving credit, I always pay the full balance each month. In this way, it acts as a debit card, but I get the benefits of a credit card. I have to remember to pay it on time, but I can set up autopay even for that.
My credit union (a kind of non-profit bank owned by its members) is the issuer of the card, and it gives a 2% cash award for credit-card usage.
The result of about half of recent lander missions from Earth is failure.
The USA hasn't tried one recently.
Unfortunately, I'm finding Lemmy 2023 just as shallow as Reddit 2023.
I'm keeping to my policy of only subscribing to two things at one time, and rotating so that I get to see the seasons of the things that I really want to see.
I've never been much of a pirate, mainly because I do believe in supporting those that produce the art that I love. That said, I am a big user of the library. And when there's some FOSS product that I like, I support it. And while I could and can buy commercially now, I remember the days when I couldn't and I survived on FOSS and the library.
With that said, let me say that I think that the content industry shoots itself in the foot when it creates these higher prices, obscene length of copyright terms, polluting their own products with commercial ads ,and fake scarcity. They deserve all the piracy that their own behavior generates!
I think Mike Masnick has it right. The best defense against piracy is to compete against it with superior offerings.
As an audio enthusiast, it sucks that I can’t upgrade my stereo/audio system.
Exactly! I can have the system I want but having it somehow means no heated seats in the winter.
It's not about money. They do have a particular take on running their instance than most open general-use instances. You can read about that and their rationale and decisions and decide whether it is for you.
Informed by that, you might then decide if beehaw is for you or not. If beehaw is for you, talk about why you are joining in particular regards to gelling with their particular philosophy.
My 76 y/o spouse loves Linux Mint. The 2017-bought desktop was deemed insufficient for Windows 11 and now runs Mint.