Ground Control to Major Bong

Unless you’re from New Zealand

It’s a hand offering up a cocktail shrimp.

Netflix correctly knew they were first to market with a streaming service but every production company would quickly pivot to a streaming service, leaving Netflix with no content. So they preemptively started making their own content to try to keep their market share. Sadly their production bets often didn’t pay off.

Interesting. Do you have any more info on the SourceID token and how it can compromise an account?

https://youtu.be/3sk1T4UGGpc

The United Workers Union (UWU)??!

Hey dude, I don’t know you and I don’t know anything about you. I do know that everyone, even people you would never expect, have value. You are amazing just for being you. If you find things you enjoy, do those things. 10 year old you may be prouder of you than you think, even if it’s because of how you have kept on going when things have gotten tough. I hope you feel that.

A white chinchilla. There’s a decent chance it’s deaf. Great cat though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_sensorineural_deafness_in_cats

Rinnkuun… you’re back. Nice

Next time you’re in Sydney I’ll buy you a beer. Until then, much respect. Keep up the awesome work.

It’s like the Avengers of Lemmy porn posts in here. We’re just missing Rinnkun. Keep up the awesome work folks.

I was so happy to see Phoebe land here from Reddit.

All the other kids with the trumped up charges better run better run faster than my verdicts

I think it’s a burn from an iron

“Retiring”

That’s exactly what I’m trying to highlight. It might be good for the US to provide a list of things that are ok to regulate for the good of society, and things that are not ok to regulate for the good of capitalism.

Should healthcare be regulated? Should education be regulated? Should housing and rental prices be regulated? Food prices? What about essential services like power, internet, waste… should all that be regulated? You are living in a social democracy and pretending it’s a pure capitalist system.

Sounds like you’re already well aware of the solution to this problem. Wage reform. Having said that, changing wages just lifts the affordability amount for lower income earners, which will in turn put upward pressure on rental prices. Demand won’t change, only how much people can pay. I’m not against regulation on rentals, it just seems very anti-American to do it that way?!

For clarity, I believe in socialism, and live in Australia, arguably one of the more successful social democracies. I’m trying to highlight how capitalism has some massive gaps when it comes to implementation.

Interestingly, in Australia we have no rental controls, and the market just works. Prices rise and fall based on the demands of the market. At times, renting in Australia becomes unaffordable for many, and it’s all over the news, and people try to address the issue. But I don’t know that I’ve ever heard rental price controls being offered as a solution. The more common proposed solutions are to: build more affordable houses in newly created suburbs further from the city, increase public transport options to the city making outlying suburbs more viable, all of which provide downward pressure on the rental prices in the popular city districts. As construction booms, the rental market softens.

(I copy/pasted this comment from its original location as the person I replied to deleted their comment)

Correct

For clarity, I believe in socialism, and live in Australia, arguably one of the more successful social democracies. I’m trying to highlight how capitalism has some massive gaps when it comes to implementation.

Interestingly, in Australia we have no rental controls, and the market just works. Prices rise and fall based on the demands of the market. At times, renting in Australia becomes unaffordable for many, and it’s all over the news, and people try to address the issue. But I don’t know that I’ve ever heard rental price controls being offered as a solution. The more common proposed solutions are to: build more affordable houses in newly created suburbs further from the city, increase public transport options to the city making outlying suburbs more viable, all of which provide downward pressure on the rental prices in the popular city districts. As construction booms, the rental market softens.