And monolingual New Zealanders aren't going to watch Game of Thrones in American just to get it cheaper?

You could just pay those 76 people $600,000 a year for doing nothing and you'd have enough left over that you could use to hire another 12 at the same rate.

If it's so ignorable, why is it getting international news coverage now? The law was passed last year, after all. The goal was to draw public attention to an unfair law and they're accomplishing exactly what they set out to do.

This has nothing to do with slacktivism. It's a well thought out way of highlighting what's being done to the people's rights in Spain.

Way to miss the point.

Showing up in person to protest at a government building without explicit permission from the government has been made illegal. Projecting images of protesters is a means of highlighting the fact that those protesters are no longer allowed to be there in person.

I'm just going to leave this here.

The same reason people pay for Netflix rather than downloading the same movies and shows from a torrent.

That's actually why the subject should be introduced in grade school. The kids who have no aptitude for it will find that out before they go to college and declare it as a major, leading to a much higher percentage of that 20 students being good at it.

Outside of sales positions, promoting better negotiators is hardly a good way to ensure that you're promoting the people with the best job skills. Most jobs don't use that particular skill set.

That didn't work before. Why do you think it will work now?

Singapore's population went up by 500,000 in the 25 minutes between the two parent posts. At this rate, their population will reach 2.2 billion by this time tomorrow!

I wasn't aware that Adblock had an option for blocking only ads from large multinational corporations that dodge taxes.

You've got it all wrong, man. It's the fucking rainbows!

61 Internet of Things devices could let the world know that you lead a boring fucking life... oh wait, you're doing that on your own already.

I think you should test that theory. Cut yourself and rub juice from a leek into the wound and tell us how it feels.

Relevant XKCD