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Comment Re: Grocery chains ... (Score 1) 82

What is it with you guys, believing that economic and financial might make right. Ever heard of moral values? Society is built on them.

It's the same flawed thinking that a company can "just pull out" of somewhere. Somewhere where they'll have money invested, property, obligations to meet not to mention staff (as we all know staff are replaceable parasites in the Libertardinan world).

Also it's been conclusively demonstrated that "pulling out" doesn't work... As a method of contraception or means to effect a political change.

Comment Re:And this helps how? (Score 1) 82

Are things different in the USA than across the Atlantic?

Over here you can fill like 2 shopping bags with fresh fruits, vegetables, pasta, rice, beans/lentils and all sorts of stuff easily for less than £15 (~$20) that will last 2 weeks or more. It's dirt cheap to buy that stuff in the UK and most of mainland Europe.

I genuinely wanna know?

I believe it is.

Although the cost of meat is getting up there these days in the UK.

The bigger issue is that most people don't have the first clue what to do with fresh food besides putting it in a pot and boiling it until its mush (then servicing it with sausages and gravy). This is a problem on both sides of the pond although I suspect it's worse over there. I grew up a poor lad in Oz, the notion that some Americans eat out for every meal was preposterous to me as there's no way it seemed remotely affordable but apparently it happened.

Another issue is that cooking takes time some people don't have. Especially as work is trying to take up more and more time these days. So they end up getting pies, chicken, et al. that they can just put in the oven (or ready meals).

As much as I see and agree with what the city of SF is trying to do, it's rather pointless if we can't also address the two points above.

Comment Re:One silly law causes problems (Score 1) 63

Should we then apply the same logic to very fallible human drivers?

The entire positive side to bureaucracies and committees and governments is that they have enough people in them to do multiple things at once.

Usually when someone says something like what you said and I quoted above here, they are trying to argue that human drivers shouldn't exist. Maybe this is true, for some particular set of truths, but there's always a number of ways you can look at a situation. For example, I would argue that no one and no computer should be driving in the bulk of situations we are currently driving in, because cars are a terrible mode of transportation in the cities where most people live.

Comment Re:What nobody notices in Steam HW Survey (Score 1) 29

Yes, and also the open driver is worth a shit unlike the closed driver for Windows, which provably is not. So not only do you not have the Nvidia driver shittiness, you don't have the AMD Windows driver shittiness either. If you're not deeply into LLMs then AMD is the obvious choice for a GPU for Linux.

Comment Re:They warn about the dangers of Socialism (Score 1, Troll) 55

Communism was supposed to be about equality and the people controlling everything in a bottom up manner. But the moment you implement it on a national scale you end up with a small inner circle

Nobody has ever tried to implement "Communism without a small inner circle" at the national level, and WITH it, it isn't Communism. Maybe there is no such thing as Communism, like there is no such thing as a completely free market, but nobody ever made a good faith effort to have everyone be equal at that level. There's always the plan to ride atop the masses.

Comment Re:Guys, just do coalition government already. (Score 0, Troll) 98

Just redo your constitutional setup.

"Just"

It's super hard to redo our constitution. There's only two ways, one is with fire and the other requires consensus.

It's not that the vast majority of people in the US ain't noticing that fundamentals of the US system have to change.

The vast majority of people in the US don't know shit.

Comment Re:Dominic and his crew... (Score 1) 41

Would be in awe of this. No more having to try to slow down trucks while a guy shoots harpoons into the passenger seat and then jump into the cab to tranquilize the driver and steal the entire truck and trailer!

Yep, does the criminal in question look similar to Vin Diesel?

I believe hacking into things was the plot arc of a few of the later F&F movies.

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