Just because it's hard doesn't mean that web hosting platforms shouldn't invest in the future. Sometimes external pressures are necessary to get everyone to invest at the same time, when some/most are holding back to avoid spending money (affecting prices) if it's not happening industry-wide.

Is Christianity a more authoritarian relignion than others? That's a pretty huge group, with many different actual churches within it. Considering the abuse of religious power in other countries, perhaps AH et al just go for the dominant religion in that country/area and subvert it to their aims. Excessive religious authority itself is, I believe, the problem, not one particular religion.

Mod parent up, not a troll.

Considering they're willing to enforce those laws with fines and jail time, what's your recourse at that time? Are you supporting the ACLU? Voting against members of that party?

Not voting doesn't tell the parties Why you didn't vote, any message you are trying to send gets lost in the void. Also not voting Against the currently elected person or likely winner means they essentially get half of your vote.

Instead vote for the candidate most like what you want, and then go backwards. Or submit a blank ballot but make sure you email each candidate a nicely worded letter (so they can't justify ignoring it because of profanity) explaining why they didn't earn your vote. Without some kind of guidance as to where the voters want to go, parties just listen to the loudest voices (the donors)

One person is fire, and one is water. Sure, the intended audience is kids, but that metaphor is So blatant it's not even really a metaphor! The very idea is just boring.

But hey, what's the worst that could happen if we socialise the losses but privatise the profits? That's just laissez faire capitalism, right? Right??

The geopolitical problems caused by continued French interference in African country's economies do in fact lead to higher migration away from those countries, and many of those people end up in French migrant camps. Perhaps if the French Economy wasn't so reliant on the CFA franc and the associated cheap imports, they wouldn't be in such a terrible position.

There are degrees of privacy invasion, and degrees of corporate responsibility to the public at large. TikTok is currently the worst in terms of overall data storage, and lack of accountability to the customers if the owners misbehave.

To pursuade other people with similar knowledge of incredibly huge illegal activities to do the same thing. They would likely be able to make large amounts of money illegally, now there's a way to make a lot of money legally and bring something huge down. Society benefits from this, because the incredibly huge thing gets taken down.

Not tipping works fine in countries where its the norm. Many US restaurants are going back to tipping, however they were likely the exceptions to the rule in their area, and without the industry at large following their example it wasn't sustainable for them. Suggesting that its only tipping that makes people do a better job implies a lack of experience with restaurantss in any of the other western nations that don't tip, but still have excellent customer service. At least one study has shown the better service only weakly correlates with bigger tips https://infosurv.com/does-tipp...

Cameras don't record as much information in the photo as a phone does, so it's not as easy to track and monetise what you're doing.

Trump would have handed Ukraine to Putin on a silver platter, he's just really generous like that. And Germany would have continued to pay Russia good money for gas. You're unhappy that it's the USA they're paying now?

What use is a theory of mind if you don't care about other people?

Increasing Family Planning options and and neonatal healthcare to poor countries reliably reduce birth rates, while maintaining the number of people reaching adulthood. Thus the number of people working to support their parents/the tax base is generally steady, while costs and impacts for infant mortality (like higher mortality amongst women during birth) go down.