> If I want to broker my house through MRED exclusively, and also advertise on Zillow, how is that a problem?

"If I want to sell my shit on Amazon, and also want it to show up on eBay seareches, how is that a problem?"

It's a problem because Zillow doesn't want to give their business to their competitor. YOU, the seller, do not factor into it. Get fucked. This is why I said you're conflating "private." It's not about you. Nobody gives a shit about you, capitalist at the door should've told you. *shrug*

> Neither Amazon nor eBay list products sold by the other site, at all.

Correct. You get it but somehow you don't get it.

> A better analogy would be a Google Products listing that points to Amazon products.

Incorrect. For that to make sense, Google would also need to be directly involved in selling products in the same way Amazon does. Google has practically no products that are sold to the general public on the open market, much less shit like furniture and toiletries. Google's main business model is being a tool to find things, and they sell their user's eyeballs (and browsing data) to other businesses. Google's and Amazon's business model are synergistic. Zillow's and MRED/Compass' business models are competitive.

Maybe you don't understand what Zillow is or does? Do you think it's just Google for houses? It's not; it's closer to eBay for houses. Might help you to understand Zillow's business model before wondering why it's not in their interest to include MRED/Compass' *private listings* in their results.
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> If I want to sell my house, why shouldn't I be able to sell it and advertise it how I want to?

You can. Nobody is saying you can't. That's not the problem.

  > Why *shouldn't* I be able to access Zillow's advertising service and sell my house privately?

I think you're conflating the word "private" here. This isn't about you listing your home as a "privately" as a private individual, it' about MRED maintaining "private" (e.g. exclusive) access to that listing. MRED and Compass are monopolizing the rights to broker your property's sale but still want Zillow to do the advertising for them.

  > Selling and advertising are two different things, there is no ethical reason to tie them together.

Correct, but Amazon should not expect eBay to show Amazon store page results when you search for things on eBay. Amazon maintains a walled garden of sellers and you must go through Amazon as an intermediary to buy and sell anything there. You want to list your stuff for sale on Amazon but still want eBay users to see it... why should eBay accommodate that bullshit?

MRED wants access to Zillow's users while simultaneously cutting independent brokers out of the business, and Zillow justifiably has a problem with that.
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It's getting worse these days with posts like the parent, just AI slop. I dunno why these ACs even bother, who tf do they think will read that meandering crap?

> How can it be abused? I don't get it.

Really? You can't imagine a single way that a corporation or the government could abuse the ability to identify, track, and instantly locate any person at any time for any reason? Nothing at all, huh?

> yet I never heard of one case of a street camera being used to hurt someone let alone end lives

https://www.businessinsider.co...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cou...

https://coloradosun.com/2025/1...

https://www.dailyjournal.com/a...

https://www.americanpartisan.o...

Those examples took basically no effort to find; now imagine if they want to target someone ON PURPOSE, like a civil rights leader, or to harass/round up people who participated in a protest.

Or just be a creep and stalk their ex or random women;

https://www.theguardian.com/co...

Oh, also the system is hilariously insecure, so it's not just cops, corps, and spooks who can use it.

https://stateofsurveillance.or...

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OpenLibre already had grammar checking. It was free, didn't require a lot of hard drive space (a few MB at most?), and ran locally and almost instantly without needing a high price graphics card.

In fact we've had that ability for over a decade now.

> Let's make LibreOffice and the free desktop AI-native!

Fuck you, Keith.

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/TexMaths is also an existing LibreOffice extension

Okay so, thanks for tacitly admitting half your argument was bullshit by pretending it didn't exist when directly challenged. I'll take what I can get,

Most of Norway sees an annual high in the 10C/50F range. The highest seasonal temps in late summer is in the low 20C/70F range. Most of the country is at or below freezing most of the year.

Yes, they are driving them in the cold. You are doing a lie.
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Continental Norway is comparable to driving the entire coast of the continental US. Or from Orlando to Oklahoma City if you prefer.

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"EREVs" also have a "full on engine" that needs just as much maintenance. They're also very inefficient because the conversion chain of fuel > mechanical > electrical > battery > electrical > mechanical is much worse than fuel > mechanical.

There are reasons to have that kind of system but efficiency ain't one of them, and if you aren't aiming for efficiency in a personal vehicle what the fuck are you even doing.
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Its not their machine you clown, its the company machine. When you leave school and get a job maybe youll get a clue.

Right, because everyone in IT knows how to write windows/linux device drivers and all have unlogged admin/root access.

... and the damn things head straight for me completely bypassing my wife so there's probably not as much female bias this gives the impression of. IMO, YMMV.

But they have digital confirmation!

A motor doesnt have anywhere near the rotating mass of a useful kinetic energy storage flywheel. HTH.

Dunno about bikes, but theres little difference in driving feel (not sound) between an ICE car with an auto box and an EV. Unless you think shifting into D is some kind of at one with the machine experience.

I'm pretty sure new riders can learn more throttle = go faster. There was a big fuss in F1 back in the day about getting rid of manual shifters. How many of today's drivers would go back to them now?