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Comment Re:Beat the housing crisis by allowing more housin (Score 1) 160

A major bank in Canada, BMO, did a study and came to the conclusion that it's not a housing production, rather an issue of the wealthy buying up all the homes, driving prices ever higher. Forcing renters to pay the mortgage, expenses, plus some profit. Renters can afford homes, as long as the wealthy get out of investing in homes. It should be illegal to own more than two homes, period.

Comment Hoarding Houses (Score 1) 160

Let's be crystal clear the problem with the housing market is wealth people hoarding homes as investments. There are corporations owning 30,000+ homes, not units, detached residents. They are buying up the homes from builders. Before this hoarding behavior the home production was fine and still is. 3D printing homes would create a two tier home market, which is exactly what these wealth hoarders want. There is nothing stopping the wealthy from hoarding these homes as well. They want people to rent that's it. The real problem is that when you rent, you don't improve the home. The home assets and improvement markets are being devastated. Renters generally won't buy appliances, won't upgrade their furniture; they don't improve the house and adding to it. Multiple sectors of the economy is being suppressed by wealthy hoarders. Easy fix: Make it illegal for people to own more than two homes. Make it illegal for corporations to own more than 10% of the housing market.

Comment Re:Cancel culture (Score 1) 199

I hope you have the same passion for all the articles of the universal declaration of human rights and support the political party that is more aligned with them. Do you also make choices to "cancel" the political parties, corporations and tribes that do not support all the articles? First corporations were given rights of people and that destroyed the government, now you want to give them government responsibilities, how could that make it worse? WTF

Comment Re:Deplatforming isn't exactly censorship (Score 1) 199

I want him de-platformed for a specific reason, he supports hate, uses fear and tells lies. He may say some great stuff and have great guests, but as long as he support hate, fear and lies, he should be removed. If you couldn't say it under Oath, it should be be permitted to influence the public.

Comment Re:Joe Rogan's podcast is awesome. (Score 1) 199

Joe is hit and miss, he leverages controversy for profit, just like any capitalist. Let's put it this way, Free speech is critical, but hate speech, using fear and lying should all be illegal. If you couldn't say it under oath because you would be prosecuted, it should be illegal, especially if used to profit or manipulation of others.

Comment Re:FALSE PREMISE (Score 1) 199

They know we know they are lying, but they still find it acceptable to lie. Kids stop lying when they realize their parents know they're lying, unless they are psychopaths. It's an early indicator of mental illness. There is a growing cult of psychopaths in America and we should treated them with that prejudice until they deal with their illness.

Comment Re:FALSE PREMISE (Score 1) 199

The projection to accuse those of trying to prevent fascism to be fascist is reflected in people who support fascism claiming ANTIFA did it. I have to call our your VAERS stupidity, have you looked at VAERS? The intention is to capture all noted events, normal or not, so patterns can be discovered. People had bowel movements after getting a Covid vaccine. Rational people can see that it's likely unrelated to the vaccine, but conspiracy theorists associate the stupidest things to vaccine when proven to be false and uncorrelated, just like accusing a ANTIFA person or desiring fascism.

Comment Re:FALSE PREMISE (Score 1) 199

You've described so well why Authoritarian governments are becoming so pervasive worldwide. I do not have an issue with free speech, rather with bundling the use of hate, fear and lies as justified. These abuses should be moderated or better yet made illegal when abused. Wielding hate, fear and lies are how communism, fascism and authoritarianism governments control their populous. Allowing hate, fear and lies to thrive is the foundation of how fascism becomes possible. Healthy bodies fight off viruses to survive, they don't let the virus ravage the body, those that do, die.

Comment Hate, Fear and Lies (Score 1) 199

The lack of accountability with this poll result is stunning. People are free to think what they want to think. However using hate, fear and lies to persuade should be criminal. Hate is used to create fear, a weapon used by those that cannot intellectually persuade others with reason or logic. Implement laws to make lying, hate and creating fear to persuade people illegal. These are not partisan or political factors, this however creates a fair playing field. Life isn't fair, but people should not be compounding it for selfish gain, which is what hate, fear and lies are used for. This doesn't just apply to podcast, but everything, including marketing, journalism, politics, and social interactions. Those leveraging hate, fear and lies are mentally weak, since they depend on primal qualities to influence.
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The Amazon Lobbyists Who Kill US Consumer Privacy Protections (reuters.com) 36

In recent years, Amazon has killed or undermined privacy protections in more than three dozen bills across 25 states, as the e-commerce giant amassed a lucrative trove of personal data on millions of American consumers. From a report: Amazon executives and staffers detail these lobbying victories in confidential documents reviewed by Reuters. In Virginia, the company boosted political donations tenfold over four years before persuading lawmakers this year to pass an industry-friendly privacy bill that Amazon itself drafted. In California, the company stifled proposed restrictions on the industry's collection and sharing of consumer voice recordings gathered by tech devices. And in its home state of Washington, Amazon won so many exemptions and amendments to a bill regulating biometric data, such as voice recordings or facial scans, that the resulting 2017 law had "little, if any" impact on its practices, according to an internal Amazon document.

The architect of this under-the-radar campaign to smother privacy protections has been Jay Carney, who previously served as communications director for Joe Biden, when Biden was vice president, and as press secretary for President Barack Obama. Hired by Amazon in 2015, Carney reported to founder Jeff Bezos and built a lobbying and public-policy juggernaut that has grown from two dozen employees to about 250, according to Amazon documents and two former employees with knowledge of recent staffing. One 2018 document reviewing executives' goals for the prior year listed privacy regulation as a primary target for Carney. One objective: "Change or block US and EU regulation/legislation that would impede growth for Alexa-powered devices," referring to Amazon's popular voice-assistant technology. The mission included defeating restrictions on artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, along with blocking efforts to make companies disclose the data they keep on consumers.

The document listed Carney as the goal's "primary owner" and celebrated killing or amending privacy bills in "over 20 states." This story is based on a Reuters review of hundreds of internal Amazon documents and interviews with more than 70 lobbyists, advocates, policymakers and their staffers involved in legislation Amazon targeted, along with 10 former Amazon public-policy and legal employees. It is the third in a series of reports revealing how the company has pursued business practices that harm small businesses or put its own interests above those of consumers. The previous articles showed how Amazon has circumvented e-commerce regulations meant to protect Indian retailers, and how it copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands over those of other vendors on its India platform.

Comment Re:What chips are we talking about? (Score 1) 61

I 've heard that the chip manufacturers outsource the fab work to small old factories. None of the manufacturers want to build a $1B fab facility for chips that are decades old; likely the analog processors, maybe old DRAM too. Older sensors are still high enough frequency for most uses. The manufacturers just need to join the 21st century. I expect a Pi4 is more powerful than many of cars using this old gear.

Comment Re:Can't they use an analog engine? (Score 1) 61

The car manufacturers are using chips designed decades ago that are a waste production. No chip manufacturer is willing to build a fabrication facility that costs a billion to make chips for cars that will no longer be produced in 5 years. The industries needs to evolve, we don't need to remove regulations that let companies keep exploiting the status quo. Government is not playing games, its the manufacturers, we would be still be driving horse and buggy if the regresssives were in control, since it's suits their serfdom authoritarianism. The right to repair is something conservatives BLOCK to force people to keep buying new old products. Look at who is pushing right to repair legislation. Shocking/Not Shocking how the regressive keep voting for the party that creates the problems because they don't have a clue about what is happening outside their echo chamber.

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