> I'll choose Christianity if I'm forced to pick a religion.
Why not Satanism? Church of Satan if you're a selfish asshole, The Satanic Temple if not. Neither are theistic or even supernatural, and both allow you to eat what you want AND masturbate yourself raw if that's what you're into.
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> 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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Discounting the Wilhoit observation, the entire left-right model is silly, and describing the OP as a "left wing extremist" obsuscates the truth of what was said without doing anything at all to address it. It's also the entire purpose served by the left/right model in the first place; you can't think about the underlying dynamic if you're trying to police everyone into playing a "moderate" voice along an imaginary left-right spectrum.
In the USA, the Epstien class (aka billionaires) have spent decades stoking anti-humanist, authoritarian fantasies of MAGA style conservatives in order to prevent the rest of us from building anything even remotely like equal representation or equal protection under the law. Nothing about that can possibly get better unless the Epstien class and their cronies are held to account. There is also no mechanism by which they can be held to account without severely reducing their political and economic power over the rest of us.
Plainly - we can have a representative government or we can have the billionaires, but we cannot have both. That's largely by their design. It's not a "left-wing extremist" thing. It's a straightforward observation about our current reality.
Notably, this is the exact reason why they had to immediately start having exceptions in the law.
In this case they started with farmers, and you'll likely have problems across insurance industry, which will require way more exceptions added on later.
> 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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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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"Safety, security, buy a better rig to run my shit because I'm not optimizing this for peasants" being the clarion call of the bottom feeder tier software development that was massively encouraged over last decade or so is indeed the thing I'm decrying.
It's the IT version of "learn to code".
AI could solve this by bypassing this moat to enable translation to openCL.
Considering just how good AI is at this sort of work once properly trained, I would be surprised if this doesn't happen. Though Nvidia will certainly fight anyone trying to do this to slow it down.
Demand software developers start caring about memory print of their software again. Both in RAM and storage.
Unironically. We've lived out at least a decade and a half of "this software stack is utterly unoptimized garbage" "who cares, just slap bigger system requirements. We're not spending money on optimizing something that doesn't matter to anyone since hardware is advancing so fast".
It's good that every decade or so we get a memory and storage crunch and developers actually have to rediscover things like better compression algorithms and methods, proper garbage collection, and general software optimization.
Seriously, have you seen the size requirements of modern games? Have you seen the retarded chugging of modern office software running win11 on 8GB RAM machines when they have to actually start swapping? Have you experienced the joys of Chrome and all the memes about it being a ramvore?
What in the actual fuck are those tabs doing eating gigabytes of RAM? And why in the fuck are most Chromium based browser installs now almost a gig of storage?
You could do the same things a decade and a half ago on 4 gigs RAM and tiny SSDs that were less than one gigabyte and the system flew and most things except the porn torrents could be stored on it.
And then you consider "ok, what did we actually get for that insane increase in system demands?"
Built in always on spyware. Slightly redesigned UI according to the latest fashion trends. A few arcane additional features barely anyone uses. Games with "that unreal look" that look worse than unreal games a decade ago. And "modern" webpages that essentially ask you one question: "Would you like scrips with those scripts so you can enjoy scripts while you're enjoying scripts".
While reading a text based news article.
Just kidding. They don't ask.
You install software X, but without asking you software X silently installs additional software Y that is not necessary for software X to function, and if you try to remove software Y it gets re-installed without asking or alerting you.
We'd call that a trojan malware in any other context.
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10 to the minus 6th power mouthwashes = 1 Microscope
