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Unfortunately I’m not in any specific position to have access to things that could be of help.
But good to know.
Unfortunately I’m not in any specific position to have access to things that could be of help.
But good to know.
Mostly because I’m not the most competent techie, I’ve been using VLC between my PC and iPhone, for moving “books” around on devices that are very out of date.
Doesn’t have everything, but does have quite a bit. Still 10/10, would use again.
A gift card with just a few cents left on it.
Does it count if I’ve actually driven tanks?
me hearing a person’s name once during being introduced
me… minutes later realizing that there is just a blank spot in my memory where there name should be
me… waiting for months hoping that somebody uses their name around me in a context that attaches a name to that person because I’m too much of a coward to ask the person directly
make a backup
Pffftt… coward.
/s
Promised a friend that I’d visit them.
Flew across the country to spend a few weeks hanging out.
Got food poisoning at one of the layover food shacks.
I had a blast… literally (from my ass) and figuratively (hanging out with a buddy). It was a lot of fun and horribly uncomfortable/embarrassing the entire time.
Lower supply with a stable demand means an increase in profits. Doesn’t matter what decreases the supply. I tell you what.
When you hit the “Olde Fortran” too hard one night.
Sometimes people celebrate the death of horrific and oppressive people. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
First sentence might have been fine, its the second one that probably was a “foot in the hornets nest.”
Oh… you were asking a rhetorical question.
Yeah, sure. That works.
Depends on how things are organized i guess.
Two things that come to mind are dictatorships and aristocracies, at least as far a governments go.
Depends on what you get to vote on, who gets to vote, if their votes count, etc.
A more democratic system could have done something like, we’ll test run Brexit for a few years, make an assessment, and then allow everybody to vote again to continue Brexiting or roll it back. But that’s not going to happen because … well… representative democracy is authoritarian by design. Nobody is going to put a “Roll Back Brexit” question on a ballot who championed a pro-Brexit stance and will fight any attempt to give the people a chance to vote again (heck, they’ll probably fight tooth and nail to keep any useful assessments of the effects of Brexit from being pushed into the public sphere to help voters make informed decisions as well).
Representative Democracies are, by definition, authoritarian. A small number of people are elected, democratically, to make the decisions for the majority.
Is the decision to end slavery a majority decision? Then it’s democratic.
With the contradiction being that the people who were pro slavery could just decide, “Nah, we’re not going to end slavery”, and continue to do slavery. Which I’m pretty sure is generally how that went in the USA.
Yes.
But slavery was also authoritarian.
Any situation where there is a power imbalance that can be enforced through physical or psychological means that somebody doesn’t agree with is authoritarian. Employer/employee? Authoritarian. Parent/infant? Authoritarian. Bank/bank customer? Authoritarian. Doctor/patient? Authoritarian.
Probably the only reasonable definition of authoritarian would be something like, “To be ruled/governed by an authority.” I’ve decided that Bill over there gets to be in charge of things, they’re the authority. I don’t always agree with the decisions they make but they’re in charge. Which seems like it would overlap a bit with the idea of democratic centralism.
I haven’t completed it yet, but I like where its going.
People just being people, sometimes crappy-pants, sometimes a friendly nettling.
Post how you post and let the comments flow past you, around you, through you. Then post again.
AAAAAHHHHH… I’m having flashbacks to working customer service… NOOOO!!!
Good work!
“Would you like to round up your purchase, we promise that we’ll give it to somebody who needs it.”
Large, well known companies that just advertise that they still exist. Like, yeah, I know McDonaldsBurgerTacoBellWendySonic’s exist. I pass them on every street corner. Show me an advertisement for something I don’t know exists.
Resetting/moving the products on the store’s shelves en masse, not because there’s holes from discontinued products but because “people will stop paying attention to the shelves if everything stays the same.” I’m old and in a hurry and I was here to give you my fucking money. Don’t make it hard for me to give you my fucking money.
Pricing to the 9’s.
Filling the shelves with a bunch of things that don’t seem to sell all that well, taking up space that could have been used to keep more of the fast moving products on the retail floor, just to have the appearance of diversity on the shelves.