BigMikeInAustin

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[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're changing the subject.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wait, you're taking something Trump said as the truth?

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Taxes do not pay for the USPS. The USPS is fully funded by itself.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The US does not require the turn indicator to be a separate light from the brake light.

The US has almost no current cars with an orange turn indicator on the rear. The red brake light doubles as both.

When US cars are made for other countries, the separate orange light is added.

America only has 2nd or 3rd world consumer protection.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hershey's has had many reasons to be boycotted over the decades. I'm not aware of any of those reasons being corrected by the company.

I am completely against what Israel is doing to Palestine and against the colonization and genocide being done.

This instance of Hershey's doing business in Israel is a very weak reason to boycott. There are many other obvious reasons to boycott Hershey's.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This is true.

This is the basis for taxing high sugar convenience food. It was done for cigarettes, and today, consumers overwhelmingly see it as a good program. (Of course tobacco companies lobbied hard against it)

Should there be a line on which products governments deincentivise? High sugar convenience foods have their purpose, but does it outweigh increasing obesity? Should we instead subsidize healthy foods? Or both together?

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Racist Americans are getting their appetite whet seeing brown people getting hurt, and are on the edge of their seat waiting to see Black people get hurt.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yay. Keep it going. More states and higher income.

Or, you know, the ultra, ultra rich could pay more taxes. That's the trade off.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Are you depending on Hungary's modern and authoritarian-leaning surveillance state to be 10+ years behind? Consumer-grade Face Id on phones and computers uses infrared light.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

This goes over how infrared light see through a lot of disguises.

How to Block Facial Recognition Cameras (IRL Tested!) - Business Reform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRFeS72IM6M

I'm not saying his method are the best way to stay anonymous, just that he demonstrates how hard it is to stay anonymous.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This seems to be just visible light. Infrared light facial recognition sees through all of the makeup and dark sunglasses.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The big, well reported protests were the result of decades, nay centuries, of protests.

Sit-in protests were common.

Rosa Parks was, by far, not the first Black person to be arrested for keeping her seat.

Hundreds of thousands of workers died or were hurt in preventable dangerous workplaces and labor protests.

It is hard and costly to go against the government.

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