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mozz OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to U.S. News in NYPD officer fired gun during raid on Columbia protesters

"You shoulda been down at City Hall sixty thousand a you ... fuckin booing and throwing batteries at the guy who suggested it"

-Doug Stanhope

mozz , 2 months ago to Texas in Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself in The Woodlands

Constables are not cops, in general. IDK how exactly it works in Texas and it looks like it's actually more similar than it usually is, but as a general rule in practice, constables are sort of the "civil matter" version of police (who are chiefly for criminal matters) -- they serve evictions and summonses, child support warrants, traffic detail like in this case, that kind of thing.

mozz OP , 2 months ago to U.S. News in Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

If you really feel like the Seattle Times knowing your real name is a catastrophe, you can buy one of those Vanilla Visa gift cards and use that for the subscription. I think that's not necessary, but it's certainly an option.

mozz OP , 2 months ago to U.S. News in Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

Yeah, that's fair -- if there's a huge variety of news sources posted, so that the model is that you subscribe to /c/news but have to pay $50/month to all sorts of places to actually read the articles (even to subscribe the main sources posted), then it's a problem.

mozz OP , 2 months ago to U.S. News in Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

Ha, I'd like to keep arguing but it seems that me and the Beehaw mods / community simply don't see this issue the same way. Is ok.

mozz OP , 2 months ago to U.S. News in Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

I fixed my comment to make more of an effort at fairness, then. Cheers.

mozz OP , 2 months ago to U.S. News in Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

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mozz OP , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to U.S. News in Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

Dude I'm super condescending, I know. Sorry if I was coming across insulting which I probably was. But the whole mindset of, we better dodge the paywalls every chance we get, (edit: which, whether it's intended this way or not, might as well translate to) "lol get fucked people who produce the news who are going out of business left and right" irritates me.

I think your mindset of (edit: corrected the quote) "I’ve been having no problem avoiding them for free for decades" and not being interested apparently in looking further into it than that, is harmful. I explained why, probably with more hostility than needed to be there. But I still think it's harmful.

Edit: Made some edits to try to be more fair minded about it

mozz OP , 2 months ago to U.S. News in Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

You would describe the current state of the US, and the way the majority of the people in it view the world and how they understand what's going on and what they should do (about climate change, about politics and who to support), to be no problem?

Or you think that where people get their news and their understanding of the world plays no part in the massive problems that are at work in the country?

I'm not trying to get into a big back and forth with you about it. You can have your own opinion on those things and you're welcome to it. But it's not at all a petty thing (to me at least), and it's not any kind of outlandish threat -- it is the simple present day reality. In my opinion.

mozz OP , 2 months ago to U.S. News in Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

On my screen it says "Mods are encouraging the users to unintentionally undermine journalism as a workable endeavor, when it's already badly struggling in this country." What's yours say?

mozz OP , 2 months ago to U.S. News in Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

Have fun having all your (and everyone else's) media supplied by the Koch Brothers because you didn't feel like finding someone worth paying $7/month to

mozz OP , 2 months ago to U.S. News in Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

Get a gift card and a proton.me address, maybe? IDK

mozz OP , 2 months ago to U.S. News in Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

If you only want to consume news that someone with a bunch of spare money is willing to pay to have you hear, you're embarking on a process that eventually leads to you and lots of other people not really knowing what's going on.

mozz OP , 2 months ago to Work Reform in New Study: A $500 monthly basic income led to significant employment growth, enhanced savings, improved debt management, and better quality of life

Search deep within yourself of what you know of the American state

You know which is the answer

It has been with you, all this time

mozz OP , 2 months ago to Work Reform in New Study: A $500 monthly basic income led to significant employment growth, enhanced savings, improved debt management, and better quality of life

Well, they do reduce wages based on anything and everything that they can get away with. If they're already getting away with paying people $10/hr or whatever, I think it's easily plausible that they would realize they can now get away with paying them minimum wage. I don't think it's instantly rich people propaganda or a silly concern. Like for example, Wal-Mart among other places definitely pays less because they've factored in that people can go on government assistance and stay just barely above water even receiving drowning wages.

Like I say, I don't think it'll work out this way in practice (in fact I would expect that it would raise wages because it would reduce people's desperation and give them options beyond just taking whatever they could find for as many hours as they can stay awake) and it seems on the limited test like it doesn't. But it doesn't strike me as automatically a weird question or anything.