INTJ, libertarian, free speech absolutist, musician, photographer. Not actually a fascist. Averse to all people, equally. “Sounds like a WWII radio fella”.
So the government feels compelled to seek to limit infinite scrolling and impose social media curfews for all under 18s, but they want everyone to be able to vote from age 16.
If you have strong feelings about Fender sending cease & desist letters to manufacturers to bully them into recalling and destroying existing Stratocaster-like stock, the most effective thing you can do would be to tell your local musical instrument retailers that stock Fender.
@Fender, at this point in their history, and after years of challenges for musical instrument retailers and manufacturers, is having a Dr Evil moment and trying to monopolise Stratocasters. As most other manufacturers offer better margins, a disaster for retailers and consumers.
@bratkubrat@MartusKl@VieilleSouche@CARN0N If it was financially viable to have two cars then great, but not everyone can afford that, and the 5% of the time is when I need the car to get from A to B efficiently.
@aaronpalmer@VieilleSouche@CARN0N Stopping every 3 hours when you’ve got a kid in the car and you want to fit in more than just driving and recharging sounds horrendous. Adding 17% to journey time, plus the time searching for an available charging point is a hard no from me. I do regular road trips, it would suck
The government's flavour ban in the Netherlands has totally undermined any control over the market and failed to achieve its public health goals.
Instead the ban has driven over half of consumers to the black market.
Prohibition Does Not Work!
@SchemeLand@alecneversad@newstart_2024 I can certainly describe my child’s childhood, and it could not be less stressful for him. So nice try, but a big swing and a miss.
@celluloid28724@spectatorindex Aside from the fact it appears to be misinformation, giving possession back to the owner does not cost anything, and, generally speaking, is hardly a terrible thing to do.
@Hometime4You@VladTheInflator That kind of model would work for many things, and could facilitate a shift to direct democracy - imagine a self policing peer feedback model that could do everything from referenda, agreeing/implementing improvements, arbitrating disputes… decentralise leaving gov for strategy
@bogeyfresh@fracsandtexas@elonmusk@grok How do they get that knowledge if you prohibit them from using everything, and what do you think they will do the moment you finally stop monitoring it, when they are older and have never practiced self restraint because you did the restraining for them?
@mupasi@Lowkey0nline And there would be less carbon footprint than importing from places like Qatar and US, where shale gas has higher leakage and requires around 20%+ extra upstream footprint. But we are ideologically tied to net zero, so we pretend that is an issue for other countries instead.
@GameSetVolley@Lowkey0nline Supply and demand - if other places have their supply disrupted, prices go up (and Norway would sell elsewhere if higher rates were available than we would pay), and decades of bad government energy policy mean that we are over a barrel.
@WarTalk1@voblat@Lowkey0nline@Ed_Miliband We desperately need the UK government to change tact and create a sovereign wealth fund, use its powers to reacquire key natural resources at competitive prices, and invest in manufacturing industries and business partnerships to export, reducing taxpayer burden and domestic cost