I see your point, but I also saw Juiced Bikes go out of business last month after 15 years in the industry.

When I read it, I agree with you - but when I say decimate, it sure sounds like it should mean near total destruction.

Imagine how bright the lightbulb was for whomever had the idea to use a stock photo of three bananas.

And here I thought jeans were problematic.

If more people held themselves accountable, these products wouldn’t exist. I know it can be an awkward situation to deny a gift for ethical reasons. Kudos to you.

I feel the argument is a little different when it comes to physical goods.

Stealing a Nestlé product takes away revenue just like if it were left on the shelf, never purchased, and discarded by the shop. The main benefit there is the edible portion of the product doesn’t end up in a landfill.

It’s not a surprise to anyone in fuckcars, but to wider audiences it could just be a matter of them never considering it. Our parents had cars, now we have cars, cars are used to go places, even if I get stuck in traffic it’s worthwhile to get to my destination - end of thought.

Sure there’s a huge group of ‘carbrains’ but in my experience, most people don’t have an allegiance one way or the other.

In theory, Sponsorblock could evolve to download a new video multiple times, check what frames match each copy, and use that data to skip to the next matching frame when users watch something.

This would overcome video stream ad injection even if every ad was a different length and in a different location each time someone watched the video.

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When I wrote that it was taking Boeing at its word, I was leaning more into a possibility of leadership changing their minds.

All I was really getting at by commenting about the contract was that corporate greed exists

The point I was trying to convey is that companies are run by people and people are corruptable.

I’m of the opinion there are no lines a company won’t cross if there’s a dollar to be made

I even said:

You’re correct to say there’s no reason to think any specific contact would be violated.

And yet you continue to harp on about this, and now tell me to go do some reading? Read the comments you’re replying to.

You haven’t conceded a single thing or even mentioned any of the rebuttals I have made to you points, and you continue to attack what I have repeatedly stated as only being my opinions.

I should have trusted my instinct beforehand. This isn’t a discussion. This is a waste of effort.

I guess the point I made three times didn’t get across to you, did it.

Ah so that’s the line you think they won’t cross? Glad we were able to narrow that down.

I’m of the opinion there are no lines a company won’t cross if there’s a dollar to be made, and there’s decades of evidence this is the case. It wasn’t that long ago that big business would hire people to give a beat down to protesting workers.

It’s not my goal to change the minds of people online. Ultimately this conversation has boiled down to me having an opinion based on actions I have seen taken against workers, and you believing there is a line in the sand that “cannot” be crossed because the company is smart enough not to.

We aren’t getting anywhere by continuing.

I can appreciate the argument that’s being made to counter this. That enacting such rulings would drive the affected children to lesser known pockets of the internet. However I think that’s a red herring by the industry, since that always happens anyway.

A new platform pops up and people go try it. It’s only a matter of time before there’s a new Tiktok in town. They will spin up and die off faster than legislation can keep up. Seems to me the industry wants to keep the children for the data, and the revenue that comes with it.

Something does need to be done though. Our minds are becoming mushy tomatoes and social media is partly to blame. A better solution might be education of course, but I’m not sure what that would look like, or if it would be effective unless integrated into curriculums quite early on.

I haven’t looked at any numbers, but surely if we taxed billionaires enough to turn them back into millionaires, we’d probably not have to tax anyone else at all.

The point I was trying to convey is that companies are run by people and people are corruptable. You’re correct to say there’s no reason to think any specific contact would be violated. It’s folly however, to think companies never take action against a union as a whole or a worker individually.

Given the recent whistleblowers that have stopped being alive in recent Boeing memory, I don’t think it’s alarmist to suggest they might not be a trustworthy bunch.

Either way, my apologies for the way I half heartedly wrote something the other day.

Given the relatively temporary nature of the use case, in your shoes I’d opt for a rechargeable power bank of some description instead of relying on a small solar set up.

I’ve used a dash camera connected to a power bank for a similar purpose. I’m sure an rpi would sip power in comparison.

Hahaha cheers mate for the laugh. Didn’t realize I was wasting my time with you.

I realize the math is marginally inaccurate - precision wasn’t really the goal of what I wrote. We’re on the same page so far as the disingenuous headline goes.

Where we disagree I suppose is the contract being binding. You’re right of course, from a legal perspective, a signed contract is an agreement that must be upheld. When I wrote that it was taking Boeing at its word, I was leaning more into a possibility of leadership changing their minds.

All I was really getting at by commenting about the contract was that corporate greed exists - in Boeing of all places this is a certainty.

Giant companies pull these maneuvers all the time at the expense of the people they employ, their own customers, or both. I don’t think most of what I wrote was wrong. Inaccurate maybe? I can live with that.

Every time some headline comes out with significant increases, it always turns out to be ‘over x years’.

This isn’t a 25% raise, it’s taking Boeing at their word they will give 6.25% every year only for the next four. Six percent doesn’t cover the inflated costs of anything anymore, let alone allow for wealth building or retirement saving.

These people would never strike again if they got a real 25% raise and a guaranteed bump equal to twice the inflation in the years to come. But as always, when the C suite’s horizon is only as far as next quarter, the people are seen merely as an expense - not an investment.

As someone that tries to condense posts and comments, I have ‘Show action bar by default for comments’ disabled. Now, as score location has been altered, I’m not able to see comment score. More problematic is there’s no longer an indication of whether I have already voted on a comment or not.

In order to get this information now, I either must enable the action bar for every comment which fills a lot of the screen with buttons that I don’t need, or press and hold the comment to expand the action bar manually. This is a reduction in displayed information that doesn’t seem proportional to the benefit of a ‘cleaner’ style.

At the very least, I’d think the score should be put back next to the commenter’s name when the action bar is disabled.