Willing to bet they only pay enough to make it worthwhile for the property owner. In classic capitalist fashion, it completely ignores the externalities that the rest of society has to bear.

Property taxes on parking lots should be assessed on the full potential of the property. What kind of tax revenue could that same property bring in if it were an apartment or office building? That’s how cities should be looking at it imo

So? He’s the CEO of a company that already gets no money from me.

Online forums pick the weirdest hills to die on sometimes. You’ve probably used hundreds of products today alone made by companies whose CEOs are worse dickwads than Eich. But this gave you a chance to feel superior online so you had to take it lmao

Yup.

Imagine your facebook-addicted uncle complaining about the woke platform that he uses all day every day. Then imagine he has the money to buy facebook, as well as the hubris to think he could do a better job running it. That’s basically what happened here.

Serious question, isn’t this going to force them to release their trademark on the word “tweet”?

How would that help this situation? It seems like a corporate greed thing, and plenty of rich shitheads are well traveled.

If anything we should be asking why a majority of those construction workers probably voted for the people doing this to them.

The people in the screenshot aren’t accomplishing anything but making themselves feel good. Of all the pointless activities in this vast, pointless universe, complaining about reddit on reddit takes the cake

His weight adds a lot to it I’m sure, but his general lack of grace or coordination is generally what makes it funny to people imo. Like it’s a hilariously bad impression of a lightsaber battle, so bad that I think most people assumed it was staged/self-aware. I think it could be a 60 year old woman or an 8 year old kid, it’d still be funny.

McGill Law

Damn, kid was a good student too. Was probably doing everything he was supposed to and having some nerdy fun along the way, and people just had to be pricks to the poor kid.

If he made it today he’d get buried in /new. The internet was a different place back then, we talked about the same funny video for months.

It depends on context, and I think most people realize this intuitively. If you put pumpkin in somebody’s berry smoothie they’re going to be pissed no matter what the scientific community says lol. It’s the kind of thing that only matters for trivia.

And honestly science appropriated the term from common parlance, not the other way around. So a layperson could just as easily walk into a botany lab and say “fun fact, these actually are berries” and be completely correct.

Is that really how bans work? The admins of lemmy.world can’t ban a kbin.social user from commenting in their communities? I’m pretty sure if you get banned your participation in that community is over no matter what instance you’re on.