• 0 Posts
  • 95 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: August 16th, 2023

help-circle
  • No one is preventing you from leaving the USA. Most countries are just making it difficult to enter. I’m all for having more open borders, but that’s probably not what you’re arguing for.

    No one is preventing you from starting your own community either. There just isn’t any land remaining that isn’t already owned.

    And the “punished based on the rules of the given community, or expelled” thing is describing a government, although because of the aforementioned lack of unowned land, they only expel immigrants nowadays.


  • Housing and healthcare are essential for survival. If anyone doesn’t get those things because they can’t afford them, while others have far more than they need, that’s cruel and unjust. You should include both of them under “assistance for less fortunate”.

    Schools have more benefits than I can list here. It’s absurd to not fund them.

    Culture attracts people to spend money in your city, which benefits business owners and many laborers, and generates a lot of tax revenue. Usually that brings in a lot more money than it costs, and that turns into extra money for essential services, instead of taking away from them. Sports can fall into this category as well, but those have gotten out of hand lately and sort of turned into a dick measuring contest between different cities.

    I’m mostly with you on tax breaks, though. They’re supposed to incentivise corporations to create jobs in your city instead of somewhere else, which should have a good ROI, but in practice it’s almost inherently corrupt.










  • We’re in this situation because people don’t vote.

    All other forms of political activism, aside from murder, exist to convince people to vote.

    Activism without voting is worthless.

    You want more progressive candidates? Vote for Democrats until Republicans are forced to move to the left, and then Democrats will be able to move to the left as well.

    That’s how the Overton window works.



  • icydefiance@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldWebp Discourse
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    They do, most of the time. For example if you upload an heic file from an iPhone to a file input on a website that doesn’t accept heic files, it’ll upload a jpeg.

    Apple can’t see or control all the different ways of transferring files, though, so in practice it still causes problems sometimes.

    The strange thing is that some Android phones also save photos as heic files and make no attempt to convert them, so I still had to add logic to my websites to convert them myself.