Not sure how to respond to this. For many gay and lesbian men and women (including myself) Brendan Eich's donation to support Prop 8 was a very clear message. I'm perfectly happy to choose a browser that isn't developed by a man who thinks I shouldn't have the same right to marry as he does.
I said a few years ago that Brave wasn't going anywhere, and it isn't. It's not because Brendan Eich donated to Prop 8 either. The vast majority of the large, liquid market of browser users simply don't care about privacy.
Totally agree, and I don't know why more people don't say this. I actually enjoy going and looking at the food I'm going to buy. Most stores have nice extras like coffee shops and small cafes that can turn the 'chore' into a nice outing.
Do we really need deep discussions explaining why people have different preferences in life?
I'm sure there are people who wonder why the OP doesn't enjoy spending time shopping for clothes.
Most supermarkets in America do not have nice cafes.
Most people go to a cafe if they want to go to a cafe, they don't go to a supermarket.
Many people have to drag kids along and keep them under control when grocery shopping.
It is a repetitive task.
For most people there is no creativity or joy in it.
Most people do not live within walking distance of their supermarket.
Most people wouldn't walk there anyway, since they are shopping for a family of three or four.
Most people don't see it as a break from other things, they see it as one more thing that has to be fit into a busy weekend (or even worse, an evening after work).
And many more.
Really the entire subthread reads like yuppie single men wondering why other people don't have the same preferences they do and being completely unable to figure it out.
>The better question is - why are so many in such a hurry to defend billionaires?
I think it's because the tech industry is positively lousy with deluded persons who see themselves as embryonic billionaires. When you believe your asshole sprays gold coins every time you update a git repo, you tend to overlook that production is arranged under capitalism to have the ownership class expropriate the majority of the value that workers create.
<< I honestly think that there's something deeply damaged at the heart of the American psyche. You've no sense that you are “are all one and the same” to use Ford's words. You can't see why collectively paying taxes for healthcare (everyone's family has an illness at some point in time) and collectively bargaining for cheaper medicines from manufacturers might be overall a good thing.
More than half of Americans support single-payer. Some estimates are as high as 70%.
70% ? If that's true then that's fantastic but also very worrying.
This shows that whereas the majority of the nation support some form of single-payer option the government (no matter who is in charge) resists it. This means that the government works for the few, not the many. This implies an oligarchy which turns out to be verifiable[0]. Out of interest I looked up all the countries that have neither free nor universal healthcare[1] and cross-ranked them according to their human development index[2]. The list is quite small. What we see is that the US is the only country with a _supposedly_ very high human development index (and the only one in the top 70 of countries) that has a healthcare system that is neither free nor fair. 8 out of the 10 least developed countries in the world are on this list. How Americans are not figuratively up in arms over this is beyond me. I think it is fair to say that the US political system is broken in a very real sense. This is worrying because traditionally only catastrophe curbs inequality this bad[3] and I'm not sure incrementalism works in a broken system. Oh well, time will tell.
Country Free? All? Level Rank
United States No No V 13
Saint Kitts and Nevis No No H 72
Grenada No No H 75
Lebanon No No H 80
Dominican Republic No No H 94
Jordan No No H 95
Suriname No No H 100
Dominica No No H 103
Marshall Islands No No H 106
Turkmenistan No No H 108
Indonesia No No M 116
Iraq No No M 120
Tajikistan No No M 127
Micronesia No No M 131
Kenya No No M 142
Cambodia No No M 146
Angola No No M 147
Cameroon No No M 151
Syrian Arab Republic No No L 155
Zimbabwe No No L 156
Nigeria No No L 157
Mauritania No No L 159
Senegal No No L 164
Comoros No No L 165
Sudan No No L 167
Haiti No No L 168
Afghanistan No No L 168
Gambia No No L 174
Guinea No No L 175
Guinea-Bissau No No L 177
Mozambique No No L 180
Liberia No No L 181
Mali No No L 182
Sierra Leone No No L 184
Burundi No No L 185
Chad No No L 186
South Sudan No No L 187
Niger No No L 189
Somalia No No - ---
Yeah it's inevitable, think of when Google was founded, people were still on dialup and working remote was something only something for outside phone call sales people.
I think, if it were feasible, OSM could use a really sharp CEO. I think it has incredible potential, but it needs strong leadership to determine strategy for differentiation, product positioning, and marketing. Microsoft or Facebook could make an investment in this direction and things could really take off. Just a thought.
People who can, do, and people who can't, cheat. It's the way of the world, and not isolated to any particular ethic group, social class, or otherwise.
I said a few years ago that Brave wasn't going anywhere, and it isn't. It's not because Brendan Eich donated to Prop 8 either. The vast majority of the large, liquid market of browser users simply don't care about privacy.