[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 32 points 8 months ago

They do! It's like they never heard of EFTs. They also pay many of their bills manually, or even worse, some still mail a cheque in response to a bill they receive via snail mail.

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 35 points 8 months ago

Not strictly true. Firefox gets inferior support from cloud services, like Microsoft. Newer versions of their Web apps are not available on Firefox.

But there should be no downside. It's all artificial.

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 44 points 8 months ago

Ellen Ripley, no contest.

No superpowers, no special training, no special technology. Simply the wisdom to see a job that needs done and the bravery and determination to do it.

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 58 points 9 months ago

Maybe car sales taxes should scale by vehicle weight.

If you consume more of the road, you pay more

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 48 points 9 months ago

Another way you could handle that is that any property you own after your 1st or 2nd, automatically attracts commercial property tax rates.

That should not disallow private individual to rent a spare room, or holiday home, but it will kill off the investment businesses that specialise running airbnb syndicates.

Additionally, if a property has not had a full time occupant for at least 9 of the 12 months in a year, it is subject to a wealth tax based on its value.

That should deal with the investment firms that just sit on massive stocks of empty homes and business properties, feeding off the increasing prices they are creating themselves, while adding no value and offering no service.

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 53 points 9 months ago

The GOP would never be able to win the electoral college without Texas. So that's why it will never happen.

But maybe we can trick Abbot, he might be stupid enough to fall for it?

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 38 points 10 months ago

DRM only affects paying customers. It plays no role in effectively combatting piracy.

Only good service and good pricing is effective against piracy.

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 40 points 11 months ago

You got to say he was a master bullshitter, but he had some miracle workers engineers that made it happen.

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 33 points 11 months ago

I knew it! It was big cheese all along.

Big pharma was just a ruse!

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How can we help them do it?

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 30 points 1 year ago

Not an American, but from what I have heard, that along with the outright ban at 15 weeks, they also often include other inhumane things.

Making the woman listen to the fetus's heartbeat. Forced waiting periods. Parental consent required for minors. Forced counseling. Etc.

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 157 points 1 year ago

I am also in support of banning Viagra as a performance enhancing drug.

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