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The only skills or learnings I really seem to have retained from University are the ability to collect, and collate information and then apply it to a problem. The actual information collected and problems solved are lost to me now.

I feel like synthesising notes and turning them into flash cards how i learn things.

Obviously, its a non-binary answer.

Besides which, why wouldnt they make money preventing other people from scraping websites, while scraping the traffic that flows through their network.

At this part I’m genuinely starting to wonder which parts of the internet I really need.

Politicians don’t seem to function this way though. They don’t concern themselves with implementation details. People will vote for age verification even if it doesn’t work.

I’m so weary of everything getting a little bit worse every day.

I’m sure we all used to be excited about the future of the internet but now it’s just shit.

I thought graphene was the best daily driver for the moment ?

literally is one of those words which has really lost it’s meaning. yes I hate it.

Regardless, how badly you want to use fb marketplace is highly regional and situational dependent.

My partner and I have twins who are now almost 3 years old. I would estimate that the stuff we have bought and then later sold on fb marketplace for little or no difference in value would have cost about $6k or $7k per child if we had bought it new. Average full time wage here is about $1k per week, for reference.

There just isn’t another platform which has any significant userbase for toddlers gear here. There is something else you can use for cars or tools, but not toddlers stuff.

Its true that without facebook marketplace we just wouldn’t have bought a lot of the stuff that we did

I’m glad the regulator is at least taking an interest.

Sadly this is just how large corporations work in 2026. Say what you will about booking dot com, but all of these middle man companies are the same.

Like if you’re an uber driver or door dasher or airbnb host, the company is always gushing with platitudes about how you’re a valued partner, until something goes wrong. At that point there’s no one to talk to and you very quickly discover that they hold all the cards. As in: if you build a business “partnered” with a much larger corporation, you are entirely at their mercy in any kind of dispute.

They will not seek a balanced, fair, or reasonable outcome because they know that you don’t have any choice but to accept what they offer.

People always say this about LO.

I have a small finance consultancy, and we’re a LO shop all day every day.

Its fine.

Its almost always that they’ve been following specific workflows or processes for the last n years and find that particular workflow isn’t directly supported in LO.

I just enable canvas on sites that need it.

Thats the only part of RFP that I find problematic.

I dont think that this is really the problem uber is solving here.

I dont think women passengers or drivers are being physically assaulted during an uber ride, they just feel uncomfortable with men. Maybe its flirting, maybe its a fertive glance, maybe its nothing. It doesn’t really matter whether male drivers have ever done anything to deserve being avoided, the point is that women want to avoid them.

Im a guy. I feel a bit awkward about this, as if someone had said to me “I dont want to interact with you because you might rape me”. Its not a nice feeling but its a misconception of what’s really happening.

Ultimately in any specific instance where a woman chooses not to interact with a man, I absolutely believe its her right to do so. However, I do hope that society doesn’t reach a point where women in general make that choice as a matter of routine.

I’m pretty confident

confidently incorrect.

You could disabuse yourself with a quick search.

This is great news. I mean as long as the lines keep going up right?

Do we need the socks?

You haven’t really explained how Musk could ever be poor and homeless?

Any billionaire could discard their wealth “state side” or in a bunch of countries and still be obscenely wealthy.

If you could press a button and instantly delete all of his wealth the world over, he could land a well paid board position with any number of large companies who would pay him many millions just because his name would increase share holder sentiment.

He could just call any multimillionaire who has benefited from his association and say “hey I’m destitute, can you give me a place to stay and some pocket money” and they would gladly agree.

Musk will never be poor and homeless.

Tldr:

You seem to be arguing against a claim that you imagined I made, and / or seem to exist in an alternate reality with dragons and guillotines.

Logically I don’t understand how I can help you understand this, and that’s the only way I know to explain things, I’m sorry.

Sure. I didnt say musk couldn’t be assassinated or otherwise disposed of. Im responding to the commenter that wanted him homeless and poor.

Regardless, things have changed somewhat since the French revolution. A population cant simply rise up and start guillotining billionaires. They can literally just fly away.

Not to mention they effectively control the minds of the population that would take up arms against them.

No i think the comment is less direct than that.

For much of government, the underlying objective is to contribute to GDP. For example, funding healthcare means a healthier population who can be more productive.

So by saying “this policy won’t contribute to GDP” its a very general way to say this is not what’s best for your population.

At least I think thats what theyre saying.

As an aside, savings dont directly improve GDP, by definition.

Sure but Musk will never be homeless and poor.