The thing is, these vaccine cards are really easy to forge. I think anyone with the right paper and a decent printer could make one (or dozens, or hundreds). So if a lot of people “fuck around and find out,” many may “find out” that they can get away with it, and consequently put the rest of us at greater risk, etc.

For everyone that replied: Kinja remains fucked up, so I may not have been able to read your entire comment, let alone star it. Sorry and thanks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m not sure how fucked Walmart will get here; Walmart seems like they’re 100% in the wrong here (ditto the cops, hope they’re getting sued too), but they’re a multibillion dollar corporation with an army of greasy, soulless lawyers at their disposal. The plaintiffs, otoh, are a pastor and a former cop, so I’m…

I’m not gonna take the quiz right now because I’m worried it’ll feel like homework and I have a hard time assigning numbers to things that are inherently subjective, etc. but it may be useful to some.

One of my fears is that too much of this “portability” is more just kinda code for “you can take it somewhere else but we’re keeping a copy here too.” Like maybe you’re not moving your data so much as spreading it around.

And here I thought I heard all the compelling arguments why leftists/”progressives” should keep the pressure up on Biden and other Dems. Excellent analogy - your comment was perfect and deserves all the stars!!! </sincerity>

I beg to differ, but I’ll refrain from citing any of the cringey stuff he’s said and done over the years

Good riddance to all of them. I don’t care if they make it past the Earth’s atmosphere (let alone The Moon or Mars), I just hope they never come back.

I’m not even sure how many cops view this as a “tool” - many may view it as more of a toy. A toy with barbed metal hooks. Regardless, I’m not eager for cops to add one more device to their... utility belts? ... until they can show more competence - AND RESTRAINT - with what tools (i.e. weapons) they already have.

that’s a really good point!

Well, I try to keep in mind that stuff like that is often meant to entertain, not to educate

I know this is pedantic and I don’t mean to spoil the fun, (it is a fun song), but the song keeps referring to some cow as a “he” - cows by definition are female.

... what we really need is something that prevents any single company from being the dominant entity in more than two or three product markets...

Size is absolutely a huge part of this. You are allowed to try and defeat your competitors. A huge component of reaching the “anti-competitive” threshold is whether or not other options exist.

Colonizing another planet to escape ours is almost definitely a pipe dream. Sharper minds than mine might be able to explain why, but I think it boils down to: as bad as we’re making things here, it’s still far easier to reverse the damage on Earth than it is to create anything like a hospitable environment for humans…

I like my Apple devices, I like the App Store, it works for me, and it definitely works for Apple... but it doesn’t work for a lot of developers or other consumers, so fuck Apple here, I hope they lose. If there are more app stores than just The Apple App Store for my iPhone or whatever, I may or may not even use any…

Goddamn Kinja...

Maybe, but I imagine Amazon’s already trying to automate as much as possible. Unionization may be an uphill battle, but on the plus side, there seems to be no viable option to move their “fulfillment centers” overseas to take advantage of cheap(er) labor and (even worse) laws protecting workers’ rights either.

You sound like you know what you’re talking about, and maybe we need or should have new laws applying to these tech giants; maybe they’re not just innovating in the tech industry, but finding creative ways to violate the spirit of certain laws, if not the letter of those laws. In any case, it’s not *either* the…

you may be right - I’m no expert on labor laws (or any laws) - but i don’t think even our existing laws define monopolies as strictly as you are. in theory, even w/o being “the only game in town,” businesses can be found guilty of or prevented from engaging in monopolistic practices. Just one example, let’s start w/…