B and C might be mutually exclusive. City Councils are often heavily beholden to law enforcement and police unions — lots of hand-and-glove relationships between them. So trying to hold law enforcement accountable will almost certainly sour relationships with the city council. I don’t see a good way around this…

So is capitalism.

You do understand that “IP” is a semi-modern ‘invention’ right? There was *PLENTY* of innovation and technological development long before it was ever dreamed up by British aristocracy as a way create and maintain economic strangleholds on their colonies. In point of fact, there’s actually nothing backing up the claim…

The cause is pretty simple — the US’s and the world’s entire economic model is ‘robbing the future to get rich today.’ Almost exclusively at the hands of the wealthy. They try to pass the bill off as long as they possibly can, but the more and faster they pilfer the future, the quicker that bill comes due...and…

The problem was that they let ‘telling stories’ get in the way of the story they were trying to tell. Just way too much time spent meandering through Tolkien lore for little purpose greater than badgering the audience with “Look at how much Tolkien we did!”

It’s not like they would respect it regardless. We are talking about Republicans, after all — the party that hates democracy, freedom, liberty, state’s rights, law and order, family values, freedom of religions, etc, etc — except when they can exploit it for personal gain or power. And no, I’m not being sarcastic. The…

Mmm...no, that would qualify as a hostile work environment. And contributing towards or creation of a hostile work environment can absolutely get you fired. Pull this shit at a school or a college outside of a sports arena? Yeah, that’s going to be harassment. It can easily get you kicked out of class, and if you keep…

Musk’s actions were nothing more than thinly veiled pump-and-dump securities fraud.

On the one hand, good for Reese throwing the shit back, full-on ‘reap what you sow’ style. On the other hand, this kind of shit shouldn’t be tolerated, let alone viewed as a normal part of the game. It is clearly poor sportsmanship. In other environments, this behavior is called harassment. It can easily get you…

If you think the US’s IP laws are working for small inventors, you are woefully incorrect. The problem is that it’s far too easy to preemptively ‘protect’ IP in an intentionally vague and broadly applicable structure not for the purposes of actually doing anything with that intentionally ‘vague’ IP — because there was…

Hence why they should continue being sued. Nobody is forcing them to endanger lives with their hateful rhetoric and violent, armed demonstrations. They could simply choose to, you know, not be racist asshats, shut up, and go home.

If the behavior continues afterward, then by all means, keep suing. Just because you get sued for one crime doesn’t mean you can’t be sued for another instance of the same crime.

They are not independent contractors. They do not set their own rates, which is a fundamental requirement of being an independent contractor, ie a separate business entity. Do you know what a bunch of independent business entities getting together and setting an industry-wide ‘price’ for their services is called…

What needs to change is the US labor laws that requires companies which require anything more than part-time ‘labor’ to perform as a business to fill that position with an employee. In other words, if your business depends on FULLTIME DRIVERS to function (Lyft, Uber, Grubhub, etc), that business should be required to…

The problem is the wildly different and fundamentally incompatible reasons each one wants to break up big tech. Some of those reasons might be good. Many of them are not. And the US doesn’t need another bill that ‘gets something done’ by compromising on other issues that are equally if not more important just to…

The thing is, as much as Donald deserves this indictment and to be convicted (for this and many, many other crimes too numerous to count), anyone who has paid the slightest bit of attention to the state of America’s DOJ and its courts should already knows how this is going to end — before the SCOTUS which will bend…

Agreed, on both counts.

Mending relations between America and Africa is going to require pulling all of America’s knives out of Africa’s back first...and good luck with that. Twisting those knives has been incredibly lucrative for American businesses exploiting African countries. And, of course, then you have to stop a Republican-controlled…

Reagan is the reason America’s higher education has been going steadily downhill while the costs keep going up, starting off by attacking higher education in CA and cutting off public funding to those schools under the lie of ‘cost cutting’ forcing them to rely on tuition. Reagan continued this assault on education…

Put down the ‘Merica kool-aid...it’s rotting your brain.