Blakerboy777

joined 1 year ago
[–] Blakerboy777@feddit.online 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Portals maintain velocity. Velocity is relative. Therefore the velocity they maintain is the relative velocity of the portal and the subject. Any other way and there would be no consistent way to pass any moment when passing through a portal.

[–] Blakerboy777@feddit.online 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Checked out this guy's profile, once again the fake enlightened centrist is really just a right winger.

[–] Blakerboy777@feddit.online 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Green Party is a mouthpiece for Russia. Look at this recent press release: https://www.cornelwest24.org/war_climate_and_my_presidential_campaign

I was going to try to explain how insane this release is, but honestly just read it for yourself.

[–] Blakerboy777@feddit.online 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As far as privacy and tracking go, can you unpack that a little more? Isn't everything you post on the fediverse totally public to begin with- isn't even already likely that they have spun up servers to test ActivityPub integration with, that have already pulled your fediverse posts? This just seems like a symbolic gesture more than anything.

[–] Blakerboy777@feddit.online 7 points 1 year ago

"Posting things publically is a privacy nightmare"

[–] Blakerboy777@feddit.online 3 points 1 year ago

I just wanted to leave a comment about Coke Zero using a different sweetener than Diet Coke, but then I looked it up and I guess I was completely wrong? So just in case anyone else heard that - Coke Zero also uses aspartame.

[–] Blakerboy777@feddit.online 3 points 1 year ago

It's extremely easy, and I believe this bill also allows for them to vote by proxy, which exacerbates that concern. But on the other hand, they do need to own property, so it isn't a totally costless endevour.

[–] Blakerboy777@feddit.online 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The corporations themselves cannot vote. This law allows the owner of the corporation to vote even if they do not live within the city proper. No one can vote twice - whether you live in the city and own a corporation or own multiple corporations. And it's only for corporations that own property. While it's easy to imagine this backfiring, the steelman position is - you own a small business one town over, you have a significant role in the local economy, giving you one vote the same as any resident sounds pretty reasonable. Rich folk who own a house and live their 2 months out of the year are potentially eligible to vote as well, so it's potentially more justified that the owner of the local bakery gets to vote too. Could this end up being horribly abused? I don't know that there are enough safeguards against it. But this doesn't immediately scream the end of democracy to me.