It’s a matter of public safety. Driving while sleep deprived significantly increases the odds of crashing your car, and sleep apnea can in some cases deprive you a lot. A colleague of mine fell asleep behind the wheel on his morning drive to work, totalled his car. Turned out he had sleep apnea.

I genuinely don’t know much about corruption in China (or other places, really), so I’m pretty ambivalent.

But when I look at transparency.org’s methodology, it raises some minor doubts. What they do is they collect surveys from 12 different institutions, 10 of which are based in US allied countries. This, combined with the fact that the US is in some kind of cold war with China, makes me a bit doubtful of its veracity. Analogously, how trustworthy would I deem an assessment of America made by Iranian, Chinese, and Russian institutions? Not very.

I’m not saying China isn’t corrupt, it may very well be. I don’t know. But I prefer suspending judgement until I’ve looked into it properly.

https://youtu.be/BAylQ6uQ5HU

He won’t be able to put this on a playlist on spotify, but this is 32 seconds of heaven for me.

So, is this like a vibes based comment or do you know something about this?

Freedom to smoke cigarettes after being born in 2008 🦅 🇺🇲

But Waymo taxis are demonstrably safer than human drivers.

… says research paid for by Waymo.

I know critical thinking skills are in short supply these days, but come on.

“I have black friends” level copium

Don’t be a dick.

I’m sure they had conflicts, they’re human. But the colonizers had a greater impact than internal conflict ever could have. Again, 49.5 million out of 50. And your comment still reeks of this idea that the colonizers coming in was somehow a neutral or ok thing. It wasn’t. It’s one of the greatest atrocities committed in the history of mankind.

I think you underestimate the magnitude of the genocide of the natives. It completely dwarfs the holocaust. Some researchers found it had a noticable effect on the temperature of the planet. About 49.5 million were killed.

Also your comment reeks of “they’re savages!”

The entire country is sick to its core. Death to pissrael. All of it.

For context, what OP means by “cleaning” webcomics is removing artist attribution. Look through their post history. And the answer why people don’t do this is clear: because it’s an unbelievably shitty thing to do.

They’re very much first world.

Death to America

I hope she comes back earlier than planned :)

Yeah sure I’m in total agreement. But we’re not choosing between tackling property ownership systematically versus hurting the systematic evil of booking. We’re choosing between hurting one single landlord and hurting booking. And again for me this is a very obvious choice because I’m against booking for the reasons I mentioned earlier, but if you’re completely okay with booking, then I totally get why you would prefer hurting one single landlord over the neutral or benevolent entity of booking. I would arrive at the same conclusion.

Oooh, ok, understood. I was under the impression that folks didn’t like booking here. I personally don’t, for the obvious reasons (1), and so for me personally the moral calculus is easy. But if you’re fully on board with booking as a company, then it makes perfect sense to write what you have.

(1) Primarily offering hotels on occupied land, but also terrible customer service, rent seeking behavior, and of course the usual platform monopoly strategy we also see with Amazon, UberEATS, etc.

Yeah ok, sure, but again I feel like you’re focussing on the wrong thing here. It’s like you’re watching a video of a homeless man being beaten up, see someone jaywalk in the background and go “oh my god I can’t believe someone just jaywalked!”. Like, yeah, sure, you’re completely right, that is a bad thing to do, but I feel like there’s more important things going on here, and it’s really quite odd to focus on that, instead of the bigger evil here.

To be really super duper clear here: I think you’re right, the lady sucks. But there is a bigger problem here, namely booking.com. And focussing on the small fries rather than the bigger picture is just kind of weird. If anything we said or did on Lemmy mattered at all I’d say you were harming the greater good of bringing down booking by focussing on one tiny little instance of a symptom of the system rather than the system itself.

Or is this a fundamental disagreement in how to solve systemic problems? I believe systemic problems can only be cured with systemic change, like regulation, going after the root cause of the problem. Some folks believe it’s a matter of personal responsibility, and they believe that huge systemic problems can be solved by going after one individual at a time.

The adage “don’t hate the player, hate the game” comes to mind. Focussing on her in this situation is missing the forest for the trees. Here we have two evils fighting each other, a horrible system aimed at ultimately monopolizing the hotel market, and one woman enabled by that system. Focussing on her is like writing a little book against communism and about how much you hate Russia, during the holocaust. Like, yeah sure ok, but is now really the best time to do this, and when you look at these two sides fighting each other that’s the side you focus on?

But everything you’re saying in the other posts is pretty generic and applies to the pro and anti abortion crowd in the other countries as well.