Corporations are not granted the same rights as natural persons - they’re granted some of the rights of natural persons (and some of those make sense while other are dumb).

Preventing corporations from operating as persons when contributing to political campaigns would be an absolute win for representation… Citizens United was a trash ruling by trash people.

Preventing corporations from operating as persons when interacting with the legal system would massively complicate our legal code and probably lead to a lot of awful edge cases where they could dodge liability for their actions. They are generally immune to manslaughter and some industries have dumb political carve outs (like firearms manufacturers having immunity to most product liability) but people’s ability to sue, i.e. a paper mill after getting luekimeia relies on corporate personhood in our current system.

When we talk about “corporations shouldn’t be people” we (I think it’s fair to be generally inclusive here) are talking about their ability to donate to politicians and political causes.

In three consecutive months, for the same amount of the same medication from the same pharmacy, I paid 270$, 30$, and 0$.

Healthcare pricing is complete fucking bullshit.

Uh, is your phone bulging? It might just be the lighting but if it’s visibly bulging please stop being anywhere near it.

May he abide over your happiness as he does us all.

Heretic. There is no true God but the Emperor.

You’re lucky Mars is so useful otherwise we’d exterminatus your asses.

Yup, I’ve seen religion directly cause far too much harm to excuse the small benefit it yields to some people. Especially fucking now.

I’m an atheist. I was agnostic and still technically am, I guess, but I transitioned to the annoying as fuck in your face atheism after watching chucklefucks like Westboro Baptist Church and Evangelicals being asshats. Oh, also, grew up in Boston during the altar boy rape scandals.

Personally, I think that God may or may not exist and it’s crucial to live your life now as you want to (and that isn’t a license to be an asshat - be kind to others just 'cause). Socially I think that religion is a poison that causes more suffering than it heals.

I came here to make a Gonorrhea joke but you beat me off to it.

Trump constantly… except the being embarrassed about it part.

He’s clownishly uninformed about so much common knowledge that people just assume everyone knows.

As a Canadian… try and snag us some good doctors as the American healthcare system collapses.

Young people can struggle with this until they realize how thoroughly fucked we all are. There’s a weird culture of height significance in dating that’s a pretty entrenched meme at this point. So it’s something there is a lot of insecurity around it.

Your view is the correct one, of course, we just need to fucking deal with what we are aka “have the grace to accept the things I cannot change”.

If you find the guy who offended you let me know - I’ll give him the clamps.

Silver - the gold standard of scores was set by Curtis Mayfield.

Futurama - though I expect that’s showing my age.

The easiest route is to buy a server from someone like digital ocean, set up a VPN daemon, register a cert with it (that’s the hardest technical part) then set up something like openVPN on your client machine and install a matching cert there.

Oh no worries, my response wasn’t meant in a negative way either (I just swear like a fucking sailor). I’ve seen coworkers hold off on living life until retirement and then end up unable to actually do anything.

As long as you’re not burning money I’d encourage everyone to make sure to enjoy life in moderation constantly.

Enjoy your high seas m’hearty.

Then you’ll want a commercial offering since they’ll have nodes across the world.

Is that ad supported and does it allow downloading content for offline viewing? I usually watch shows when traveling and an offline mode is a must for me (and I have ADHD so I’ll literally murder any service that’s ad supported).

For me, personally, I appreciate Spotify because it has pretty solid out of the box functionality where my preferences and locally downloaded songs easily sync between different devices, I can control output on one device from another (I have an old computer running Spotify hooked up to my house speakers and just control what’s playing from my phone, laptop, work laptop or gaming machine), and my constantly shifting music tastes can be satiated.

I absolutely understand those that eschew it on ethical grounds and the free tier is, indeed, hot fucking garbage.

Don’t buy it - build it (if it’s within your technical comfort zone). Self hosted VPNs are cheaper and you’re not entrusting your privacy to a third party (as much).