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This is something that always concerns me when I start a new project. I often want to handle as much internally as possible to avoid situations like this one, but large services often make things much easier in comparison (until they pull something and you're stuck doing the work anyway). I really should start tracking how much time I actually lose to things like this so I can do a proper analysis.

I'm not too familiar with airline ticketing systems, if you don't mind could you clarify what you mean by your 70's ticketing system comment?

The support for restrictions, as far as I can tell from polls, is mostly about expanding background checks. Even after a recent shooting support for additional gun control law beyond expanded background checks seems to be in decline (see article below).

Interestingly among those polled from the Democratic party, which is broadly considered the entirely pro-gun-control party, only 54% felt that gun control laws were the most effective way to prevent mass shootings. (31% of Independents and 17% of Republicans responded similarly.) The rest seem to mostly fall into the camps of either 'more effective policing' or 'preventing the spread of extremist ideologies.'

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/05/25/most-vo...

In the U.S. this is often because someone can't work. When you're stuck in a poor area, job opportunities are extremely limited. Public transport is very limited, so you often can't get out of the immediate area to find a job, and most jobs are very restrictive about criminal history.

You can get something minor on your record, and be stuck out of work until you can get enough money to move closer to a place which will hire someone with a crime on their background check, which is now near impossible to do legally.

This situation can make one desperate enough to attempt crimes which can lead to murder, such as armed robbery.

Yeah, the biodegradable part of the article is more about paper vs. plastic in general rather than single vs. multi-use.

If I'm understanding the article correctly the problem the author has is that single use paper bags, which are biodegradable and more easily recycled, are being banned in favor of reusable plastic and cloth bags which are considered significantly worse for the environment due to the required amount of use before they have a 'neutral' environmental impact compared to current practices.

The source they get their info from is interesting, though. (Linked below.) According to this, depending on which study you're looking at, it may actually be impossible to reuse any bags enough times that they become worth it compared to ditching them in general.

The lowest possible seems to be paper bags with 3 reuses, followed by plastic bags at around 10, then if you have a durable enough cotton bag to get through 130 uses it becomes the better option environmentally speaking. I've never known anyone that could reuse any of those bags enough to get through that many uses before they tear to the point of uselessness though.

I wonder if it would be advantageous to encourage stores and individuals to start using crates or woven bags again, which may be able to withstand the number of trips necessary to make their environmental impact neutral compared to plastic bags.

Their source: https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2018/08/heres-how-many-times-y...

Thanks, that list really is awesome, will have to spend some time looking through it.

Much appreciated, I'll have to check it out. I don't know if my family would be big fans of the link-aggregator style, but I may make use of this with some friend groups in the future.

Maybe, the aspects for keeping shares to family only seem useful, but at a glance it looks like diaspora doesn't have an option for closed communities. Thank you for the suggestion though, I'll look further into it!

I remember an interview they did with some of the writers, and they were talking about how they included certain items (eg. room-size computers) to be silly and anachronistic, but others (eg. dvd players) to help relate things to current times. They said that when they were writing the final seasons, the team couldn't tell which items in the earliest seasons were supposed to be relatable and which were supposed to be silly.

Not the person you originally applied to, but in my opinion this is most likely because corporations used to be extremely restricted in other aspects. Corporations were limited to operations listed in the charter they applied for and often could be immediately dismantled if they were found to be doing anything in violation of the law.

This mostly changed due to 'corporate personhood', the idea that corporations should have the same rights as people.

This article goes in to a lot of how this has lead to corporate abuses of power:

https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_law_journal/vol41...

This one's an easier read, but basically an editorial on the one above:

https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-histor...

There's a number of reasons, but as I understand the main issue is that John Deere is treating their tractor's firmware like the music industry was treating MP3's. They say farmers may own the tractor itself, and the hardware, but they're only licensing the use of the firmware and don't have the right to modify it. (Which can be necessary when repairing a tractor that has many computerized systems.)

They're essentially creating DRM for tractor software that's so restrictive that installing new parts requires access to secret codes in the firmware in order to turn them on, then accusing farmers of breaking the law if they try to alter or figure out these secret codes in order to keep their tractor working without going to a dealer. (According to my basic understanding, correct me if I'm wrong.)

They could always head over to https://medicalsciences.stackexchange.com/

Then again, they might wind up posting a question about a compound fracture only for it to be closed as a duplicate with a link to something about an impacted molar.

It's interesting to me that arguments about inheritance are one of the connecting factors across classes of wealth. I've known people that act this way over a $100 coin collection.

I really hope they don't, but I could see it happening.

The popular mods are probably also going to be seeing some issues from this. A little indie company from Prague might not draw enough attention to get DMCAs and lawsuits drawn to their mod makers, but facebook definitely will.