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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I’m not from the US, but it would seem to me that public cameras should only be accessible for legitimate purposes.

    Police should need to request footage, but similarly, you shouldn’t be able to just request any footage willy nilly, because of stalking.

    Seems that it should be tightly regulated and require multiple people to gain access, and be documented who was given access.

    Overall your comment seems like a great suggestion to me. If footage “goes missing”, they had better have way more evidence to back up their charges.









  • The US lacks even the most basic consumer protections it seems.

    In Australia, companies still try to give you the run around, but I am extremely confident this wouldn’t fly here. Even though I’m not a lawyer.

    If you literally can’t get a hold of them, they’re breaking Australian Consumer Law, that’s a slam dunk to charge back the card and dare them to take you to your state’s relevant tribunal that hears cases like this. It costs either like $70 to file, you can represent yourself easily, and if you’re low-income, it’s literally free.

    They don’t want to waste money on fighting you. If you’re confident you’re clearly in the right, it’s very easy to get a company to back down.

    This is a great time to remind everyone to take photos before and after getting a rental car, because otherwise it’s your word against them.




  • You are underestimating how many people will give up at the slightest inconvenience.

    I can tell you, when vigorously enforced, you can get the vast majority of a population to play within your walled garden (China, as an example).

    Sweden however, yeah, unless they wanna go full internet firewall, not sure exactly how they plan on enforcing this.


  • It’s almost like this not-for-profit, for-profit subsidiary thing is a cancer (or at least, my selection bias of late thinks so).

    Can someone ELI5 why a foundation can’t develop these products directly, with a for-profit subsidiary? Is there something forbidden about rasing revenue for a not-for-profit via product sales? Would this even fix anything?