I haven’t seen any difference there honestly.

Here in Australia also, pre covid a leader for a hiking group was well known in the community and made racist comments. Reported them, and nothing was done.

I need to get rid of them at this point.

I really wish cool Americans like you would move here to Australia, and we could just export all of our wankers

This has nothing to do with the problem at Meetup

I’ve been running a free Meetup for 8+ years

The actual issue is the costs, the shitty photo upload system and the fact that they send all hosts paid events for their own hosting group which can’t be blocked

It’s not enshitification. It has been shit for 8 years at least

There have always been expensive events.

Not really struggling

All they need to do is subsidise batteries and problem solved

He won’t be prosecuting Murdoch press

He’ll be prosecuting meidestouch. The only fortunate thing is that most of their journalists are also lawyers

And those price increases won’t translate to paid workers since unlike the Democrats, he doesn’t plan to properly raise minimum wage. So underpaid workers will still be underpaid, but will be hit with inflation

It will all go to share holders or management

The fact that you took my entire response and only responded to 1 part of it says everything. Prohibition has been effective against drugs. Just look at Denver as an example for what happens when they’re legal vs not. The whole city smells like weed now and it seems like everyone is using. If you legalise cocaine, guess what will happen?

Before prohibition drugs were being sold at every street corner.

Even you know your argument is weak, so I won’t be responding anymore. If you want cancer so much, there are easier ways for you to get it. Id rather the people around me live, and I’d rather live a long life too. As others have said, go get help. You have an addiction. I don’t care already since I live in Australia and happy that shit like that is being increasingly banned.

And it’s ridiculous you accuse others of bootlicking in this case. There’s nothing more sheepish that sucking up to companies that trade YOUR health and YOUR money so THEY can be fucking rich

How do you figure?

Seems to be working against Asbestos companies.

And if anyone tries to cut up engineered stone onsite, it will be obvious. In fact, companies are getting actively fined. And my mate who got silicosis I’m fairly sure got a payout.

Seems to be working fine with our Gun control.

Seems to be working for lots of food items

Seems to be working for lots of things. You simply don’t realise it works, because you’re not aware of them.

If Vaping is banned, shitheads aren’t going to be vaping in public blowing smoke in our faces. And, if they’re smoking at home, people like myself can kick them out. I’m not too fussed about the ones who are respectable (I had a housemate who smoked weed, but they did it outside).

Do you really think allow free sale of highly addictive drugs like meth is a good idea? Fuck No.

You keep telling yourself you’re a badass fighting against bootlickers or whatever. But you’re actually just a pawn for the multi-billion dollar Tobacco industry

Wow. You’re such a rebel. /s

If you want to fight authority, start by fighting against the rich assholes causing 30% of stonemasons(and others) to get silicosis from engineered stone. The guys making the money aren’t the ones getting sick. Help them live long enough to get justice and get paid.

Fight against the companies and rich assholes who are still giving lots of people cancer by using asbestos products to save money (and are putting asbestos in products and not declaring it). The people manufacturing this shit are getting rich, not the people installing it (or who have it installed)

And fight back by helping people live longer, so they can get justice against tabacco companies for lying to them and making shitty claims like claiming menthol cigarettes are medicinal. Companies like Vape4lyf had nothing in place to prevent sales of vapes to kids whilst starting petitions claiming they were needed for quitting smoking (what possible use could kids have for vapes other than to START vaping). Every shitty vape company out there is basically advertising their products as safe

Do you think the execs give a shit if your kid dies? Nope, they have lawyers on retainer, and they’ve become increasingly good at fighting any lawsuits and running down the clock. Do you think they give a shit if the people around other smokers die from second hand smoke? Nope, because you can’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt a specific company caused an issue. People are suffering.

Nothing says “badass” like a guy who is willing to fondle the balls of the marlboro man whilst he lies to you and dodges responsibility. Vaping is Tabacco 2.0. They’re making the exact same claims they did in the past for other products.

I’d suggest you grow a pair and stand up for people. That takes courage. It’s not bootlicking. What you’re doing is bending over for millionaires who give no fucks about you, and defending them

Also, I had some absolute wanker the other day throw a lit cigerette on my nature strip (I was amazed, and I was sitting in the car), on a hot day. I’m lucky I saw him do it and he didn’t start a grass fire (and yet, if one was started, he’d be responsible, not the tobacco company). Everyone in cigarette companies knows this happens and could provide a way to extinguish them in the box, but instead, they know people are chucking them on the ground

i have attached the photo of the guy (if anyone in Victoria happens to recognise him)

And it is super common for people to throw cigarettes out of their car, leave them on the ground, or throw their vape cartridges on the ground. Smokers and Cigerette companies had EVERY opportunity to be respectful. There might be some respectful ones, but, there are plenty who aren’t

Vaping companies like Vape4life were writing petitions on Facebook arguing that Vaping was great to help smokers stop smoking.

Meanwhile, the same dodgy companies were selling vapes to 10 year olds online (they had NOTHING in place to stop underage people buying them). What possible health use could underage people have for vapes?

Meanwhile, every vaping fuckwit around was smoking vapes illegally on trains and in heavily populated public areas. And every asshole (including my ex housemate) was vaping inside (I literally told her not to. I want to do high altitude mountaineering in the future so I need my lungs. And she was getting super cheap rent). When you tell them to do it outside, they always say “vaping is just water, it’s perfectly safe”.

If you want to “eat the rich”, you should be telling Smoking companies to fuck off. They’re lying to their userbase, whilst their exec’s become wealthy millionaires. And when their clients get cancer (or the people around them get cancer), they run down the clock on the lawsuit so they don’t lose any money.

Fuck Tabacco and cigarette companies.

Yeah guys. Downvote me. This is literally part of my day job.

In our industry we call not using an official API a dumpster fire API. Because more than once it has completely broken eventually, and there are a few manufacturers warned will break in the upcoming future

Like what?

Often the things that seem mundane actually aren’t

Like vaping is just tobacco 2.0… and we don’t need everyone to have easy access to guns (especially not kids). Networks like Facebook are so unmoderated at the moment they should be held to account.

Asbestos and engineered stone? Enough said

And that’s mainly everything I can think of that’s banned that I can think of…

Then you’re at risk of getting sued for cracking the encryption or the API breaking constantly

The real reminder is don’t integrate with devices which you can’t trust

Unfortunately, I feel like trump might simply close a lot of these agencies and replace with his own corrupt ones

It’s one of the things dictators do

And his fan base will love that he’s doing something and blame it on Biden

Who cares. It’s just a fence lol

Same as Facebook

Facebook is poorly moderated, and nothing I’ve reported gets removed. It doesn’t matter how abusive it is

It’s probably the main platform which is making people dumber at the moment

We have a lot of LGBTI people in our climbing group

I have never had an issue with any of them

But the people trying to be hyper masculine? Yep…

I feel like it’s because they never left high school. A lot of them are simply trying the same thing that worked when they are a kid. Everyone else grows up

It runs well and runs on Synology

There is no reason not to

Yeah. Like that shitty sub he built

At least unlike the cave divers, when he calls people in Trump’s team a pedo this time when they ignore him, he might actually be right