My boss once said to a group of new joinees including me," Eventually you will be able to afford subscription to all the streaming services."
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The purposeful degradation of repair.
Neocolonialism maybe?
I once read that there are some states in the U.S. where firefighters don't put out fires in houses that don't pay a monthly subscription.
Private fire fighters have been a thing since at least the 1600s.
No no. Not "since", but "in".
It genuinely shocked me those still exist in the states. That's fucking insane.
We have a somewhat different mentality about public safety here in Finland.
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Not sure about the modern equivalents to this, but in Rome (please correct if wrong) it used to be like that. Firefighters would only put out fires of houses that paid them and otherwise just stood there, watching.
At least that's what I read in one of those "did you know this about the ancient cultures?" articles and those aren't always reliable either.
That sounds apocryphal.
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Charging money for supplies after people had there whole lives uprooted by a natural disaster. Cough cough hurricane helene
Don't forget cops and military protecting stores in disaster zones, full of supplies that will wind up getting paid for by insurance anyway and will go bad before the store reopens.
That person who was in a car that ended up crossing three lanes, hitting a pole and then hitting a tree. They declined an ambulance because they were scared of the ambulance bill - then got a bill for $150 for refusing the ambulance. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
The US Empire.
Projecting ads onto the tunnel walls off of a moving subway. Seen in mainland ~~Taiwan~~ China.
Did OP ask an LLM for the "most Lemmy question to ask"?
You canβt make me pick one.
Federal Circuit court blocking the ban on noncompete agreements
