Sadly individual action is rarely effective against large corpos

Unless thousands of people happen to take that individual action.

he won’t leave the office

I’m expecting him to leave feet first.

that little girl

Unfortunately, you’ll have to be more specific.

There is already a couple of generations of dead people who were responsible for decades of this rapid decline.

It’s infuriating that we have known about the source of the problem, and have known what problems it will cause for my entire lifetime and now it becomes my children’s generation’s problem to deal with.

Why does Microsoft always abuse its customers?

It’s what big pseudo-monopolies do.

This isn’t a Microsoft specific problem.

Yet another reason not to travel to the USA.

Nor even transit through their airports.

So that means you’ll need a Sportsnet subscription, a TSN subscription and an Amazon subscription to watch all of some team’s games (at least the ones that aren’t regional blacked out)

Sure AI and robots could take over manufacturing, but it doesn’t make abundance magically.

And even if it did , the owners of those AI operated factories aren’t going to voluntarily share that abundance with the general population.

a top surgeon or pro athlete

Entertainers and life savers are very different categories of value to society.

What percentage of the population agrees with your premise?

I’d say most people are ambivalent to the whole discussion.

Hell, we have a hard time getting half the population to even get off their ass and cast a ballot at all.

The people who care about alternative voting systems really care, but that’s a small number of people. For everyone else it’s not something that crosses their minds, and when prompted, don’t have much of an opinion.

And during those various ownership changes they “cost optomized” their product quality down the toilet.

Dropped their long time coffee supplier for a cheaper alternative.

Stopped baking fresh in store, and moved to frozen product from a central kitchen which is then reheated at the franchise locations.

freedom of expression. Important distinction.

True, but it still does mean free from consequences.

didn’t see anywhere in the article where they say they were going to buy the houses for that amount

No, but it also didn’t say how many houses might be affected.

I think you know the answer to this - $10 mil on soundproofing doesn’t make the Bottom Line go up

Neither does buying out 10 million worth of houses.

And will just be another thing for the orange turd to fight us over.

Sure, but he is already doing that whether we give him an excuse or not.

When the reaction is chaotic and hostile no matter what you do (or don’t do) that puts us in a position to do what is best for ourselves without having to worry as much about any potential reactions.

she’s kind of bland in my opinion (compared with European left at least).

Compared to European politics, the USA doesn’t really have any “left”.

Most Democrats would be considered center-right in a lot of other countries.

common sense

Careful with that term these days.

The rightwingnuts tend to call their anti-progressiveness talking points “common sense”.

Prosecuted for what, exactly?

For not being nice to the gestapo?

Given that a lot of Canadians are already avoiding US products, banning it or not won’t make a lot of difference for most people.

Gardening is a skill like any other

A skill that can be learned and practiced to get better at.