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Yes. Unfortunately each advertiser thinks they can make a little more money if they go a little farther.

It's like the tragedy of the commons (which might have an ahistorical root but nevermind that) where a bunch of people acting in "rational self interest" ruin the thing for everyone.

All those people who refused to take COVID seriously have a lot of blood on their hands.

It doesn't have to be that way.

A lot of conservatives are authoritarians that value group cohesion above most everything else. Going against the group feels bad in a deep way, I think, so all sorts of justifications will be made to stay with the group.

Honestly, as far as I'm concerned that's a form of stupid. Kind of funny given the boomer cliche of "If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump off too?". It turns out yes, a lot of people would.

Something like half of US adults cannot read at a 6th grade level. That's like reading for plot. That's reading a couple paragraphs about like "Sally moved to New Jersey from Maine when she was 17. She went to college at NYU, where she met her future husband Jake. They got married and now have two children." -> "Where did Sally meet her husband?". A lot of people struggle with that. And we kind of expect them to keep up with politics.

Some of that is their fault. They don't try. They don't want to be literate. But a lot of it is a failure of our public education system. But that is largely the fault of conservatives who don't want to fund it.

You're also not going to find a lot of those people on a platform like this that's mostly written, and where the norms generally a somewhat high level of diction that adheres to standard english.

There isn't really agreement on who is too shitty to "participate in society", whatever that means. And if you build a mechanism to exclude people, assholes will use it for evil.

But like if I had a magic wand I would remove all republicans from power. They make it easy by self identifying as shitheads.

They'll probably start eviction proceedings if you stop paying rent. They may also do other unpleasant things to make the apartment unlivable.

In the US the law is generally not cheap and not on the side of the poor.

Depends a lot on the details and execution.

Some friends can tell a good story about having a beer anywhere. Other folks would make meeting (some well liked celebrity) tedious.

I'm a little too deep into the "I had an onion on my belt" side of things, so I try to be patient with other people's meanderings.

There are many options. "Shove down throats" is kind of a gross metaphor. Do you think fire codes are also shoved down throats?

https://www.marketplace.org/2021/05/03/in-vienna-public-housing-is-affordable-and-desirable/

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/public-housing-success/406561/ (paywall removed: https://archive.is/LkuFR )

I'm not sure what barter has to do with the topic

If there are alternate options for renting a place, then I’m open to hear it.

Public housing. Well funded, well run, public housing. Rip out the profit motive.

You probably have to remove all the conservatives from power first because they ideologically do not want a government that does good things.

Also probably repeal faircloth, which arbitrarily limits how much public housing there can be.

Owning a house involves paying out of pocket for maintenance whereas when renting, you can have the landlord take care of that for you, and it doesn’t involve paying whoever comes to fix your stuff.

Those costs are almost certainly built into your rent. It's not free. You also risk the landlord just not fixing things.

If the game has a lot of stuff but only some of it is actually interactive, there should be a way to disambiguate.