Sure, but my point is that it does not mean they want to. They will take the cheapest option possible - if there isn’t one, they usually try to invent a new cheaper option for themselves. In the realm of bribery, if you are going to bribe people anyway, why wouldn’t you pay a couple bribes to avoid paying indefinite bribes?

Haha, I had the same thought - it would be better if it didn’t have the potential to completely collapse society though. I could certainly stand to lose more than a few of the things I listed though.

If the news were that it was being amended to make carve outs for businesses who pay an amount of money, then I would be more inclined to agree.

But the news is that it would be repealed entirely.

This means you could not bribe the government once to protect you from all lawsuits - you would have to bribe each and every judge involved in each and every lawsuit, and/or each and every juror.

1 Billion people sue your company. I don’t think any megacorp would be happy about suddenly having to pay out 1 billion bribes and to do so as a regular ongoing expense.

The least expensive option for the corporations is to not have this repealed. As a result, that is what they would prefer to put that money into instead. Way cheaper to bribe this into not passing than it is to have to do it continuously or multiple times and/or losing those income streams.

I don’t think this would pass, the megacorps stand wayyy too much to lose here and would fight tooth and nail to prevent anything like this. Same goes for a lot of the US government. This would kill any website with user generated content because no company would risk the lawsuits.

Facebook/meta - gone, youtube - gone, reddit - gone, lemmy - gone, twitter/x - gone, bluesky - gone, every search engine - gone because they wouldn’t be caught dead potentially displaying anything made by a user, etc.

This would instantly kill the thousands of data mining/brokering businesses that exist because they collect and sell this data.

Sections of government that collect the same data to spy on what people are up to would also not be happy about this.

Ad companies would die because users would no longer have any reason to visit half the websites where the ads are and therefore advertising on them would be useless.

IT infrastructure would collapse because there would no longer be any place to discuss fixes or workarounds to problems.

Tonnes of companies would get hacked because there wouldn’t be a reasonable way for people to distribute information/stay in the know on new vulnerabilities to the masses of IT/security workers.

No one could leave reviews of any kind on any service or product which has a litany of resulting problems itself.

Even if this went through, I’m sure it would immediately collapse the economy like has never been seen before and they would scramble to revert it.

Under ~ I usually make ~/Application for flatpaks/appimages etc, ~/Script for any kind of script I write in bash, python, or whatever else, ~/Audio for audio/music production stuff, and ~/Games for emulators and such. ~/Documents is reserved for actual documents containing text data usually.

I think it’s still hiring in this case.

Hire is the verb, contractor/employee is the noun and is where the difference resides.

Therefore “They are hiring an independent contractor” is accurate if I’m not mistaken.

Go use actual Debian, I game just fine on it.

It’s the same reason I like TUI utilities like tiv, the terminal image viewer.

Sometimes I don’t want to have my workflow broken just to quickly check the contents or layout of what the file contains, I just need to glance at it and continue with what I’m doing.

Instruction unclear. Please send step 2 at your next convenience.

This is amazing, really excellent work.

As a user who has been on Lemmy since the Reddit API nonsense, I welcome you to the platform as well Sado.

This is true and it works pretty well due to the lack of an algorithm getting in the way. I am not subscribed to this community, but the last 2 posts for it did show up for me on my local page, so you are correct when you say that if it is relevant for the instance users, they will engage when they see a post.

It’s nice that dead communities aren’t ever really permanently dead like on reddit or some such in this regard.