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1h ago

Thank you for flying Spirit
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kevincox @lemmy.ml 1h ago
Of course, but because the law is so protective you won't need to 99.9% of the time. Canada also isn't a very litigious place and even if it does get raised it will probably get thrown out quickly. To most doctors it is also a huge stressors to watch someone that they can help die. So overall the balance is well worth trying to help out.

15h ago

Flo period tracker sells user data to Meta and Google

No, but you can still choose to choose software that doesn't steal and sell your data. You can also support laws that make doing this illegal.

17h ago

Thank you for flying Spirit

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 17h ago

Of course it can only surely be decided in a court. But in this case it would be something like was not actively trying to cause harm.

18h ago

In Canada all provinces have some form of Good Samaritan law which means that you aren't responsible other than gross negligence. So any off-duty doctor would be very safe to help out unless they were doing something very stupid.

18h ago

Flo period tracker sells user data to Meta and Google

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 18h ago

The idea that putting this on your phone is bonkers is bonkers to me. Why would you want to carry around a journal or paper when you have everything on your phone? It can also be more easily backed up and synced.

It shouldn't be normal that this data is stolen and sold. That is 100% the problem, not the fact that people track things on computers.

1w ago

Summoners

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 1w ago

You have obviously never tried dereferencing a null pointer.

3w ago

Should Canada Build Up Alternatives to Visa and Mastercard? | The Walrus

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 3w ago

you’re just paying more for no reason

You are basically paying the credit card fees for not using a card. It is a protection racket. "It'd be a shame if you didn't use our credit card and had to pay extra due to card processing fees".

We should do what the EU did. Clamp card fees to a small value so that they can't meaningfully offer customers rewards which creates this twisted incentive.

Or stores just make the customer pay (most of) the card fees. As you said lots of smaller stores do this and I'm more than happy to pay with debit.

2mo ago

We live in the future!

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

They are legal if you follow the regulations. The problem with the "rideshare" companies is that they don't. We should just call them "unregulated taxis" rather than pretending that they are a different service. I think just about every taxi company these days is on some app or another (often the same that call unregulated cabs in countries that actually got their shit together and banned the unregulated ones).

2mo ago

We live in the future!

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

Nah it's worse. Bitcoin actually has legitimate uses. (Yes, they are a minority of actual usage, but they exist.) NFTs are only useful for speculation, gambling and money laundering.

2mo ago

We live in the future!

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

"Rideshare" is also the least accurate term used to dodge regulations. It is just a taxi/cab. You are paying someone to get you from one place to another. They aren't sharing their ride, they were never going where you are going before you told them to.

2mo ago

What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify?

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

Yeah, downtown there are tons of gas-station brands that are just convenience stores. Surely many gas stations will offer electric charging but since most people will be charging at home the total number of gas stations will surely drop. Some will turn into convenience stores and some will just shut down.

2mo ago

Why are you like this?

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

You forgot step 2. Throw sacrificial drive into trash.

2mo ago

Minecraft PS3 Edition's Source Code has been leaked

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

This is also likely interesting because console SDKs are usually highly restricted. So not only is the Minecraft code leaked (which is probably moderately interesting) it is likely that the console APIs are quite interesting to emulator developers and reverse engineering for other PS3 games.

4mo ago

Open-Source Developers: Share Your Privacy-Friendly Apps & Tools

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Please be polite. If you don't like a post you can downvote it. If you would like to comment please be more civil.

5mo ago

What are your opinions on name changes in general?

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

Nah, 90% chance that they do something stupider.

5mo ago

Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

Yeah, I get it. It is definitely dry and it is shampoo 😆

5mo ago

Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

You are thinking of something else. Bar shampoo is intended to be used with water much like bar soap. Dry shampoo is just sprayed or rubbed into hair without any water.

5mo ago

Make Amazon Pay

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

While Amazon is awful it isn't just them. It is a systematic issue with our economic system. Our society constantly makes efforts to keep the poor poor so that they are forced to work for low pay resulting in a cycle of abuse. Basically every public company will end up in the same situation and we see that with every large company. If a large public company isn't shit the CEO will be fired by the shareholders and replaced with one who makes the company shit.

So yes, avoid Amazon, but also talk to your government representatives. The cycle will always continue until the incentives are changed. To properly exit this shit system we need to change our society and government.

6mo ago

How to merge multiple opml files?

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

The "dumb" solution is to just import both into one feed reader then export a new OPML. I assume most readers will deduplicate (at least to a basic degree) on import.

6mo ago

Cyclists may be right to run stop signs and red lights. Here’s why

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kevincox @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

How is this faulty? The degree of damage is incredibly relevant. We don't make everything that could ever cause damage illegal, because we have nothing left. Laws are a balancing act of pros and cons to society.

A car has far less visibility (they are inside a box with a few windows) will will do far more damage if they hit someone. A cyclist has dramatically better visibility (they have basically an unobstructed 180° view) and especially when going slow is very unlikely to cause significant damage (posing risk of significant harm only the the most frail and elderly).

If not requiring complete stops for cyclists leads to 1% more cyclists on the road (because their travel is easier) it almost certainly causes less harm overall due to how dangerous cars are and also their indirect health effects (both inactivity when driving and the pollution).

So no, the logic isn't faulty at all and probably one of the most important arguments.