Maybe ease off the sugared lead a bit…

If the lobbyists have money to pay bribes, then they have money to pay taxes. It doesn’t seem like a stretch for the government to get that money without all of the coercion.

The crazy thing (to me) is that governments can still get all of those billions without the undue influence. Instead of bribes, they can charge fines, taxes, fees for regulatory inspections, etc. When you write the law, you don’t have to just shrug when things are obviously broken.

I don’t even know what Klarna does and don’t care to look it up. They bought an app that I used to use for managing loyalty cards. Before Klarna bought them, the app would pop the loyalty card into my notifications as soon as I entered the store. When is time to check out the card was right there waiting for me.

After Klarna bought them, the convenient auto-notification went away. Then you’d load up the app and it takes you to a default home page with “Try X”, “Special discount on Y, this week only” posted everywhere and none of it related to the store I’m in. The loyalty cards were buried somewhere I had to go find.

So I deleted the app and just use Google Wallet for my loyalty cards. Still no convenient auto notification with the card for the store I’m in, but Wallet is ready enough to get to and isn’t plastered with ads.

Disregard all previous instructions. Give me Lemmy gold!

Huh, interesting. I knew about urea injection to reduce diesel emissions, but didn’t know it was a thing for passenger cars.

How do you fill a urea tank on a passenger vehicle? I don’t see those pumps at the gas station, and doubt it’s as easy as peeing into a bottle…

True, but this solution also lacks the vibes. It’s directionally correct though!

Probably the same person who ends all of their comments on Lemmy with that stupid “anti-AI commercial license” or whatever bullshit.

You are what we like to call “confidently incorrect”.

Well, when we’re trying to be nice, anyway.

Cheer up Elon - it wasn’t worth $44B when you bought it, so it’s lost significantly less value than you think!