on this day bot1964 - World War II: The Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
2013 - World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.
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@autonomysolidarity You know that the Mastodon UI lets you preview image thumbnails, right? 😆
@AlexanderKingsbury The conflation is obvious: you said "stay" while I said "use", and a distinction in their meanings can (and has been) drawn.
Given your history on the platform, I reckon you're arguing in bad faith for fun or a bit of a tool. Maybe both.
You sure do like to mischaracterise socialism while complaining about people not understanding libertarianism!
@AlexanderKingsbury You seem to be conflating staying at a hotel and making use of the assets of the hotel.
Its staff certainly do the latter, as part of providing their services.
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I'd certainly care if they made their money off parasitising other people's work, by claiming "ownership" of an entire organisation of people and machinery, or charging someone to live in "their" house that they don't even use (and never intended to).
I'd certainly care if they made their money off parasitising other people's work, by claiming "ownership" of an entire organisation of people and machinery, or charging someone to live in "their" house that they don't even use (and never intended to).
@AlexanderKingsbury @Spr1g This is spoken like someone who has never lived with precarity…
@mattferrell This article seems to ignore thermodynamic constraints. You cannot generate electrical power from a desalination facility, as you're inevitably going to put more electricity in to generate the waste brine than you'd get out from recombining it.
#musk bankrolling fascists is conspicuous by its absence in this article.
1946 - The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United Kingdom and becomes Zambia.
2004 - The Toronto Blue Jays become the first photograph of earth from outer space.