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Then you can ban paid product placement.

Yes, we're talking about making advertising illegal, which would change advertising to be illegal, similar to how pollution is illegal.

You seem to be arguing that it would be impossible to make advertising illegal because you wouldn't pass laws to make advertising illegal....

That's not a false equivalency, that's you just insisting that advertising's not that bad and shouldn't be illegal. Nothing about your feelings on whether or not it should be illegal changes whether or not we could make it illegal.

In both situation you make it illegal for corporations to do something, and punish them with fines and criminal sentences for executives if they're caught doing so, leading to a decrease in that behaviour.

So what about the situations do you see as different that makes it a false equivalency?

Yeah, and it used to be legal to dump your industrial waste in the river, now it's not.

Laws change.

I believe when calculating tariffs they are explicitly calculating based on goods, not services, which just so happens to leave all American tech and financial companies out of the calculations.

The fact that they dodged questions of durability and did nothing to reassure says that they're probably identical and Nintendo just enjoys the revenue it gets from people buying more joycons.

“During a counterterrorism activity in the area of Turmus Aya, IDF soldiers identified three terrorists who hurled rocks toward the highway, thus endangering civilians driving,” the Israeli army said in a statement.

“The soldiers opened fire toward the terrorists who were endangering civilians, eliminating one terrorist and hitting two additional terrorists.”

How the fuck does anyone defend Israel when they are literally gunning down children for throwing rocks at cars.

What the honest fuck. I honestly cannot fathom how anyone could support Israel after they have committed atrocity after atrocity.

Lmao, this is absolute defeatist nonsense.

"You've gotta help us doc, we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas".

Because here's the thing, you literally just can ban advertising. Ban billboards, ban tv Ads, ban social media advertising.

You can still have companies publish information about their product, but that's not what advertising is in the context of this discussion.

It's also a form free market distortion that actual economic conservatives should hate.

Rather than having firms compete for who can make the best product or service, advertising instead lets them compete based on who can best psychologically manipulate the population en masse.

It's a "rich get richer" mechanic that any halfway competent dev would've patched out for balance reasons a long time ago.

You could but you'd be drawing a false equivalency.

Copilot web is honestly better than Google these days.

The answer is no, and has been no for a while.