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  • You can change your name to whatever you want. Imagine if your last name were Epstein, or Trump. No one would question your motivation.

    This is a bit of an oversimplification.

    If in the US, you can generally change your name at whim, usually after a petition and fee. But it depends on your state. Some states require a hearing to do a name change. Some require a publication, and some will only allow the change after a waiting period.

    All states will generally deny name change requests which are deemed to be fraudulent (details of that depend on state), to avoid debt, or to be harmful/hateful to others. Sometimes the definitions of these terms is not terribly clear, in which case the state can simply deny it with vague reasoning.

    Edit: and apologies if this isn’t in the US. I’m not familiar with other systems.





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    It’s so weird though. Do they not know it exists? Do they expect their customers not to know it exists?

    When your primary competition is free (and arguably better), the last thing one should think to do is raise prices.

    I can only assume that some C-suites are looking at numbers and don’t know what else to do but make the product more expensive.







  • This. The GOP has wanted to privatize USPS forever. They keep it barely functioning so they can point at it and claim that only private industry can save it. Then they bring in their friends and throw those sweet taxpayer dollars into their own coffers.

    Amazon’s role isn’t surprising here, either. Bezos couldn’t get closer to the Trump admin if he were sleeping in Melania’s bed.

    Expect similar moves to be taken towards privatization of ATC in the US. Thankfully it’s much more heavily regulated, so it has at least taken more time and is harder to choke as quickly.







  • To look at this another way: the government of South Korea has decided to give people the feeling of a strike without actually letting it affect bottom lines in any meaningful way. That is, they have relegated the strike (a key utility of those fighting for workers’ rights) to being a tool used solely to assuage discontent in the short term. Without economic teeth, it cannot be used to enhance the lives of workers, which is ultimately the explicit goal of any strike.

    South Korea is of course not alone in reducing or eliminating the rights of its citizens so that corporations continue to profit at their expense.