WhatAmLemmy

@WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden warns of ultra-wealthy 'oligarchy' threatening US democracy in farewell address to the nation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a heavily self propagandized corporate dictatorship, doing corporate dictatorship things, because it’s a corporate dictatorship.

  No politician can topple the power of hundreds of corporations, and the armies they employ, backed by trillions of dollars in capital… no matter how hard they want to, even if they wanted to. All they can do is virtue signal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine parliament bans organ harvesting from war casualties for transplantation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell us you know nothing about anything without telling us you know nothing about anything…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They never gonna do that, voluntarily. Forcing capitalism to act in the best interests of consumers is the governments job. Capitalism without regulation is authoritarian dictatorship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace “meta” will “all of big tech and surveillance capitalism” and I agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon worker who was ran over and shot during NO attack denied medical leave.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t corporate mistreatment of the story.

  It’s manufacturing consent for the corporate ruled plutocracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of the reasons why I am gradually untying myself from the Apple ecosystem, and all of propriety/big tech; especially US based.

  When push comes to shove capitalism will not resist fascism. They will ignore all stated virtue signals and choose profits.

  Choosing E2E encrypted FOSS products, that are interoperable with FOSS standards/formats and do not lock you into walled gardens, are the only viable long term solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian pharmacy 60-day prescription scenario brings positive result⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The more MSM I consume, the more I’m convinced it has little purpose beyond manufacturing consent in the dissemination of corporate propaganda.

  When pharmacy lobbyists claimed hundreds of “small businesses” would become unviable, instead of highlighting the reduction in cost and bureaucracy, or increase in efficiency and quality of care for every Australian who does not own or work in a pharmacy, the MSM parroted the lobbyists screams of doom and gloom. They claim capitalism is about increasing cost efficiency, then do everything in their power to rent seek and price gouge.

  As long as for-profit lobbying is allowed to exist, and robber barrons are allowed to own or operate the media, capitalisms erosion of society will continue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you reckon a choice subscription is worth it before making more expensive purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy 3 month sub, go through all products you could potentially buy in the near future and save them all with SingleFile, cancel sub. Their reviews should only be taken as an extra data point; not the authority.

  Never bothered with their magazines coz this isn’t the 20th century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foxtel sale a Christmas miracle for the Murdochs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the 1.2 million Australians with a Foxtel subscription

  You mean ~1.2 million boomers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top executive shot dead outside New York hotel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just a death and suffering toll, but a toll in the tens of millions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coca-Cola accused of quietly dropping its 25% reusable packaging target⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost like western democracy is a charade and we’re all living in corporate plutocracies dominated by the wealthiest multinationals and individuals.

  I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation why corporations get everything they want, almost unanimously — even when it’s wildly unpopular — yet citizens have to work tirelessly for years to have a 10% chance at passing the most popular changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commonwealth Bank to charge customers $3 'withdrawal fee' to access their own cash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  However, the account also includes an “assisted withdrawal fee”, where customers taking money out at bank branches, post offices or by phone are charged $3 per withdrawal.

  I’d rather not defend banks, but it appears the fee only applies when staff are involved. Withdrawing at an ATM or EFTPOS at checkout seem to remain free.

  They should be legally required to provide free assisted withdrawals for seniors, the disabled, and post office withdrawals when an ATM is not within a few km’s, but I don’t think it’d be an issue for everyone else.

  Personally I don’t care about this, however I think most bank fees should be illegal, period; especially insufficient balance and all generic monthly fees. Nowadays most of these things are fully-automated, and I’d bet the cost of maintaining an inactive or low activity account are near-zero; the fees are just a tax on the poor, financially illiterate, and busy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vietnam property tycoon on death row awaits appeal verdict⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Western politicians are owned by the billionaires. Probably the same in “communist” (lol) Vietnam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Limit on plastic production still under debate as treaty talks come to a close⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out that if you let greedy corporate sociopaths run civilization they will kill off most life and self-destruct in only a few hundred years… nobody could have predicted this.

  For all we know greed (e.g. personal financial gain) is the great filter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s with world-first law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was rushed through because there is an ulterior motive, thus it’s guaranteed to have been promoted by major industries like the Murdoch media or surveillance capitalism.

  Gotta love the “freedom” and “democracy” of corporate plutocracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia Passes Harsh New Anti-Migration Laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost like the lib-labor feud is a charade, and we all live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as “democracies”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Take that time! We totally futured your ass!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  because I came from a farm

  I know what you mean but this amuses me immensely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perverse incentives leave young Australians locked out of community housing, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We are calling on the government to build 30,000 social homes every year for the next two decades until we end the shortfall, and ensure everyone who needs a home can get one.

  Lol. With the neolibs/conservatives firmly in charge of politics — letting capitalism dictate housing, probably leading to fascism — this is gonna get so much worse. It’s only gotten worse for over 4 decades. Even if they build an extra 100k a year of social housing I doubt they’d hit the shortfall we’ll have in 2 decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Laws to regulate misinformation online abandoned, gambling advertising ban pushed to next year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry. Instead of forcing social media to fight disinformation, they’ll force you to upload your ID and make out easier for them to data mine you, and improve the disinformations success rate.

  Just neoliberal things…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, perfect. Another corporation shits on your rights and this time they don’t even get a “cost-of-doing-business” fine.

  if just one person could be protected from trauma the use of facial recognition would be “justifiable”.

  Funny how gov & corpo’s frame all violations of civil liberty as “for your protection”.

  “The electronic data was never used for marketing purposes or to track customer behaviour,” Mr Schneider said.

  I’d be willing to bet all that I own this is either a complete lie, or by omission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And even in the case where there is actual separation, and competition, it will only be temporary!

  see history of telco consolidation after a monopoly breakup in 1984

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the entire planet, prior to the last few hundred years. Religion agreed, because pedos are attracted to power and religious leaders were the most powerful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reporters Without Borders sues X⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump will designate Reporters Without Borders a terrorist org, and terrorize their reporters using the state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently they just become fascist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The amount of people your age is only going down with time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s okay. We’re only running out of time. ALL of us — ALWAYS — are hurtling through space at ~30km/s around a fireball that’s burned for billions of years, on a spaceship that materialized out of the remanence of exploding fireballs, which materialized out of nothingness.

  Believe it or not. A banger shower thought was an inevitability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Genocide has a habit of making the genocidal deemed to be the bad guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump 'see eye to eye' on Iran⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Liberals have literally no evidence whatsoever that Palestine abstainers would have made a dent in the 10-15 million votes needed to win, yet that hasn’t stopped them from blaming the left in every thread.

  I’d be willing to bet that stating “the economy is doing great” while tens of millions of people are significantly poorer than they were 4 years ago was more to blame than anything. People are fed up and want revolutionary change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨your mom falls significantly faster than g⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the mass of the earth, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’d be nearly impossible to capture a difference between a feather or bowling ball. You might have to release them at 100m or 1000m above the surface, but then maybe the moons miniscule atmosphere or density variances will have more of an effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Store (and access) old emails⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As others suggested you don’t need all your historic mail on your mailserver. My approach to email archival is the same as all my historic data — a disorganized dumping ground that’s like my personal data lake, and separate service(s) to crawl, index, and search it (e.g. www.recoll.org)