BilboBargains
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- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 5 days ago:
You could make the same argument about almost anything that is created under our present economic system, it’s void of content. I paid my gas bill so now I can tell my friends that I’m responsible for North Sea gas extraction. People imbibe Joe Rogan’s billionaire koolaid and forget where all this stuff we take for granted comes from.
Capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty and that is a minor miracle. Now it is eating itself like an ouroboros. People are upset and it’s not a good time to defend big capital, ask TPUSA and United Health.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 5 days ago:
You could make the argument that nothing can be achieved without being able to dedicate the time required. That was the miracle of the agricultural revolution, we could do something with our time other than gather food. If you said ‘we got the internet thanks to farmers’ that would be indisputable, everything flowed from that. I don’t see why an internet couldn’t emerge in other economic contexts because internet technology depends on physics and those laws transcend any and all economic systems. We already know this because almost every jurisdiction has the internet.
The influence of capitalism on the internet has been a mixed bag. e-commerce: good. App ecosystem: ranging from good to addiction health crisis. Walled gardens and enshitification: bad. Misinformation and radicalisation of political groups: dire, potentially an existential threat.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 6 days ago:
We got internet thanks to scientists and engineers. No amount of capitalists, politicians, managers or business people can create an internet. They say ‘here’s some money to make stuff’ and that’s the limit of their involvement.
- Comment on We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself 1 week ago:
You don’t need science if your business is fraud, graft and conspiracy theories. In fact you need to keep your citizens as far away from any sort of critical thinking practice. Throttle the education sector and reduce access to healthcare. Give everyone a phone and a social media account where all of their preconceived notions are continually reinforced. Then sit back and watch all the educated people leave in droves as your society devolves into a robber baron mafia state.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
New number, who did?
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
Daily Zeitgeist podcast also doing some solid reportage.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 1 month ago:
It’s an unusual gift and would make most people incredibly awkward but there’s nothing sinister in the act itself, absent of the context. People gift things like guns and alcohol and I would argue those do more harm.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 month ago:
The obfuscated nature of compiled code does an incredible amount of heavy lifting on behalf of shareholders. Imagine a world where x-ray specs suddenly revealed source code. The flight to open solutions would be irresistible. Windows is hot garbage but it clings to its market share like a limpet, through the magic of closed source, occupying space like a flabby tumour. It doesn’t care if it kills the host because the top priority is growth and an unassailable market share. That’s the magic of capitalism.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 months ago:
The consequences so far have been a warm feeling on hearing the news but I’m starting to doubt that feeling. Shawty, are they playing me like a fiddle?
- Comment on Oatmeal 2 months ago:
Don’t call him ass
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 months ago:
It’s the business model that shareholders love and seems to be fairly ubiquitous. Eventually these corporations undergo trial by anti trust as their influence becomes increasingly toxic e.g. Google. The concentration of power into the hands of a few people is a problem with large hierarchies generally, ordinary people end up doing whacky stuff on the whim of someone that you never meet or know in any meaningful way.
- Comment on Australia’s had two more years of gambling ad harm since the Murphy report. It’s time for Labor to show some courage 2 months ago:
Gambling addiction is a medical issue in exactly the same way every other addiction is a medical issue. We are busy designing a world of addictions, due to the profit motive. Food, games, phones, all have been cynically designed to be as addictive as possible and lure in the children that conservatives claim to be so concerned about. It’s time to ban conservatives and solve this problem and all the other problems that are caused by too much conservatism. The only thing they don’t conserve is the environment, which is collapsing around us.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 2 months ago:
That’s the spirit
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 2 months ago:
Feeling concern for the welfare of a corporation is a lot like caring for a lion or some other large predator. You don’t want to see it suffer but you know that it could turn on you at any moment, when it’s convenient for them.
- Comment on Historically love sugar 2 months ago:
We are wistful for the days when our biggest problem was getting rid of kings and queens. Our first order of business is getting rid of bigots and racists. Then we can focus on alleviating the stranglehold of business, which will clear the path for dealing with climate change and investing in our health and education.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 2 months ago:
Who gives a fuck about the travails of corporations on the internet?
- Comment on Historically love sugar 2 months ago:
English people. The Scottish, Welsh and Irish mostly disapprove of the monarchy. Very few people aside from the English actually like these people. I guess that goes with the territory of being a billionaire family for hundreds of years.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 2 months ago:
Jokes on you, I already watch them at 0.5x speed
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 2 months ago:
I would not argue against that. Two steps forward and one back is usually how it goes with technology. Reliability is the problem that has only been achieved relatively recently. I remember a time when the hard shoulder was full of stalled vehicles. Japanese cars from the 70s and 80s were notably inferior to their competitors. We’ve come a long way in making this technology polished and affordable to the masses. Now the science shows us it is contributing to climate change and we have a new challenge. So it goes.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 2 months ago:
Car companies hate this one trick.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 2 months ago:
I would argue that it is already the case that cheap cars look and perform excellently, compared with cars produced fifty years ago. They are more reliable, economical, comfortable, higher performance, superior in virtually every respect.
The other factor to consider is the use case. Something like a Ferrari is not reliable compared to a VW Golf, it sucks at carrying passengers and cargo, terrible fuel economy, it is horrible value for money and inferior in most ways apart from one - compensating for a small penis. That is its chief purpose and it is supremely well crafted for this use case.
Source: automotive engineer of 25 years.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 months ago:
You horny bastards
- Comment on Two of the World’s Worst Termites Hooked Up in Florida—and Now We’re Screwed 3 months ago:
‘Florida termite’ could be the start of many a great news story, followed by a mugshot of the disheveled and remorseful arthropod.
- Comment on What're they gonna do about it? 3 months ago:
You son of a bitch
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 3 months ago:
You hate to see it, whomp whomp
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
What a loser
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
In that case we have to rely on Elons white power.
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 4 months ago:
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- Comment on Call now, and we will give you a second can F R E E! 4 months ago:
Jokes on you, I already have crabs
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 5 months ago:
The current scale of Lemmy is appealing. It doesn’t have the same breadth but I happily trade the toxic elements of Reddit, etc, for a little breadth.