Wooki
@Wooki@lemmy.world
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 5 weeks ago:
End users… … aren’t paying shit
Users dont pay for the services. Okaay.
Well done you know how sales tax works. Customers pay the business. Business pays the Government. My point.
Swing and a miss on all points.
FYI I used the common terms for your benefit, you sounded American.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 5 weeks ago:
your opposition is just based on vibes
Welcome to politics. Have you never seen parliament debate?
bloomberg.com/…/why-uk-inflation-is-so-high-and-w…
theguardian.com/…/stress-crisis-uk-financial-heal…
Is history at this point
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 5 weeks ago:
Call things what they are, not a tax.
You should practice it.
Levy is a Tax.
opposition requires
Doesn’t require anything. It only requires personal opinion. Parliament runs on it.
Of course the privacy impact is huge. privacy just does not matter to the average working voting person trying to put groceries on the table.
MPs wont change the stance here because people want to be protected by anonymity. Frankly they won’t change stance at all. Its a certainty at this point.
But it will increase the cost of business which will be passed on and definitely exploited.
“Wont somebody think of the children”
Plenty of children starving in the UK because Government services cant raise revenue to maintain existing levels of public services.
I look to the UK and see the future of western economies. Boned badly, society highly controlled with a large overall tax burden, years of immigration to keep the budget balaced on paper increasing the impact all to delay the fallout. And yes while this will most likely not register a blip to the CPI, its still yet another cut in the wrong direction.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 5 weeks ago:
Levy, lol.
Call it what it is: a tax.
A burden on the population. No amount of dirty politics changes the fact. Taxes do not all get directly paid to gavernment. Like sales taxes, service tips ect
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 5 weeks ago:
It very much is.
Doesn’t matter who or how its recovered. Its still a state mandated cost, aka tax.
Every single piece of legislation costs the population. They all add to the worsening costs of living. In times of economic crisis these costs need to come down not up.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 5 weeks ago:
Read my post, you really didn’t read it.
I’ll spell it out.
State created the law. That creates a cost to be recovered. How that cost is recovered is irrelevant, it’s s state mandated cost aka tax.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 5 weeks ago:
How these taxes are applied either reimbursed, taxed directly, or passed on: its still is a tax burden increasing the cost of living. This and previous Government’s have only further worsened the problem. The police state reduces life expectancy.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 5 weeks ago:
UK has a massive federal budget problem and they still keep increasing expenditure on surveillance. That social value is negative at this point as its taking money away from critical services. Well done to the Government continuing the worsen debt, health, and wellbeing of the population.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 month ago:
Only once every couple of years! Man you’ve got it good!!
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 month ago:
This government literally can’t afford to fuck about wasting money yet here they are. Proving they are imposters failing the country.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 month ago:
“Safety” meanwhile these same mp’s can’t budget can’t run critical public services.
But don’t worry, your thoughts are policed
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 2 months ago:
Azure is tiny compared to the competition.
363 is much more successful comparatively. That said, its dying fast, with the utter garbage service upgrades, its enshitified hard into a rigid platform unsuitable for enterprises. So find/make a real alternative to EXO with the Outlook app: and 365 ends over night.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 months ago:
Up next, Delta sales down 37%, ceo launches investigation
- Comment on The end of humanity will come about through people's apathy. 3 months ago:
Meh
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Pure copium.
They are both handheld gaming devices. Consumers do not care about anything else, just wait until the xbox handheld eats even more of those sales.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Lol what a comical copium.
They are both handheld gaming devices. To claim otherwise is nothing more than an ideological feature that only matters to 2% of thr market.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 4 months ago:
Recent research study I read that looked reasonable, it was posted here on lemmy. I’ll try and find it when I have time and edit this post.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 4 months ago:
Yes, it is.
Read the first line of my post above.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 4 months ago:
No, that is not ROI, thats trade value and is mainly a reflection in shareholder payments and perceived growth potential.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 4 months ago:
Absolutely, Natella (intentional) has commented about the valueless hype for one. The stock value has little to do with short term returns, I would expect a correction in 12-24months as openai cash starts running dry and it begins reflecting in their stock value first and foremost.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 4 months ago:
No, this is a correction after the CEO made very poor investments into an LLM company run by a crypto grifter
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 4 months ago:
At this point to Debloat you’d be better off just removing windows. Save yourself the fight and frustration
- Comment on Valve's invite-only Deadlock has an even more exclusive top-secret hush-hush version 4 months ago:
Performance is utterly trash atm until you win matches at which point your shifted to priority servers. It still suffers from incredible amount of cheaters tho
- Comment on Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages 4 months ago:
You can also disable Recall by using a Linux distro
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry. 5 months ago:
The word predicting chat bot produces nothing of value. That sweaty VC porn is burning money it cant repay. Its coming to an end thank god. Just hope the grifter doesnt get a golden parachute. Frankly should be made to repay his pay
- Comment on Something's up with all those airbnb locks | Purplepingers 5 months ago:
Its great in theory only while councils have money to do enforcement and surveillance.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 months ago:
Under his watch they did form the anti-opensource and EEE mantra
- Comment on What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made? 5 months ago:
Contagion.
Writers Crystal balled that shit
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 5 months ago:
Microsoft destroys product names like no other company.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 6 months ago:
Wolves eat what ever is easiest to kill like endagered species that cant get away.