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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, a genuine terrorsim supporter. would you look at that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither does his platform…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kiss say farewell to live touring, become first US band to go virtual and become digital avatars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Kiss. Pretending to be a real band and becoming more of a joke every year after year since the 70s. Still, an impressive new low for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not proud to say I was an original backer, but luckily only for like 25 bucks.

  It became clear after a year or two it was bascially vaporware. even if a product ever comes out it’ll not be what I backed originally, which was basically just Privateer TNG. So I stopped following the game, never played any of the tech demo’s and just shake my head warily when I see news articles like this. Bernie Madoff is in jail for basically the same thing. How can people still support this travesty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  youtube’s loaded with EV disinformation…

  In other news, sky’s still blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, to be fair, slandering the Danish in good fun is quite the established practice.

  I agree pulling Musk into it goes too far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We always knew/suspected this. But the ones that do the fearmongering around vaccines will not be interested in facts…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Really hope I can get an entry position at Ryujin Industries (they always seem to be recruiting) so I can afford to not live in the slums and work on getting the skills needed to survive long-term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way it has been working for quite some time with all digital distribution networks.

  The shocking thing here is that you get compensation, Apple has never doen that, in the past they did not even send a notification if they deleted something from your library.

  Yes, the whole concept is scummy. But Amazon at least tries as best as they can in the context of licenses from third parties…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how relevant twitx still is come the elections…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why shouldn’t I just give up on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you feel happy with the current state of reddit you should be there. I could not stomach it anymore so I’m at the next best alternative, that has all the potential. You need to take the sour with the sweet in all new ventures. But if that’s not for you just go just go where you feel fine, nobody is making you stay or is invested in having people stick around that do not feel they want to be here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Great grandparents. Millenials are their parents, Gen X are their grandparents, Baby Boomers are their Great grandparents. If you’re too stupid to get the generations right you’re probably too stupid to get the rest of the facts of the “journalism” right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This should be illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly there was a pretty short grace period to do so. It should have indeed been automatic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who’s the eyepatch guy, and why is he a meme?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The case — which dates back over five years to the time when Scholz was still mayor of the Hamburg city-state — is linked to the broader so-called “Cum Ex” affair, under which the German state was defrauded by over €30 billion as some banks, companies, or individuals claimed tax reimbursements from authorities for alleged costs that never occurred. The scandal already hung over the Social Democratic politician’s election campaign in 2021 but had little impact in the end as Scholz’s potential involvement remained unclear. Now it is heating up again after new details emerged that put his previous defense in question.

  politico.eu/…/germany-chancellor-olaf-scholz-parl…

  ‘Cum-Ex’ is Latin - and it means ‘with without’. In essence, it’s a massive stock trading scam by bankers, brokers, hedge funds, international tax firms, investment companies, lawyers and insurance companies. By acting as promoters to help their clients get a refund for a tax they never actually paid for, they have defrauded EU member states by billions of euros. This rapid trading of shares with (cum) and without (ex) dividend rights thus gave rise to the scandal of the same name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My Fantasy and SF book lovers goup on Facebook has more posts per day than I can read and gets new members every day. My music groups on Facebook have even more posts and content. Linkedin has more and more social posts (not a good thing, but hardly on the decline)

  Article is clearly written by someone with no initiatve or personality or insight.