FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 6 hours ago:
Where as lower incomes spend the increase wages on more goods and services from other people which puts the money back in to movement and increases the number of time the money cycles through the economy.
And cause inflation.
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 12 hours ago:
Do you think that … everyone that isn’t rich…just loses their job in a recession?
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 13 hours ago:
Me: Don’t just regurgitate the old debunked lies
You: Regurgitates the old debunked lies
Also how can you say this:
We need services for the number of people entering. New schools, new roads, new hospitals, more public transport and more medium density housing.
right after saying this?
We don’t need lower immigration numbers.
We only need new schools, new hospitals, new housing, etc because of our huge immigration numbers. If you pause immigration then we can let the countries infrastructure and housing catch up to a point where it’s actually enough for the population we already have. Do you not understand how bringing in 1500 new immigrants per day when we already don’t have enough houses etc only compounds the problem? We’ve brought in nearly 2 million immigrants in the last 2 years so by your logic all these issues should be fixed, shouldn’t they? They’re the ones we need to fix the problems aren’t they? So why are the problems getting worse?
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 20 hours ago:
I see you didn’t read my last paragraph.
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 20 hours ago:
I don’t care if the rich get richer if that’s what it takes for the price of living to get better.
Like I said, it won’t happen anyway - the government won’t let it, and that’s why the cost of living is never going to get better.
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 1 day ago:
The per capita drop is very much related to immigration, but the main point was that we’re expediting immigration-driven population growth just to keep overall gdp growth at any cost.
More and more immigrants are being brought in, having lots of kids, and working a bare minimum. Doing this lowers the per person gdp but increases total gdp - exactly like we’re seeing.
It’s not a coincidence that migration numbers are at all time highs at the exact same time that these gdp situations are unfolding. Immigration is being used to, among other things, keep total gdp growing so the government can say for amazing the economy is while it’s actual a complete shitshow - exactly like they’re doing.
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 1 day ago:
Per capita gdp has been dropping for years and productivity gains has been poor
This is because of the huge population growth due to immigration, as the government use immigrants to prop up the total GDP while ignoring the per capita gdp which is getting worse and worse as you said. Just bring in more people to spend to prop up the house of cards seems to be their only play, and I genuinely believe they don’t have a way out of the situation. The politicians don’t care because they’re all getting filthy rich so the degradation of living standards won’t ever affect them or their families.
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 1 day ago:
It’s not just wages. If you start paying everyone higher wages inflation ramps up and you’re back to square 1, only it’s now virtually impossible for costs to ever go back down because wages won’t go back down.
You can’t just put more money out there for people to spend and not cause prices of everything to increase. What you really want is for wage growth for everyone (by law, preferably) to match inflation - no more, no less - and you want inflation to be as low as possible.
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 1 day ago:
Agreements like that are not enforceable, and yeh they’re a red flag for sure.
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 1 day ago:
The cost of living won’t fall unless we have a recession, a biiiiiig one, with massive unheard of deflation of like 25-30% to get prices back to where they should be.
The government won’t let that happen though, and they’d rather create a shitload more inflation by printing money and opening the immigration floodgates even more.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Actually fit people sweat more than unfit people.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 2 days ago:
I appreciate the reply, and I’m not out to pick a fight either :).
I think for the foreseeable future it’s just going to be rinse and repeat of imgur, as an example. A service is created to fit a need/desire, with good intentions of being free and bloat-free, but then starts showing ads and offering paid subscriptions, and takes investor money at which point you know it’s only a matter of time before it’s where we are now with imgur. It’s just the nature of popular services unfortunately - the cost to host them is astronomical, and I am pretty sure that 99% that even a rough estimate of what people in here think it costs is probably off by a factor of 1000x or more. Hosting anything that is used by thousands of people, especially when it involves videos and pictures.
Unless there is some revolution in internet speeds/bandwidth/etc there’s just no getting around this.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 2 days ago:
Side loading isn’t going away, just “anonymous” side loading. I suspect it will end up being a non-issue anyway, as simply registering as a developer through their portal so you can have your app be side loaded isn’t a big deal unless your app is doing something nefarious.
I’m not “defending” anything, let alone Google. All I’m doing is being realistic. The tiny minority of people this will affect have no alternative, and this change is likely to make very little actual change to those people anyway.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 2 days ago:
The very nature of discussion boards mean that they’re always going to centralise discussion eventually, no matter how decentralised the user base is.
No one wants to have 25 different small tech communities that all post the same article, so they go to the one that has the most users. It took all of a week after the Reddit exodus for a few fediverse instances to become the clear centralised ones.
Decentralisation of user accounts is irrelevant and almost pointless when all of the discussion is centralised on one main instance. The only real way it can be decentralised in a way that matters is if every /technology (for example) essentially merge together and all instantly sync all comments and threads from all instances in real time, with automatic addition of new instances whenever they start a similar community. This brings many, many challenges though.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
Nah, in fact I sleep better at night knowing those people are angry just knowing that I exist :)
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 2 days ago:
The type of people crying over this are not moving to iPhones lol. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. Google know it, which is why they know they can do this with no issue.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
I forgot governments don’t co-operate with foreign governments. GDPR certainly doesn’t have to be followed outside the EU, right?
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
By “a lot” you literally mean one when responding to someone trying to “gotcha” me yesterday hahaha.
Quick questions - do you think vaccines should be mandatory? What should the punishment be for not getting them? Which ones are mandatory?
What other things with your body does the government get control of? Should the government be able to mandate abortions if, say, you already have 1 child and they want to implement a 1 child only policy?
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
Thanks for letting me know this - I was reading about piefed and considering signing up to give it a go. Now that I know it’s an echo chamber ultra pro censorship thing I’ll avoid it like the plague it is :)
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
lol you think I care what a bunch of people championing censorship of dissenting views think?
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 2 days ago:
And you’ve got evidence those laws aren’t being followed? No? There’s nothing that hosting it on a secure cloud server that makes that any easier to “mess up”.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
You act like it’s only Mississippi, a single state, that is going to be pushing these same laws. You’re in for a rough awakening.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
You might want to do some reading about things like GDPR :). You also need to do some reading on how governments cooperate with other foreign governments.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
I don’t think you understand how much 99.99% of people are going to absolute shit their pants when they get governments ordering them to block content or be fined and sent to jail, especially when their country’s government will likely cooperate with the foreign government ala GDPR/DSAR.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
Completely irrelevant.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
You act like the government doesn’t absolutely love wasting money on stupid shit like this lol. It’s their bread and butter.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 2 days ago:
The same will happen with fediverse instances if they ever get big enough………
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
Living rent free in your head, apparently. No idea who you are but thanks for pointing out how insane you are up front.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
I don’t think you do. In fact I know you don’t.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 days ago:
They could very easily contact the owners of the Lemmy.world instance, for example, and there goes the biggest part of Lemmy.
You act like that is hard for them to do. It’s not.