Flashbacks to when I lived in the UK and so much misinformation in the (failed) referendum to get it there.
Made me realize: Consider the average voter and then consider explaining the merits of different voting systems to them. It’ll never happen.
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9·4 months agoSpeaker of the House, Mike Johnson:
It scans all the activity on your phone, or your devices, your laptop, what have you; we do all of it,” Johnson told the panel about the app
It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.”
Latest ep. of Strict Scrutiny podcast (“AITA? SCOTUS Edition”) has a good deep dive on this.
What a lazy joke.
2·7 months agoThis. I’m a computer programmer, never been in a union, but after twenty years of startups I cannot believe how good it is to be at a small, stable, employee owned company.
Only looking back do I realize that the people doing the actual work were never in control, and just how damaging that is.
To pour you life and soul into building something (time, and time again), and then have it taken away from you again, and again.
Never going back.
Regarding this article, I’m not sure I want people to own land for the sake of “owning”.
You are on the path to becoming a socialist!
Good video: https://youtu.be/m1m7WmKJZyQ
Well, not necessarily, right? It could be funded any number of ways, but on YT you're locked in to either watching their ads, or paying their premium.
Well yes, this is the problem isn't it:
- Monopoly X sucks
- Federated alternatives developed
- People complain that there's not enough content on them
I've been really enjoying https://nebula.tv/, but yes, I wish they'd built it on top of PeerTube.
A lemmy for video streaming
Ask and you shall receive: https://joinpeertube.org/
There are even companies springing up who will run and host it for you, for a price, of course.
2·9 months agoI don't think it's over yet, hopefully cool heads will prevail with a new owners. But I think it's important to keep pressure up as users.
Also follow them here: https://union.place/@bandcampunited
I'm ashamed to admit I had no idea, until I stumbled upon this video. https://youtu.be/Krl_CUxW14Y
Nice link, I missed that one, and it cites a study too, so bonus points there (although, the primary author giving a
@gmail.comis a little weird…).I did end up filling out form on Amen Clinic website and never could get any information beyond being told I should speak with one of their ‘specialists’. No pricing info, no insurance info. Red flags all around!
2·10 months agoHere’s the definition of default I’m using (from Google):
a preselected option adopted by a computer program or other mechanism when no alternative is specified by the user or programmer. (weird it specifies “a computer program or other mechanism”, but whatever)
My argument is that the default meal including meat is what makes including meat the most popular choice, not the other way around.
1·11 months agoI really struggle, but with the recent and dramatic exception of the 2021 movie “Cow”. I’d love to know if others find it as peaceful as I did.
It is a movie shot from the perspective of a cow.
There are no “words”. Just following a cow. It’s beautiful.
Sure, but you could e.g. start with slop and then let people request something different. That’s what I meant by ‘default’. Perhaps there’s a better world?
I sure there’s a fancy word in psychology, but it’s like if everyone is given choice x automatically, then it shouldn’t be a surprise that x seems to be what people prefer.
I’ve noticed a similar thing in the Subway sandwich store: there are approximately the same number of vegetables and meats available, but if you look at the menu there is just one ‘veggie’ option, and a multitude of different meat combinations.
Because humans don’t need meat to survive.
Forgive me for only TLDW and not watching, but was ack mentioned?
I’ve never looked back.