Piers

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

We need something that isn’t THE internet, and is only accessible if you have the patience and knowledge to connect to it.

That kinda does exist it's just that you and I lack either the knowledge or patience to connect to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

"Donald Smells" is actually a better fit than "Donald Trump smells" and is probably clear enough with the context of th rest of the song. You could easily include a line about how "Trump" is longstanding British slang for "fart" though and then you get both names in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because the right likes to screech about how your centrists are extreme leftitists doesn't change the fact they aren't leftists. It's just a smokescreen for the rightwing to cover just how extreme they've become.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's because the people making these decisions aren't incrntivised to think about the long term effect for the company. All they need to worry about is if it makes line go up in the short-term so they can get a fat bonus then use how much line went up to get a job somewhere else before the shit hits the fan. Rinse and repeat.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I could but I'm not the person who cares enough to want to look into it. I'm telling the person who does that doing so is a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we need to start reframing it as some sort of combined right to freedom to speak and freedom to not listen. Right now the majority of the time I hear someone talking about freedom of speech is when they want the authority to force people to listen to them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah the sad reality is that the entire situation is a mess and there isn't really a good guy to root for beyond innocent civilians caught up in it. (Though you can certainly argue about who is the worst bad guy... That doesn't make their enemy not also a bad guy.)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I expect you need to look in the Lemmy.World moderation log to see to what degree lemmy.ml users were or were not problematic (I've no idea either way.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's not about more reusable hardware it's about software being constrained to support existing hardware rather than ditch it to save a fee bucks on development.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Capitalism takes innovation and beats the life out of it to flog the corpse for a quick buck. The thing that made KFC special wasn't the blend of herbs and spices (that they don't even fucking use anymore and you used to be able to buy ready mixed at the shops) it was the new innovative cooking technique that they immediately tossed in the trash because it was cheaper to just throw it all in a deep frier like everyone already did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Two questions: If it's only tritrium why does anyone really care? Why couldn't they just sell it rather than dump it?

I thi k I just realised those questions both have the same answer...

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