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  • No, its the asshole CEOs very specifically who will survive the climate catastrophe and any other societal systemic failures. They've insulated themselves from consequences by hoarding material wealth, and when they can't do that, fiat wealth to represent material wealth. In 2008, we even bailed them out "oh that last thing you tried didn't work? Here. Here's a bunch of money we took from society as a whole. Enjoy your golden parachutes. You'll need them later"

    As a populace we need to start showing up in the streets and obstructing these fuckers wealth streams however we can

  • All 64 of the countries where it’s illegal to be LGBTQ+ – and yes, it’s all colonialism’s fault
  • Gotcha. Yeah. I would definitely consider Russian imperialism very evil and engrained with the systems of power governing the country. I hope for your sake, and for all of your brethren, that someday everyone under the historic influence of an imperial power can someday be free

  • Somehow snapchat for web doesn't support firefox 🤦
  • That's the real story here. That someone's still using Snapchat in 2024

  • Somehow snapchat for web doesn't support firefox 🤦
  • REMINDER: These market share figures are self reported based on browser user agents. For over a decade now, Firefox requires you to opt into this reporting. Its true that Firefox has been slipping in market share, and that things can be rather gloomy, but they're not as doomed as its widely reported. The big driver of declining market share for Firefox these days is CTOs telling their engineering directors to not check Firefox compatibility because they perceive it as wasted time for 6.6% of people. The easiest way to combat Google Chrome's hegemony is to show friends and family that actually most of the internet works on Firefox despite what you've been told, and that also Firefox isn't somehow outdated

  • All 64 of the countries where it’s illegal to be LGBTQ+ – and yes, it’s all colonialism’s fault
  • Where are you living that British Colonialism and Homophobia are over?

  • Key Democrats allow US sale of F-15 jets to Israel in $18 billion deal
  • They're terrorists, warlords, and sometimes both

  • Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined
  • That and Disney decided they wanted to break (sorry. Let me use the business terms. "Disrupt") the market by having a vertical integration of streaming platform and production company. The thing is, it did great for the in the short term, but may have harmed them long term. Meanwhile everyone else is now chasing the model that may actually be losing Disney money because short term greed is the only driver in our economy

  • I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You mention AI Again
  • Yuuup. This blog post is the exact sentiment I see from people with postgraduate degrees in the field of machine learning. The current, public facing, machine learning AI implementations are various forms of theft, grift, and exploitation. They exist as the new testaments to violence of the neocolonial era

  • Tough Trolly Choices
  • The first one I encounter.

    Did I do it? Or did I fundamentally misunderstand the question

  • Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined
  • Okay but that's ALSO what Peacock is. Look at peacock's catalog and Netflix catalog and tell me its better rather than just different

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    What do you think about adults that are still virgin (never had sex) do you see them as losers?
  • So. You don't need fixed. You're fine. You're going through life and you'll figure out what works for you as you go.

    That said, it does kinda seem like you have a misconception about what therapy is. Its not about making you fit in with the rest of the world. Its about helping you accept yourself, appreciate yourself, and love yourself for who you are. I won't tell you to try it since you so specifically said you didn't want people saying that, but I hope someone else reading this finds something to connect with on a journey of self love and self acceptance

  • Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined
  • Let me take this opportunity to get on my soapbox to sat this:

    Peacock Sucks Ass

    NBC / Universal were one of the first movers in streaming with Seeso. Did they learn lessons from Seeso about how to run a good streaming service? No they abandoned it almost immediately basically saying "this whole streaming thing is just a fad, anyway"

    The results? Now its hard to watch those old (genuinely excellent) Seeso shows, and NBC / Universal has managed to make itself late to the streaming party when they were a first actor. And the service itself? Ass. Total cheeks. Major butt. Absolute balloon knot. It always has technical issues AND scanning within an episode is hard because it doesn't do it in chunks, it acts like a slider in constant motion.

    Conclusion: don't look at Peacock as the idiot child of the streaming landscape. View it as the logical conclusion to media companies' corporate greed. They want you to pay money for a service that sucks, that's chock full of ads (oh! That's another thing. Where do you get off showing me three minutes of ads, Peacock, who do you think you are?), and doesn't even work decently right while a lot of these UX problems have been solved for over two decades (DVD scanning is easy and fine).

  • YouTube will ask iOS users to 'Allow’ tracking for more personalized ads
  • I came across a website today that had on off toggles for all their stuff cookies. When you clicked the toggle the colors of the "x" and the check mark changed between purple and black. I could not tell which was off and which was on. It made me very angry

  • YouTube will ask iOS users to 'Allow’ tracking for more personalized ads
  • How else will i know which scam products that we're built cheaply in a factory with poor conditions to spend my money on to have a fleeting sense of convenience that's washed away as soon as either

    1. I get used to it and it becomes just another thing in my house, my monument to consumption
    2. It breaks because the company cared about making a good product just as much as they cared about providing livable conditions for their workers, which is to say not at all

    ???

  • I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You mention AI Again
  • Old man yells at exploitative capitalist practices*

    Ftfy

  • What would you name your Communist inspired Fantasy Football League?
  • Randall Cunningham Seizes the Means of Production

  • Elon Musk's X revenue has officially plummeted, new documents show
  • Never do what a billionaire wants just because they want that. Always make it upsetting for them

  • Science is more like a conversation.
  • How do we rewild academia? Like I feel like this sounds like me being a JAQ off, but like, actually. I want academia to be rewilded. I don't know how to do that. I want to talk to someone about how to do that

  • Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws
  • PornHub is a monopoly. They own xnxx, redtube, xhamster, and several production companies such as brazzers. Their categorization system has also had some ranging impacts on actresses' ability to get work after they turn 22. I highly recommend listening to The Butterfly Effect by Jon Ronson.

    ALSO so we're clear, I'm not a fan of this legislation because its dumb as fuck and doesn't help anyone, least of all sex workers. When people lose easy access to porn it usually results in WORSE conditions for sex workers because suddenly there's more demand in places without safety infrastructure.

  • Does the threadiverse (Lemmy + Kbin) seem ruder the last few weeks?

    I dunno. I just feel less like I'm experiencing a fun new tool for communication the last few weeks. The communities here on Beehaw are still great and fantastic and aren't what I'm bothered by. It's just when I venture out in the world (which I often do) that I notice conversations are much more argumentative than I remember them being.

    How's everyone else doing? Is this a minor vibez check?

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    TomatoBar is an open source Pomodoro menu bar timer for MacOS
    github.com GitHub - ivoronin/TomatoBar: 🍅 World's neatest Pomodoro timer for macOS menu bar

    🍅 World's neatest Pomodoro timer for macOS menu bar - GitHub - ivoronin/TomatoBar: 🍅 World's neatest Pomodoro timer for macOS menu bar

    GitHub - ivoronin/TomatoBar: 🍅 World's neatest Pomodoro timer for macOS menu bar

    (I mostly need this link for work tomorrow, but I thought maybe some folks here would be interested)

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    Minnesota Vikings, pt 2: 1970-1974
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    An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

    Piped

    Jon Bois' and Alex Rubenstein's documentary about the Minnesota Vikings continues. Will Bud Grant win a Super Bowl this episode? Will someone freeze to death? Who will perform a feat of humanity so impressive that we will become lifelong fans, not for their exploits on the football field, but for their acts of humanity outside the world of sport? Tune in to find out!

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    NeoVim discussion for a tribute to Bram Moolenaar
    github.com Bram Moolenaar · Issue #24579 · neovim/neovim

    Problem It's been widely reported that Bram Moolenaar, the originator of Vim and inspiration for Neovim, has passed. https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4 Just wondering if this co...

    Bram Moolenaar · Issue #24579 · neovim/neovim

    The Hacker News and reddit.com/r/vim take on NeoVim is frequently that NeoVim has done tremendous harm to the overall Vim community and that the NeoVim developers aren't respectful to Beam. Having been involved in both commubitues, I have never been able to track where that idea came from. Vim has accelerated in features drastically since 2013 and the NeoVim team often goes out of their way to speak well of Bram.

    JustinMK, the main organizer these days of NeoVim has pinned this issue to increase its visibility. I'm not really fully certain what should be the most fitting tribute, but its hard to express how much impact Bram has in the world of software development through his flexible improvement to a text editor from 1975. He's also been an excellent benevolent dictator for life over the Vim community throughout its existence and it feels like the world of open source software got just a little bit worse for his loss this week.

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    GT's Living Foods, makers of Synergy Kombucha, sued for exploitative labor practices
    www.bonappetit.com America's Biggest Kombucha Brand Is Completely Rotten, Workers Say

    A new court ruling finds intimidation, unpaid overtime, and other allegations of abuse at GT's kombucha factories, according to The Los Angeles Times.

    America's Biggest Kombucha Brand Is Completely Rotten, Workers Say

    Specifically in the making of Synergy Kombucha, the company intimidates workers with threats of violence, does not pay living wages, and does not pay overtime

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    The Fediverse has a Mental Health Problem

    This is a very interesting article about the long-term sustainability of the Fediverse for moderators, administrators, and developers. We've already had two of our lovely Beehaw admins take breaks to take care of themselves as they experience the burnout associated with maintaining a community, and I think for a lot of use we already know how exhausting it can be to take a center stage position in an online community.

    Unfortunately, I don't have any great starting points for what to do, but at least talking about it is a start.

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    A Discussion of Mastodon's Potential Growth Needs

    The title I have assigned this article is intentionally boring. The article's body goes out of its way to not provide simple summaries, silver bullets, or otherwise give a single size fits all answer to everything. The author actually gave it a fun title that, I felt, did a slight disservice to their overall point, but hey, we all make our own decisions.

    I thought there was some interesting stuff in there about the Fediverse at large, even if that wasn't expressly what the author was getting at.

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    Is discussing our runs appropriate for this community?

    I just went for my run. And wanted to talk about it with some of my new social connections here on the threadiverse. I used to run a lot. Like a lot a lot. 100 miles a week sometimes. I was a long distance specialist trying to qualify for Olympic marathon trials. Injuries and old age have ended that chapter of my life and I often find myself needing to remind myself to be proud of my ~10mi/w workload because that's more than a lot of people my age in my profession do.

    Today I just ran around my neighborhood. There's a nice park nearby but I don't get to go to it very often because the street I have to run down to get there can be pretty scary. I think access to green spaces is something that often goes neglected in community planning in my country

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    lemmy.world has defederated from the nazi instance
    lemmy.world Lemmy.world Admin Response to Defederation from Exploding Heads - Lemmy.world

    We’re closing this thread. Everything that could be said has been said. Thank you ---------- Original Post: Today, we want to inform everyone that we have decided to defederate from https://exploding-heads.com/ [https://exploding-heads.com/]. We understand that defederating should always be a last r...

    It gives me hope for the future of beehaw refederating with that instance. They host some interesting communities. To be clear, I fully support beehaw defederating, it's just heartwarming to see instance admins do things that move things forward

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    Post up your favorite aeropress recipes!

    I've been really happy with the following lately:

    16g:275ml coffee:water, coffee ground on the fine side of medium. Wet paper filter, 205 degrees Fahrenheit water, conventional brew, 10 minute extraction, swirl to settle grounds to bottom of the press, and a gentle plunge.

    It's considerably more work than a prismo recipe, but I think its well worth it

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    Cube6392 The Cuuuuube @beehaw.org

    Six sided devops engineer and baseball fan

    I am also @Quill7513@slrpnk.net, but this is my primary and more active account. The slrpnk.net account is for ecology and lemmy.world stuff

    https://keyoxide.org/BAF9ACFBBA5B9A51A680D77CEF152DAE039C5CF5

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