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zephyrvs 67 points 3 years ago

The government has way too much influence over children already. Governments could do so much for children that would actually benefit them (better education, free lunch at school, better public libraries, ensure no kids are starving because of poor parents, no wars in foreign countries, whatever) but instead they use children to increase their control over people.

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zephyrvs 37 points 3 years ago

Around 2010 there was this "pledge" where a website people basically collected a list of things they'd require in order to stop pirating tv shows and movies and I think it came down to:

Provide easy access to large library Provide multi language support, must offer original language Allow downloads/offline viewing Be reasonably priced

Plus some additional stuff I can't remember.

When Netflix got big, they basically covered it all. Then everyone wanted a piece of the pie.

Back to piracy then. 15$ for put.io ✨🙏

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zephyrvs 37 points 3 years ago

Can't wait for the "Ukraine good, Putin evil" crowd to switch their narrative consensus to "we were against the war from the beginning".

🍿

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zephyrvs 36 points 3 years ago

I mean, it's an apartheid state killing and looting brown people, so that's typical US foreign policy.

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zephyrvs 35 points 3 years ago

Billionaires also pledged to fund rebuilding Notre Dame in France and no one paid anything. Almost no one actually paid and it seems the press doesn't care to see if anything has been paid since 2019: https://www.cbsnews.com/...

Pledges are PR, nothing more.

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zephyrvs 30 points 3 years ago

Pocket knife/multitool.

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zephyrvs 26 points 3 years ago

I wish this was more of a Single Sign-On approach instead of making it easier to just create a Pixelfed-account from a Mastodon account. It's dope that it's even attempting to find Mastodon accounts I follow who are also on Pixelfed in order to just easily follow them.

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zephyrvs 24 points 3 years ago

It's only bad when China does it.

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zephyrvs 24 points 3 years ago
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  • Stats for useful system metrics in the menubar
  • LM Studio for easily exploring open source Large Language Models
  • NoTunes to get rid of Apple Music launching when you connect your headphones
  • Bitwarden for multi-platform password management
  • Rectangle for keyboard-based window management
  • Homebrew if you're a developer/sysadmin/command line user
  • Fluent Reader to subscribe to RSS feeds
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zephyrvs 23 points 3 years ago

Who stopped doing so? It's basically one of the terms used most often when referring to Russian aggression since the war started?

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zephyrvs 23 points 3 years ago

For such a mainstream epic I thought it was rather critical of US politics around that era. They mentioned that the Truman administration lied about the Japanese never surrending and that the nukes on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were unnecessary to end the war. The red scare isn't painted in a particular good light either, especially where Katherine Oppenheimer is cross-examined and tells them that he simply supported refugees instead of evil communist tyrants and that the insinuation of supporting communists was more of a tool of the ruling elite to control people who didn't parrot the party line.

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zephyrvs 22 points 3 years ago

Uhm, aren't all questions raised in that text completely on point?

I'm as far left as it gets but none of these expenses make any sense to me. The CEO pay is bonkers. Wtf are they doing? Why does the CEO deserve to basically collect the entirety of donations for... basically just extending a cash cow deal with Google?

I don't give a damn if the author is on the right but so far this looks sus as fuck.

Firefox being as good and fast as it is probably more an accomplishment of individual teams inspite of company leadership and that should be called out.

Can't sell yourself as the underdog if you're got almost half a billion in assets.

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zephyrvs 18 points 3 years ago

So you're completely uninformed and yet chime in with your opinion? The danger is real and this isn't a reporting issue.

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zephyrvs 18 points 3 years ago

Has my research on this been just been somehow skewed over the past months or does it really seem like Western media is suddenly turning on Ukraine?

Until like 1-2 weeks ago it was really difficult to find anything overly critical about Ukraine and now it seems as of there's a sudden change in coverage.

Is it just me? I think I've been rather thorough.

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zephyrvs 17 points 3 years ago

Let me throw my seedbox into the ring. :)

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zephyrvs 17 points 3 years ago

Or maybe rip the churches out of our tax systems (yeah, that's a thing in Europe) and derive them of the only thing they actually care about. Anyone who does 30 minutes of research into the history of the Catholic Church can't seriously believe that this system isn't working just as intended.

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zephyrvs 16 points 3 years ago

British Intelligence reduced to a lame weather report. Hilarious.

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zephyrvs 15 points 3 years ago

They shut down last month.

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zephyrvs 15 points 3 years ago

Why would anyone trust anything this guy says or claims?

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zephyrvs 14 points 3 years ago

Politicians blame each other as historic spending cuts hit areas including health, childcare and education.

Thanks for dumping a 100 billion euro into the military industrial complex though.

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