[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 119 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love the stock market. Line goes up and food becomes impossible to afford! Line goes down and we all lose our jobs! I love this fucking dumbshit criminal ponzi scheme of a system! /s

Gamestonk go BRRRRRRRR, NFTs are the future! /s

/s/s/s/s/s/s/s

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 126 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How about we tar and feather him instead of thanking him?

I mean, he loves coal so much, let's drench him in it's byproduct.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 128 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You actually can buy quality dumb TVs, but you have to do the legwork and do research on what are often referred to as "commercial displays." I see them everywhere in businesses for ads and showing the menu. They're sometimes a little pricier, but they're usually built a little "beefier" too, as they're expected to deal with more rough usage in like a restaurant context.

However, the other solution is the one you've already mentioned where you never plug the Smart TV into the internet, and instead bypass the "smart" on the TV with your own streaming boxes.

I think as more people realize there is a market for dumb TVs, you'll start to see that market grow more and more until they no longer just "commercial displays." Just gotta get enough people buying them and not buying Smart TVs.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 121 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm basically in the position that I'm driving a car from 1999, and when it finally dies, I'll either be resigned to riding the bus or finding another aged used car without all this absolute bullshit in it.

Maybe it really is time for the Free Open Source Vehicle.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 128 points 1 year ago

...and now they're in a shelter in place because of *checks notes unexpected rain, unusual climate change related weather.

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tl;dr: No. Quite the opposite, actually — Archive.is’s owner is intentionally blocking 1.1.1.1 users.

CloudFlare's CEO had this to say on HackerNews:

We don’t block archive.is or any other domain via 1.1.1.1. [...] Archive.is’s authoritative DNS servers return bad results to 1.1.1.1 when we query them. I’ve proposed we just fix it on our end but our team, quite rightly, said that too would violate the integrity of DNS and the privacy and security promises we made to our users when we launched the service. [...] The archive.is owner has explained that he returns bad results to us because we don’t pass along the EDNS subnet information. This information leaks information about a requester’s IP and, in turn, sacrifices the privacy of users.

I am mainly making this post so that admins/moderators at BeeHaw will consider using archive.org or ghostarchive.org links instead of archive.today links.

Because anyone using CloudFlare's DNS for privacy is being denied access to archive.today links.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/PmSkp

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 129 points 1 year ago

Corporations are not our friends. 🤷‍♂️

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 121 points 1 year ago

What, you don't want to shift gears endlessly while stuck moving between 10 mph and a dead stop on the freeway for three hours?

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 125 points 1 year ago

I see very few memes and far too much political content. Of that political content it’s all the same.

That's funny because the meme subs still far outpace posting from politics subs for me, and I mostly see memes.

In fact, a few weeks ago, there were lots of complaints in meme comments of how the only thing they saw on the site was memes.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 131 points 1 year ago

It's not that there aren't any, it's that the protections for workers are abysmal compared to protections for businesses.

For example, if I stole money from my employer, they could have me arrested and press charges for theft.

On the other hand, if I am able to prove that my employer hasn't been paying me fairly and has been shorting my paychecks, I can spend a lot of money to take them to court, and in most cases, all that will happen is the business will have to... pay you back exactly what they already owed you. They won't pay fines, no one will go to jail, and it's an "oops" and then slap on the wrist kind of deal.

Worker protections exist, but the deck is stacked against us.

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I wonder if anyone else remembers this. It came to my mind because I was reading this story:

https://www.sbsun.com/2023/08/19/shop-owner-shot-killed-over-rainbow-flag-outside-clothing-store-near-lake-arrowhead/

The owner of a clothing shop in Cedar Glen was shot and killed Friday night, Aug. 18, after a person made several disparaging comments about a rainbow flag displayed outside the store, authorities said.

The suspect was found nearby by arriving deputies, who shot and killed him, San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials said.

This is... horrible. I don't even know how to describe it. For the first time in my adult life, I'm genuinely horrified and fear for my LGBT+ brothers and sisters, as well as their allies (which includes me, fuck).

2013 felt... different. Two years later in 2015 gay marriage would be legalized nationwide.

I remember thinking EA was trying to pull the wool over our eyes. I remember thinking that LGBT+ acceptance in 2013 was doing well. I remember thinking they were throwing up that people voted for them as worst company over LGBT+ inclusion as some kind of way to hand-wave away their awful business practices. Going back, though...

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/04/ea-executive-responds-to-worst-company-poll-we-owe-gamers-better-performance/

In the past year, we have received thousands of emails and postcards protesting against EA for allowing players to create LGBT+ characters in our games. This week, we’re seeing posts on conservative web sites urging people to protest our LGBT+ policy by voting EA the Worst Company in America.

Does anyone else feel like me, and feel dumbfounded and like I just didn't think conservatives were that organized at the time? More to the point, I just didn't trust anything EA said and thought they were lying. I don't think they were lying anymore. I was wrong.

I wonder, does that mean that far fewer people hated them than we thought, for their business practices? I mean, we've seen years of steady profits for EA, it's not as though they've lost a ton of business...

I'm curious what other Lemmings thoughts are on this. I just kind of had a bit of an epiphany about it recently and came back around to thoughts on the subject because of (sigh) how awful everything is.

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[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 122 points 1 year ago

Fuckin finally. So, so tired of every white collar shitbro being afforded every opportunity to keep being a shitstain.

Everyone from fuckin SBF to Donald Fuckin Trump.

Stop glad handing these pricks and treat them like you would any other criminal, worthless fucking "justice" system.

Regular ass people can be beaten and arrested based on cops getting the wrong person, and then when you justifiably "resisted" because you're fucking innocent, it means you'll have "resisting arrest" charges following you the rest of your fucking life.

Yet these pricks can make calls about when they'll turn themselves in.

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I'll give an example of a low-level job where this happens. Pizza delivery.

You're hired for Pizza Delivery, but the business refuses to just pay you to only deliver pizzas, so technically you're also "on-call" to do every side job the the pizza place any time you're not out delivering orders. So you can just return from an order and be told to go to the back to prep X, Y, and Z, but you need to be listening for the bell in case you need to run up front and deliver a pizza. If you're walking past the front and a customer comes in and everyone else is busy? Drop what you're doing and take their order.

Every instance is always a "drop what you're doing and shift to a different task" and it goes on all day every day.

It literally teaches people to be distracted and unable to focus, because you're literally not allowed to fucking focus. Say you're finding your Zen place in doing dishes, you don't even get to finish the fucking dishes, because you're called back out to do more stuff in the front of the house. Later, you have to stay late to finish the dishes because it was too busy to ever get a chance to do them. Because fuck having someone who is just a dishwasher or just a pizza delivery person. We can't be paying people to sit around, tHaT's InEfFiCiEnT!

Actually, what's wholly inefficient is having people run around all day like chickens with their heads cut off to keep up when you could just accept that once in a while you're going to pay someone for doing nothing for a little while.

Studies always turn to blaming this inattention on social media, but literally our workplaces drive into our skulls that we're not allowed to focus on any one thing for an extended period of time and we should always be at the ready to shift gears into something entirely different, and come back later finish what we were working on. It's fucking absurd, and I think workplaces have a far more damaging psychological impact from it than fucking social media.

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Sometimes... dead is better.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 114 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The original with Crowder implied his mind couldn't be changed because Crowder is a fucking idiot who refuses to listen to anyone but himself.

This one implies a willingness to listen and learn. Calvin was impulsive sure, but there were plenty of times he regretted his actions and wanted to learn from his mistakes. He is just an innocent child, after all.

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