[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I don't see why all of a sudden all the black male actors, rappers, musicians and stand up comedians have to cosplay as Troy from community.

edit: Add director and producer to that list - check before you post kids!

[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 month ago

I haven't watched the video - so I'm going on what is said above, but its like these billionaires are not seeing people as human. They see that after Hiroshima people live in the city but cannot understand that those people weren't fungible. We didn't replace them - they are different people.

Two other small points, but first a caveat - I'm very pro civil nuclear power.

It simply isn't possible for any nuclear power plant to explode like a nuclear bomb. That can't happen - like my car contains an engine but can't fly like a plane. There have been nuclear leaks and chemical explosions in nuclear plants - these are bad. However, they are very different things from what happened to Japan.

Modern nuclear weapons would have much higher yields and probably fallout. Here's a terrifying tool for the morbidly curious:

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 month ago

Its not the 'eat the rich' that I was hoping for.... Might be the one we deserve.

[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Don't pay this! You just reinforce their predatory practices. How renewals at much higher prices are allowed - no clue!

Something similar happened to a company I know - it expired and was immediately bought by domain squatters, when they found them they were told that it couldn't be sold back because the squatter had paid $XXXX for and had big plans (I assume it was BS, just a premise to get paid - no site was ever put on the domain)

Solution: they bought the .org version and bought the .com back a year later.

edit:grammar

[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

This is not tangental - I am heartened, my hope is that this would become normal. Despite my moan, it isn't that bad and I'm sure I would have had different IT headaches on windows - security comes to mind.

I still use proprietary android software on my phone, but I try not to do anything secure on my phone (this is also getting harder as banks are insisting that I convert to apps)

[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 months ago

I don't know if the UK is worse than anywhere else (?)

[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thanks - I had not thought of this. I'll give it a go... [edit: no dice :(] It works in chromium, so there is a solution... its just tiring to remember which browser to use for which site.

[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago

Also, please feel free to answer if you aren't based in the UK, I assume this isn't a UK only problem, but I'm based here.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've run a small business for over 10 yeas. I use linux. I'm grateful to the community and I use FOSS where possible.

I have had some issues over the years, but have always been able to get around them (except CAD in 2013), but recently I've had issues with my government (UK). First they introduced 'making tax digital' and told me for years that I would have to buy windows only software (there was no legal option on linux until a few weeks before the deadline (https://www.comsci.co.uk/100PcVatFreeBridge saved the day). The UK Government didn't create a free solution or any route to that as they don't want the source to be open for making tax digital so accounting software companies have made a killing!

This week my internet banking stopped allowing payments, it no longer works in firefox (I'm guessing). On the telephone they asked me 'what search engine I was using'^+^ and advised to use google.

What is the best UK business bank to use if you use linux to run a small business? Do I have to use Chrom(e)ium? Does anyone else use linux for business admin? Is anyone (Freesoftware foundation, etc) thinking about the creeping legislative changes that make it literally illegal to use FOSS and linux?

I wanna be an ally, but its so tiring.

^+^ browser ≠ search engine. Yes, I'm pedantic, at least I didn't confuse them by saying 'quant' or 'duck duck go', OK!?

[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Denmark looking decidedly not green this morning. It's sunny, but virtually no wind - might be like this for another week. Check the map regularly to understand why unreliable energy is actually just a way of increasing gas usage.

[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

certain cancers in areas surrounding the plant did rise

just a note to add that if you start checking the population for something routinely like thyroid cancer... the rate that you find it goes up. This is why the detected cancer rate increasing is not considered a cause for alarm.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

I feel like there are lots of parallels between the eighties and now (recession/inflation, yuppies/inequality, skin-heads/fascists, hot-cold wars etc.) but there used to be protest music! Where is that stuff now? Music that's intelligent and outraged - like we should be!

I'm out of touch now, so if it exists, educate me! Or have the protest songs been removed from tiktok by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (UK specific, but suppression of protest seems to be everywhere)? (I've linked to the Levellers - maybe it really was better back in the day?)

edit: Maybe not the right audience, but if the song is old enough to vote then I might already know it! What's happening now? Any songs from the last 10 years!

edit: Thanks for everyone's insights. I've spent the day discovering music that I'd never have found otherwise. Really enjoying a load of these, but thanks to everyone! It seems like protest music is confined to certain genres/places, and lots of older songs - maybe they just last longer... which is maybe a little interesting.

[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Its a good point [edit: this is what I'll do]. Of course, there's a chance that I actually want the thing that I bought. I'd like to be clear that there are much greater injustices, but it is a boring dystopia...

[-] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Honestly, its not the cost of delivery. Its that the delivery driver is working at 1:43 am, and that a charge is levied for not being available at this time. Not everyone sleeps at night, but with no warning, I have to reschedule my life to be at my desk at 2am for something I bought? Even if this were delivered to a home address - ringing the doorbell at 2am is shitty.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

The delivery driver was working at that time, why wasn't the receptionist!?

edit: Thanks to everyone who's pointed out that this is a scam - and who gave advice/or worried about me. I was half asleep this morning, it didn't click (though I did notice that the url wasn't evri - I'm too used to vendors passing me over to third party websites). It doesn't help that the evri helpline is robots only. No bank details lost though.

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