There's a beefeater (UK pub/restaurant chain) in my town that recently made their car park pay and display. Their customers have resorted to parking on the grass verges and pavements leading up to the building, causing safety issues (blocking views of turning onto a 50 road, covering pavement and forcing pedestrians into the road; that sort of thing).

I'm sure if the local council started charging them for the damage caused to the green, or even the damage caused by accidents due to their customers choice of parking, the car parking fee would quickly disappear.

Tbh, I'm surprised it hasn't already. Their car park is always empty now, so it's not generating revenue, and they used to have double the amount of cars you see round there now.. so my guess is people fucked off somewhere else, and this attempt at squeezing just resulted in a permanent loss of regular revenue

I'd recommend joining a new instance.

The problem is ultimately a consolidated user base. Even if the current admins are expelled, the root cause still exists.

Reducing the number of users on world reduces the impact of them throwing their weight about the fediverse. Nothing you can do to change the admins mentalities; and theyve routinely avoided letting their own userbase know let alone have input, so best option is to vote with your virtual feet, IMHO.

That's actually why the dad believes the baby is a late bloomer; It took him this long to get a concussion? He's practically a toddler now!

Sure, variations of it will probably be. In the same way a fork of mastodon is used for Trumps truth social platform, despite it being a predominantly left application.

The key thing you're not considering about open source is the lack of central governance. Ubuntu can decide to impose age checks, arch could decide it requires TPM setup, and fedora could choose to move to a licensing fee model. All would be independent decisions however, and only affect the respective distro and any built from it, yet they're all called Linux.

Besides, with all open source applications, anything implemented can be reverted by someone else. The code is licensed publicly for this exact reason.

The meme is claiming that 100 in elven years is the equivalent of 21 in human years.

So the ratio 21:100 becomes 15.33:73 (or something like that. Its 6am here so my maths could be off).

Using the same ratio, 100 human years would be ~476 elf years.

The 'response from overseas' comes from a decade of watching trump politics gain favour in the US. Massive rallies about making America great again, and taking your country back rhetorics, even after all the Epstein stuff came about, the religion of trump flourished in America.

Sure, you can claim that he's a dictator now. But only because americans have allowed him to become one. That's why the overall sentiment from the rest of the world is negative. Americans made this monster, and now it's the world that has to deal with his bullshit.

That's not to say america wasn't already fucking everyone else over, that's the American way and has been happening since they discovered stars and put them on fabric. But Trump has exacerbated that issue, and the American people are complicit for supporting the growth of such a monster; it's fresh to Americans, because now even the American people are on the receiving end. But for the rest of us, this is the same story just worse.

I'm not saying this applies to you personally btw, I'm just trying to share the honest sentiment around Americans as a whole. There will undoubtedly be exceptions to the rule, but from an overseas perspective, there's been nowhere near enough.

Its ironic that this proposal talks about how hierarchy is antithetical to anarchism, yet is being propped up by one.

For a good ten minutes, I was trying to work out how someone would use such a small box to change out of. "does it fold out into some silly cardboard variation of a Victorian privacy screen..." etc.. thoughts until I finally re-read it. 

Damn skim reading got me assuming again.

This is a shitposting group; I don't think personal investment in the topic is a precursor to commenting here...

Ah so you weren't interested in the overseas sentiment at all, you're just looking to excuse yourself from the culpability.

Atleast we know which category you fit in I guess.

So is Anna but with less effort.

I know it as shrinkflation.

I use Ubuntu touch as a personal device, which has zero support for banking apps, meaning I have to have a backup Android device. My work phone is a pixel 6 running graphene OS, which manages to run all of my banking apps just fine. (Though admittedly I 'got lucky' in the sense that my banks are supported by graphene OS)

Graphene, or any other alternative to the big 2, aren't perfect and don't cover all banks, but graphene is by far the frontrunner for a viable alternative. If you haven't toyed around with it and get the opportunity, id definitely recommend it.

I really hope we do see further Linux phone development, but without buy-in from the banks themselves, they will not be supported for the same reason Graphene isn't. The only difference is Graphene allows sandboxing play integrity to navigate the "Google has to say it's okay" nonsense. It's a rock and a hard place problem; the banks won't support without mass adoption, and mass adoption won't happen due to lack of banking support.

I think sailfish OS has a similar integrity sandboxing concept, though I haven't tried that personally, so can't comment on how well it works.

Exactly. Now that your head is on the block, you see it as a problem. But when it was all those Mexican kids ripped from their families during the biden administration, or all the orphaned Afghanis during Obamas, the status quo continued.

The story with the US regime is always the same, a self serving nation at the expense of other nations with the added caveat that its own citizens are now fair game.

You're so close to understanding why there is so much contempt for America on the world stage. Keep going and hopefully you'll realise the only solution you should be fighting for is the dissolution of the united states. The death of the empire will benefit all except those the empire actually serves.

::: spoiler spoiler If you're going to add spoilers. Use the tags so you don't ruin it for others.

https://lemmy.world/post/498805?scrollToComments=true :::

At the very least they'd like their tip back.

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