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Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’
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Sounds like a moron, but fixing a toilet once doesn’t make it a job. It’s passive income like an investment
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Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’
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Sounds like a moron, but fixing a toilet once doesn’t make it a job. It’s passive income like an investment
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sports on demand
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You need to free yourself from your parents basement and touch grass
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Twitter account suspended for tracking Elon Musk’s jet joins Meta’s Threads
The data is public, the feed just only prints out publicly available flight data - if Elon wants privacy, he should just charter a private jet used by other billionare dickheads, it's not exactly a hardship now is it
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What would you considered "Ethical Piracy"
I’d say that there’s a scale
‘pirating’ an abandonware PC game that has long been left by the original devs, and isn’t for sale anywhere legally - this is still illegal under most laws, despite their being no legal routes to buy it at all legally. Most sane people don’t think this is unethical.
But downloading a hacked version of an app or game developed by a tiny independent team that truly care about the product, and invest the profits back in it - I say that this is unethical, as the people you are stealing from are directly affected by your actions. If you bought this game or app, your money goes directly to them, and they are more likely to keep developing other things.
Adobe, MS and the like have billions, so piracy has less of a direct impact on them -
So yeah, for me it’s a scale of ethical piracy - and you have to draw the line where you feel comfortable
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Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’
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I own a house, got a plumber for replace a cistern was like 30 mins of work, and I did that whilst working!
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my lemmy feed
Aka the internet
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Is there any evidence that Reddit has suffered at all from the exodus to Lemmy?
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Basically the next time they fuck something up, this will be an even better alternative for those leaving - I’m done with reddit
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What meal could you have forever?
Fish & chips m8
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If someone were to ask you for a sign you aren't an AI, what would be the first thing about you or your existence/life that you'd cite or point to?
They never swear, so I’d tell you to go fuck yourself probably
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Has anyone here emigrated from the US to the UK with school-aged kids? What were the biggest adjustments they had to make and what were their biggest challenges?
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Piss off, the UK is one of the safest places to be gay and to grow up gay in the world.
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Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?
16yrs, made an account before the Digg drama, migrated there after.
I’ve not been back since, other than friends linking to stuff there basically
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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide
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Scottish Indy movement has been put back by 10+ years after the political and possibly illegal financial fuckups of the main indy party SNP.
They still have control over most of Scotland, but their political power in Westminster is still fairly small, this might change next election though
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It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
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Crypto and blockchain is tech coming up with a solution that no one asked for. Blockchain is just a database that is (at best!) extremely energy inefficient. Trust comes from the same sources (brand, marketing, advertising, social cues), it being on a blockchain does not magically generate trust.
And crypto’s biggest strength as an uncontrollable and decentralised store of wealth ignore the fact you can only buy and sell it on marketplaces, which control and centralise it, so for nearly everyone involved it’s a pyramid scheme, those at the beginning persuading new people to join to prop up their assets profits
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What's a good throwaway/single use email provider these day?
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I had this issue - I was trying to cancel my Guardian online news subscription, and they make it painful. Insist the email must come from the address, they didn’t allow a code validating ownership etc, was a complete pain
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Getting rid of the Catholic Church that are anti-contraception might also work
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YSK: Lemmy DOES have a karma system
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Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’
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Would an AI tell you to fuck yourself and go get a real job? Maybe it would
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What websites do you use as an alternative to Amazon?
hive.co.uk for my UK homies, like Amazon but not a parasite on society generally