I block everything Meta so I don’t know what that is, but why would you link to centralised social media from the fediverse. We come here to avoid the tracking.

No, it does step towards a circular European Economy. If you actually read into the proposed legislature instead of just assuming what it says based on the headline you would see that. Point two the added requirements of staff and logistics = things are more exponentially more expensive is a false dichotomy perpetuated by American corporate interest in order to demoralise and discourage competition, thus increasing their market share and their stranglehold on retail as a whole. Point three, you emphasise that the store upcharges you for convenience and then change the argument to be in order to pay people a fair wage. A wage which amazon does not. Notice how you subconsciously demonise the intention of the local retailer? Even though amazon is literally the reason for the accelerated global warming. I would argue the increase in price is directly caused by the decrease in traffic created by amazon and global online retail as a whole. I would further add to the point that reputable companies line Sony, or Bosch. Still charge as much, if not more to sell through amazon. Many producers of high quality electronics just do not use amazon anymore, because their return policy has always been detrimental to producers of quality goods, immediately taking the proceeds of the sale from the store with no evidence to support the customer claims and making it prohibitively costly to do business on the platform and make products that are not complete garbage.

Counterargument, removing the “cheap alternative” will 1) Drive additional traffic to stores, allowing people to shop locally again and re level the playing field in terms of competitive pricing. 2) Allow more retail businesses to open up and meet newly available niche requirements created by the absence of these retailers. 3) Create a whole new argument for the increase of income to a liveable minimum wage, benefiting literally everybody but the 1% We have been conditioned go think that things are the way they are and they can’t change. It is complete nonsense, it is a lie perpetuate by the middle class, who are owned by our corporate masters. We do not need these, we do not need their products and we can all achieve an improved level of personal wealth through the removal of them and their monopolistic hoarding of capital through tax evasion and political corruption. Google’s parent company Alphabet, valued at over a trillion Dollars, Amazon valued at 2.4 trillion, Apple at 3.6 Trillion. 2781 inidividauls with a combined networth of over 3.6 trillion dollars between them. The entire global gdp is 13.6 Trillion dollars. Norway’s entire store of wealth, largest in Europe, sits at 1.6 Trillion euro. With all due respect my friend, stop looking at this so myopically as to look at your comfort in existing as another person’s slave and wake up to where all the wealth has gone. We have all been lied to.

Yeah, but they enjoy their tax bracket because they purchase it from the leaders of EU governments for pennies of its value to them. Look at Ireland, where the politicians refused to comply with EU’s tax requirements for Google, Apple and Meta. Men are weak and can be bought with trinkets. The Middle Class simply exist as mouth pieces for the corporate owners of Earth.

God, Pam Bondi is hideous. Like, I know your husband is a geriatric monopoly man. But did we have to aspire to look like Edgar from MIB if he’d landed at The Bunny Ranch?

Yeah, but they can just lie. That’s how all this happened. Generate distrust in the media, create a fake climate of fear against “evil immigrants.” No politician calls them liars, because they’re all complicit. Capitalist mouthbreathing drones.

Retail Therapy, we’ve all been programmed to find pleasure in consumption.

Yeah, pay more. To a reputable company, that isn’t a Chinese substitution, counterfeit or replacement product with a made up name. Computer products containing firmware that doesn’t immediately capture your data and send it to a 3rd party without your consent. Extra business in a circular economy like this increases resale value and the uptick in business allows more local options to open, generating competition and lowering prices, whilst increasing the number jobs in logisitics, transport and retail. Or did you not realise that Amazon was the reason that the same set of headphones was €50 more in the store than through them?

Susceptibility to propaganda is Universal. It crosses party lines, politics, religions and creeds and works as effectively, regardless of intellect. Older folks and sane-washing American politics is completely tied to the fact as of today 90% of all “Canadian Newspapers”. Broadsheets, Business Press, Tabloids, all of them. Are owned by Postmedia Network. An American-owned media conglomerate owned by Chatham Asset Management. They own everything from the Toronto Star to the Vancouver Sun and The Calgary Harold. This is why PP is so determined to bash CBC and call it wasteful. It is the only major, PUBLIC Canadian-owned media outlet we have left. CTV and CityTV will never be critical of Rogers, for the same reason WSJ will never criticise Amazon’s acceleration of Global Warming in order to open new trade routes through the Arctic. Corporate Media, serves corporate interests and corporate interests come at our collective expense. The divisiveness perpetuated by denigrating your fellow worker as the enemy. The one who is to blame for the state of the world, is nothing short of the literal grand illusion that they strive to maintain over our lives. Through tracking and recording our every waking moment, copying every automatic backup, before you knew you could opt out. Every credit card number, passport, photograph of your love ones.

Curating purposefully addictive technology with the unending scroll and “short-form content.” Liberal and Conservative. It is the great lie that we have to abandon. It is NOT right and Left, it has always been .01% vs 99.08% with the middle class existing to buffer our corporate owners from our collective grievances. Do not fall into the trap of separating yourself, or seeking to place yourself as higher in social value, due to the fact that you can see how others are lied to and manipulated. Social media has always been the surveillance arm of billionaire Capitalists, through which, we have all been lied to and manipulated. We all are isolated, profiled and fed an algorithmically curated worldview. Catered to us by companies who know us better than we know ourselves, with AI search tools capable of ensuring we are always fed a steady stream of niche content, to keep us pacified, engaged and out of the streets with guns. Where we should be. Who’s to say any of our independent understandings of reality are correct? Everything is owned by Them. MSNBC exists to give you an outlet, Rob Carney’s a central banker for fucks sakes. Don’t apologise on behalf of “others” we need solidarity, we need understanding and commonality and community. We are not the problem, the problem is that those whose financial class begins with a “B” aren’t utterly terrified every single waking moment of their lives.

The problem is that we have yet to get to the point where we make FightClub a Documentary. We have yet to tie them to saddles while we horseback ride through cobblestone streets. I know it’s so hard not to be spiteful, but we must not allow made up party associations to remain dogmatic political values. When they share no tangible connection to one another and when we all share so much more between us than the ruling corporatists tell us we do. They are not like us, we are like all Albertans.

Every Maple Magot should be called out for what they are. Filthy fucking Redcoats.

To be fair, it did stop a lot of people wanking into their cereal. Not all, surely, but a lot.

Carney is a former central banker, he will not do anything to upset the flow of money. Realistically, every single career politician in the world is complicit in this. Why can we build no more, houses? Why is everything so expensive? Why is the American party of “progressiveness” running Kamala Harris whose brother is CEO at Uber? It’s an illusion, they are all compromised, they are all bought, that’s just the nature of Capitalism. We have bring back the death penalty, but only for corporate person-hood. If you commit global terroristic acts like Meta, Muskrat and Amazon, we should be able to kill these things. We have to stop putting the 1%'s property rights over the lives of the 99%. It’s our planet, why do we need elected individuals whose sole purpose is to make decisions detrimental to everyone but themselves. We need to make Fight Club a documentary.

A friendly reminder to everyone. Lemmy is absolutely not representative of the broader mass media dialogue happening around us. We have to be paying attention to how all people, close with us in our day to day lives interact with it instead. My boss is a retired mechanic who thought Trump was gonna run the US “like a business.” I have been speaking very openly about my views on the American News Media bias in Canada. How new and legacy media are both monopolies controlled by the same small group of men. How the Heritage Foundation funded the Trump Campaign. How every far-right group appearing after Covid had the same names and message. America First, Canada First, Britain First, Ireland First, Francais Premier and all, coincidentally, funded by right-wing, American, Christian groups. Something clicked with him today, while he was on his phone and I watched as it all suddenly made sense to him.

Then I watched as he actually became worried. People know that it’s Big Tech and we have to have these conversations, because that’s how you get people to put their phones down and re-evaluate the idea of trusting 5 companies with all of their personal information and doing all computing in a web browser. That’s how you wake them up to the fact that LLM’s and embedded AI assistants are only their to spy on you and silence dissent.

Hey Co-pilot, have any of our user’s expressed dissatisfaction with the regime? Here’s a curated list.

We are so close to class consciousness do not let this echo-chamber be a safe space. Get Offline, get loud, get honest. Fuck Google

“My child is better off as a corpse than I would have been, had I understood that my distrust of medical science stemmed from malicious actors.” I want everybody to pay attention, this is programming. This is intentional, it is circulated by the Billionaire class, across media platforms. They control all of our news media and social media. They own all of the content we post online. Every automatic cloud backup you have to opt out of. Everything you’ve ever logged into a chromium searchbar. Through social engineering and hypernormalisation, they have collected all of our bank details, credit card numbers, license plate numbers. Everything you’ve ever sent as an attachment in an email. Their trackers permeate the entire clearnet, you cannot use a browser on the clearnet without being spied upon. Which is why privacy solutions all focus on obscuring your identity, because you will always be seen. The Head of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin, recently discovered Google have been effectively violating GDPR, likely since its inception, by including a hidden cookie that immediately starts the process of collecting telemetry on the user. When approached about the legality of it, the spokesperson for Google said they “Could not Comment” on the legality of violating EU law.

In North America, if you head to Google Maps on your android, look at permissions, then touch the 3 dots in the corner and select “see all permissions.” You will see what a dire situation we find ourselves in. Google Maps has been recording all of your location data, all the time. Regardless of if it’s allowed as a permission by the User. Google Maps scans and reads your storage. As does Google Search, Gmail and anything else Alphabet and Apple include on their devices. Did we notice after Covid how every Card Reader became an android device, with dual front and rear facing cameras? How about how every security camera is now a wifi camera? Coincidentally, that runs android. As does the automated checkouts that proliferated after the pandemic, they record you as you use them and they take your picture. They record your grocery list, card number and then they follow you, in your car using your location data. Your phone, announces itself to every other smart device around it, to wifi routers and bluetooth devices. Even Turned off, apple products use Low Energy Bluetooth, powered by NVRAM to be able to locate you within a margin of error as low as 6 inches.

What is happening now, in the United States and around the world is merely theatre. Conducted by the surveillance arm and social engineering wing of the men who own the world. Apple is valued at over 3.6 Trillion Dollars. The entire GDP of Earth, is just over 13 Trillion Dollars. That is one company, add to that Google, Meta, X, Rupert Murdoch’s empire. By the way, that does not include the Billions privately banked by Zuckerberg and the rest of them. You want to know, why the housing crisis exists? Why inflation exists? It benefits them, for it to exist. Facebook has been legitimately, causally (and I want to stress that) implicated in the Myanmar Genocide. Their choosing to have a single moderator that spoke one dialect of the local languages, operating out of Dublin, Ireland with more than 6 hours in the time difference. To review and curtail racist and genocidal content uploaded to their platform. Was a conscious decision, done for personal economic benefit. Banks make money, by ostensibly betting on geopolitics. Say, for example you know there’s going to be serious social and economic unrest in Myanmar. Well you take options predicting that companies with a lot of holdings in that state will take a nosedive. You make exponentially larger gains than by buying and trading Swiss Francs for Euros.

Cryptocurrency, there’s a laugh. Bitcoin was not made by a genius Japanese recluse called “Satoshi.” What kind of anime do you think you’re living in? Crypto is meant to normalise the idea of an entirely digital currency. So, that every single transaction, that we make is recorded. They want to move us to a cashless society where our biometrics are directly linked to our bank accounts. What a way to sell it, as if it’s privacy. Cryptographic currency, nobody knows anything, except that every single transaction is recorded on the publicly available ledger. Hang on, your wallet address is just a string of numbers, it doesn’t mean anything. Yes, a unique string of numbers, tied to you, the purchase of cryptocurrency and opening of said wallet, using your Credit/Debit Card. 2FA doesn’t exist to protect you from hackers. It exists to link, every single account you have to a common device. Your phone, with it’s unique IMEI which is known by the state, your carrier, Google/Apple/Meta and every single centralised media platform you have ever visited. What have we done?

They have amassed so much money, through affiliate links, mass surveillance and tax fraud. That they can never be prosecuted for these evils. The rapid acceleration in global warming is directly caused by Amazon and other Chinese suppliers. They pollute en masse, destroy our wildlife and record every waking moment of our lives in the name of “progress.” They have dirt of every single person in the world, then they built LLM’s to be able to effectively wield it against us. Even if you’re a Ludite, who never used a smartphone, they know who your family are, they know who your children are and if they can’t bribe, bend of break you? They can just have you killed. They’ll be cleared, just like every accusation of sexual misconduct, every human rights violation, every scandal because when you can give someone 100,000,000 dollars, and not even notice. Why wouldn’t you be completely insane? Why wouldn’t you feel like a god? The fundamental binding link for all of 21st century human society is capital resources. Through broken ownership laws, we have allowed people to remove all obstacles to monopolisation and human enslavement.

In 2023 The US Justice Department ruled Google was a monopoly and ordered them to divest. In September of the following year, they found Alphabet, Google’s parent company, in contempt and ordered them to divest Chrome, or Android. Now they get to keep it. In 2016 Google’s company, X (subtle) then X Development LLC. Held a talk on the theoretical power of social engineering. Although, quite unnerving, they specified that it was just theoretical. You know what else happened in 2016? The Brexit Referendum, where this party UKIP, appeared, out of nowhere into mainstream conciousness. With provably false claims about the EU’s relationship, with then member state, The United Kingdom, printed on the side of Busses. This is nothing new, I invite anyone to read the back catalogue of articles written by Boris Johnson whilst he worked for the Daily Telegraph, if you really want to dive into right wing political lies from that era. All of, it circulated, on Facebook.

At the same time, we see mass migration happening from the East, to the West. Brought in through visa programs lobied for by corporations, McDonald’s, Tim Hortons, Starbucks, Google, Meta. What starts proliferating on social media? Less than two weeks after the presidential debate where Donald Trump states, “They’re eating the cats and dogs.” A video of supposedly, police bodycam footage appears on r/Crazyfuckingvideos, that shows officers in a different part of Ohio, not Springfield, approaching a large, nude, catatonic black woman, covered in blood and fur. The title says she has just eaten the neighbour’s cat. Immediately in the comments we see two things, “OMG, Trump was right.” Then the defense “She’s not a Haitian Migrant, she’s an American Citizen” and “This didn’t even happen in Springfield guys.” The result is two fold, you either believe what Trump has said, or you believe the opposite and that this will be used to justify what he said. In reality, it’s fake. It is designed to entrench you in your previously held beliefs, because the goal is to divide the working class.

The same thing happened with “Axle Rudikabana” the supposed 17-year-old UK citizen of African descent who, we are told stabbed 3 girls to death at a “Taylor Swift Themed Event” in the UK in 2024. One of which, in the neck 124 individual times, almost decapitating her. There is no footage, of Axle Rudikabana, or any further detail of what this event was, or any image of this boy, or the girl’s family. The UK is the most highly surveilled country in western Europe, there is no footage of the attack, of this boy traveling to the event, of anyone walking into it from the street outside. Nothing. There is later a video of a police car driving down a non-descript road, we are told is the police transferring him to court. How do you possibly determine, 124 individual stab wounds to the neck? Where the girl is almost decapitated. 124? He would have had to have been on top of this girl for multiple minutes. This “Taylor Swift Themed Event” Had no security? Had no working cameras and had nobody who could have caught an image, or moved to stop this teenager with a knife. Then come the comments, “He’s a UK Citizen, he’s not a migrant.”

The Dublin Riots of 2023 where far right groups “protest” as a little girl is stabbed by a mentally ill Eastern European man and also Irish national. The little girl in question being the child of a Polish Woman and Brazillian man and also an Irish Citizen. Bravely saved by a Brazillian delivery driver. To date, there has been no footage of the attack, no footage of the little girl, no video recorded interview of the parents, or the perpetrator of the attack. Then the comments in r/Ireland. “He was an Irish Citizen, not an asylum Seeker.” “The little girl’s parents are foreigners, this has nothing to do with immigration.” Do we understand, what this is? This is programming. I could go on, but I’m at the text limit.

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Yeah so, Dynamic IP set up with the ISP. Running Librewolf, on the strictest browser settings, using Mullvad’s secure DNS and Riseup-VPN, with my IP address being NL (Nowhere close to my part of the world). No pop-ups enabled, resist finger printing enabled, no cookies, delete temporary files and cache upon exit. Sharing location disabled (obviously) requests to use any of the hardware all blocked. Only thing running to get the site to work is Java, that I turn on after already getting to the site. Still knows where I am. Start Tor Relay with browser configured to route traffic over socks5, try again with New DNS, Try a 3rd time now with Tor over vpn, still nothing. I actually had a much spookier thing happen with Brave’s Leo attempting this from my phone. I use a chinese phone, banned where I live, never for sale. I lived on a different continent when I purchased it. I asked it a question about enabling developer options. It gave me the specific instructions then my make, model and firmware version. When I asked how it knew what phone I had, it told me it was guessing and denied being able to see all the data on my device. This is on the android web browser, with the embedded AI. Fuck me, dude, how do we stop them from collecting data on our hardware? Like, I would love to use Qubes, but the architecture of my machine, just doesn’t support it.

Librewolf, strict browser privacy settings. Delete cookies on exit. Don’t store history. Using Mulvad’s secure DNS. I have a dynamic IP address setup with the ISP. Then I enable the VPN using NL as my node. THEN I start the Tor relay and connect to it through socks 5. No Captcha presented, visit the AI, asks me for a name.

“Hey, Copilot, where am I?”

Immediately got me.

Homely af spam bot. At least they’re going for realism.

Maybe, but it’s a brand new Linux install. New browser and everything, just a bit unnerving you know?

Right, but as a counterpoint. The French weren’t facing certain global annihilation brought on by Megacorporations who convinced every person in the world to voluntarily spy on themselves for the last 2 decades in order to amass more power, wealth and influence than every individual country in the world. Those, whose mere existence has accelerated global warming to the point that the purposeful act of ecocide has become their main goal, after they force us into world war 3, strip mine the globe for resources in order to fuck off and terraform Mars. All to live out a South African-Apartheidist-with-a-botched-penis-implant’s grandfather’s wet dream of enslaving humanity into a technocratic hellscape before Larping the provably erroneous Ugenix “hypothesis” of hyper-diffusion. So, you know, maybe give The French Revolution a break?