Mostly because of Murdoch.

Madlass, respect. I’ve got the cat part down pat. Now just for the castle and the millions.

I imagine they’ll feel a lot worse after shooting civvies.

But they’ll get over it.

Confirmation bias is a bitch innit.

Are forks like Librewolf also affected? And have they been updated?

Companies that once shared productivity gains with workers through higher wages now capture those gains entirely as profits for shareholders and executives.

My own employer used to be a mid-sized company excelling in the specific service they offered. I worked there for five years while they kept growing and things just kept getting gradually “better”. Then, during Covid, the owner decided to sell to a multinational and almost immediately we lost bonuses, incentives, perks and tools. They kept growing the sales department (and the actual sales) without growing support or backoffice.

As a result we are massively overworked, have less tools than we ever did before (or they just don’t work anymore) and our deadlines have tightened significantly without new hires in the dept.

Our choice is to grin & bear it and keep a roof over our heads, or to protest it and lose all income.

Gonna be over 1B by the end of the decade. Even the most left-leaning countries will, by that time, have shit like automated turrets or whatnot in place. I hope I’m wrong but climate change makes this practically inevitable.

No, it’s none of that. It’s that in my over four decades of life, I’ve never once lived up to my OWN potential, and despite trying my best, giving up, trying again, … countless times, I’ve still never managed to markedly improve my station in life, or my enjoyment of it.

I know I have everything I need to be capable, smart, confident person, but I’ve never BEEN any of those things, even fleetingly, so I can’t really even imagine how it would be like.

Pathethic, I know.

Have you ever lived in the projects? As a (former, but still) poor person, living there is… challenging. Your opinions of your fellow humans regularly have to be adjusted, especially if you’re prone to being an optimist.

Not ghetto but simply very basic, rural living. The house I grew up in did not have indoor plumbing. The toilet was outside in an outhouse, just a plank with a hole in the middle above a cesspit. My parents were split up and my mother got the absolute minimum pay and my father wasted his wages on alcohol and women. So there were few luxuries during my youth.

Today I’m 41 and I’m BARELY above that level of poverty. If I lose my job for whatever reason it’s back to that kind of life.

That was in the '80s in Western Europe, by the way. Today this situation has become a lot more rare but it’s not gone yet.

My only remaining ambition after age 40 was to be a worthwile human being at the very least (because that bar is very low) and I can’t even do that.

Some people are born broken, not necessarily through any fault of their own. But maybe I don’t even clear that barrier and am simply useless to anyone. Oh well.

Let’s be real; everyone on board knew there was no chance the ship would be allowed to moor and offload its goods. It was a photo op. But still a good one since it helps show what Israel is doing in Gaza. They also knew there was very little chance of them actually getting hurt as Israel does care about optics when it involves high profile foreigners. The second they kill someone like Greta all hell would break loose. Which is in sad, stark contrast to the thousands of innocents they’ve killed with nary a peep from the rest of the world.

So AMD now dominates (or almost) both consumer and server cpu market. Not surprising, considering the offerings from Intel at this point. Man, Intel has fallen. Fully expecting them to be bought by qualcom or broadcom or similar soon.

Little shit is allegedly a pet serial killer, according to previous aides.

I believe it.

Hard 5.

My take: The Baltics get it right after this summer.

Which is why Europe needs to coordinate on a joint military plan YESTERDAY. EU is capable of keeping Russia at bay on its own, no doubt about it, but they need to get smart about it as soon as possible because we only have a small window of time to pre-empt this.

I’d say that Lemmy’s current userbase is highly reminiscent of early Reddit’s userbase (pre 2012ish).

Good luck; this is textbook fascism and one of its features is that it’s totalitarian and will sink its claws into every single aspect of your lives unless you fight back at every level.

Even just H and O on their own can be quite scary. Throw them together and BAM, ubiquitous lifegiving liquid.