I think the notion that certain traits are normalized or even praised is spot on.

I just finished rings of power and the picture of sauron as the great deceiver who even deceives himself at times is harrowing. I have been very successful in business and met people just like him. The higher i got the more obvious.

People who lie without any change in tone or rhythm, who are incredibly fast and enthusiastic explaining away your absolutely spot on criticisms and fears without as much as breaking a sweat.

These people also have been incredibly unreliable, never due to their own fault of course. They just swish away any competition by any means necessary. And they are impulsive as hell. They just lose it if you dont comply.

On one hand, I really sympathize with people who suffer from the condition i just described traits of. It is impossible for me to say how to act on this without massive discrimination against people with this condition although I see dire need to exclude these traits from any positions of power.

Because if they run unrestrained and even praised, this is how you get genocidal maniacs as rulers of countries. Its these people at the root of every major downfall of our society.

Massive fraud and banking collapse: these traits. Building software to supercharge rents to efficiently drain the public: these traits, it is everywhere.

No idea. In my opinion the law and computer code are very similar. Its the people working to make and interpret it who bring in variation, for good and bad.

I mean thats great. Bluesky is still just another billinaire walled garden.

And for the people with internet, tv, radio or access to newspapers:

the police can make you look at the camera to unlock your phone (for example to check if you’re aiding refugees from the ethnic lgbtq cleansing) but they cant (easily and in some countries legally) force you to type in a pin and password. I know the point is a bit moot for a pc as at that point the will just rip out your drive, assuming its not encrypted.

Still, worth mentioning imo.

I am also pro being able to form your own future by giving an extra hand to the world.

I do however disagree on the part where you have to be born into certain privileges to be able to do this. Yes, giving extra should mean you get extra but all in accordance to individual abilities an privilege. Someone born rich should have it significantly harder to make more than someone born poor for example.

Lemmy cant. It has a clear cut sorting strategy which is open source. Assuming we’re talking about actual suggestions which are based on something else than most upvotes, most downvotes, most upvotes per time.

Oh? And you’re the authority on that?

The question you are trying to ask is “what special message do you see in that movie?”

Of course my friend, let me tell you.

Oblivion has this very nice plot twist where the main character was actually

I do agree though that its not necessarily the same league as the others. But seeing people acting the way they do, they must be submitted to 24/7 reeducation on freedom, privacy, healthy relationships, democracy, etc.

We saw these movies well before we were 16 or 18. Maybe today’s grown ups actually didn’t watch them and are braindead because of it?

Mandatory watching exercise for everyone:

• the matrix (only the first one, the rest is meh)
• 12 monkeys
• minority report
• oblivion
• idiocracy
• don’t look up

The themes are always the same. Peak dystopia, sometimes facilitated by helpful idiots.

Thank you. So it was clickbait more or less.

It still is somewhat relevant as the IP system is a racket that needs to be brought down at any cost.

The article is very long and not that interesting a read. Maybe someone can post what was so interesting about it

They sell your eyes and your mind.

Exactly. I only read about it in combination with the court case but yes, this is the underlying situation iirc.

A whistleblower from apple showed that they do listen and have whole lawyer client conversations were recorded at apple. I dont know if that was what the commenter before was hinting at.

You first.

I think the idea in itself is good. Imagining an instance where a whole lot of reddit communities mirror just for safekeeping. Using this will likely get you banned from reddit in 10 seconds though. It is a very powerful way of stripping reddits walled garden so they will fight it tooth and nail. What we need is legislation to protect something like this.

My personal opinion is twofold:

1. they need a diversion. Like a magician (or more accurate a pickpocket) they will take anything to make people blind while they amass their power. It is a sickness of the mind. They are addicted to power and ever anxious to loose it. Minorities are a good enemy for the people to blame the problems on that these people either cause themselves or dont want to take care of. In the past it was witches, nowadays it is other minorities.
2. minorities have been fighting for a place in the world for a long time and there have been significant improvements. But that is not a positive development if you want to rule supreme. If you‘re power crazed, you need people to fall in line. Otherwise it wont work. We have ample evidence that only a sufficiently subdued population will not rise up against authority.

Depends on what you hope to find. Generally, independent media will show you the most complete picture. The taz in germany and 404 media are both pretty good afaik.

The conclusion that the US is a threat to democracy has evolved over time. Their financing of the genocide in gaza, their intervention in irak and other countries they had no right to intervene in, the first trump admin which cost millions of americans their lives and now the second one in the process of (allegedly) dismantling the government system alltogether. together with mass deportations and simple deletion of trans people from government docs. Oh and pardonning the insurectionists from jan 6th. No idea what follows.

There are a lot of sources for this stuff but you will have to draw your own conclusion.

In germany, a couple peeps agree that china is becoming the better option for living. Both, the US and china are bad actors and enemies to democracy and freedom but at this point, the differences have become technicalities while the US has become more unstable and dangerous to its citizens.

Not interested enough to support corpo media please post it on peertube if you can. but from the headline: yikes! And I thought they were done with the most vile political idiocy.

This is as inspiring as it is terrifying.