No! There are dozens of us! Dozens
But to be real, I hate how automatic updates just assumes the newer version will be better than the current. Enshittification is just as real in apps as in web services. And automatic updates help enable Enshittification by making that assumption. Of course, It's more applicable to the app store or play store than to f-droid.
NH literally had to break either their own state law to move the primary, or break DNC's rules to have a primary that counted. And their republican state legislature would not allow them to move the primary. So they literally had no choice in the matter.
How is it in any way fair that 2 private organizations get to decide if the American people even get a say in the 2 (realistic) choices they have?
P.S. I'm assuming you mean might where you put 'foundy'. I don't know how that got there but I'm guessing a phone keyboard.
Data only matters to them if they can use it to support the conclusions they want. Otherwise they just ignore at best or at worst call it fake news.
It also works with nsfw content they put behind an appwall.
YoU HaVe tO UsE tHe ApP To ViEw ThIs CoNteNt.
STFU with that BS.
Relationships are discouraged through school, in favor of competition, so we can be more effectively exploited by the elites (and all hierarchical societies). That is by design. Healthy individuals with good relationships are harder to sell to and to exploit. It's relatively hard to convince someone who is satisfied with their life and image to buy something. It's a lot easier to convince them to instead seek emotional satisfaction through excessive buying (escapism). Each new item (or service) you get can temporarily fill the emotional void and provide a fleeting sense of excitement or comfort.
investment platform
What a fancy way of describing real estate.
It's much more accurate to call it, exploiting poor people's basic needs to get ahead. But of course then you'd be reminding them they aren't the goody two shoes they like to cosplay as. Can't have that.
Is the media really trying to blame the wrong perpetrator just like they did for 9/11? I guess people learned nothing from the US's botched response to 9/11.
It's pretty simple really. Not including the recent attack, Israel has killed 10k+ Palestinians since 2000 vs the ~500 Israelis killed in conflict. It is pretty simple to see why a group of Palestinians would do something like this. They are angry at Israelis oppressing them.
With that being said, their desire for revenge is understandable. There is still no reason to murder innocent Israelis.
For me it was when I was watching Soul with some friends and eventually came to some emotional realizations. I realized that I only had a superficial understanding of how to communicate. I could discuss ideas in the abstract, but I had trouble with expressing myself emotionally and personally because I was always conditioned to repress how I feel. I guess like 22 in the movie I only saw myself as a casual observer. It took a couple rewatches for me to process the difficult emotions I was feeling into something I could explain but when I did it really helped my overall mental outlook on life.
Reposting from PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com in Technology@beehaw.org
Here’s an AI outline because this was actually a good talk:
How Platforms Die
The speaker introduces the concept of platform decay or “enshittification” and how it leads to the death of internet platforms.
He defines platforms as firms like Uber, Amazon, and Facebook that connect users and business customers.
He outlines a 3-stage process called enshittification where platforms:
Are initially good to users
Abuse users to benefit business customers
Eventually abuse business customers to only benefit shareholders
This results in the platform becoming a “pile of shit” that dies.
Facebook Case Study
He uses Facebook as a case study of enshittification’s 3 stages:
Initially attracted users by promising privacy protections and custom feeds
Then broke promises and sold user data to advertisers and flooded feeds with publisher content
Finally, reduced value to users and fees for publishers to extract all value for shareholders
This led to an angry user base and brittle equilibrium
Causes of Enshittification
Lack of Competition
Weak antitrust enforcement has allowed consolidation across industries
Companies can use predatory pricing to undercut competitors
Mergers eliminate competition
Example: Google relying on acquisitions rather than in-house innovation
Unrestricted “Backend Tweaking”
Tech platforms control the algorithms and systems behind their products
They can arbitrarily change these to alter user experiences
e.g. Facebook reducing visibility of publisher content in feeds
Done without transparency, oversight or accountability
Bans on Reverse Engineering
Laws like DMCA 1201 and CFAA criminalize circumventing DRM and terms of service
Makes it illegal to reverse engineer platforms to enable interoperability
Tech companies use IP laws to prevent modding and adversarial interoperability
e.g. Apple using IP laws to prevent iOS modding
Solutions
Strengthen Antitrust Enforcement
Block anti-competitive mergers
Break up existing tech giants
Pass Privacy, Labor and Consumer Protection Laws
Comprehensive federal privacy laws with private right of action
End worker misclassification through gig economy
Apply consumer protection standards to platforms
Allow Adversarial Interoperability
Roll back laws criminalizing modding, reverse engineering
Use government procurement to incentivize open ecosystems
Appoint special masters to oversee platform legal threats
Keep Interoperators in Check
Bind interoperators to the same privacy, fair trading and labor laws
Determined through democratic process vs corporate policy
Conclusion
We need to prepare and spread these policy ideas to capitalize on the next crisis
Efforts are underway to enable a better internet through this approach
Your mistake comes in assuming christians have coherent beliefs. They largely believe what everyone else around them believes. In the US this means they are mostly captured by the grifters of society which are coincidentally the capitalists. Funny how that works.
For the rare exceptions you can point look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism.
I often see articles about the effects of microplastics, but I have yet to see or read about the best steps we can take to combat them.
Can anyone recommend some content that describes ways to reduce exposure or share the most effective ways there are of reducing microplastic exposure?
You've got to remember that these are just simple voters. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.