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obinice, 1 month ago

What’s going on here, this person’s replying to themself on Twitter?

I’m not really well up on how Twitter works these days. They’re… angry at themselves for asking the police to arrest someone? Or that the police haven’t arrested them even though there’s (I assume) clear evidence of the crime they committed? And that has something to do with free speech?

All in all a very confusing screenshot xD I’m going to make a cup of tea and sit down…

obinice, 1 month ago

If Europe falls, Russia will come for your country eventually too, once they’re done with the USA.

Not that you care, you’re probably working for Russia, or already in your 60s so this won’t affect you much, but ya know, just in case…

obinice, 1 month ago

It’s kinda creepy that I was coming here to say this and yet it’s already the only comment 😂

I mean, I know the “I came here to say this” thing is common, it’s just I really didn’t think anyone else’s mind would immediately go there and only there xD

obinice, 1 month ago

That really is depressing.

That young kid should be enjoying this one special night that they’ll remember for the rest of their life, not buried in their phone screen working on something.

I hope whatever they were doing didn’t take long, and they were able to put the phone away and make some lifelong memories <3

obinice, 1 month ago

…in the USA. Doesn’t affect us over the pond, but very important for USA users to take note.

obinice, 1 month ago

Sounds like we’re up the river without a paddle my friend

obinice, 1 month ago

Ooh this is the painting my parents have but their print is super faded and blue, I’ve wanted to get them a new one for years but never knew what it was!

Does anyone know what this is called please? Thank you :-)

obinice, 1 month ago

Ahh, takes me back to the ol’ coverup cleanup campaign enacted for the 1936 Olympics… 😊

obinice, 1 month ago

Oof, they don’t have net neutrality over there eh?

Gonna be bollocks for them until they can get that brought in. There’s an election coming up there right? Maybe they can vote for the party that pledges to bring in net neutrality laws, it’s about time they had them considering it’s 2024.

I wish them the best of luck <3

obinice, 1 month ago

Jesus wept, if I earned HALF that I’d be very comfortable for the rest of my life. That’s an insane income.

Imagine earning almost two hundred grand a year as a family and then suggesting it’s a struggle. That’s wild.

I mean sure, if you live in a gated wealthy community and only buy the finest things, and have very high wealthy standards, then I imagine that would seem like pocket change.

But 14,500 dollaroos a MONTH? That’s enough to support multiple families. That’s equivalent to SIX adults working a full time minimum wage job. SIX!

Imagine being two people, bringing in the wage of six people, and suggesting it’s a tough life. I would kill to be in that highly privileged position haha.

obinice, 1 month ago

Wallet…app?

My wallet is in my pocket, it’s got some cash, my cards, a plaster in case someone gets a cut, a clothes pin in case a button fails, and a spare hayfever tablet.

How am I going to pay for things in person using my phone - which is mostly the point of a wallet - if my phone battery is dead, or I don’t have any data left for internet usage, or my phone crashes, or the app stops working, etc?

And why would I even have to pull my phone out at all, and risk it being snatched and stolen by a passing thief if I’ve got a perfectly functional debit card and cash in my actual wallet, which I don’t mind having stolen anywhere near as much…

obinice, 1 month ago

What the fuck is that, mince meat in tomato sauce? On a burner bun?

What abomination is this.

obinice, 1 month ago

Why 👏 is 👏 every 👏 word 👏 padded 👏 by 👏 emoticons 👏 ?

obinice, 1 month ago

60 more years? What are you, 10? :-P

obinice, 1 month ago

NIt’s election season on the internet

Is it? Or is it just election season in a couple of specific countries, and not elsewhere…

Just sayin :P

obinice, 2 months ago

Our western society thinks like a Capitalist in how all decisions are made.

Either directly, or indirectly (usually both), our governments are run by - and for the primary benefit of - Capitalists.

So, look again at this situation. Not from a moral standpoint, as Capitalism doesn’t concern itself with morality one way or another. Look at it from the position of “How can we make the most money and assert the most market dominance?”.

Sometimes our Capitalist government’s goals happen to align with our morals, such as supporting Ukraine against the Russian genociders. Russia are hurting Western economies, and threatening future financial prosperity, and thus must be opposed.

The fact that it’s the right thing to do never factors in - a happy coincidence that’ll help governments garner voter support.

But the genocide Israel is currently perpetrating? The one that we’re directly benefiting from via weapons sales, the placation and strengthening of an ally in that region’s Market?

What would our government take the path of less money? That goes against the very core of Capitalism, which says that all actions must be towards the goal of making more money.

Everything has to be weighed and balanced of course. Let’s say you have a great way of making money, say, prisoner organ harvesting, but you know that doing so would lose you the support of your voters, and possibly start mass protests and riots (aka lost/damaged revenue streams).

Well, you can’t make the maximum amount of money if you’re no longer in a high position of power, can you? So, it makes sense to not harvest prisoner organs. Sure, you lose out on that revenue stream, but you can find 10 others that wouldn’t otherwise be available, and milk those instead.

So yes, “the people” can sway government decisions by taking action that threaten their bottom line, their profits, and we could stop them from supporting Israel’s current genocide, but that would take a huge effort, and that doesn’t seem to have materialised.

The Capitalist government have taken the temperature of the market, seen that it will tolerate these business deals, and concluded that the best way to maximise profits is to continue.

Capitalism is a force of nature, it doesn’t follow morals, superstitions, beliefs, it doesn’t feel fear or anger. It simply follows the most profitable path to the maximum amount of money.

With that in mind, our government’s behaviour sadly becomes quite plain and predictable.

obinice, 2 months ago

Damn that track is fire, I’m saving it to my music library 😂

Wish it was the whole thing!

obinice, 2 months ago

I have slippers for when I want to cook in the kitchen or nip outside for a minute, etc. Other than that, I just wear my socks indoors.

Also of course, don’t wear dirty shoes past the entryway of the house. If they’re not dirty that’s another story, but if they are, off they come.

obinice, 2 months ago

Yeah, it does a fab job of giving me playlists in each of the moods/genres/decades I tend to listen to most, giving me a mix of tracks I know and stuff I can discover. I’ve found sooo much new music I love that way!

The AI voiced DJ is fun too, it’s surprising how psychologically satisfying it is to have a personal lil DJ, even when it’s basically just generating those same playlists under the hood, with a few tweaks.

I’m glad there are offline/open source solutions people are posting of course, I don’t want Spotify to ever be the only choice or some kinda monopoly. But yeah, if you’re happy using a service like that and spending a reasonable amount on a subscription, it’s fantastic :-)

obinice, 2 months ago

Fungus in general is incredibly alien. It’s not a plant, it’s not an animal, it’s… something outside of our traditional understanding.

Quite reasonable to be put off them, I love eating mushrooms but they’re… creepy…

obinice, 2 months ago

Hell yeah! My favourite space probes, those two.

I know Voy1 will lose power soon anyway, but until then keep fighting right to the end!

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

obinice, 2 months ago

The company will be hoping that by taking the Israeli business back “in house” it can restore its reputation in the Middle East and meet its key sales targets once more.

How is this clearly signalling the they’re against Israel in order to appease the boycotters?

Doesn’t seem to matter who owns them technically, if they’re still McDonalds and still there…

obinice, 2 months ago

Any qualms you might have about switching to firefox are either false (firefox is now faster than chrome in lighthouse tests) or Google brainwashing you into thinking your workflows are completely static when you could easily adapt to not having the exact extension you so desperately “need” to work

Honestly, why are people so uppity, angry even, about other people’s browser choices around here? Heaven forbid someone dare use something other than Firefox. We must be brainwashed!

The most important aspect of a browser for me currently, besides of course all the stuff both browsers do great already (I love Firefox and would love to swap back to it, I used it for years before Chrome came out), is integrating my Google account at the application level.

I want all my Google integrations to carry across, and all my search history, maps history, location history and so on to be seamless and detailed across all my devices, and there’s just no other browser that does that right now.

I wish I could do that in Firefox. Does it mean Google gets to look at what websites I go on? Sure. But their knowing that I browse amateur radio forums and GitHub doesn’t bother me - it probably helps refine my search results, even. Handy!

Google is evil and capitalist and they don’t have my best interests at heart, but I use android, I’m in their ecosystem and I mostly like it, I like all the Google apps, I like how they work and how much easier it makes my life vs not using them, or using lots of random disparate apps made by many different people that don’t have a shared design ethos, or the same level of quality across the board, and now my data is spread across many places instead of just one, etc.

Sure, I could get an off grid Tomtom GPS for example, but Google maps works so much better, is so much more accurate and less fiddly and time consuming, and does so much more.

I do love firefox though, it rocks. I just wish people would dial back the soapboxing about how everyone should be using it and if you’re not then you’re making some sort of grave awful stupid mistake because you’re a brainwashed idiot… it’s getting tiring :-(

obinice, 2 months ago

Phew. The population needs to be reduced significantly, this will help!

obinice, 2 months ago

That looks pretty useless unless you live in whatever country there based in though, which certainly isn’t the UK.