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  • I require the ability to move those groceries from the shop to my car to my house, but if no one produces an environmentally friendly way to do so then I'm at the mercy of the plastic bags, bottles, containers, and wrapping I've been provided.

    Bruh have you never heard of reusable bags? Made of cloth? Or even just bringing your plastic bags back to the store?

    You're right about most of these things, but those aren't the types of things I'm referring to.

  • People doing the 'well actually' thing for individual climate impacts are inadvertently being patsies for corporations to continue to deflect scrutiny

    No one is doing that. I could very easily just say that you're just doing the opposite. That is, deflecting personal responsibility from individuals and just blaming corporations. It's very easy to just lean back and blame corporations for your choices but the reality is that they simply couldn't sell this bullshit if individuals weren't buying them.

  • So encryption is dead in the UK?

    Do they not realize there are messaging services that don't even have a central server or even an entity responsible?

    Or companies that don't even have a presence in the UK, and thus no responsibility to comply with their laws?

    Pedos will just download and install something like Keet or Signal or Session while the privacy and security of law-abiding citizens are irrevocably compromised...

  • The beauty of the Fediverse is that many tasks like this can be done by the client, as opposed to the actual base software.

    For instance, Lemmy can't actually block instances or "subs" (or whatever the equivalent is) on an individual level, but Voyager can.

    On another point, as much as I hate hearing about Musk and Twitter, they are both very powerful, and both have an impact on the world. Especially if Twitter were to become an "everything app" (AKA Superapp)(which it hopefully won't).

  • Not a single actual quote from Elon in this article. Does anyone know what he actually said? Because the title states it as a definitive while the excerpts sound more like he was just floating the idea out loud.

  • Well it's really not that simple. I assume you're referring to things like climate change and privacy concerns and general de-evolution of government.

    Just to boil down a very complex subject into a lazy comment:

    Let's take climate change for instance. Do corporations and government do almost nothing to curb climate change? Yes. Do they actively lie to people about climate change? Yes.

    Does the public still know that climate change is a real thing? At least some of them.

    Do a ridiculous proportion of people still buy gas-guzzling SUVs and plastic water bottles and use plastic bags at the grocery store unnecessarily? Yes.

    Do some people have full access to the information to educate themselves very quickly on the science, and yet choose to ignore that and instead actually actively promote what they want to believe instead? Absolutely

    The reality is that "blame" is seldom simple and we all carry some amount of responsibility.

    Personally I view this as a sliding scale. And while I do take personal responsibility in driving an efficient vehicle and refusing plastic bags and bottles (even though people look at me like some kind of crazy hippie and mock me accordingly), I also refuse to live in a yurt in the forest. When more people move down the scale toward me, it will make it easier for me to move even further down the scale.

  • “I’m allowed to have these documents. I’m allowed to take these documents…When I have them, they become unclassified. People think you have to go through a ritual. You don’t, at least in my opinion.”

    This guy thinks when someone hands him documents that they become "unclassified".

    I don't even know what to say to that. How was this man ever President of the fucking country... He's a fucking moron.

  • I probably would have never started.

    Everyone insisted that it was "easy". I've come to realize this community is heavily developer-based and completely unaware of what they average person would consider easy.

    My system breaks all the time and I have to spend hours trying to just get it back up and running again.

    I was never able to get the app to work.

    If I could have all my money and time back I would have just stuck with "dumb" electronics.

  • That's as non-political as you can get.

    Well you simply couldn't be more wrong about that. The NFL was a charity not too long ago. I'm sure there are Christian conversion therapy "charities", too. "Charity" is nothing more than a tax status. You can make a charity for anything, so long as you keep your finances appropriately.

  • The list of games I can't buy is too damn long. Like anything else in the modern age you're forced to support unethical business practices or withdraw from the industry altogether (if you even can).

    Can buy games from EA or Activision/Blizzard/Microsoft/Xbox or Ubisoft, or anything made with Unity, or anything with Denuvo, or anything with anti-cheat, or anything that's online-only. Did I leave anything out?

    Steam Deck + boring indie games is what we're left with until gamers get together and collectively stop supporting the atrocity that is modern gaming.

  • Planned Parenthood is a US institution, and a registered 501c3 non-profit charity, as defined by the IRS.

    Though I can't blame anyone for not wanting to dip their toes into the absolute shitstorm that is modern partisan politics in the US.