spookedbyroaches @ spookedbyroaches @lemm.ee

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It's like every 2 days there is a catastrophic law for privacy introduced in the EU. Last time with E2EE now with HTTPS. It seems that the EU would agree to stop bit tech from spying but they don't want anyone to hide from them.

Fine just know that this is entitled behavior and you're just perpetuating the ad-block ad-block-redtector rat race.

Manipulation is when the game gives you the illusion that you can get something if you work hard enough on it without paying. Similar to how battlefront did with their characters when you pretty much can't unlock the characters without paying unless you grind like a million hours. It's similar in games where you use real money for stuff that give you an advantage and you can pretty much guarantee a loss if you don't buy their shit.

There is no illusion here. You just play the game and get everything the others are getting without paying. You only pay for the cosmetic skin. How is that manipulation?

Psychological manipulation because my guy can only be bright green not dark green.

These are just different ways the company would profit from their game. You play the game for the gameplay and that's all that matters.

Besides, what if you really like the game and just literally want to donate to the company? I know I did for rocket league, and bought a skin for like $20 when I got the game itself for like $15 or some shit. I thought the game was worth way more with how much fun I had with it. Same for games that let you "buy" the OST. Everyone knows this is bullshit just ignore it.

Bro it's cosmetic who gives a fuck. Just play the game and buy the reasonably priced skins. Better yet, just don't buy the skins at all. People are so fucking entitled holy shit.

Kinda stretching the meaning of pollution here aren't we?

That's cool but I like to have a central client for all my email providers. I've decided to go to fastmail which is good enough for my threat model. The thing that really convinced me is their blog post.

The main thing I care about is the security of the text in transit, and the philosophy of the service I'm using. All respectable mail providers use TLS (even gmail and outlook) but I don't like their advertiser dependent business model. Proton, tutanota, and I think startmail do respect privacy, but I believe it's dumb to depend on an external server if you're that paranoid about your communications that you need to have your email using PGP. Just encrypt your own stuff and tell the other party to do the same. Or self host everything.

Do you have to put in your password on every session in protonmail? If not, then that means that either the key is unencrypted and is stored somewhere else as plaintext or the password is stored somewhere also as plaintext, which would defeat the purpose.

You can't search encrypted emails, period. The way I see the benefit of encrypting emails is to not have them compromised in the cloud servers. But on my own machine, if someone gains access to the files, then it's all ogre. Maybe that's just me IDK.

A lot of channels exist as a natural extension of an already existing business

I don't know what that means

I'm not going to support Google and the mass dregs that create clickbait garbage and predatory content that takes advantage of the algorithm in order to make as much money from ads as possible.

Then pay and show Google that their business model needs to change. If you pay, then their incentive is not to maximize watch time, which is probably why you have a lot of clickbait trash. Or don't watch YouTube.

Google isn't entitled to make money by simply hosting reaction videos and hyperbolic political commentary.

And you aren't entitled to watch videos without ads and without paying. Choose one.

It's crazy how people advocate for a free (as in freedom) internet with as much privacy as you want, then in the same breath tell you how they're entitled to content without paying.

Oh yeah that makes sense. Because a revolution automatically means that your life expectancy increases. At this point, let's just have continuous revoltuions back to back. We'll live forever.

Fuck the owners.

Fine

Prove it (terrible outcomes for socialism)

The USSR, Cuba, PRC is better but for some reason they are very authoritarian.

What competition?

Granted there are many industries that don't have good competition, but the vast majority do. Look at clothes makers, construction, pharma.

What value does Donald Trump bring to society?

He bought real estate where there was more demand than people expected, and took advantage of that. There was no apartments in the empty plot before Trump Tower, now there is and people want them.

Prove it. (innovation)

The USSR did have great amounts of innovation in the beginning, but once you get to a certain point, it just gets pretty much impossible. Look at the second person's answer.

Prove it (reconcile)

While it is dumb to say that there are no texts to reconcile these issues. It is crazy how the USSR didn't implement any solution except rewarding innovation to drive innovation. I'd say that is enough evidence to say with confidence that there are no existing solutions to the mentioned issues.

You mean completely unlike people brainwashed into believiing “capitalism gud?”

Sure there is some brainwashing in the right where they think capitalism is great in and of itself. I think that people also recognize that capitalism needs some good amount of regulation that would curb the failures there. It's not perfect as it exists now, but it sure as shit better than any socialist or communist nation.

Socialism seems perfectly alive and kicking to me - despite the uncountable amounts of treasure spent violently crushing it.

If you're gonna make enemies with the most powerful nation in the world, that usually happens. The USA saw a threat to their influence and took action.

What does bank reform mean? Banks already give loans to small bussinesses.

You can start a company that does what you want them to do. You can create all the innovative processes you want and open source them in the existing system.

The Soviet Union, Cuba, Vietnam. Are these countries you want us to model ourselves after?

So you think when the state owns the means of production things are gonna be better?

That's really awesome, glad ypu're here with us. I hope this shows people that even when you're at your lowest point (or perceived lowest point), it's not hopeless.

What kind of gun were you gonna get though?

You want to put pressure on these things to make them more cost effecient. You're in a capitalist system which does that job very well. But since this is not really a replaceable company, the government has to own these companies until they go public.

I'm pretty abrasive but nothing happened to me IDK what you're talking about

Yeah in terms of how it affects history and anthropology it does make sense to teach. I guess I'm biased when I saw that because the religious teaching in my country is synonymous with preaching.

But the most important part of this discussion that we need to address is why do you have your main in a porn instance lmfaaaaaao