vzq @ vzq @lemmy.blahaj.zone

Posts

1

Comments

1,500

Joined

2 yr. ago

China has no incentive to invade Taiwan.

I hope you are right, but your post is giving me big “herr Hitler is not going to invade Poland” vibes.

do you have supermarket monopolies in the US though?

I’m not in the US. And the post is about Canada. But the problems are global.

You are right, it’s not a monopoly in the strict sense. In most countries, including mine, there are a few serious choke points in the supply chain. Basically, there’s two or three supermarket chains, a handful of specialized logistics companies (turns out here they’re one that handles all packaged cheese distribution for all supermarkets) and then a very small number of producers per item (most detergents and soaps you’ve ever heard of are from one of two companies world wide).

If you dig deeper, it doesn’t really get any better. Yes, there are a lot of farmers, but consolidation is happening as we speak. Also, all fertilizer, herbicide and most of the seeds come from the usual suspects. So, yes, there are many companies involved, but there isn’t a whole lot of actual competition.

Oh yes, this is generally classified as coordinated inauthentic traffic and moderated away regardless of content.

That is, that was the norm before platforms decided they kind of like fascism if it gets them less regulations and more tax cuts.

Dude. It’s the Guardian too. No where is safe from the TERF brigade.

That’s the shocking thing about being trans in Britain. There are no allies in print or politics anywhere In the main stream. Just fascists and terfs.

Since you’ve basically retracted your entire post piece by piece now, I’m just going to go away.

What you have to me is literally the trans ally-ship equivalent of “there is no race problem, black comedians are so popular”.

It’s not worth engaging with other than with empathy and pity.

Hence “oh honey”.

Oh honey.

Are you an island?

If no, then I’m not talking to you, personally. You can crawl back into your hole.

I’m all about taking pot shots at the US, but “better at trans rights than Texas or Florida” isn’t what you are looking for.

Also, if the best you can do for “we’re not transphobic honest” is cross dressing entertainment, well, yikes.

I know, but they are the right 5%.

You have the Guardian publishing their tripe, you have labor MPs all anxious about self-ID laws etc.

Unless the other 95% start making up for some serious lost time, it’s going to remain TERF island.

No one:

You: I LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE DUE TO DISABILITY SO I FONT MAKE MUCH AND YET I AM PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF SAVING MONEY EVERY SINGLE MONTH. I PROMISE IT IS DOABLE.

Now do transphobia, you shitty little TERF island.

No one:

You: SCREW THE POORS AND THEIR SMARTPHONES

“Hold your wealth”?

Have you met any actual people? A lot of people have one month’s worth of “wealth” at the start of the month. If they are lucky.

This is not the topic for your 1970s goldbug pontifications. It’s about people stealing food.

The supermarkets are just catering to their actual customers: the stock market.

Price controls don’t address the root cause either. We need massive anti trust action to break up the agrifood and food distribution monopolies.

I mean, sure, but when a considerable number of the low information voters are uncritically spreading memes produced by domestic extremists inspired by narratives devised by state actors and pushed through state media, is it domestic or foreign? Does it even matter?

This is not a hypothetical. This is literally how major disinformation has spread since MH17, through Brexit, the 2016 election, Covid and beyond.

The Russians, the Iranians, the proud boys and uncle Jack in the family WhatsApp are all part of the same hydra of crap.

I also keep hearing "foreign disinfo" but that makes me chuckle. Of course it exists but it's not more potent than the domestic disinfo which is even more plentiful.

I’m not sure the distinction is easy to make, or all that meaningful.

The most powerful country in the world is a large disinformation piñata. You whack it with a few memes and poor decisions come out.

You can’t fault hostile intelligence for giving it a go, and there are a lot of hostile intelligence services.

It’s really well documented and easy to config. You just open the page for your IDP, follow the instructions, set a few config setting and you’re off.

The user interface is also really good at this. Often custom identity providers feel hacked on, here it’s integrated really well.

I believe the implementation is based on nextauth.js

It depends on what you mean by seamlessly. I have the Safari bookmarklet menu thingy on iOS and it works great.