[-] schwim@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

"Imagine browsing without trackers following you everywhere or your phone’s performance lagging because of ads. That's the kind of freedom GrapheneOS promises."

It's hard to take the sales pitch seriously after such disingenuous statements such as this. The OS itself doesn't serve ads, but rather the apps you install and the web pages you visit. As well, as soon as you browse the web or install one of your most loved popular apps, you're being tracked. For the average user, the one that wants to use the same apps on the gOS OS that they do on stock android, they will be faced with basically the same ads and the same tracking.

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submitted 1 week ago by schwim@lemm.ee to c/cat@lemmy.world

We had to put him to sleep today due to cancer. He had quit eating and drinking so we had a vet come to the house to provide the service. He's resting in the back by the woods now. I'm really going to miss him.

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This has always interested me, on an explorer's level, the ruins of the plants have always really stuck in my mind. Growing up, it was always spoken of in the context of "US automakers couldn't keep up with changing trends and they just lost it all" but that's not true at all. Almost all of the companies involved with these types of abandonments are doing great, in fact, better than ever. When things really did get dire for US automakers during the recession around 2009, the goverment simply bailed them out with tax dollars.

An excerpt from the video: "It's the excess of Capitalism. In some ways, people thought this was the failure of Capitalism but we could also see it as the success of Capitalism. The automobile industries got away like bandits. They got out of there, they took the money and left. They left the mess, they left a working class and a deteriorating environment for someone else to clean up."

As an older person now, I wonder how many more of these export moves can occur in industries before the people expected to buy the imported product can no longer afford to.

[-] schwim@lemm.ee 132 points 2 months ago

It was incredibly easy to get banned there as many with the ability to ban were as petty and spiteful as the average SA poster. I had seen accounts get banned for something as little as not using punctuation and paragraphs(I'm not exaggerating).

[-] schwim@lemm.ee 53 points 2 months ago

It's all theater anyways. He was never going to be truly punished for his actions.

[-] schwim@lemm.ee 53 points 2 months ago

It wouldn't surprise me if Twitter is pushing it due to it being proven that outrage boosts engagement. Facebook has been doing that for years.

[-] schwim@lemm.ee 84 points 2 months ago

The majority of men showed changes in behavior before the suicide, especially social withdrawal,

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10488060/

[-] schwim@lemm.ee 148 points 2 months ago

Or he's dead.

[-] schwim@lemm.ee 67 points 3 months ago

Schadenfreude intensifies.

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submitted 3 months ago by schwim@lemm.ee to c/communism@lemmygrad.ml

Hi there folks,

While trying to learn about communism, I'm having problems finding literature that provides and example life under Communism. What I do find is propaganda either against or for it, involving unrealistic and bombastic content that is clearly not rooted in reality.

I'm not looking for historical content because I'm just trying to figure out what a life that the group is striving for would be like.

Thanks for your time!

[-] schwim@lemm.ee 70 points 3 months ago

That's an incredibly accurate way of describing what looking at dating today feels like.

[-] schwim@lemm.ee 66 points 3 months ago

Neither. Only fortune cookies can steer you along the true path.

[-] schwim@lemm.ee 119 points 3 months ago
[-] schwim@lemm.ee 93 points 4 months ago

When people complain about new music not living up to old, it just means they've quit exploring and form their prejudices on the pop genre they hear, which has always been the lowest hanging song on the tree.

[-] schwim@lemm.ee 83 points 5 months ago

I don't think I could use the internet if I didn't have an adblocker. Ads genuinely anger me. I think it's just from the early days with pop-overs and unders, blinking, non-collapsible and the like holding content hostage. Intrusive or not, I'll do everything I can to not see an ad.

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