[-] bobthened@feddit.uk 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because the measures that economists use to measure the economy are not relevant to regular people. GDP tells you nothing about living standards.

[-] bobthened@feddit.uk 24 points 9 months ago

At the same time Israel was releasing Palestinian "prisoners" (largely children and largely imprisoned for petty crimes like throwing stones) they were capturing and imprisoning from the West Bank (where there is no Hamas) roughly the same number of people as they were releasing in Gaza.

[-] bobthened@feddit.uk 8 points 9 months ago

That doesn't really matter though. The point still stands regardless of if it's explained by money literally disappearing into a hole or huge rounding errors and inefficiencies in their accounting systems.

They are still allowed much much more leniency with much larger amounts of money (aren't they aren't ever properly held to account for it) than regular people are allowed with comparatively tiny amounts of money.

[-] bobthened@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

Name an alternative browser that has the same level of ability to block trackers built in.

[-] bobthened@feddit.uk 43 points 1 year ago

I'm using it right now. Working just fine so far, exactly the same as the reddit version, and I haven't been asked to pay $20 for it.

[-] bobthened@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

Literally nothing lol. It’s just a right wing conspiracy theory based on fear of change.

[-] bobthened@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My interest are gaming, standup comedy, memes, react videos, metalurgy, machining, blacksmithing,

Because a lot of the type of guys who like seeing those stupid conservative videos also like many of the same things as you. Gaming^(TM) is well known to have a problem with the alt-right, react videos have a very similar structure to conservative “libs destroyed with fact and logic” types of videos, and finally a lot of conservatives like to think of themselves as an old fashioned man’s-man so they enjoy things like metalwork and other typical “manly” careers.

[-] bobthened@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bud light saw a temporary drop in revenue because a big part of their market is right wing reactionary morons. Ben and Jerries doesn’t market towards those types, they’ve always been a relatively ethical and left(ish) leaning company. Saying something like ”the United States is on stolen indigenous land” will only make B&J’s more popular.

Also let’s not forget that Bud Light is just one of the several hundred brands that are owned by Anheuser Busch, the actual drop in revenue is basically nothing to them.

[-] bobthened@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

It does, it’s just called a different thing. Centripetal force is exactly the same thing as what most people assume centrifugal force means.

[-] bobthened@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ll stop using ad block when YouTube stops making me watch an advert at the beginning of the video and then two unskippable ads one minute into the video.

[-] bobthened@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

No way he bought that himself. He definitely made some underpaid assistant buy it about 10 minutes before he needed to walk in with it.

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[-] bobthened@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago

Because they want to mine their platforms for more profit at the expense of their users/customers. It's just how capitalism works.

If you look back over history corporate changes like this tend to happen in waves. like for example a few years ago Disney and Warner Brothers and HBO etc. all took their programmes off Netflix and created their own platforms at around the same time. This is because they are all copying each other. One corporation thinks up a new way to harvest money from their consumers and all of that corporation's competitors do the same because they don't want to miss out on all that cash.

Reddit is pushing their third party apps out of business because they want to force their users onto only the official reddit app. Probably they also have a plan to further monetise their app in the near future as well (e.g. way more ads or paid subscriptions tiers that unlock more features). Youtube closed down all the third-party apps because people were using them to get around the ads, and YouTube wanted to force more and more ads and also the subscription service because that's where they get their money from.

Literally the only reason they do it is to increase profits.

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Was watching JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures and I thought this line was hilariously accurate.

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