Bazzatron

And boy - what a great way to ensure that nothing is learned!

Here's a post from someone trying to learn, and get a bit of context from more learned people, and you just shit all over them?

Shameful.

Thanks at least for showing me that actually - the feddeverse isn't for me. Ta ta!

I love that there's casually an Abrams in the middle there.

Ha - I lashed a strimmer to my folding e-bike a couple years back.

Honestly, very little I couldn't do with that thing. If they'd pull their finger out on upping the allowed power output on transport bikes I'd probably switch to using that for my lumber trips too.

Not a fan of any of the BBC tbh.

Fun fact - those are not entirely unrelated entities.

Basically the same here. WhatsApp is basically "dial-a-boomer" on my phone.

Little sad that Signal dropped SMS support, but I get it.

Capitalism rewards exploitation.

You've probably heard "There is no ethical consumption under capitalism" - and historically speaking, and in my experience, this holds to be true. I couldn't be typing this on my glass god rectangle if there weren't some children in a cobalt mine somewhere - at some rung on the ladder, people are dying, because where's the incentive to lift others out of poverty? Why would any capitalist elevate their source of cheap labour and materials out of the blood and sand?

There's also the interaction we have between the capitalist and socialist aspects of our society - for instance nationalised healthcare cannot be administered by capitalists because there is no incentive for the system to function for the good of the patients, but eventually the system will be optimised out of existence (by which I mean, broken into smaller units for budgetary reasons, small units degraded continually until they are canned, and the whole system is sunset because of "sound economic decisions").

Capitalism is the antithesis of what I think any reasonable person wants in society save for those with an amount of blood on their hands. Capitalism is a Mad Max dystopia where a handful of people live as deities whilst the rest of us kill each other in the streets for scraps.

Capitalism might have seemed viable when everyone was suffering from lead poisoning, but it's killing us today, and I support any means to remove this cancer and push for a more equitable life for everyone.

I've never had a car with a touch screen or whatever fancy centre panel - but I have scrapped old cars because the ECU decided that there was an airbag fault which was not resolved with a new airbag. I'm a full time sysadmin/developer - my car does not need a computer to go, and if it must have one, it shouldn't be a brick covered in epoxy.

I somewhat long to return to dumb electromechanical components like distributors, rather than unimaginably expensive, irreparable, interdependent systems.

#RightToRepair

😑🖐️ "increase productivity"

😎👉 "Protect workers from harm associated with repetitive physica labour"

I don't feel like this is a technology post, purely another anti-consumer business decision being levied against us.

As for the whole "piracy has rejoined the chat" "hello old friend" discourse - pirate what? The One Piece live action? Post-Cavil Witcher? TV hasn't been worth watching in a good while, netflix even longer. I barely turn mine on anymore.

Okay, noted, buy all my Ubisoft and EA games through G2A etc 😂

I hit a lot of American sites that want to process my data in a malicious way that would be illegal.

Rather than fix the issue, the side just redicts to a "we're sorry to our European friends" - like fuck off, it's been years you cunts.

Anyway, to answer your question - it protects them from legal liability.