I still wouldn‘t willingly enter a Chinese car or a Tesla.

Isn‘t the Reddit front page full of reposted older threads by bots anyway? That repost bot would repost reposts of other bots then. I am not sure what this would accomplish other than turning Lemmy into yet another soulless content mill.

So much for „laws that apply in the real world apply in the digital world too.“ They‘re proposing a lawless playground for corporations that will definitely get abused to damage industries, people, and attack democracy as a whole.

Hackers not being able to do frontend isn‘t surprising if you ever talked about usability with an IT person. Their deeper knowledge of the matter prevents them from thinking like an average user. They legitimately can‘t do it properly to save their lives.

Problem is Youtube is known to censor these kind of campaigns. I think they literally got caught delisting Tiny11 tutorials recently. Imagine what they‘ll do if Linux Tutorials pick up steam. Big tech is one giant illegal syndicate and politicians have invested in all of them.

I mean what makes the AfD unique in German politics is how little regional power they have despite getting 15% and more of the votes. Usually a party of that size should‘ve secured a lot more towns and cities by now but their popularity is somewhere between 10% and 30% in rare extreme cases everywhere. They‘re simply not very popular anywhere.

I think it‘s generally believed that the AfD‘s way of success (spreading fear and hate with blatant lies in social media) is their biggest weakness in the end because it evenly distributes their BS across the country and they can‘t really make any use of their rising popularity in many cases.

I mean we had elections in Germany’s most populated state of North Rhine-Westphalia this year and they couldn‘t win a single district or get a single candidate elected. This is not normal for a party with that kind of popularity. It‘s a disaster for them.

So while media keeps spreading fear for clicks, the reality is that the far right appear to be larger than they actually are. There are far more people in Germany that hate the AfD than there are supporters.

Nevertheless, being a far right extremist organization, they should be banned. This is a no-brainer. The fact that it isn‘t happening yet shows how little the current right-conservative government cares about the people. They see opportunity in having a farther right party in the parliament so they themselves look more centric in comparison.

I don‘t believe in laziness. There is no scientific proof for laziness but plenty evidence that points in the opposite direction. It‘s as ridiculous of a concept as an almighty god. Possibly even more outlandish.

Boredom is torture. Nobody is acting lazy out of choice. We simply spend our energy at unproductive things sometimes. But honestly? Isn’t that what all this circus is about in the end? That we do what we love or that we do things for others because we love them?

Show me one „lazy“ person and I‘ll tell you why they‘re not actually lazy but occupy themselves with things you or I don‘t deem important. It‘s not laziness. It never is.

I‘m realizing one of the main problems with Lemmy is that this crap isn‘t deleted by mods and downvotes are the same as upvotes in terms of being pushed to the front page it seems. We can‘t do anything against this nonsense except ignoring it.

I mean you still have strict privacy rights on private communication channels. Channels that are generally not considered a public place. At least on paper.

Oh no! Genocidal maniacs have taken control over TikTok… again!

I‘m not sure how this is handled in other places but since the Fediverse is a public forum I think you wouldn‘t have any rights to privacy on your Fediverse account in Germany. Any instance hosted there would likely still need to access your DMs if authorities order them to.

Still neat, though!

I mean last year bankruptcies were very high too but the number of newly founded companies was also at a record high. A lot of things are changing right now. That‘s for sure.

I mean Apple and Microsoft essentially built their empires on the backs of Open Source developers who believed in a free internet. They took openly available code, altered it and put a price tag on it. Software development and by extend the internet was stolen from the public by the likes of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

Okay but Japan had a major breakthrough the other day that made this technique obsolete for the majority of components.

I mean if every headline about massive breakthroughs was the full truth all our appliances would be powered by tiny nuclear power plants and we would fly around with our jetpack. Cancer would be but a distant memory and world hunger a non issue because vertical farms would be literally in every home.

Initially I thought this was about the 30% but they mentioned a new two tier system so I looked it up. It seems Apple‘s App store fees are more complicated than that. For example they charge $99 annually for developer accounts which doesn‘t sound much but that‘s basically the entry subscription to even participate. I didn‘t dig very deep but it gets more complicated from then on.

Seizing the means of production means pretty much exactly this, yes.

„But that‘s as bad as it will ever be!“ I hear tech bros reciting their mantra but then it gets worse all the time somehow.

I’m sorry, what? China has a mountain of debt and the housing bubble is swallowing up any savings an average household could accumulate. Turns out pouring more concrete in a decade than the USA poured in a century comes at a cost after all. This might be news to some but it shouldn‘t come as a surprise.

What definitely shouldn‘t be news to anyone at this point is China‘s inevitable demographic time bomb that‘s about to go off. China‘s population is aging much more rapidly than any other demographic in the world and soon a huge chunk of their workforce will retire with way too few workers to replace them.

These things will put a strain on China’s economy that makes Japan‘s bubble burst look like a cakewalk.

I‘m sick and tired of rich schmucks selling their lack of empathy as being neurodivergent. Nah man, you don‘t struggle with social cues. You simply don‘t care about others. That‘s a huge difference.

Again, it‘s not about those. Even the title should make that clear.