Babalugats
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- Comment on 1 week ago:
Christ, Badenoch doesn’t do too badly on that. It must pay to be stupid.
- Comment on Say no to Palantir in the NHS 1 week ago:
I find it incredible how it seems that Keir Starmer’s government seem to have the same collusion’s and ideas as Trumps government, just having a more low-key way of going about it. Starmers slow(er) graduation into a form of authoritarianism and backing of Israeli companies or Israeli backed companies is all too much to be a coincidence.
BTW and FWIW - This is probably a good time to mention that Peter Thiel is a massive investor in Brave browser. If you have it, lose it.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t find anything in the UK, but I found in Ireland cardnado.ie I don’t know if UK cards work in Ireland or vice versa.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 weeks ago:
And the shockingly detailed data is in no way shockingly detailed. It’s my name, email, and some food I buy.
It is very much so. This article only barely scratches the surface and with AI it is going to get a lot worse
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 weeks ago:
Not available here unfortunately.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 weeks ago:
Ireland. Shitty Government lets everything slide. They are about to take over the EU presidency, they are heavily lobbied by the US Big-Techs - Watch what they try to pass in regards to privacy (removing it) over the next 6 months.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 weeks ago:
I will try to see if something like that is available.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 weeks ago:
That you couldn’t give a hoot etc. shows that you don’t really understand what is happening or are very naive. Nothing wrong with that, it’s normal, but it is worth looking into a little deeper, especially stores like Tesco. When prices are already artificially higher than they should be, and they are trebling the price of some items to get people to get their cards, you should be wondering why. They are not only making money from selling the items, but from selling your data. They also use the data in many ways, probably many unethical. With that much power and money and what is going on around the world currently with lobbying etc. it is definitely something that should be looked at. You should look up personalised pricing as well as here and you might start to notice that you have paid for those trips to Alton Towers and Blackpool (probably twice over). With a few companies trialing software as we speak. New York introduced a law too.
As for the imaginary markup
ALDI (No discount card)
SuperValu ‘sale’ price but applicable to everyone not cardholders.
Dunnes Stores Same as above
Centra €0.59 same as above and Centra are known for being more expensive
They are also €0.49 in Londis, Gala, Daybreak and Costcutter (no online listings) and €0.59 in Mace and EuroSpar (also known for being expensive)
The list of products that it happens with is huge, you could check the same wherever you are.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 weeks ago:
Apparently it’s not done everywhere. It’s called “Lidl Plus”.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 weeks ago:
I guess it boils down to marketing etc. So. Maybe the government shouldn’t outright ban it, but it should definitely have stricter rules. The ‘discount’ price shouldn’t be allowed to be advertised as though it is the main price - with the original price being smaller and easier to go unnoticed. But also the reason why the cards exist should be more transparent. Data collecting. The people that do not have the cards are being charged more. But the people that do have them are being monitored more easily.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 52 comments
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 5 weeks ago:
Again. For the final time. You. Don’t. Understand. What. You. Are. Talking. About.
That’s a good thing. You can learn later on.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 5 weeks ago:
What or why would I refute anything you say? It’s obvious that you don’t really understand boxing, it’s level of corruption and how that exhibition was played out. You have already staggered with attempts to put words in my mouth/text twice that I didn’t mention anything even close to. I have no interest in going any further with somebody showing those traits.
As I said, you continue thinking what you like, but don’t contaminate other people’s thoughts with your nonsense.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 5 weeks ago:
😅😅🤡
You’re only saving grace is that you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 5 weeks ago:
You keep telling yourself that. Tyson barely threw a punch.
Kid yourself all you want, but don’t try and contaminate the rest of the world with your nonsense.
Tyson reportedly interested in Turki Alalshikh’s offer, never got a reply from Jake Paul.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 5 weeks ago:
Never knew that, but I’m guessing he profits from his unlikeable traits, just from what I’ve seen online about him and how he markets himself.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 5 weeks ago:
😅
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 5 weeks ago:
As the sub states - It is just mildly infuriating. But to reply to that - I don’t want to get into a discussion about this, so I probably will just leave it here.
The States that governing bodies oversaw his fights are far more lenient than other places, CSAC, TDLR (Tyson fight his licence was expired and renewed in record time), OSAC and FSBC. Had he not the money and followers, most, or not one of his ‘fights’ would ever have gone ahead.
Other than the people whose jobs require it, I have never spoken to or heard a person that was involved in or heavily fanatical about boxing dare refer to him as a boxer. It is only the clueless ‘casual’ fans, his youtube followers, the marketers and the people that work for them. JFH exhibition bouts were called exactly that, and are not to be confused with his professional career. Jake Paul has only ever had exhibition fights afaik. There is so much more to look at and talk about, but money talks. I just feel extremely sorry for all of the pro boxers that will never get a fair ranking despite being able to (without question) run rings around him without having to train too hard for the fight.
He is a professional exhibitionist or a professional exhibition fighter at best.
I couldn’t name one other single person who has fought most of their professional career against basketballers, UFC, retirees and other non professional boxers that are allowed to call themselves ‘professional boxers’. It brings the already struggling sport into further disrepute. The fixing has now gone mainstream. The Netflix goons talking about the good it’s doing for boxing when it is doing the opposite…
Okay, okay… I am starting to get a little more into this ‘mildly infuriating’ topic than planned. I will leave it there, with plenty more that could be said.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 5 weeks ago:
Tyson was definitely fixed.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 5 weeks ago:
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I guess a wikipedia volunteer decided to classify him as that, and maybe another agreed.
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No idea. I guess it would entail trying to prove that he setup, paid and that the fights were mostly scripted.
He has only has 13 fights, hopefully the Joshua fight will finally show him up. ‘win’ or lose.
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- Submitted 5 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 30 comments
- Comment on happy buy nothing day to those who celebrate 1 month ago:
Black Friday isn’t even a thing in Europe, yet I’ve been seeing adverts for for almost a month now, with two week long “sales” to generously allow us not to miss out.
- Comment on Your job is going to fire you for an unexcused absence. So you send them a pic to prove that you are in the hospital 1 month ago:
- Comment on Christiano Ronaldo plays dirty, so FIFA play dirtier. 1 month ago:
They play better without him
- Submitted 1 month ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Salmon farmer accused of blocking UK investigations into alleged animal rights breaches 3 months ago:
That just means whatever he is doing, it’s working. They’ll have to start banning copycats. Probably would have been better for them if they 🤐
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 3 months ago:
One of the main points about chat control is that it forces software developers to break their own encryption or face whatever the penalties will be. It is ridiculous and will hopefully be stopped in it’s tracks, unfortunately not enough people know about it, and even of the ones that do, not enough of them understand what it is and how dangerous it is. Basically, the governments have seen how lucrative it has been for the big techs, and how advantageous it can be to control our data. They have seen what the Israeli’s have been able to do with that information and tech. They want in. It has nothing to do with child protection. If it passes, all politicians better be squeakier and cleaner than squeaky clean. With their data not being scanned, we will likely have to watch them ourselves.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 3 months ago:
Watch the insurance payouts drop dramatically if these go through. Access to all of your medical history… Insane. Still nothing compared to the proposed EU Chat Control.
- Comment on Graphite, the Israeli spyware acquired by ICE 3 months ago:
How long before somebody could write other software that would confuse this/make it less accurate etc.
Probably have to buy it first for millions
- Comment on Polanski apologises over claim he can increase women’s breast sizes with his mind 4 months ago:
He still can’t do it with his mind
