birdwing
@birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Part of internet most harmful to teens? 6 days ago:
Would also add the far-right heavy social media.
- Comment on Banning from social media 2 weeks ago:
Banning billionnaires from participating in economics altogether until they hand it all back to society, increasing equity for all.
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 weeks ago:
I still don’t really trust China, it’s more reliable than the US regime (minus Democratic areas) rn, but still, that’s a low bar.
- Comment on Aaaaaaaaaa 2 weeks ago:
Northwestern Europe, to be precise.
- Comment on Rip lol 2 weeks ago:
i remember a greentext about this, and a wiki article, but where is it again? I thought it was the Norwegian oil platform disaster but no
- Comment on If you (a regular American citizen) had actionable, insider knowledge about the US Federal Government/Military and felt the public should know, how would you tell everyone? 2 weeks ago:
Also ensure that it can’t be tracked down to you, or have multiple escape routes planned out.
- Comment on Germany already told its workers to ditch four-day weeks and work-life balance—now the government wants to cut their pay for calling in sick too 3 weeks ago:
CDU/CSU moment, they’re hired by CEOs
- Comment on How come some Corporation or some Business don't sponsor a protest? Like McDonald's sponsoring that No Kings protest. Or a hotel giving free room and board to protestors and so on? 3 weeks ago:
See also: the owner of Chipshol (related to Schiphol, the airport(, who donated millions to the fascist party, despite donation restrictions being active.
- Comment on Amazon laid off 30,000 workers while CEO Andy Jassy got a 30% pay bump 3 weeks ago:
The more I hear about billionnaires the more I think the anarchist communists were right.
- Comment on How would society look like with no companies at all and every single thing is free? 4 weeks ago:
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though, a requirement for this would be post-scarcity, for which it’s necessary that most daily and small luxury goods are available at little to no cost.
there are many pathways to this, but they require the economics and politics to be reoriented to focus on society’s needs, rather than those of a few; and that the incentive to act on society’s behalf is always more than to act against it.
- Comment on The Joys of Motherhood 4 weeks ago:
Depending on whether there’s egg binding or not…
- Comment on i know it's just a cartoon, but me and my therapist were thinking about this. what disorders would the spongebob characters have? 4 weeks ago:
Mr Krabs: hoarding disorder (capitalism)
- Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t there also Jolla? Iirc they run on Linux.
- Comment on Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders. 5 weeks ago:
I mean, that is their goal.
If anything, I think this will motivate the government to build even more.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 5 weeks ago:
That’s just progressive tax brackets with extra steps.
- Comment on How would you rate your country's constitution? 5 weeks ago:
On the other hand, Trump’s been busy trying to rule by decree. Being able to do that at all is an issue.
- Comment on How would you rate your country's constitution? 5 weeks ago:
As I understand it from there, it’s the government that works, but the PMs that can get dismissed often. Unfortunately, the right-wing populists like to stay over time.
- Comment on My friend is 31 and is constantly breaking out in acne. She also gets very irritated/argumentative before her period. Is this normal for her age? 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Chuck Norris haven't go gently to the dark 1 month ago:
To be fair, I liked the jokes too. I found it rather sad that he decided to spend his life backing heinous movements instead.
- Comment on Dumb bitch 1 month ago:
Or is it the large companies’ and the capitalist system’s fault for not focusing on general wellbeing, instead looking at profit for everything, even if that means pollution?
- Comment on Chuck Norris haven't go gently to the dark 1 month ago:
He wrote columns for a far-right website, was a Reagan “fan”, wanted to ban same-sex marriage, disliked criticism of Jehovah’s Witnesses’ practices and shaved it off as “but but look at black people!”, was a conspiracy nut on Obama’s citizenship, supported Israel and Netanyahu the Genocider, and signed a weapon deal with Glock when school shootings happened recently.
- Comment on Do people actually need a place to confess things anonymously? 1 month ago:
Given the fascist regime, privacy is an absolute right.
- Comment on Anon is a scientist 1 month ago:
Cyanide as well, rather dangerous for dogs.
- Comment on Anon didn't like the loot 1 month ago:
Bro I have to thank you for making me laugh irl, a brain urinating on itself. I nearly spat out my drink
- Comment on Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language? 1 month ago:
More accurate version:
- Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed? 1 month ago:
Communities are largely similar, but the underlying hardware and tweaks are slightly different.
- Comment on My mom really love NBC Good News tonight. How come there isn't a show where they report on the good news of the day instead of all the bad crap all the time? 2 months ago:
If you only ever hear bad news, this can also demoralise and disincentivise people from taking action. That’s why I usually balance them a bit, to avoid doomscrolling.
- Comment on I suck at reading comprehension... what the heck does this law even mean? [8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization] 2 months ago:
Isn’t Signal readable through Israeli spyware the US bought?
Threema then, I’d say.
- Comment on Is there a place online to ask for Non Money donations? like books, jerseys, or whatever? kind of like go fund me or kickstarter without giving someone money kind of like a gofundme donations thing? 2 months ago:
Like a gift economy thing?
- Comment on Which Linux Distribution has the best Community Support? 2 months ago:
Live image and test?
do you mean I’d download a distro, put it on a USB, and then extract/open it in there, and test it out?
(and ofc, saving my data on my own desktop on an external hard disk, before committing to switch)?
