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godsammitdam

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  • NoPeek - free open source Android app that detects nearby Meta Ray-Ban glasses and VR headsets via Bluetooth

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  • Linux and open source getting age checking exemptions could be problematic

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  • Sounds like a great reason to use cash again and support local businesses.

    Need steam games? Buy steam cards in store.

    Bonus: payment processors get less money. Since, ya know, they want to censor our game purchases too.

  • It's swimming, I would've thought the drugs would help

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  • Sounds like the Arcadion raid series in FFXIV. Just with significantly less corporate espionage and regenerating ancient lizard.

  • Actually Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    YouTuber tries to get world's largest star wars lego collection returned - American justice shows its corruption

  • Why are we OK with doctors and nurses working double or triple shifts?

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  • We're not. But, just like AI, executives with the ideology of rapists don't care about our consent.

    Who would've thought that running every industry and business like mini dictatorships would backfire? Thanks capitalism!

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    godsammitdam @lemmy.zip

    "Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government."

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    godsammitdam @lemmy.zip

    Ideology of Rapists. We never consented to AI in everything.

  • Meme Checkpoint

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  • Has there ever been an industry that's been "enshittified" and then un-"enshittified"?

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  • Not exactly, but Runescape3 went hard into microtransactions (which arguably generated the revenue needed so they didn't need to be implemented in OSRS) but they did a pivot abd are rolling back microtransactions, removing gambling loot boxes in some cases and leaving things as direct purchase, etc

    https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/the-future-of-mtx-our-approach--your-involvement

    They've even gone as far as to launch cosmetic free worlds so mtx cosmetics are disabled. Which I, for one, have always enjoyed the visual progression of gear in games, getting cooler gear as you get more powerful and knowing of the really cool items which are hard to get.

    https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/mtx-experiment-cosmetic-free-worlds-live-now

  • Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe"

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  • I would still say no.

    You should have a right to privacy. And there are still ways in which law enforcement could investigate and track perpetrators of crimes and implement "justice," though as is obvious in America now, justice isn't ethical either, and what can be labelled as crime, or even terrorism (take a look at NSPM-7.

    Even if 100% ethical, I still have my right to privacy. Should I commit a crime, then I would forfeit that right. It would be up to law enforcement to enforce that law. By penalizing a VPN service, which is a leg service, it removes the right of privacy from everyone, not just myself whom they supposedly had evidence of a crime in this hypothetical. Otherwise, they targeted a VPN for their claims alone.

    Regardless of that, taking down said VPN will not stop crimes from occurring. Users will simply use other VPN services as more exist.

    Given the recent legislation to try an ban VPNs, this could mean that VPNs could be forced to track the traffic of users, which kind of defeats the point of them. Even in this 100% ethical government scenario.

    Basically, law enforcement has the tools to individually track perpetrators already, if they were interested. In real life, they're interested in protecting capital. Individual investigations are expensive. But working with corporations and governments to collect data and track all users? Well then it becomes much cheaper to press a button and arrest someone for whatever "crime" you define.

    I think the real questions at hand are:

    Is it ethical to remove the right of privacy of everyone in the name of "justice?" (No)

    Are the laws by which certain actions are labelled as crime ethical? (Also, no.)

    We believe that justice should be ethical. When capital and authiritarians rule, justice has no ethics.

  • Why are some people defending billionaires and corporations?

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  • Then why build bunkers?

  • Why are some people defending billionaires and corporations?

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  • If you're not willing to read and understand then your opinion is worthless, we have no reason to listen to someone so malignantly uninformed. You ask for sources, implying there are none, then when shown you backtrack and ask questions that the sources themselves answer.

    Continue aiding Trump and the billionaires, I'm sure if you work hard enough you'll be one one day.

  • Why are some people defending billionaires and corporations?

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  • You're naive then.

    How can they engage in blatant corruption, cut cancer research, repeal environmental protections, pollute the air, water, land, and even sound waves that cause people to get sick, and forge ahead? Being charitable, they don't care about human life. It looks more like cruelty for the sake of profit, making us sick and exhausted so that we're easier divided and less likely to fight back.

    They have the ideology of rapists. Listen to the billionaire commencent speakers recently, saying "you're going to get AI whether you like it or not." And who is the reason for that? Did we consent to it? Not in the least. Billionaires have built a solution and are trying to fit a square peg into a circular hole, attempting to find any problem they cam spin up.

    Meanwhile, AI has largely been shown to be mostly worthless, 95% of AI pilots aren't generating anything meaningful, some reports even showing it costs 25% more than paying human workers in many cases. Yet, they press on, literally telling us that these layoffs are because of AI, or constantly pushing us to use it more and provide more and more deliverables faster and faster, regardless of quality, and then vital systems break.

    You're either a bad actor or just naive friend. We are simply numbers to them. We are beneath them just as peasants were seen as beneath their lords by their lords.

  • Why are some people defending billionaires and corporations?

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  • 😮‍💨

    A literal book of research published from Stanford

    https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/myth-millionaire-tax-flight

    https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/what-republicans-and-democrats-can-learn-myth-millionaire-tax-flight

    While everyone seems aware of a handful of high-profile millionaires decamping to low-tax states for tax reasons, in truth few move in response to state tax rates. Young examined tax data from every millionaire in the United States over thirteen years. He found that, even over that long time horizon, only 0.3% of all millionaires, on net, moved to a lower tax state. A larger share—about 2.5 percent-- move from one state to another each year, but most do not migrate for tax reasons.

    Millionaires are not very mobile, and when they do move across state lines, taxes play a small role in the decision. Tax-induced migration among millionaires is not zero, but it is fairly close to zero.

    https://ips-dc.org/release-wealth-expands-after-higher-state-taxes-on-high-income-earners/

    Two years into Massachusetts’ millionaires’ tax and a higher tax rate on $250,000 in capital gains in Washington state shows that the millionaire class grew by 38.6 percent in Massachusetts and 46.9 percent in Washington, respectively. Their wealth grew by more than $580 billion in current dollars in Massachusetts and $748 billion in Washington state between 2022 and 2024.

    Wealth flight fears are misguided. The number of wealthy individuals and their cumulative wealth grew after the enactment of higher taxes on high earners in Massachusetts and a progressive capital gains tax on high-wealth Washingtonians.

    And when it comes to the followup argument of "bUt It DoNt BrInG ReVenUE" it was largely not due to flight but instead from exemptions and tax breaks and poor policing of taxes on said wealthy individuals and being generally too broad and policy in place making those who were highly mobile to move.

    https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/news/publication-study-wealth-taxation-including-net-wealth-capital-and-exit-taxes-2026-04-15_en

    And some lessons from Norway who have had wealth taxes since 1892, and by which they implememted a 37.8% wealth tax if you do choose to leave. If you really want the parasites to stay, make it worth their while, they only know how to speak money after all. After bleeding our system dry and profiting off of our labor and tax dollars through subsidies and utilizing our public services to pay workers less, it's the least they can do for us allowing them to exist in the first place.

    https://www.aol.com/articles/analysis-norways-wealth-tax-trades-050140872.html

  • Why are some people defending billionaires and corporations?

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  • So...the billionaires?

    They reject reality and they surround themselves with yes men and delude themselves into believing they're better and smarter than everyone else when they simply were lucky. Lucky to have parents to invest in them, lucky to have generational wealth, lucky to in the right time and right place to profit off of certain ideas before others did.

    Instead, they impose their will upon us because they reject reality, like taxing the fuck out of them and redistributing to the workforce, lifting people up out of hunger, our of poverty, and educating them provides a stronger, more robust workforce and a better society.

    They reject that not everything needs a profit motive and are subsumed by that one principle, making more profit at all costs. As such, they lambast public services, which are a SERVICE, they do not seek to make profit, they provide. Parasites like Bezos only exist because the government subsidizes them. Private companies like UPS and FedEx don't guarantee to deliver to rural and more distant/out of the way locations because it's not proditable. USPS does. Sam Walton subsidizes his workforce by hiring those who qualify for benefits, to which his company recieves tax breaks from the government shifting tax burden down to you, and then pays them poverty wages so they still rely on benefits like snap while not being able to find another job because walmart, in their small towm, drove out all the competition.

    So yes. Drive these deluded fucks out. At least then it would open more opportunity for other smaller, more passionate businesses, creators, and people to fill the space they leave behind. And stop closing your eyes to the system that they parasitize. Excise the tumor that's draining all the resources from the host or the host will eventually die.

  • Why are some people defending billionaires and corporations?

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  • Dude...just google it, it's a myth. The people that want you to believe it are the ones thaf benefit from you believing it.

    Heck, look at the interview Bezos just did. Notice how there wasn't even the possibility in his worldview of him being taxed more. Meanwhile, he lies about how much he pays and parrots the cherrypicked statistic of 40% of income taxes are paid by the top 1% of income earners. Guess what Bezos is? Not one of those. He takes an income of 80K, a little above average in terms if income earners. His wealth isn't taxed while he does fuck all and his employees toil away and he generates wealth off of their labor.

    Shit, in America alone the top marginal rate was over 90%. They're still here.

    This also misses the point that the level of wealth consolidation is a failure of the system to provide for its people. They shouldn't exist in the first place.

    And they should be happy that most people are saying to tax them more. But these dipshits equate that to terrorism and racial slurs, so yeah, let's see just how deluded they are and just how much pain the people can put up with.

  • Why are some people defending billionaires and corporations?

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  • This meritocracy bullshit is the equivalent of peasants who believed God appointed their monarchs.

    Milord, that one stole thy crops! His greed betrays him, for he steals for his family too! Stone him, for he seeks to usurp you, milord! Perhaps, by thine benevolence, thou wouldst find it pleasing to reward thine loyal subject for defending your crop and your honor! I only seek to humbly serve milord and his Holiness!

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    godsammitdam @lemmy.zip

    Don't forget all our fellow humans. Even during FDR, the social democracy that people loved was only made possible by excluding minorities. Let's beat these confederates and billionaires again.

  • With Trump's approval ratings so low, how does he keep ousting GOP rivals?

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  • "Democracy" TM

    If not outright election fraud, it's money used to spread info/misinfo. Like the voters who talked about the video they saw of Massie in a threesome with AOC and Ilhan Ohmar. AI generated out the wazoo.

    If it's not money, it's legal election fraud in red states where voters are suppressed, voter rolls are purged, etc etc.

    All of these things combined make for a great recipe of "democracy." Combine that with the fact that conservatives are, quite literally, not hyperbolic, a terrorist death cult, they truly do follow the leader right off the cliff's edge.

  • Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable"

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  • I'd love if SKG was able to get some wins before they pull the plug entirely. Allow the community to keep it running, let them restore the lost content, unlock/add cosmetics, etc etc.

    A guy can dream...of essentially what games were 15-20 years ago.

  • What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?

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  • I guess I'm just oldschool haha. I prefer MMO gameplay, which is very similar, but you can get gear and titles and mounts for clearing difficult content with friends (or have an opportunity to make new ones.)

    Runescape deciding to allow you to toggle cosmetics on or off for everyone (via implementing cosmetic free worlds, an actual toggle would be cool too) is an amazing design decision that should be used more often. Because then, the gear tells a story. I miss that in older mmos. You'd see a glowy weapon or cool cape and be inspired to go ger it and/or see the amount of dedication it took for someone to unlock something.

    Aint no billionaires there, they're allergic to working hard after all haha

  • What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?

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  • Any gacha game.

    I've tried to play them, but many play themselves and are loaded with microtransactions and you'll hit a wall. I much prefer unlocking things from progressing or doing skillful things within the game.

  • Destiny 2: Every End is a New Beginning

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  • I'd love if SKG was able to get this before they pull the plug entirely. Allow the community to keep it running, let them restore the lost content, unlock/add cosmetics, etc etc.

    A guy can dream...of essentially what games were 15-20 years ago.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    godsammitdam @lemmy.zip

    Billionaires are creating more socialists than socialists could ever hope to.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Why are we still working our day jobs again? It literally pays to storm the capitol according to the government.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    godsammitdam @lemmy.zip

    Fox Breaking News: Marine Jacked Off in 2005

    x.com /foxnewspolitics/status/2056662571470692368
  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    godsammitdam @lemmy.zip

    We live in the American Nightmare

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    godsammitdam @lemmy.zip

    Great roundup from our PC Jesus Steve.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    godsammitdam @lemmy.zip

    Don't forget to heil the flag.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    godsammitdam @lemmy.zip

    Eventually we've gotta throw out the book to protect people

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    godsammitdam @lemmy.zip

    If it weren't for double standards, they'd have none

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    godsammitdam @lemmy.zip

    How do you feel about the use of AI providing a voice to those who wouldn't otherwise?