Honestly, I’m surprised it’s only 50%. They don’t have a cost of living crisis there?

Like we don’t have enough of them already.

Better fire all degree-holders right now.

How? How are people using youtube that makes it social media?

Youtube is social media? What?

Saved up for a few years to go to a 5 star hotel resort (thank you COVID!) and when we finally went, goodness gracious was the experience so wildly different from a 3 or 4 star hotel. Felt completely out of place there right from our arrival.

We arrived as backpackers and walk to main gate where the gatekeeper was. He was shocked and stammered “You… you walked here?”. We were quite naive in thinking everybody did since there was foot path, but upon looking back, it was not paved or anything. Nearly every visitor had their own car and there was a shuttle to get you between the bungalows. We also got a welcome cocktail and complementary snacks on some tours. We found out that we didn’t even have to carry our own luggage anywhere and of course there was dry-cleaning but it was at max 20$ / item.

A great experience, but we’ll need another few years to save up for a similar experience.

This is what drives people to piracy. Then they whine about how pirates cost them money.

I wish mbin could block servers like lemmy

And a US instance where people can talk about it, so that we can block it like lemmygrad or lemmy.ml if we want to.

Is nowhere safe from US politics?

I avoid Amazon. Deleted my account years ago. They treat their workers like shit, don’t pay their taxes, extract wealth and send it overseas, pollute like there’s no tomorrow, but most importantly, Jeff Bezos is not a nice man.

My shopping happens mostly online, at farmers markets and local stores.

People should @ Kamala Harris’ staff to move to mastodon as twitter is rate limiting follows to her account.

There’s a webpage for that https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/ Top 5 are:

1. Share channel administration between several users (103 votes)
2. “Audio only” video quality (91 votes)
3. Mobile phone client (91 votes)
4. Allow third parties to contribute bandwidth (89 votes)
5. Support multilingual videos (67 votes)

Feel free to vote or add more ideas.

If Nazis made a great product, would you start supporting Nazis?

Do you seriously think that was Trump? Nah dude, that was US media that has been infecting the world since the second world war. After Europe collapsed, the US swooped into the void and filled it with media portraying themselves as the victors and saviors. It spread USAmerican tribalism far and wide.

Then social media came along and Europe still hadn’t caught up nor recognised the power of media. Investments in film, TV, music, and internet were, and still are, ridiculously small compared to US investments. The internet just helped US media percolate deeper into European society. Now it’s on everbody’s phones and is an endless barrage.

Of course fossil fuel companies have a large role to play too. They helped mold a world focused on their product, which fucks up the environment. And tech companies play an even bigger role today, exploiting poor countries that were kneecapped by the US by destroying their democracies (or attempts at democracies) decades ago.

People want to flee and Europe comparatively easier to reach than the US, so they tried and still try to escape their situations. That of course gives right wing parties fodder to spread their hatred and blame a defenseless scapegoat.

I’m not saying the US is the root of all evil, I’m saying they play a monumental part in it. Trump is just an accelerator to a possible decoupling of Europe and other economies from the US.

We all know the DNC is controlled by corporate interests. They aren’t protecting the population. All they are protecting is their investments. Had they cared about the people, they’d never had thrown their support behind a second term for Biden. He too old 4 years ago and is way too old now. If the vote is won by a democrat, and that will only happen if the DNC takes a fucking stick out of their ass and force Biden to drop out ASAP, that will just mean another 4 years where the US can keep semi-good relations with the world. The world won’t have a reset button.

I didn’t say there wouldn’t be problems 🤨 There will be, but we’ll come out of it better than before. The rest of the world that is. The US, not so much.

That’s your definition of comedy. Comedy isn’t just some kind of tool to only make fun of the upper class. You must be thinking of cabaret artists.

It can be used to even give the less fortunate something to laugh about regarding themselves. Nobody and nothing is above jokes, IMO.

To me, it stops being funny when the comedian either:

• actually believes in the things they say e.g jokes about Jews are fine - if you don’t actually believe they are subhuman
• keeps making the same jokes (Dave Chapelle talking about trans people every goddamn show since what feels like a decade)

I doubt they can become a problem in 4 years. Come election time (2028), there will be a civil war and it’ll implode as Trump tries to hold on to power and become president for a 3rd time. He’s unpredictable, but one country against the world? They lost countless war games.

As a non-USAmerican I only know Michelle Obama from that list. But if you want real change and young voters, get AOC on the ticket. I bet you that’ll wake people up. She’s media savvy and could probably get the entire tiktok+insta viewership to campaign for her. The facebook folk probably less so, and the redditors 50/50. She would need a male vice president though. Two women in the US ain’t making it this year.

But honestly, I want Trump to win. The world needs a good shake up and divorce from the USA. New alliances have to be made and the reliance on US tech and media has to stop. I know it would hurt USAmericans, but it’d be the best for the world to stop following the USA as if hypnotised.

Will they face a significant fine?

Probably not.

Will they lose customers?

Also probably not.

Will anybody learn anything from this?

Lol…