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cyborganism ,

Working at Tesla be like...

cyborganism ,

Brown shirts?

What are those?

cyborganism , (edited )

Ah ok? Is that specific to a region? I never heard of this.

Edit: I meant region, not reason. Autocorrect.

cyborganism ,

Other users were kind enough to point out that they are a Nazi group. That's all I needed to know.

cyborganism ,

What kind of damage?

cyborganism ,

With how everybody and their mother have smartphones in their pockets, I wouldn't be too worried.

cyborganism ,

No! I mean everybody else! Someone else is going to call for help.

cyborganism ,

Does OnStar even work in far out regions like this? Is there even any cell reception? If not then that point is pretty irrelevant.

And if it's so far out, would emergency services even arrive in time to save you anyways?

cyborganism ,

Great. Another Google service gets shut down. Why even bother with using any Google service at this point?

cyborganism ,

With the size of housing units they build in condo buildings these days, who the fuck has any room to store appliances?

Plus, we live in an era where we produce too much shit anyway and it's damaging the environment. So by sharing stuff like this, it means we need to produce less.

cyborganism ,

*cough* Maestria *cough*

cyborganism ,

Yeah they built these big ass luxury condo towers downtown and most of them are empty. I know because I can see in them from my office building.

Some argue this allows richer people to move out of smaller units therefore freeing them for others. But instead you have international investors coming in to buy them up as a real tax haven. Or the rich will simply buy them but keep the old ones and rent them at a premium. It doesn't help at all.

cyborganism ,

There's a tax for foreign ownership now,I think..

cyborganism ,

It's a Mayan bat man with the sound amplifying cones, acting like bat ears.

cyborganism ,

LoL!!! You do your job as just because you're doing what's required you're called a quiet quitter? Man fuck that noise.

cyborganism ,

Ow! My brain!

cyborganism ,

Ow! My back! My shoulders! My carpal tunnel!

cyborganism ,

Skip 10 seconds. Skip 10 seconds. Skip 10 seconds.

cyborganism ,

We're going back to the period between 2008 and 2020 where employers didn't want to pay for well educated and experienced professionals and it was impossible to negotiate your salary. We're back at having stagnating wages again. In a period of incredibly high inflation no less.

I only got a significant bump in 2021 when companies claimed worker shortages.

cyborganism ,

I'm a software engineer. In Canada. There was no explosive growth. Only layoffs and stagnant wages. There was a huge brain drain to the US during that period. Many of my university friends ended up in the states.

cyborganism ,

Aw dang. You beat me to it.

cyborganism ,

I didn't even know that. Fuck.

cyborganism , (edited )

Loblaws is the largest grocery conglomerate in Canada. Its owner, Galen Weston Jr., the chairman and CEO of George Weston Limited, a holdings company that owns so much shit in Canada. And also executive chairman and president of Loblaws Companies Limited.

Weston jr is the figurehead of food price inflation in Canada. He's basically responsible for starting the trend and everybody else followed.

Food insecurity has become a serious problem if Canada and food banks have been solicited like never before since the pandemic.

This is doing to be a hot topic issue in the next federal elections. But already, Loblaws lobbyists are already courting the main party leaders to ensure they don't do anything to decrease the control they have on the food industry and the profits they make.

It's disgusting. I approve of this steal from Loblaws day. But it shouldn't be limited to Loblaws. This should be every major grocery store like Metro and IGA.

cyborganism ,

Thank you. Autocorrect got the best of me.

cyborganism , (edited )

"Hello, we're <insert multi billion mega corporation here>. Laws and rules do not apply to us. Go ahead. Give us a fine. Sue us. Whatever amount you request is mere crumbs to us."

cyborganism ,

Yeah, but the car still ran afterwards.

cyborganism ,

Doesn't it say that the vehicle was bricked, meaning it wouldn't run after going through the car wash? Isn't that what happened?

cyborganism ,

Bricked is a permanent condition. And if they were able to get it working again, I wouldn't say it was bricked. More like broken or crashed in the software sense.

Still, it wouldn't run after the car wash either.

I meant more like, even if you wash a car with the doors open and water goes in everywhere and damages the car, you can still turn the key and it will start.

cyborganism ,

Ah ok. So it is click bait.

cyborganism ,

The way these people affect so many lives negatively with their fraud is much worse than a person committing murder.

The literal misery they cause to so many people for their own benefit without a fucking iota of shame and their sociopathic behavior is enough to consider eliminating them from society.

cyborganism ,

I know. It sounds fucked. But these people are a cancer on society. There's very little that can be done to reform these people. And the problem is that capitalism rewards this kind of behaviour.

These people currently are ruling the world. If they aren't the head of some large company, there the head of a government. Because of their large wealth, they have a huge influence on the policies. They're basically dictating the laws that are governing them. It's like playing Monopoly with your own made up rules.

You can't stop those people any other way. The French understood this. When the price of food was out of reach, heads started to roll. Literally. Nowadays the people can't be violent anymore. Heck, the mere act of peacefully protesting is met with police violence and oppression. How the fuck are we supposed to get the message across when those people have their own militia protecting them and their interests?

cyborganism ,

That's the problem. There's one side that's trying to play by the rules and be nice because they have empathy. Then there's the other side who lie, cheat, and break the rules for their own benefit without shame.

How the hell are you supposed to play the game and "be better" than the opposition, when the opposition is taking advantage of you?

There has to be clear and grave consequences to discourage them from abusing the system and the people. If it has to be the death penalty, then so be it.

I'm tired of our societies being run by a bunch of industry barons who own everything. Food barons, healthcare barons, banking barons, housing barons, you name it. The mega conglomerates that we can't escape from who are literally destroying this planet and leeching off of everybody with made up excuses about the state of the "economy". Having all the world's fortune in the hands of about 10 people. We can't stop this by playing nice and asking nicely. Not when they control governments with their financial influence or because they've become too big to fail. No. You build fucking guillotines and you execute the motherfuckers.

cyborganism ,

Fucking hell. Even our thoughts and feelings are being used to target ads to us. What a fucking nightmare.

cyborganism ,

Yeah, is called breaking up the company. Live nation can still do all this stuff if it breaks apart from its parent company. And it would encourage healthy competition and fairer prices.

cyborganism ,

That is fucked.

I'm already starting to transition to full Linux on my devices with the arrival of Windows 11 and Windows 10 reaching end of life in October next year. I never thought I'd see the day of this happening.

cyborganism ,

I doubt it. Regular folks are ignorant about those issues and what the technology involved implies. AI sounds cool until you realize every single action you take on your computer, every single word you say, everything you look at, is collected and sent to some machine which does god knows what with it.

That plus the ads. The fucking ads. I'm so god damn tl saturated of seeing ads everywhere. But apparently most folks have grown some kind of immunity to it??

cyborganism ,

Some ads I really enjoy though. They're not ALL bad. But it's the quantity and how they've just become omnipresent. Especially with these god damn smart phones. Constantly trying to get our attention.

cyborganism ,

Just saw in another post that Microsoft is pushing their copilot AI into Windows 2022 servers. Windows 11 will become a data syphoning ad-riddled spyware. And Microsoft office will send everything you type to some AI learning machine god knows where.

This will be a huge privacy concern for governments very soon and may force them to switch to Linux and libre office. Germany is not even the first one to do this. French police already use Ubuntu on their desktop computers.

cyborganism ,

Technology Connections on YouTube made a great video about the popcorn functionality on microwave ovens. You should check it out.

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

cyborganism ,

Good!!! I hope other governments follow.

cyborganism ,

I wish there was a list of the exact products that contain those chemicals.

cyborganism ,

Well you shouldn't trust a public, decentralized, open source personally hosted service either.

I don't really know who's hosting the Lemmy or other fediverse services I use and what access they have to the data that we post on there.

Basically, you shouldn't trust any online service with your data and your posts.

cyborganism ,

Take a chill pill.

All I'm saying is whatever the service, be careful what you post online. We assume the people hosting fediverse services have a code of ethics or that they have our best interests or privacy at heart. Or even that they have the time and know how to protect our data.

But we should still consider the opposite and take the necessary precautions.

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    cyborganism ,

    What version of Windows?

    cyborganism ,

    What the fuck are you even saying?

    cyborganism ,

    So you think that the war against the Nazis and the axis force was based on some nation's lies to their own benefit?

    cyborganism ,

    I won't argue with you there.

    cyborganism ,

    Yeah. But I'm trying to make him say it. Show his real colors.

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