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And Tiananmen Square looks lovely.

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50% of a tree is apparently water, which seems like a lot.

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Will certainly be replaced with an equally reprehensible PoS though.

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Suspicious bald helicopter maintenance man seen prior to takeoff.

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Kobe wasn't involved in an almost sort of war with Israel though.

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The wonderful thing about debt is, if you have enough of it, it suddenly becomes somebody else's problem.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66347594

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Or indeed an acorn.

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I think every dog owner knows the delights of cat poop, but fox poop is the real delicacy.

Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes, search under way ( www.reuters.com )

DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident....

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The fact that they haven't found them yet, indicates a very hard landing indeed.

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I guess it doesn't matter if Israel is behind this or not, because they're going to get the blame in any case...

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Doubt it, even if Khamenei was on board. Like everywhere else, there are just too many powerful people with too much to lose.

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Privatisation can only work if the end consumers have genuine choice.

In the UK electricity is privatised and I can pick from dozens of companies. This honestly works pretty well, and you can pick the cheapest depending on when you use electricity and how much. It's the same infrastructure no matter who you pick, but that seems handled fairly well. Same with internet providers.

We also privatised water, and we just get given a company to rule over each area of the country. Unsurprisingly, given the consumer has no recourse other than "have no water" this is an absolute fucking shit-show. They've not invested in enough reservoirs, nor sewage handling, and instead lobby the government to make it legal to just put it in the rivers instead. It's the same story with trains.

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And that's only because everyone has already defederated from lemmygrad and hexbear.

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Sounds like Iranian leaders are in need of more helicopter rides.

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Well Iran, unfortunately.

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I like in a UK town of 37k people, and we have neither. The last cinema closed long enough ago to still have a poster for The Woman in Black outside.

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Gee, we've tried taking content away, raising prices, injecting adverts and forcing them to use our crappy clients.

Why are people turning to piracy?

Advertising and lobbying are the only thing these people know how to do.

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That's just a map of police departments.

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I think a lot of stuff got adjusted when mobile became a thing.

Instant message apps just got replaced with Whatsapp, Signal, etc.

Monetisation is a huge problem. Nobody ever expected to make money off a wonky old webpage they made in HoTMetaL, or a MySpace page. Now everyone is on homogenised platforms, they're quite happy to accept bucketloads of money to project whatever you have to say to the masses, and none of it is good. All the hate you see out there isn't society. It's money.

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This the same person who wanked a guy off in a crowded cinema?

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Surely there's a billboard near her home that they can put that on?

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Steam should allow you to download older versions when companies pull bullshit like this.

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Reminder that Chris Brown still has a career.

R Kelly only got put away fairly recently and that guy married a 15 year old girl back in the 90s.

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So you don't spend your whole day waiting to play when they push a ludicrous 50GB patch and you can't play online without it.

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Well the country is built on it.

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Honestly, it's the most human you'll ever see it act.

It's got upper management written all over it.

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What's the point? Most people I see on Tiktok have so little attention span that everything gets skipped after the first 5 seconds.

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My missus used to post drawings on there about 10-15 years ago.

Think all the actual art is on Twitter these days (although some have gone to Mastodon).

Just seems a bit of a niche social network when bigger ones exist with bigger audiences and more chance of people actually wanting something drawn. Even if it's mostly really weird smut.

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Real life Connor Roy soldiers bravely on.

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Just a single 16:9 for me.

If I want immersion, I'll wear my VR headset.

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This is a nonsense take.

The Last of Us, Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, God of War, Doom. There are plenty of AAA games worth your time and money. Every bit as lovingly crafted as your precious indie darlings.

Maybe stop buying them blindly because you've seen a flashy ad for them on TV. There's plenty of bad AAA games that do all the gameplay competently but have literally nothing to say. Where you can't feel the touch of the designer at all, and all you can hear in it's place is a hubbub of design-by-committee noise. The only thing those games have to say is "give me your money".

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Well that's definitely not some scam. What's the betting that the URL asks you for a load of personal information to confirm your identity.

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They always were.

Only now they've agreed to pay Reddit for it. This is what their third party lockdown was really all about.

They're helping themselves to your Lemmy comments for free, as that's just how it's designed. If you post anything publicly anywhere, it's getting slurped up by a bot somewhere.

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Well they've probably got filters that remove all that before it teaches their Ai to swear. So you need to be more subtle for 𝑓ucks sake.

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Well the legality seems to be something you can ignore when you have billions of dollars in VC money to fritter around.

It certainly didn't stop them hoovering up music and movies, and the owners of those have a lot more power than any of us do.

Tech is fast, the law is slow, and you can make many times the cost of lawyers and fines by the time anybody gets around to telling you to stop it.

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I went back to it recently. It's mostly down to Amazon deciding that paying them was no longer enough, you had to watch their ads as well.

Well now I don't. I installed Jellyfin, paid up for two years of VPN, and got another HDD. I'm set. I'm all done with asking nicely for a better service so I got my own.

I sub to Spotify because it's easier than pirating. I'm a creature of convenience. If there was one streaming service that had all movies that have already had their cinema run, and all TV shows, and was all in one UI, and nothing ever got taken off it, and it was a reasonable price (say the price of two current streaming services), I'd probably pay up for it.

But there isn't. They don't want to offer it. They all want to be king of their little corner.

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Probably injecting ads "naturally" into the conversation.

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Can't wait to take a real life Johnnycab.

Exactly the same price as a normal taxi (if not higher, because there's no competition left), but now all the money goes to needy Silicon Valley trillionaires, rather than some greedy low life taxi driver who just wants to waste that money on food and rent, rather than lovely sustaining growth.

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If you decorate it really nicely, the landlord can kick you out, and rent it out for even more money!

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Coming soon: The all new, all American, COAL powered leaf blower.

Now with a slide whistle and megaphone attachments for extra annoying noises.

US prisoners are being assigned dangerous jobs. But what happens if they are hurt or killed? ( apnews.com )

Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to work at Hickman’s Family Farms, which sells eggs that end up in the supply chains of huge companies like McDonald’s, Target and Albertsons. While assigned to a machine that churns chicken droppings into compost, his right leg...

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Don't think you need to with a question as obvious as that.

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Prisoners can be used as slaves. It's right there in the constitution.

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Oh, I don't disagree at all.

And the fact that they get sent to private companies takes it from merely barbaric to absolutely grotesque.

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A quick Googling suggests bread and water for food, solitary for a month, and showers once a week.

No idea how this backwards-ass hole ever became a superpower.

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https://www.ctas.tennessee.edu/eli/punishment-refusing-work

Pursuant to T.C.A. § 41-2-120(a), any prisoner refusing to work or becoming disorderly may be confined in solitary confinement or subjected to such other punishment, not inconsistent with humanity, as may be deemed necessary by the sheriff for the control of the prisoners, including reducing sentence credits pursuant to the procedure established in T.C.A. § 41-2-111. Such prisoners refusing to work, or while in solitary confinement, shall receive no credit for the time so spent. T.C.A. § 41-2-120(b).

https://www.quora.com/What-happens-if-you-refuse-to-work-in-prison

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Doesn't sound a huge deal different to High Frequency Trading, and Wall Street nobheads fall over themselves to exploit that.

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Eaten by a family of domesticated bears, while distracted by a Fruit of the Loom logo.

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