Oh, you see, you fucked up like... three words into your comment
I've had to unfortunately have some business calls with pharmaceutical orgs in the past (had to have the exploratory calls, but was able to not do business with them) and they still speak with giddy amazement when discussing how ridiculously inflated their profit margin is in the US for the same services in other parts of the world. They are the one's profiting from it and even they say it's outrageous!
Not just his country, thiel and sacks' as well. This is a not so quiet business plot funded by apartheid raised psychopaths that wasn't too destroy society so they can build over the cleared space - also the reason for the left field Greenland thing. Watch that "dark Gothic maga" video from "blonde politics".
He has two tricks:
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Accepting deal wins that aren't wins - So a child had two cookies, you took them both, he starts crying, you give him one of the cookies to soothe him and you eat the other in front of him while he laughs and thinks he's winning. In this examples, trump is the baby.
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Or, unseen solutions to imaginary problems or problems he created himself - Covers your house in gasoline, sits in a chair and throws lit matches towards it. Then says loudly, NOBODY IS GONNA BURN THIS HOUSE DOWN, YOU GOT IT! And then waits for you to thank him.
Is it downtowns or state capitols?
First they came for...
Yeah, you can still get something from the odd crank, but used to be much more practically useful for day to day needs.
If you feel any kind of meaningful trustworthiness from a Facebook profile, you've probably got some other things to worry about...
What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
I am able to recite toy commercials and obscure TV theme songs from 90s kids shows with surprising accuracy, many decades past consuming them - Crossfire, Creepy Crawlers, James Bond Jr. Denver the Last Dinosaur... I'm your guy. I don't watch these things deliberately to learn them and haven't seen them since organically seeing during childhood, they just start playing in my head on the smallest triggers, music and lyrics, verbatim.
This is what the inside of my head is like, all the time
God... remember how fucking simple craigslist was when it hit it's peak? The fact that Grandpa could take a shaky flip phone picture and post a thing you needed right around the corner, no fat or other frivolous horseshit...
Craigslist is still simple last I checked, but the user base left and now dominated by spam from retail and drop shippers masquerading as local people selling goods from their garage.
Nothing gold can stay
I don't actually. Read the last sentence. Try to start from a place of unity instead of division in your replies, friend.
They are feeding all communications from devices into AI right now, both a massive security breach and they are calculating and creating an enemies list. Watch.
Performatively disciplining labor, as the NLRB is dismantled in the background...
Reach for that high ground all you want, your musing about semantics on the rule of law while the president, his wife, his son, his son's dipshit friend and the religious grifter who prayed at his inauguration all simultaneously launched and are rug pulling individual memecoins to steal Grandma's grocery money. Ohh... and concentration camp at Guantanamo.
GRRR WAKE UP.
Sure. Benefit of the doubt to start. That said, here on Lemmy you should be able to edit that post and add a clarifying note without issue. So feel free to do that.
Maybe explain that you chose a source quickly without vetting it, you aren't sure of the validity, so you removed it - and then remove the link.
You could also try to replace it. Find a credible source discussing the same and swap. Just be sure you make a clear note of the change in source and the reason.
Or, you can just delete the post to avoid confusion and repost.
Please consider this a friendly, early warning though. If you make no change here to this post and continue the behavior of posting from non-credible sources, those posts will be removed and you may be banned from participating in this community.
Musk's department of government efficiency arranged the A/V for the event
Maybe just an off day, could be that he just got up on the wrong side of the swastika shaped bed this morning...
[while it rains flaming shit] "So I'm not actually sure if this umbrella fully meets IP68 waterproofing standards, so I say we all just stand here and take it until someone can confirm otherwise, beyond a shadow of a doubt".
You're here, buddy... It's happening. You're waiting for an official red letter to arrive in the mail while the actual notice was tattooed on your forehead months ago. Start throwing every god damn thing you can grab at it, because you don't know how many levels deep you are in the "first they came for..." this time around.
Underrated comment. #SwansonWasAPsyop
Swanson was what libertarians think they come off as, and not what they actually are - Which is a disappointment to all people, always, on either side, of every issue. Keep driving on those publicly funded roads though and using that fire department during everywhere, libertarians. Oh, what's that, your sovereign cruise ship is overflowing with shit and sinking? Well at least you and the boat didn't have any contracts between you. Swim free, little buddy. Be sure to refuse that coast guard rescue, don't let them dictate how (if) you live!
I hope you survive, so that you can live to purchase your weight in "decentralized" currency, sold by... The government?
Well, the great news is that this guy doesn't look anything like a god-damned villain...
Decision: Antiwork will ban links to Twitter/X, allow screenshots (with conditions) - Detail inside
As a community that supports labor, with an aspiration for it to cease to be required to live our lives, we should not be afraid to organize and act in heightened moments like this. And that's what this is, a small collective action that could (likely not, but maybe) add up to something. Ultimately, doesn't change much here in the day-to-day, outside of formalizing what has happened casually/organically over time as musk bought and performatively tanked twitter to remove it's power as an organizing tool against fascists/oligarchs and Twitter investors, like the Saudis (e.g. see the Arab Spring protests and how Twitter was key to the people in that moment).
So, after considering the active discussion from our community through the comments in this thread, Antiwork will no longer allow links to Twitter/X, at the very least. This rule will formally go into effect in about a week, announced through a stickied post. In addition to that main action, the following related steps will also be taken,
- We will also ban links to Meta owned properties - Facebook, Instagram, Threads (open to suggestion of others if we want to officially make a list of these known, low quality sources and spreaders of misinformation, hate speech, etc through an evolving domain list)
- You may post screenshots IF THE INFORMATION IS NOT AVAILABLE ON ANOTHER VALID PLATFORM, but screenshots must include enough information to fully support a relevant conversation within this community and a VISIBLE time/date stamp for posterity. PLEASE NOTE: If you are caught manipulating content of a screenshot, your post will be removed and you will receive an indefinite ban from this community.
- We will not allow links to any pass through/archive service that potentially feeds traffic back to these services, directly or indirectly. Services like Xcancel/Nitter can give traffic to Twitter/X because they still fetch that content.
For those who contributed that the voices on Twitter and other platforms discussed are too important to lose, I'd say that there may have been a time when that was true, but at this point in time, if you have information that is ONLY sourced on twitter or one of these dying social media platforms, then you very likely have bad information from a person with low character and limited, if any, credibility.
If you support or have any objections, please discuss changes here for the next week. If no major points of discussion that slow us down, we will then implement final changes to apply going forward. I'm looking into potential automod scripts to automatically handle these things for us, open to suggestions if any members of community are mods in other communities that did this well or have experience otherwise.
Discussion: Banning links to Twitter/X


Seems aligned with the core values of this community that we should join the currently discussed movement to ban links to Twitter/X, including screenshots, on c/Antiwork
That platform's owner (through purchase) essentially started the more recent wave of unprecedented layoffs in tech giving cover to others that quickly followed along blaming interest rates, but likely just seeing that investors were excited about it and using the cover. He failed to pay promised severance packages to former employees, publicly attacked them, provides notoriously poor and measurably dangerous work environments and is just generally hostile to labor. More than most communities, feels we have a strong mandate to have some clarity in our rejection of these actions, and this small movement has built around sending this message.
While there has been much discussion in recent days about the platform and actions of the person that bought and is in the process of fundamentally changing it (not to say it was perfect prior, but objectively declining since purchase), the platform has been a general point of contention online for a long time and for many reasons. Misinformation and hate speech are more prevalent than ever on that platform.
If no objections to discuss, we would establish the policy with a new community rule in the sidebar and of course, we can always evaluate positions like this in the future, should any meaningful change(s) occur.
Some are also banning the use of links/screens of Meta owned properties as well, something we can consider and discuss here. I'll leave this thread pinned for about a week. Please share your thoughts if you have them and then a decision, and potential changes, will be made.
What does this community need/want from a moderator?
Hey,
Existing community rules had the following stated, leaves some room for interpretation:
> "Post must have Antiwork/Work Reform explicitly involved in some capacity. This can be talking about antiwork, work reform, laws, and ext."
In a way endless growth capitalism and just about everything that makes up a lot of US politics, the police state and the growing rise of fascism around the globe can make work seem pointless or can meaningfully contribute to a person feel trapped participating in that broken system so that they can feed their families. So in a lot of ways "talking about antiwork" can be a pretty broad topic - if that's what the community wants it to be.
That said, there is also some literature cited in the sidebar as a basis of this specific movement. If the community wants a more narrow definition of antiwork, in alignment with one or a few of those philosophies, that can be very valuable as well.
So, what's working in this community for you, what could be helped along with a bit more consistent attention in moderation? What do you appreciate in other "antiwork" communities around the web that you'd like to see on this instance?
What's the proper gift for a one month anniversary?
Remember remember!
The 4th of December
A CEO dies all alone;
On the street he was lain,
cold, pale and in pain,
thousands of deaths that he own.
The decisions he'd struck,
Layers removed from the slaughter,
Were a shareholder's treat,
Your dead mother or daughter.
Those investors all wait, on that cold winter morn,
Still unawares of profit potential they'd mourn,
Poking at hotel breakfast, bored looks on their face
As was Brian's when he denied and delayed at great pace
Endless growth, deposed, on behalf of us all
Luigi didn't do it, we were hiking in Nepal.
🎶 Friday, I'm in (the near future, around election day)
I don't care if Monday's filing cases without evidence to clog the courts
Tuesday's prematurely declaring victory and Wednesday accusing fraud because vote count went overnight due to unsupported and disproven gop challenges of voting machines
Thursday, trucks with ski masked neo-nazis pulling up to the Capitol with assault rifles
It's Friday, I'm in a camp for suspected Marxist socialist antifahs!
Monday, barricades at politician's homes can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday, break my elderly neighbor's hip when cops break the door down at the wrong home and tackle her for being a suspected "illegal"
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start because musk/trump dept of efficiency has outlawed clocks and calendars so there can be no more legal labor challenges of unpaid overtime, no weekends and no holiday pay
It's Friday, I'm in only the second week of trump's second, never-ending term as America's dictator clumsily toppling 250+ years of democracy
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You know you can do the right thing here. Go register, go vote. (Start here) - It's fast, simple and painless. You know we have to tell ourselves the above could never happen here to feel safe, but you also know it's closer to reality then ever before and you can do something, right now.
AI are like shitty palm readers/fortune tellers
You willingly give them key points of information about yourself, directly or indirectly. They then read those signals and use your own information against you to convince you they have answers. And they are often wrong, but you walk around repeating their "insights" as if they are true.
Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use?
I heard a person call into a show the other day, voice only, and talk about some poor working conditions at a factory. Made me think about how it would probably be so easy for nefarious bosses to be able to identify that person through voice recognition SW with all of the data that comes from us looking directly into cameras and speaking clearly in modern workplace meetings.
Do "anonymous" callers need to start using voice modulation software for these kinds of calls in the modern world?
If Reddit had a soul/conscience, I think it was us, and we're all on Lemmy now...
As a little background, I didn't actively use Reddit for months following the blackout. I still barely stop in over there and if I do I'm never logged in our contributing to the communities there (where I was previously a daily poster/commenter).
Just bringing up a point that I'm not sure I'd seen anyone discussing directly over here; the general sentiment and quality of posted information on Reddit has become tangibly worse in multiple ways (I think coinciding with this group, us, leaving).
Now don't get me wrong, Reddit sucked in many ways and for long before the migrations to Lemmy, but there is a noticeable difference in a few key areas:
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Less skepticism in replies
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Less sourcing of information in posts and replies
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Less counter positions expressed generally
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If there is a decent reply, you have to scroll much further down to find it
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Less plain labeling of obvious bullshit
Many of us used to introduce counter viewpoints or clarifying information into posts, with sources. That functionally worked as a roadblock to stall the quickly building momentum of disinformation/misinformation. Those roadblocks often feel absent over there now, IMO.
Not saying we hold a responsibility to go back there or that we were saving lives before, but the difference is very apparent to me - Have you seen it? Any examples?
Have you noticed, in "Watch Later" playlist YouTube no longer remembers position in playlist when you complete or exit a video?
This was on the roku app on a TV, haven't explored other platforms yet.
I'm assuming this is to disable the ability for users to quickly start, back/exit and restart a video until an ad doesn't play. Eternally user hostile, enshitification bullshit.
Is it known that some of the streaming services with advertising artificially reduce their ad length after the holidays?
Assuming to artificially secure people with new memberships through their first 4-6 weeks to establish a habit through the first billing cycle. Is this a known thing?
Who got notably rich from each major, historical tragedy?
Through the great depression...
When 9/11 happened...
The 2008 housing crash...
COVID...
On a smaller scale, when the Titanic sank, I'm assuming someone inevitably got rich from the aftermath somehow?
Who are the people/groups that make up history's must successful parasites? Who "came out on top" in each instance of historical human suffering?
WR was a questionable 1st round pick anyway, but with hindsight, which of the 1st round WR block would you have taken?
The rest of them all look good, but Addison just looks like a professional ball player out the gate.
Are any of the DNA testing companies trustworthy?
So obviously we're all on Lemmy for a complicated combination of reasons, but we all likely share some common ground, namely...
- need for privacy
- need to own/control/access the data we produce
- healthy skepticism about the trustworthiness of for-profit corporations, in general
So if we don't want meta to know even innocuous things; like how many times/when we message our grandma, and we don't google to know when we're searching for remedies to a rash, and we don't want reddit to... Well we just don't want reddit - we don't want them to profit from or weaponize that data against us in a myriad ways.
We also don't want them artificially removing features and creating tiered layers of service/value hidden behind a paywall (I understand this is very present in the some of the commercially available DNA services).
So that brings me to DNA testing services. Since they started to emerge in the mainstream they were immediately an interesting, exciting novelty and I also knew it was data I wouldn't feel safe trusting with a for-profit org - with broken systems like law enforcement and health insurers on speed dial and just salivating for the goodies they collect.
So all that considered, any groups that provide this type of service that you do trust/use, and why?