dandelion

joined 8 months ago
[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

yeah, I guess it's a bit of an unexpected part of the title, lol

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

"I don't think it would be likely that he would suffer such a serious fine," Hasen said of Musk. "Although, if he was warned that this is illegal activity and continued to do it, I think that would create a different kind of situation."

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

"I don't think it would be likely that he would suffer such a serious fine," Hasen said of Musk. "Although, if he was warned that this is illegal activity and continued to do it, I think that would create a different kind of situation."

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

OK, but that doesn't sound like the "first good thing" that came to your mind when reading the question. Just sounds like the first thing you thought.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's not that simple, unfortunately. Even if you were concerned about the impact of using an adblocker, the ads are not like billboards, merely visual distractions, but rather ads now include invasive tracking and surveillance, and other malicious code that can freeze or make a website unusable. Ads often create an accessibility nightmare for some users. They also tend to use up data, making the internet less accessible to those in third world countries where internet access is slow and large data are a bigger problem.

There have been some half-hearted attempts to create standards for advertisements, but the reality is that greed has always undermined attempts for the private sector to self-regulate on this issue, so short of some kind of legislative action to curb these problems, you are going to get people trying to protect themselves with adblockers.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of scenes are just thinly veiled commercials - why are we spending so much time looking at the front of a brand-new car the characters are getting into? It's always awkward and takes away from the scene.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The question: "What is the first good thing that comes to mind when reading this question?".

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a friend who hates calzones and finds them offensive. I don't particularly love calzones, but I'll send a photo whenever I eat one just to keep the hate alive.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

yeah, destroying marketing materials seems reasonable; destroying food because you know hungry people will eat it is evil.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's great (re the citywide composting)! Companies cite fear of a lawsuit as an excuse not to donate food. Of course the reality is that they're just protecting profits, no one has ever been sued from donating food as far as I know, and as you mention there is a law specifically prohibiting doing so.

I've heard of many places where it's illegal to give food out to people.

Where I live there is no composting, the city barely recycles even.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The southeastern U.S.

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