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[–] gun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Probably you...

[–] gun@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, because I'm sure every consumer will read section 4-i of the Amazon prime video terms of service

[–] gun@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No, I think they expected that if they bought an item, they own it now, and none of this "legal license" mumbo jumbo would be relevant

[–] gun@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

Least bloodthirsty democrat

[–] gun@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't know HaaS Hardware as a service was a thing

[–] gun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Well, both of the islands in the picture will be underwater no matter what, but I doubt this will affect the nature where I used to live, the extra CO2 will probably be good for the trees.

[–] gun@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The beautiful thing about America is we have enough space so that you could have the big house on the left AND the beautiful nature on the right at the same time.

[–] gun@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This strikes me as a "you will own nothing and be happy" solution. Instead of paying workers a fair wage so they can put something into savings for a rainy day, you will be at the mercy of your employer for support.

This seems to be the trend. In the future, you will have most of your needs at least met, but not through your own means, because you will have no means whatsoever. You will not be able to take care of yourself without your corporation parent. This is a very coercive situation.

[–] gun@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well maybe if you read past the title you would be following the conversation better

[–] gun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

OP is not saying centralization is good, just that it appears to be inevitable even on the fediverse. They suggested this centralization could kill the project altogether. You misread their point.

Smh people downvoting OP because they can't read.

[–] gun@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Twitch has been going downhill for a long time now. They take half of all subscription money which is outrageous. They also have an exclusivity contract which prevents streamers from streaming on other platforms. A number of big streamers have jumped ship to YouTube or Kick. Combine that with the fact that lockdowns are over, people spend less time online. Twitch has no future.

[–] gun@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I support this feature. But Wikipedia is not an authority on what fascism is. The dictionary attempts to describe the usage of a word in this case as it relates to an objective phenomenon. Before we can attempt this description, an understanding of the objective phenomenon must be had. We can rely on definitions for understood phenomena like water, jogging, or birds. But what exactly fascism is is a hotly debated topic, not a well understood phenomenon that we hold absolute knowledge and certainty of. Even your dictionary source admits it is a characterization of fascism, not exactly a definition.

A conservative will reason discursively that Hitler was a leftist, because the Left can be defined as more government, so Fascism is far left. In the same way, that buzzfeed employee could argue their own view of what misogyny is. To them, when a man spreads their legs in public, this is the sexist act of manspreading.

What these people (and you) are doing is taking a word that has a strongly negative connotation, arguing for an expanded categorization of this word in an attempt to rub off that connotation on something else. But all this succeeds in doing is devaluing said word.

Fascism has a negative connotation because its consequence was the death of 60-100 million people. That has nothing to do with Bernie supporters wanting to give people free healthcare. The "more government" connection (what even does 'more government' mean?) has to be proven more than circumstantial. Likewise, sexism has a negative connotation because of rape, women in the past not having basic rights like the right to vote, etc. But a man letting his balls get some air has nothing to do with that, even if people find it a little rude.

They have algebraically replaced a world phenomenon with a term, much like a mathematician replaces a quantity with the letter 'X' on paper. Then they have discursively reasoned using the term, not the phenomenon. You can find the length of a square's side from the root of the area. We have a square that is 4 cm^2^. So what is √4? Math tells us that it is ±2. So a square in real life can have a negative length? This is the lunacy that you will accept with analytical reasoning if you do not understand its premises.

So instead of lazily giving us a definition full of nebulous terms, why not prove to me that any similarities between modern Russia and the Fascist countries are more than circumstantial? What is the unity behind these particular examples? All states are militaristic. All states suppress real opposition. Authoritarianism is no realer than the boogeyman. Russia does not have a "strong regimentation of society" so you're just flat out wrong there.

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