This is the same level of shocking scandal when they revealed that rich people were paying to have their children admitted to universities.

2 Tits 2 Furious

Poster is right - it is a little funny

“read”?

Isn’t there a youtube summary video with disingenuous clips edited out of context put together by some shithead in his bedroom?

You don’t have to imagine.

It already happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearthed:_Trail_of_Ibn_Battuta

On paper. In practice most low-hanging fruit in almost all mature software has been thoroughly picked through, and most hackers are not coming with targeted resources and the backing of a well-funded state actor to break into your Jellyfin library. The sheer amount of paranoia people have about tech these days…

PC releases don’t take longer than consoles to make anymore - in 2026 it’s entirely business decisions - not technical.

Young adults have to become experts at something to realize that - a prospect that AI makes harder every day.

The definition of financial happiness is the difference between how much you make and how much you spend.

While some poor jerk is spending the next 30 years paying 30% of their income on a mortgage, you’ve got everything you need at a 10th the cost and can afford to weather whatever comes at you.

For those of us born before YouTube, we can just leave it.

For those born in the last couple decades, legacy tv and movies are difficult to watch and are only consumed occasionally. It will never, ever occur to YouTube’s primary audience to stop watching.

The main thing I’ve stopped buying is the lies.

Look, the individual - one, single, unshielded human mind - constantly bombarded with the cumulative brainwashing tools built of hundreds of years of psychological research, ads and manipulative propaganda being ceaselessly fed to them by organizations with bottomless wallets, and perverse lifestyle incentives driven by law, monopolistic market manipulation, and tax codes, is obviously completely to blame for every decision they make and should bear the full brunt of all responsibility.

/s

Essential and non-essential are almost meaningless distinctions for most goods people use on a daily basis. I could LIVE on beans and water. Do I NEED toothpaste? Aspirin? How much am I allowed to enjoy something before it’s a non-essential good?

People paid more for something because they were forced to, and it wasn’t for any economically necessary reason, and the cause was illegal, making it tantamount to theft, and refunds to companies equivalent to receiving stolen goods.

Nitpicking the necessity of the good is a cheap excuse to do nothing, not a gotcha.

Let them. It’s better than “nobody will let it be fair so we won’t even try.”

Take the total tariff income, divide it by the number of people in the country, and send out the checks.

It’s the ONLY legitimate way to handle it.

Is it beneficial to risk your own job to save your company from its own stupid leadership knowing they’ll learn nothing and do something worse down the line?

Asking legitimately.

“More of us than them” is a gross oversimplification of our unity.

Take here on Lemmy, for example… Lemmy’s users are almost exclusively broadly all on the “destroying the planet is bad” and “corporations are causing many problems” side, but aside from that it’s a constant, unending cesspit of purity tests and infighting.

The fact is, there’s no mass of people unified on riots because there are 8 billion of us, and we can’t even get a few million to stop using social media brainwashing tools that actively give them depression.

The billionaires are the DRIVERS of our destruction, but people are walking themselves right into it of their own free will.

Downvote all you like. I’m happy picking the jobs I want and don’t have to maintain proficiency in a bad tool I hate using. You do you.

Computers still exist and they still have browsers and they still work for your bank’s website.

Even in the browser of an unverified phone.

Depends. I’ve happily turned down jobs that required me to use Windows and the amount of daily frustration I avoid as a result is worth every bit of the pickiness.