Wait, I thought the Jews ran Hollywood and controlled all of the media? How is it possible a movie like this exists?

PETA has killed more animals than I have LOL.

It’s not about a sovereign EU, it’s about government controlling the media. There is too much temptation for a politician to use that control to make the media say only good things about them and negative things about the opposition. See Russia for an example of how bad that can get.

Are all of the newspapers controlled by the EU? Do you think it would be better if they were.

Anyway, yeah I’m talking about social media. The primary problem of social media is that it’s an oligopoly. Create regulation so people can have choice without being cut of from their friends that are on a shitty platform and people will leave to be on better platforms and companies will have to compete to provide a better product.

Very few people actually like Facebook and Twitter, they just can’t leave because they wouldn’t be able to communicate with their friends and family if they did. And their friends and family can’t leave for the same reason. What if you could go to a Friendica site and still be able to chat with your friends that are still on Facebook and they could see your posts you make and vice versa? How many people would stay on Facebook if there was no longer a barrier to leaving? How many people would put up with Elon Musk’s antics on twitter if they could leave and still communicate with the people they like that are still on Twitter?

If there was no major barrier to leaving these sites, they’d have to compete to provide quality moderation, make it easy to find the things you like, improve algorithms so they aren’t shoving shit you don’t care about into your face, etc. Having a single government entity doing this wouldn’t provide this and the site would probably just be constant bickering about what the government should and should not allow on social media.

I gonna intercept here for a bit. The Problem with “shutting down single farms” is, that this virtually has no effect at all. T

It would save the animals you claim are being boiled alive. Why don’t you care about the suffering of these animals?

Yeah I know about TV licenses, but aren’t they incredibly unpopular? And a government could eliminate them and replace them with subsidies (which gives them influence) and many voters might agree with that given the unpopularity of TV licenses.

Yeah, you just have to know yourself. Personally I feel like I need to go into the office once per week otherwise work starts becoming an abstract thing. But I’ve known some co-workers I wouldn’t see for months at a time that were really on the ball. Ask an obscure question about something really technical on slack and get an answer within seconds kind of thing. I knew another guy that said he had to come into the office every day because his family was too distracting.

Everyone needs to know what works for them and be a responsible professional about it.

And yeah managers that want 100% RTO are just admitting they can’t handle working from home. Ok that’s your thing, but it’s not a thing for everyone else.

Anyway I got out the the RTO thing because I told them of the times some computers were having issues and I had to work the whole weekend (from home) to fix them. If I’m going to be 100% RTO then I’m 0% WFH and the next time something like that happens I won’t be able to start working on it until 9am on Monday morning. So I’m still in the office one day per week, weather permitting, which is my preference.

Well you’re in a politics community on lemmy, so you’re going to hear about all of the leftist populists constantly. But I don’t think lemmy is an extremely popular web forum.

What if the government tells a social media site they have to ban people from criticizing them or they’ll lose funding?

Open source sure, that’s fine. But someone’s gotta pay for running the servers and if the government can cut that funding they have influence over it. That’s a level of government control over the media that’s a little concerning.

Better to have the the government make regulations requiring companies to make it easy to switch to another company. Like changing to another phone company, you can keep the same number (because of regulations) so people can still call you without even knowing you changed companies even if they have a phone from a different manufacturer using a different phone company.

You can do the same with things like social media, just need to have regulations requiring protocols to allow people to change services easily and connect with other services so there’s not a network effect making people stay on shit services because it’s what all their friends use. People should own their data, own their contacts and companies should compete by providing better services rather than by making it difficult to leave the services they’re currently on.

Handing over your date to the government isn’t a better solution than handing it over to a private company. The real solution is to ensure people own their data.

Could we perhaps consider ways of making software that doesn’t involve killing hookers?

Why are you so obsessed with the source of my meat? If you must know comes from a little French town called Dublé Entendré.

Do you hope Trump stops taking them seriously, or do you hope people stop taking the freedom of speech of comedians seriously?

Turns out he’s an undocumented immigrant with a weird foreign sounding name (Kal El) and he was going around acting like he was an American by the name of Clark Kent. We can’t have that!

According to the graph there were fewer US troops deployed in Iraq during the last years of Obama’s presidency than there are now.

So Bush started the war in Iraq and Obama ended the war in Iraq?

Sorry, but this graph just doesn’t fit with the both sides forever war narrative.

Was I supposed to be taking comedians seriously?

Apparently Trump takes them seriously and sees them as a threat. Or maybe they just hurt his feelings.

Just had a moth inside, kinda annoying. Got a box to try to catch him but just so happened the next time I heard him fluttering about he was right by the door. So only had to open the door to and swish him out.

Moth friend is free!

I don’t kill things unless they deserve it… or if they taste good.

Weird way to be judgemental.

Their base? It’s at least equally cool to the leftist base to hate Jews now.

Nationalists and socialists coming together in their shared hatred of Jews… how original.

Yeah there have been many times already where it’s been “they have to get that he’s scamming them now, right?”

But they always go back and say “please sir, can we have some more?”

They’re already trying to work out that it’s all Pam Bondi’s fault. Trump is just getting bad advice, etc.

I buy all of my food from Food 'n Stuff… and most of my stuff.

Estimates with numbers like 80% and 99% are just made up on the spot. I estimate 99% of the world knows that.