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Banks says the ringing in her ears did not completely disappear, but now it’s barely noticeable on most days.

“It’s kind of like if I lived near a waterfall and the waterfall was constantly going,” she says. Over time, the waterfall sound fades out of consciousness.

users and contributors need to stop feeling entitled to maintainers’ unpaid labor and time

And the rest of us need to stand up for maintainers against bullies.

If someone launched galactic war using clones of me, I’d be laughed at all over the galaxy.

For now. The US is a victim of legislative capture by corporations and it’s possible that in the future lobbying by insurance companies will open the door to them using some of that data.

@oxideseven Not offhand as it’s more something I know from experience but here are some news reports on it from my part of the world:

Poorer pay more

McDonald’s make meals different prices in different areas

And here’s a study from the US that found they charge Black neighbourhoods more.

Edit: looks like chain stores do it with fresh fruit and vegetables too.

@collapse_already yeah Reddit also tended to mistake explanation for agreement and savagely downvote it.

Fast food franchises always charge more in poor areas, I wonder if dynamic pricing would charge poor people more as well.

@Fubarberry yes I saw this a lot too. Highly upvoted confidently incorrect comments, with the real answer or an answer debunking them with links to factual sources less upvoted.

Happened to me as well.

@PositiveNoise idk, seems to me the big countries suffer from too much legislative capture for that.

I live in a country where I do my taxes for free with one click and we don’t use paypal because we can all make free bank- to- bank deposits that clear in less than an hour.

And the reason the US doesn’t have these basic things I’ve had for a decade is because of lobbying from Turbotax and the like.

Makes sense. I knew that about NZ and tech like cellphones, didn’t realise Philippines was the Asian test market though.

Sinking lid policy, I love it. Honestly it’s like he’s trying to kill TwitX.

This change will go live today for new users in New Zealand and the Philippines.

Omg I’m dying, why NZ and the Philippines?!

NZ literally just had a general election so it’s going to mess up a lot of whatever change in astroturfing was about to happen, is all I can think of.

Question for lemmy users: in the above comment I can see there are 4 image links to something called “t34”.

Do you guys have to actually see them as online images?

forced to allow you to somehow massage someone from Whatsapp

Okay this is my favourite typo of the week.

For me the main reason to avoid that stuff is Zuck’s a dick and I don’t appreciate how facebook lets people spread incitement to genocide.

It’s kind of like avoiding Nestle. Just more chill for your soul.

Downvote and move on, your time is wasted

Lol no kid, downvoting only mattered on reddit.

Those of us on kbin can even see which accounts are doing the downvoting. It loses its power.

If you don’t like seeing me school you, block me.

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Of course they are not factual.

seems unlikely to me that the equivalent descendants of those people would live without civilization.

Some of the people who were trafficked were a lot more literate and well-educated than their captors or eventual “owners”.

I really wish the history of the African kingdoms was taught in schools. Or even basic modern politics and society since the person you’re replying to seems to think modern people living in Lagos or wherever are “running from lions” somehow.

Poverty, perhaps

We’re dealing with counterfactuals here but:

…in a world where the African kingdoms were able to freely exchange culture and inventions with the West instead of being attacked and exploited by them for hundreds of years, we have no reason at all to think those in the world’s second largest continent, such a resource-rich place, would be living in poverty at all.

When I was a kid, there was this joke that involved getting a calculator to say “boobs” and then with a bit more input, “boobless”.

Journalism is currently going through a more sophisticated version of this with AI.

LLMs will say whatever. They don’t think and they don’t care. They contradict themselves all the time. Not so long ago Chat GPT was saying it would kill the entire world population and save Musk for the good of humanity.

Various CEOs of large companies, on the other hand, have been implicated in genocides and slavery for centuries now. That’s very real.

However, had we not brought them over here, it’s a good possibility they would still be running from lions.

Facepalm. World history needs to be taught much, much better.

I don’t know which is more cringeworthy here, the ignorance or the part where you proudly claim your statements are “factual.”

Yeah the article ends up pretty much making this point too:

We’re at the dawn of a platform shift. As Google tunes its algorithms and incorporates more AI content into its search results, the business model of the entire internet is undergoing an unpredictable change. Over the long term, Reddit’s scrambling efforts at financial security may prove just as futile as the moderators’ attempts to fight back.

I’m really glad to be out from under all that corporate social media bs.