[-] notacuban@lemmy.world 128 points 10 months ago

I wrote a whole 3 paragraph reply to this, but it crashed and now I'm too lazy to write it again.

But yes, this. "Everyone getting UBI and universal healthcare" is not far left. Far left is firebombing pharmaceutical companies or forceable seizure of private property to distribute amongst others, or enforced working arrangements to bring about equality.

What most Americans on Lemmy call "far left", I'd call "basic respect for your fellow man and the compassion to put others before yourself".

[-] notacuban@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't agree with that line of thought. The taste of hospital food is also very neutral but I wouldn't say I'm a fan of it. I also wouldn't say I'm actively opposing it, and if served it in a situation where I can't get anything else I wouldn't snub my nose at it, but it wouldn't be my first choice.

[-] notacuban@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think they're a very vocal, but disagreed with, minority. I think some people here think all of Lemmy is unwaveringly anti-corporation and anti-capitalist.

I'd consider myself mostly anti-corporation and mostly anti-capitalist, but I also understand that not everything every corporation does is out of some desire to commit the worst thing possible on mankind (e.g. retiring old authentication servers that they've kept running for years while warning people that it'd eventually be cut off).

Anyway, Lemmy hates these 5 Cs (in no particular order): -Corporations

-CEOs (in particular Elon Musk and Spez)

-Conservative politics of any kind

-Capitalism

-Chromium browsers, even the privacy-oriented spinoffs.

[-] notacuban@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Harder than you might think. A male testing positive on a pregnancy test is a marker for some forms of testicular cancer.

[-] notacuban@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago

Ah yes, just what the working class desperately needs, a gatekeeper.

[-] notacuban@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

Yep, believe it or not, we have cities and an overinflated property market in Australia too. But Scott Farquhar is very down to earth for a billionaire. Comes from a less-affluent area of Sydney, went to public school (admittedly one of the most difficult to be admitted to), doesn't surprise me that he's more "understanding" of the employees.

[-] notacuban@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Degeneracy is always a Nazi ideology

Degeneracy is the core ideology behind every genocide.

Damn, I didn't think I'd learn something new today, but as it turns out, the Ottoman genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks and the historical Chinese genocide of the Dzungar and the more recent genocide of the Uyghur people were because they were thought to be degenerates by the ruling National Socialist parties.

And here I was thinking 'Nazi' specifically referred to the Nazi Party members and modern white supremacists who support it, and not every nationalistic faction that has ever committed crimes against humanity.

You may not realise it, but you water down the word Nazi when you brandish it so casually. When you go around saying everything is Nazi ideology, people won't listen when something actually is.

[-] notacuban@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

"tokenboomer", poorly executed references to the "everything is communism" trope, insulting "the liberals"... Come on guy, trolling is a subtle art. You can do better, I believe in you.

[-] notacuban@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

In this thread lots of uninformed people misunderstanding how the open source Chromium project works (or the difference between Chrome and Chromium). Vivaldi is a Chromium-based browser who frequently disable the parts of Chromium they don't agree with.

This argument not to use anything Chromium is the same as if someone was fanatically opposed to using Linux Mint or Elementary OS because they're based on Ubuntu, and Canonical bad.

I love Firefox as much as the next person, and probably do a 75% Vivaldi 25% Firefox split, but let's not act like Google isn't bankrolling Mozilla, because they account for 85+% of Mozilla's revenue, and if Google does implement this Web DRM and if it is widely adopted, Mozilla either submits and enables it to make sure daddy Google stays happy, or they die.

[-] notacuban@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

That's a completely unrelated issue with Logitech. Firefox is "blocked" because it doesn't support WebUSB (nor does Safari). I understand this web DRM is bad tech and we want to be morally outraged, but spreading misinformation makes the Lemmy crowd look less like activists/enthusiasts and more like chicken little.

[-] notacuban@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, fellow Vivaldi user👋 . Yep, one of the Vivaldi devs already said if it was added upstream, they'd strip it out of the Chromium code, but they acknowledge that this would cause problems if WEI became standard. Websites would start to expect it, and not having that functionality would be a death-sentence for any browser (Chromium or otherwise).

[-] notacuban@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

We had a bus driver who'd drive away if he had already closed the doors, regardless of if he could see you running for the bus or if other students would tell him someone was coming.

Smug little prick used to whistle like a fucking 1950s Disney character while he did it, too.

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Every year in July, Hakata, in Fukuoka, hosts the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival, where participants race on a 5km course pushing 1 ton floats. This is a snap I managed to get during one of the practice runs.

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Snow in Kanazawa (lemmy.world)

I was lucky enough to get to Kanazawa the day before the first snow last year

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Sadly, but necessarily, this was knocked down in 2020 as it was too small to accommodate the number of passengers leaving from this exit.

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