Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @lemmy.world

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Respectfully, no. You act like Americans buying stuff on the cheap only benefited the businesses doing it. There were plenty of businesses around and plenty of people that had money to buy from them, that weren't doing things on the cheap, and people didn't. "Why pay for my silverware to be made here when I can pay a company that's oursourced half?"

This isn't about power, it's about human greed at all levels of the system. Our government (i.e. the power structure) is what actually was responsible for pushing things back the other way by introducing incentives (i.e. subsidizing doing the right thing) and introducing protected "Made in the USA" labeling. We're still nowhere near where we were.

Sure you can make the argument that people only buy cheap because they're not paid well. Again though, that's not how it was, and even now plenty of people that are paid well, pay for the cheap thing.

And again, some of these people don't even have running water. Whatever "bad deal" you think Americans have been delt in many cases the countries we outsource to have been cut far far worse deals and have no power structure to fix it.

(To be clear, I love my country, but we've got skeletons and I think it's important to talk about them and try to address them and how we got here. I don't blame "people in power", it's too easy and it's only part of the problem. We've got the wrong mindset as a society, "big, fast, cheap, and more of it")

If you're wondering who but don't want to read the article:

Their report urges federal agencies to investigate and potentially go to court over the wealth of information that H&R Block, TaxAct and Tax Slayer shared with the social media giant.

From what I'm gathering, they have very different pronunciations in British English as well. I'm not sure about this shower thought, it seems like OP might be the one that's mistaken?

Yes really... you posted a sentence fragment, but not just a sentence fragment, a sentence fragment of an "I heard" quote and expected people to remotely understand what that means.

So borderline free Chinese labor hasn't enriched US corporations? The waters for cheap oil and sugar -- those ended really well for the country on the receiving end right? What about the British spice trade and India?

Sure you can collect power within a nation and become a sort of "god within" that nation, but that's nothing compared to nation vs nation conflict. Some of these people don't even have clean running water.

I think the point is that there's no way currently for a YouTube creator to use a business model (even if they wanted to) where some sponsors spots are excluded for premium subscribers.

It's way different from that. It's one thing to have a Sony laptop on the screen, it's something entirely different to go on a 30 second discussion about Raid Shadow Legends, Nord VPN, etc.

Same, I was on world when it got hacked, rotated the simple login email, and rotated the password post hack (and deactivated the old email) just to be on the safe side.

The safest option would be for Lemmy to implement OAuth and apps that aren't in some "official front end for xyz website mode" to authorize via OAuth with the backend instead of via credentials.

Data is one of those things that you don't know how it's going to be used against you until it is. If somebody is going to have that data, I'd rather my own government have that data vs a foreign government... Harming one's own citizens isn't a great strategy to get your way, but harming another's citizens is quite effective.

The other thing I'll note is this isn't just about what they collect, it's about what they put out/promote; i.e. their ability to shape (or distort) their image. I think lots more people would be concerned if they saw the Chinese govt creating rally halls around the country with high turnout, even if "they're just putting on plays" in those places.

I'm using one for myself and one for my grandpa (who gets tons of landline spam calls).

I haven't noticed a lot that's different for either of us. I think the real reason to use one of these sites is if you want your contact information to be a bit harder to find.

I get this perspective, but I think it really down plays the lack of control we have over foreign products.

Like, if a US company put a bunch of employees in place and then had them simultaneously break into people's houses, the US could arrest those who orchestrated the problem.

If a Chinese company did the same thing, sure we can arrest the individuals (if they're still in the county), but we're completely powerless as a nation to do anything to those that started the problem or those that escaped the country before we found out what they did.

Like the normal concepts of what's legal are just out the window, everything is legal when you're talking about nations vs other nations.

Oh for sure, but the games industry is one of the few that still does some weird stuff because a lot of the software is only expected to last 5 years or so at most, and needs to get every drop of performance.

I could definitely see some hyper optimized cloud API looking really great and then not having an equivalent in another ecosystem (or at least not one that could be quickly swapped out just before release).

At the moment what?

facism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

I think you'd be better off just saying censorship.

Ultimately though we've never seen anything like this, the old school rules for what constitutes acceptable censorship might need some adjusting (especially as society learns more about what closed source algorithms made by hostile foreign powers used by the youth -- and general population -- of a nation can actually do to said nation).

Dr Bronner’s Soap

I've actually never heard of this! It looks interesting; do you find it cleans well?

I hope I’m wrong about Wren but for some reason I doubt it.

I'm basically in the same boat; I was curious if I was just being too cynical or not. I currently give the money that I'd (reasonably) give to Wren to The Conservation Fund (and I'm pretty happy with that decision overall) but I wanted to challenge my perspective a bit... and see if there's some knowledge ninja that could school me about "the benefits of Public Benefit Corporations" (or the lack there of) :)

Yeah you're right, there's a good case that multiple factors lead to Stadia's failure (not to mention interest rate hikes).

IMO, I think it got memed to death. I never understood how import marketing was until I as a Stadia user saw how much bad PR it had with people who'd never tried it (and were unwilling because of what they'd heard from other non-users).

There's a reason Tim Cook didn't wear Apple Vision during the presentation lol.

It was... but it was also kind of sad as a former user... The platform actually had its serious upsides (portability, low device power draw, by virtue of streamed games not exposing the code to manipulation THE BEST anticheat you could ever imagine, etc).

Dry Cell 😥 They tried to renegotiate their record deal with Warner Records and never recovered

https://youtu.be/odx2_KdUI6Y