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gold skin unlocked: escape 1000 cats

i don't get what the guy in the middle panel is there for, standing on the dome of the rock. if it's funny, i don't get the reference, can someone enlighten me.

oh and that speaker icon is annoying in the bottom right of the lower panel.

i decided to repair the meme by removing these two elements, and then adding alt text. enjoy.

if you're serious, then here's two places i recommend to make a start on that train of thought

https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org should clue you in on which "advanced economies" might skew towards the life factors that interest you

and https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison-tool might help you narrow down which of these will be a better cultural fit

i'm aware there's a lot of subjectivity in these two links but, it could help you make a start.

many people are great at saying "get me out of here" online, but not many people follow up that thought, and ask themselves "but where to?"

be one of those who answers the second question. start working on your escape today! 💪

worrisome 🙁

yeah, i was watching him occasionally after the events of 7th october 2023. hasan was doing a react to some parent grieving that his kid was shot and killed, and the parent was saying "i'm glad my kid was shot because then i know she wasn't taken hostage"

the obvious implication was that the parent was expressing melancholic relief of the knowledge that yes, his daughter won't be tortured or worse.

instead, hasan takes that and states "see, he's happy that his kid won't have to suffer like the people in gaza" 😬

(not those exact words, before some clip chimp finds the exact phrase to try and score points. but it was definitely this sentiment)

it forced me to introspect and have a real "are we the baddies?" moment

haven't tuned in since

he really has shit for brains huh? he's seen the word "hostages" being used in the last month repeatedly, and now his brain has made the association

he never said this about them before 7th october 2023? what the fuck

is there a secret sneaky reason why this question is being asked? like, is this a trick to boost the number of questions that the MPs have both asked and answered in parliament? i.e, is this political stat padding?

yep i found this one out the hard way when applying for a job in the uk at currys (similar to best buy like in the op)

didn't get the job of course, that's fine, whatever, move on and go to next application

what i learnt afterwards though was that, they don't hire for currys/best buy based on your actual understanding of tech. they hire on your ability to sell the items, and help customers engage in excess consumerism.

the main point being, i obviously wouldn't sell anyone a $99 gold plated hdmi cable. because firstly, that's unethical profiteering, and secondly, i know that a $5 would do the same job. i would point a customer to the $5 cable, it's the correct choice. but this is why i am unhireable for this job.

currys, best buy, euronics, mediamarkt etc need to hire people that can sell the $99 cable. to do that, they counterintuitively have to hire people who don't know enough about tech. reason being, if you don't actually know about tech yourself, you will think that the gold cable is better, and you can then do a more convincing job of selling it. plausible deniability. apply this to every item in the store. you want someone who can push 8k tvs, beats headphones and smart fridges. not someone who will guide the consumer to what they actually need for their use case.

it's the reason why you go into these stores and the staff don't have a fucking clue about actual tech questions. they were hired precisely because they don't have a clue.

yeah people i talk to don't seem to get what's coming. like, they haven't had the misfortune of a medical emergency in their life, and so they've never actually experienced how bad the service provision is getting. but not just for healthcare, it's for every service.

me personally? i'm saving up that money for sure. not for the next emergency, oh goodness no. i'm going to use that savings pot to leave this island for good. ideally before i get my next medical emergency. selfish? yep, you bet! 🙂

but, i am fundamentally sick of living in a place where we pay all this money and get little service to show for it. for me, one of these two options is fine:

1. somewhere where i pay low tax and rightfully get poor service.
2. somewhere where i pay high tax and get premium quality of service.

one or the other i am fine with, preferably option 2. but what we have in the uk is the downside of both of these options.

bit of a tangent i know, but...

rather than national or local governments fix any of this, they've instead embarked on massive campaigns to massage the statistics, through changing the measuring sticks used to assess service quality across the board, and in doing so, hide all the problems. this extends to water standards, and unemployment statistics, and cancer waiting times, etc etc.

don't even get me started about the filthy liars who do the passenger rail statistics 💩

POST ARCHIVED TO PREVENT LINK ROT MFERS, FUTURE HOG CRANKERS MIGHT WANNA KNOW

FOR SCREEN READERS, THIS POST IS OF A COOL SKELETON HOLDING A BONE SCYTHE ON A BACKGROUND OF LIGHTNING AND THUNDER. THE SKELETON SAYS:

OH, DID MY POST OFFEND YOU? if so, then I am genuinely sorry, and would be happy to take any suggestions as to how I can be more sensitive in the future. That is, if you want to impart any. I know I'm not a great person, but I'm trying to be better.

this would be good content for !THE_PACK@lemmy.world

i'm stealing it 😈

you're right, and i think that the thing that is being called out in the screenshot is not the money making per se, but the doom loop that everyone is forced to experience when trying to perform any basic information lookup using the internet in 2023. it goes something like this.

1. google "enshittification" to find that neat article you read a few months ago to post in a lemmy comment
2. first three or four results aren't what you wanted, so keep scrolling.
3. click the result you want (beginning of doom loop)
4. "we value your privacy - so please click all the individual opt-outs, because GDPR didn't say we can't harass you with opt-outs to beat you into submission"
5. "subcribe to our newsletter! we definitely won't leak this email to a third party"
6. "do you want to enable desktop notifications for this site?"
7. "this page would like to know your location (so we can serve you geo-targeted adverts)"
8. "get full access to our platform for xxx yyy price!" despite fake discounting being illegal in many countries
9. scroll down to start reading the first paragraph.
10. "...this is your 1st of 3 free articles this month. to receive 10 free articles a month, please register today!"
11. after dismissing all of this, you then scroll 2 paragraphs in, and find out actually, this wasn't the article you needed.
12. press back on your browser a few times to wade back through all the privacy spam
13. scroll 2 more results down on google, maybe this next one was it?
14. goto 3. (you now repeat the doom loop)

this doom loop has to stop. yes, people and businesses need to make money under the current economic system we live in. but it doesn't have to be like this.

but you know something? we all know where this is going.

some ""visionary"" san fran tech bro startup will have the "genius" idea of offering an interface between journo websites and customers, by offering a one-stop subscription shop. pay the tech bros once, they grant you access to all sites.

not unlike how uber operates as an interface between taxi drivers and customers, or how airbnb offers an interface between short term lets and customers, or how amazon offers an interface between cheap plastic vendors and customers, or how netflix operates as an interface between media content and customers, or how...

...the wheel turns.

yeah this is exactly the point lol. 😅

it's so hard to escape out of the walled ecosystems because so much of our content is already written in these places, and so even if fediverse grows exponentially, it will still take at least a decade of content creation for "free/libre" content to outpace the old silos.

but we have to start now, to get to that future.

this comment is aimed at those future "just passing through" visitors, who are still on the fence with regards to the fediverse.

any internet power user will know, and be able to tell you that the internet feels wrong as of late. everything that you try to use is slightly broken for some reason. why is it becoming harder to use basic services that we took for granted 5 years ago?

unfortunately, the internet is changing once again, and it's time to pick a side.

you can side with big corpo, stay in their walled ecosystems, and embrace enshittification.

or, you can side with the fediverse, break out of your silo, and take control of your own means of content participation.

the choice is yours.

if you like following concepts or "things" (reddit-style), then try here: https://join-lemmy.org/

or, if you prefer following individuals or "trends" (twitter-style), then try here: https://joinmastodon.org/

i went down a rabbit hole last night about this, and found that there still isn't good support for alt text tagging on lemmy.

closest i found for emojis is something like this: 👋

at the end of the previous sentence, i included an emoji of a hand waving goodbye, and i have attempted to tag it using markdown. but, my suspicion is that it tries to read the alt text as a link, and it therefore doesn't work.

this is apparently the best lemmy can do for emojis. i think that is not good enough, and this needs to be improved by the developers

thank you for providing me with a teachable moment about accessibility.

i will do my best to keep readability in mind for the future. <3

they don't read out at all? oh no! i would have thought that it would at least print words like "upside down smile" or "heart".

i will try my best to use them as an enhancement only then, like, to maybe only emphasize a statement instead of including them mid-text.

example 1) i am happy with this 🙂

versus

example 2) i am 🙂 with this.

in example 1, i have included a "smile" emoji at the end of the statement. in example 2, i replaced the word "happy" with a "smile" emoji.

if example 2 causes grief, then i will try my best to never write like that again.

that's very fair, i didn't consider the impact of what i said as i was writing it, i only wished to contextualise the decision making process behind the domain, (which was done in a time crunch). for my poor writing style in this regard, i am sorry.

likewise, no reason you should know this, but for what it's worth, i will state that i am autistic, and i am extremely bad with these types of political considerations when writing, talking, or anything really. you would think i would be more aware of the circumstances that others face given my difficulties but, well, that's the thing with my conditon, isn't it 😅. this is why i haven't opted to help out in a mod/admin capacity, because i know that i would botch the communications side (from past experience)

i understand where you are coming from, and i hope you can likewise do this with me ❤️

lastly, i will state that i am not trying to win anyone over with the post, i merely wished to answer the "how and why the name was purchased" part of your question. as you have said, i am happy to slow down and continue with the current system, now that we are saved, and that no major overhaul is needed just yet. the decisions taken were taken specifically because we would have been out of time, had we not been saved by today's events. were they good decisions? that's another question 🙂

side question for you: how do emojis work on screen readers? i am someone who likes to include emojis in posts to directly convey my thinking, but i had never considered that they might read out strangely.

you're right, but i'll point you to this, to save duplicate threading -> https://feddit.uk/comment/3713552

alright, i'll spot you some background info :)

the initial reasoning was that the domain decision would have been a fait accompli for us all - if feddit.uk died, then users would either move to the new instance organized by the same power users, or accept moving elsewhere. as such, it would be a waste of time making a full forum post and spending weeks bickering on (what was) a dying forum, when none of the respondents would have been the ones putting their credit card on the line for it anyway. remember, at this point, there were no admin/mod facilities on feddit.uk - if someone wanted to go absolutely ham on the feddit.uk instance, we would have all be screwed. time was of the essence here

given the speed that things were moving to ensure a smooth transition, something had to give to speed up the process, and so a full community consent was one of those things on the chopping block. there just wasn't enough time for that before we faced full defederation and user exodus, on the initial timeline that was happening. however, a healthy debate was hosted for at least a week at the matrix space, and an approval vote was taken amongst those invested in the discussion, to whittle it down, such that progress could be made. the reasoning being, if a user was enough of an active user to have read all the feddit.uk meta threads that pointed them to the matrix space, and then joined that space to learn more, then they were obviously an invested user. users on feddit.uk were given plenty of pointers and hints to join the matrix space to discuss our future, and as such, it was confident that whatever was chosen through the vote by the matrix users would have had some community buy-in regardless of which option won.

for anyone with concerns about this from a "small cabal chooses a name" standpoint, consider that feddit.uk was decided by just one person. so, 🤷. why care? it wouldn't have been the end of the world even if the domain was picked by executive fiat

domain was kept secret initially to prevent sniping, and secondly to prevent users trying to signup somewhere that wasn't ready, and getting frustrated. i.e, keep it secret until point of no return.

but now? well, now it's not so clear cut at all, lol. i'm thankful we didn't have to go through a community fracture, but there's a lot of work that must be shelved for the time being.

i think we need time for the dust to settle, let our new admins wrangle the website back into compliance with broader federation, and then we can have the identity debate.

when that time comes, i still vote for quackhouse though, absolutely 100%. it's far superior to every other option we raised. 🦆

side note: my suggestion to anyone who wants to say "i dont like it" is to do better than to so easily say "i don't like it", and instead, provide your own damn counter proposal, and then say why yours is better. in the first week of discussion, we had quite a few "i dont like that" voices, and very little constructive "how about this?" voices. justify why your idea is better. 💪

alright, since i'm first up to comment, i'll start with an easy one

tiananmen square massacre denial should probably be banned or removed on sight.

i'm making this suggestion because there is a... particular... audience and demographic in the fediverse that for some reason, has issues with accepting this. i will not name this audience, because this same audience also likes to brigade posters that dare to stick their head up above the trenches and point out that actually, some of their takes might be verifiably wrong. i hope that not naming them reduces my chance of being detected, and then drawing targeted fire. one of us had to be the person to point it out, so i guess it's my turn.

by all means, debate casualty figures, sure. debate why there were protests, sure, that's not the thing i have issue. but if a poster is trying to sincerely argue that nothing happened, in my opinion, it's a strong indiciation that the poster is acting in bad faith

how to implement this as a rule? maybe i would go with "no denial of historically verified massacres"? it sounds obvious really, but if you don't spell it out, people can and will say "ahh but the mods didn't say i can't! 🥴"

i dunno how you want to go about it exactly, but yeah.