Finally! I think I need to put some annual leave in

I feel personally attacked

192cm / 6’3”

I’d say it’s been a pretty good height, though I bang my head a lot if I travel to countries with average heights on the lower end.

Possibly the main downside is things like kitchens and work surfaces in general could do with an extra 15-20cm of height for me to not mess up my back using them for any period of time.

Actually my back in general is the main downside, I feel like shorter people don’t need to put half of the extra care into not accidentally waking up with crippling pain the next day.

Edit: others in the thread have mentioned clothes, getting a non-loose-fit look together can be tough without ending up with inadvertent crop tops

Edit 2: oh god and I basically can’t fly using normal economy seats if I don’t want to end up with bruised knees

This country just keeps letting me down

I can hear the facing worlds music in my head

I’m glad you picked an appropriate instance when you came to Lemmy

Purity tests and purges

Fascists gonna fascist.

The Dems rely on corporate America, they will not be an ally in revolution

Yahoo is legitimately still a big deal in Japan, I was surprised to find out recently

Hotmail just evolved into outlook, I know a few people who still use it

My dad is the only person I have come across in at least a decade who still uses his AOL email address

An independent NGO or watchdog kind of regulatory body staffed by psychology and technology experts with the legislative teeth to issue cease notices with meaningful fines to back them up (take the GDPR penalties as inspiration) should a media platform implement a harmful user experience.

It would be important that the organisation is protected from lobbying interests and direct control from the elected politicians. Though obviously its existence would hinge on the corresponding legislation being persisted.

The result will be a couple of big fines and then everyone else will play ball

This article gets so close but it feels like it goes right past the actual point.

Profit motivated tech companies are weaponising psychology to dominate your time. There’s nothing stopping them from turning your reward system against yourself. Plus given this time is generally being spent on passive consumption, of course people are gonna end up dumber—brains need exercise just like the rest of your body.

Regulation is basically the only way to remedy this (beyond actually nationalising these organisations) and unfortunately it’s gonna have to be American regulation for the most part, which I’m not gonna hold my breath for under the next administration

This.

“Don’t just copy and paste from Encarta” was commonly recited by my teachers when I was younger

That being said, since it’s actually good I now expect it to be nerfed and/or abandoned in about 6 months

Exactly this, Google is where it is because generally its products start out pretty good

I live in the UK, a capitalist country.

The Scottish have this already, everyone gets free education including university, no strings. In England we only have it for people from lower economic backgrounds (via means tested grants to pay tuition), but still, we still do it for some people. It’s not a remotely absurd idea.

Hell even most pragmatic capitalists would agree that a free-at-the-point-of-use education system is generally a good investment in the labour pool. If skilled workers are rare, they have negotiating power, and we know how much capitalists just love workers that are able to negotiate from a position of power.

Education to any level should be free at the point of use. Hell I’d even go as far as to say people should be given a (non-means-tested) grant if they go into higher education. We need more smart people.

The more educated & informed a society is, the more productive, safe and free it is. No one should deny themselves the education they otherwise want because they can’t afford it.

Ikr, people in this position are expected to be malicious, they’re also generally expected to be the smart kind of sociopath.

This guy clearly has no idea of the situation he finds himself in

Gotta be honest, that’s literally what outlaw means

Ultimately, oil companies through the medium of corrupt political organisations.

Man made climate change is an objective fact, anyone denying it in 2024 is either making a shit load of money from the petrochemical industry and is morally bankrupt or they’re an actual, paint-chip eating, mortally-gullible moron.

I wonder if he’s trying to speedrun this kid hating him. Not going to be a nice day when the kid realises daddy used him as an emergency bullet sponge

I see where you’re coming from but then you could easily headline this as “Teenage con man scams $50k”

Just because some people are gullible, and even if they’re also often shitty people, it doesn’t mean they deserve to be scammed