ionised

18 ms·

121.
by ionised 7y ago
It sounds like you just want Facebook.
122.
by ionised 7y ago
Oh the irony.
123.
by ionised 7y ago
Citizens United decided that companies are in fact people, as dumb as it may be. Still, a company is made up of people and people make the decisions behind it. Don't deflect. It's not helpful.
124.
by ionised 7y ago
It's a reasonable and measured assumption given Microsoft's history of shady and coercive practices.
125.
by ionised 7y ago
> Well, the third part never came It did in some cases. In others, well what was the old adage? If at first you don't succeed...
126.
by ionised 7y ago
I'll remain a skeptic until they stop treating their Windows customers like children, implementing deliberately deceptive dark patterns and exfiltrating data on a scale that rivals Google and Facebook.
127.
by ionised 7y ago
You might be surprised to learn about some of the shit the US does to its own citizens.
128.
by ionised 7y ago
Advertising likes to determine that for us, and people are easily manipulated by it.
129.
by ionised 7y ago
You mean capitalism would collapse. Society would continue on in another form.
130.
by ionised 7y ago
I'm thinking you haven't done much 'unskilled labour'.
131.
by ionised 7y ago
If you're talking about software development, it's not hard to learn. You can teach someone unskilled to be a developer in around 6-12 months. Within a year or two they will be working unsupervised to a professional level. You don
132.
by ionised 7y ago
The fact the people believe the cycle of boom/bust is somehow an inevitability of life rather than a flaw in our economic ideology is yet another cynical neo-liberal deception of the working and middle classes.
133.
by ionised 7y ago
I'm not being a cynic and a snob. There are studies showing how much simpler, more generified and more homogenous and less dynamic pop music has become over the last few decades. It's an actual thing that has happened. https:&#x2
134.
by ionised 7y ago
> hey aren't healthy, but they don't pretend to be. They say very clearly what they contain and they're marketed as a treat Soda manufacturers include this information because they are required to by law. It is in their in
135.
by ionised 7y ago
Art and music aren't produced with the intention of fostering addictions in people. They don't cause death and suffering simply by being sold, or even being abused (how would one abuse art or music?). So no, that's not my log
136.
by ionised 7y ago
> And anyway, value is determined by the buyer. I disagree. You can make anything seem valuable by defining value in the most cynically narrow terms possible like that. By that same logic, heroin has great value in society, and hitmen an
137.
by ionised 7y ago
I always order Tango at places like that because I like the taste. I can't remember the last time I saw a Tango advert, but Coke which I avoid like the plague because it tastes like ass, has ads absolutely everywhere.
138.
by ionised 7y ago
I would never say 'advertising doesn't work on me' but it definitely doesn't seem to have the intended effect (persisting the brand in my memory for future sales) in a lot of cases. Example 1: Coca Cola adverts. I can&#x
139.
by ionised 7y ago
> Money is your score at the game of life. In the saddest and emptiest of lives, sure. Living only to increase the number on your bank balance seems like a terrible waste of life to me.
140.
by ionised 7y ago
Or people enjoy soda because the of insane amount of sugar put in it by people intending to make the product as addictive as possible. Remove the sugar from soda and you have awful-tasting water. Sugary drinks are no better than cigarettes,
141.
by ionised 7y ago
Just like heroin and hitmen.
142.
by ionised 7y ago
It is zero-sum if you are talking about the proportions of overall wealth that go to different demographics at any given time. People like to trot this 'not a zero-sum game' line out all the time as if it is somehow meant to make
143.
by ionised 7y ago
Why do you think they are the smartest people alive, compared to say, a scientist at CERN?
144.
by ionised 7y ago
Happens to me too.
145.
by ionised 7y ago
> A church, or other "good community" doesn't make people better, this is an individual's decision. but the churches we are talking about are religious organisations that claim a monopoly on morality. The whole (claim
146.
by ionised 7y ago
The 'badness' in people is supposed to be tempered or mitigated by these 'good communities' though. That's their whole point. If they can't even manage to better people as part of their church than the average
147.
by ionised 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence "It refers to a form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs. Institut
148.
by ionised 7y ago
You want to revolt against how society has worked pretty much since the dawn of civilisation?
149.
by ionised 7y ago
No, we can't agree.
150.
by ionised 7y ago
Pursuing cases takes time. It's not like you just complain and the next day the business in violation starts behaving.

More ›