Non-American here, trying to understand.

Are these prices after insurance? If you have insurance through work, and you’ve paid a premium for “good” insurance (assuming you can do that for your family), are you still paying insane amounts for medicine and hospital care?

I say this as someone in big tech, AI is pushed because it’s an easy lie to keep big companies viewed as innovating to shareholders. I say this knowing that Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon have contributed significantly to AI research in the last few years alongside the obvious contributions of OpenAI - the goal isn’t groundbreaking AI work, but to act as a smoke-screen to show that nothing else has been delivered.

Google has lost ground in advertising, and is losing customers on many of their services. Amazon is losing ground in cloud computing and in retail. Apple has stagnated with recent poor releases. Microsoft has made ground in cloud, but has struggled in advertising, Xbox, Office, and Windows. They use GenAI to keep their stock price high, otherwise they’d drop like a sack of shit because shareholders would say “what the fuck have you even done in the last half a decade?”

There was an article back when Brexit happened that stated something few people believed at the time - this will likely result in Trump winning the GOP nomination and securing the white house.

It’s exactly the same again. The elite don’t see the problem, so working class people vote for the destructive option as it harms those in power as much as it harms them.

Isn’t this a bit like saying that because I drive a German car that’s maintained by the dealership, it’s not my car?

I’m sure it wouldn’t be tricky for the UK to move the Trident weapons program closer to home, or to align with allies in Europe (lol).

I imagine a lot of it is to remove current stock, and because the UK has several tobacco companies that moved into vapes, and also employ hundreds

Gigs and concerts are pretty grim for this now too.

I wish someone would keep a list of all the companies that have laid employees off in the last few years, so we can keep tabs on who to not give our business to.

Thank you for actually asking for citations. If something is fact, you should be able to prove it.

Eh, I would say that while there isn’t a huge amount of alignment between many of Europe’s Green parties, they all kinda hate each other for different reasons. The German and UK Greens have gone through a lot of shit over the years for their stances on Israel (way before the conflict), alongside Nuclear energy.

It’s often been a long-running joke that the main barrier for the greens in power is themselves. They’d rather attack each other over issues that don’t affect the electorate than try to mount a realistic challenge to govern.

It has to be this song

https://youtu.be/UNAr5tzZxdk?si=Nbhjz_96a9csLNWz

Argos has a huge amount of stuff, is often as cheap as Amazon, and can handle same-day pickup and delivery. Saying that it doesn’t exist in the UK is definitely bullshit, especially when we are a tiny fucking island that has handled next day delivery at scale for DECADES.

I don’t disagree at all. Trump is an absolute madman, and it’s amazing to me that he’s even in the conversation for running for president.

But, facts need to be cited, always. If a newspaper endorses Harris and says she’s a better candidate than Trump, they had better explain with evidence why this is the case. Not doing so would be just as biased, and one of the cornerstones of a Democratic campaign is truth.

Right? Lemmy is fucking wild sometimes. I don’t know why so many people here feel the need to show off about ignorance…

Through ignorance?

I’m all for hating Mr Beast, but at least know why to hate the cunt.

Why post about him then? Why be publicly ignorant about someone you dislike?

Why not Google him then? It’s what the vast majority of people that know him have had to do, because we sure as shit don’t watch his content.

While I do like jokes, even offensive ones, it often surprises me that so many American comedians seem to struggle with:

• Knowing that their audience isn’t just people in the room with them
• Understanding that at a mainstream level you can’t just cater to one crowd.

I’ve always found Tony Hinchcliffe to be a strange comedian. Sometimes he’s funny, and some of the people on Kill Tony can be great (especially the guitar guy from a while ago), but many within the “Rogan Circle” just seem to struggle with going from small shitty bars in Texas a decade or two ago to owning podcasts with thousands of viewers.

It was Trump’s favorite menu item when staying on Epstein’s island.

Are there hundreds of alternatives to online shopping on Amazon?

The same with logistics. Surely there are MANY delivery companies?

What about Amazon would you miss?

The problem with these fundamental rulings is that they’re largely trying to fit square objects through round holes. When a simple ruling is made to essentially say “to current law, no”, the law itself ultimately becomes meaningless, because older games couldn’t be easier to pirate. Most of them are smaller than a TikTok video, and are so cheap/easy to host that you’ll never stop them from being shared. Hell, emulation has come so far that you can effectively emulate these games on a browser, on multiple devices, even devices that don’t natively support gaming.

The smart thing to do would be to say that maybe the legal framework that embodies retro gaming needs to be researched and heavily considered. It’s a hard task that’ll require many lawyers, many fights, and lots of lobbying to ensure the word of law is worth something. Sadly, it’s easier to say “lol no” and to essentially just promote piracy.