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What are the best steps to reduce the wealth of billionaires?

There are a myriad of news articles here on Lemmy that display the abhorrent influence billionaires have on our society (especially the US, where I reside). I consistently read comments where the posters appear hopeless and despondent of the situation, while others jokingly refer to the guillotine....

jonne, (edited )

And yet they go through great lengths to make sure those things aren’t taxed the way other things are. In fact, they’re tax deductable: propublica.org/…/private-jets-yachts-wealthy-tax-… .

If they didn’t care about spending extra, stuff like that wouldn’t make it into laws.

Being wealthy is cheap in a lot of ways, in the same way that being poor is expensive.

jonne,

Not sure if US law has a provision for this. Brexit was relatively orderly because the EU made sure there’s a process for it.

jonne, (edited )

Generally people make a huge issue out of something like that (some will even call it spyware, etc).

I think the best approach is to ask the actual community of users what they’re ok with before you start. You probably want to make sure it’s opt-in as opposed to opt-out, and be very clear about what information you do and don’t collect, and make sure it’s stored securely.

jonne,

The EU really needs to start doing something about this kind of shit.

jonne, (edited )

Anyone that wants to take the legal heat can just fork the projects and continue hosting it. I don’t blame the original developer for not wanting to deal with it, even if the legal threat sounds very ridiculous (a project like this would be the opposite of financial harm, how many of us check if something works with home assistant before buying a device?).

jonne,

If this is in user space, does this mean we can switch schedulers on the fly? Put it in game mode when gaming, power saving mode when on battery, etc?

jonne,

The labelling is in Dutch, so it’s either a Dutch or a Flemish machine.

jonne,

The FBI murdered their leadership, for one.

jonne, (edited )

It’s a real shame that generally lefties don’t really care about or ‘get’ software freedom. You should be pushing for free software on all levels. In your personal life and in government. It’s crazy how much power a company like Apple, Microsoft or Google has over everyone.

jonne,

No, Chrome. Specifically for the DRM stuff to access streaming services and casting, things that don’t quite work well with Firefox (by design). I use libre stuff when I can, but I make exceptions, I know not everyone uses Linux that way.

jonne,

I typically end up installing chrome for the odd website that does require it. Firefox is still my daily driver on all platforms though, not sure what Mozilla is thinking with their future plans.

jonne, (edited )

Exactly this. You maybe don’t want them in the middle of Yellowstone (although if you put it near a visitor centre or something to power it instead of putting in miles of pylons, it might even make sense there). But people that complain about random fields suddenly being a ruined view because of a turbine are just entitled.

jonne,

Yep, would happily take the coffee machine over a PS5. As long as I still had my PC, obviously.

jonne,

This meme is explicitly about the President committing crimes and getting away with it. I don’t think this is something you want, whether the President’s a Democrat or a Republican.

When a Torrent disappears from 1337x, how do you find out what happened?

Yesterday there was a controversial movie torrent that was getting 1000s of downloads and was on the “popular this week” page, and today it’s just gone. I went to the uploader’s account page and it’s not there either. Just like it never existed....

jonne,

Bleh, didn’t know IPT was run by chuds.

jonne,

Compared to what? We use some of the Google stuff (mail, calendar, meet and Google office) and they do the job.

jonne, (edited )

Even Hitler comes out positive.

jonne,

It was useful for the American Empire, which isn’t there to serve the American people, but their oligarchs instead: the people that own the oil companies and suppliers to the military. Whenever a country decided they wanted to control their own natural resources, a coup would happen.

jonne,

I feel that for a platform that is commonly used for pirated content, having telemetry that shows exactly what content people have is probably bad.

Next they’ll start selling that info to the MPAA so they can sue individual users.

jonne,

I’m not in the EU and those banners are still everywhere.

jonne,

In my experience most do? Maybe the US is different from everywhere else?

jonne,

Yep, their business model is basically to sell smaller packages for a low upfront price, taking advantage of customers that either don’t have the money to buy the big package or have limited transport options.

It’s another one of those things that illustrate that it’s expensive to be poor.

jonne,

Maybe the Abraham accords were all about turning ‘the only democracy in the middle east’ into Saudi Arabia.

jonne,

The bar has been lowered significantly after the Twitter takeover.

jonne,

This is an “orphan crushing machine down for maintenance” type story. Ridiculous that a law like that was even necessary.

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