1984

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[–] 1984 21 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

If you look at how many things Google is dominating, it makes sense. You probably don't even think about how dominating they are, but they have global search, global email, global Android, global maps, global tracking of cars, global video service (YouTube), global language translate, global chrome os... It's really hard to even see anything Google is not dominating.

Apple... What, makes the best hardware and makes it's own operating system? That's about it.

The amount of data Google has on us is much worse than that science function has imagined. They are the big brother, knowing every intimate detail about billions of people.

And they have ties to the US intelligence service, and probably have given them direct access to all that data through some patriot act or whatever. It's fine but make no mistake here, apple is nothing compared to that.

[–] 1984 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I just watch shows. Don't care which network they come from. :)

[–] 1984 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Reminds me of that Southpark episode where cartman identifies as a trans person to get his own bathroom in school. :)

[–] 1984 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't watch the news, because it's not like you get unbiased facts - it's the entire behavior of the news anchors and the people, and the editing, that creates a form of programming of people's minds.

It's also almost 100% negative. And you can't affect anything.

I guess people watch it because they are scared of not knowing what's going on? I don't need to know what's going on. If I lived in Thailand, I would miss all western news and it wouldn't matter at all. So why not act like I live in Thailand.

Let me know if the news ever help someone feel better about themselves, or how to get better relationships, how to love people more. Because that's what my life is about. And how to have fun. :)

[–] 1984 113 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

People are being exploited and screwed over left and right. Piracy is not even a blip on the radar.

If society was built on moral rules and honest behavior, then maybe people should feel bad about pirating. But this society? Lols.

I struggle to even see the difference from slavery on most days.

[–] 1984 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I got so bored with that movie, but if you like special effects and violence and gore, it's never a dull moment.

It was pretty much completely missing any real emotions at all.

[–] 1984 2 points 3 days ago
[–] 1984 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I wouldn't fight a woman just because she wants it. I would feel horrible beating her up.

You have to understand that just because someone wants something, it doesn't mean they are thinking straight. You shouldn't take advantage of that.

[–] 1984 -2 points 5 days ago

Ah ok. Yeah I guess they don't make it a priority for some reason.

[–] 1984 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

The word consumer is so demeaning... But yes.

Humans are actually the only real producers in the world if you think about it. Everything around you is built by other humans.

We rarely think about that.

[–] 1984 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

It's great how people are gathering and having discussions under heavily censored platforms owned by billionaries, just amazing.

[–] 1984 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I watched The Day of the Jackal - very good.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt24053860/

 

This is not dystopian at all, is it? Humans sleeping in pods. I guess it beats homelessness but this seems like a fail on epical levels (unless profits for these pod companies are what we care about).

 

New thunderbird available for android now. :)

 

It. Is. Never. Enough.

You paid hundreds of dollars for a new monitor, but it doesn't matter. More ads, more profits.

I hate it.

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Alien Romulus (self.movies)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by 1984 to c/movies@lemmy.world
 

I just watched alien romulus and I thought it was really frustrating. What happened to the lethal face huggers and the older, experienced crew of spaceships that got paid like shit by the company?

Now they are hitting face huggers left and right with sticks, and people just get up after having one over their face.

I didn't feel like I cared about the characters. They were actually quite unlikeable. I really miss Ripley. She had enormous amount of character, strength and intelligence. What did we get in this movie? They are all super generic.

Just disappointed. How about you guys?

 

I guess it's just a matter of time before you subscribe to games, and you lose access when you stop paying.

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Kagi Snaps (help.kagi.com)
 

This is not revolutionary but it saves some keystrokes when wanting to limit results to certain sites.

Personally I don't really limit anything with Kagi. It's usually just finding what I want without having to do anything.

 

I wish I was a billion dollar company who gets away with stuff like this. Just generally break people's systems, add spyware, lie to users, treat them like shit.

All while making even more money and my stocks keep on going up, because AI, Ai, Ai...

 

The bike knows my height and weight and that's about it. From that it can calculate how my body burns calories?

Every body is very different, so I don't see how any calculation can be accurate.

 

I can't express how much I love hetzner doing this. There is a huge market for people who just need some instances and reliable/cheap object storage to run their apps.

 

If you have money, you can pay the bail and get released, while poor people can't.

I don't see why people with money should get benefits in the legal system?

 

Is gen z intentionally refusing to change their behavior for work, or what is the reason for this?

Kind of think it's cool that they remain themselves.

 

Similar to America, Europe is also artificially trying to make consumers choose native cars, by making Chinese ones more expensive.

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