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  • Batman in an interrogation room pins joker to the wall.

    Batman: “I’ve only got one rule”

    Joker: “Then that’s the rule you’re gonna have to break to get what you want”.

    Now I hate Marvell and all super hero movies but I do find that quote applies to a lot of things.

    If you’re truthful or law abiding then law breakers have an advantage on you. They’ll try and undermine free and fair elections.

    If you’re a pacifist then people will use violence to try and control you, such as terrorism, or simply ignore your laws.

    If you have socialism then people will pour in from other countries or try to exploit the system in whatever they can.

    If the police or strict or lax in either direction it causes upset.

    Whatever you say is a law, or a line you won’t cross, is something that people will exploit.











  • The triple lock is unsustainable. After a 10% boost because of inflation they’re about to get an 8% boost due to wage rises at a cost of 2.2b to workers. During a decade of stagnation they got the 2.5% boost creating an unsustainable debt.

    We give more money to old people than defence, policing and education combined. You get less than 50% return on your taxes handed over.

    It’s just not sustainable. These are exactly the people who should be paying tax in a fair society. Rejoining the EU and taxing a few companies won’t suddenly reduce the problems we have, it’s stupid to even suggest it given the gravity of our situation. We have the highest taxes in 75 years, a student loan puts your tax rate to 63%. Boomers got paid to go to uni. Our debt obligation is practically where it was after the Second World War.

    People need wage rises to pay for housing that’s tripled in price since the 90s. Old people don’t have mortgages and they got help with their gas bills through other schemes… so why are you defending giving them 18% uplift when workers had to strike for just 6%?





  • Conspiratorial but has a string of possibility.

    User: What are you doing?

    Microsoft and Motherboard manufacturers: Putting DRM chips on the motherboard.

    User: Why?

    Microsoft: No reason.

    User: Most businesses would switch to a cheaper toilet paper to save $5, why are you shipping chips and developing software and technology to use these chips.

    Microsoft: Oh we’re not going to force anyone to do anything, we just want the ability to. Look at this workaround that we expect 0.015 of our billions of Windows users to use.



  • It was amazing but I was young and it was wonderful to discover. I think people have fond memories for it really.

    It’s very similar to Lemmy, if not just the same thing done a different way. I think there were only upvotes (I can Digg it).

    For young people discovering Lemmy, as it is now, and discovering Linux subreddits etc, they probably get the same enjoyment/attachment etc.

    The redesign of Digg downplayed it’s communities and put mainstream media first (as if Kbins magazine tool was restricted to famous newspapers) and thus it immediately felt like the community had been fractured. Reddit was growing with peoples own blogs and it felt way more community oriented. This is where I think and hope Lemmy will also find its own community.