[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 40 points 8 months ago

Really good article and worthwhile a read!

Let the implications of most-favoured nation settle in. If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop – even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store.

I haven't shopped at Amazon for well over a decade now, but apparently even I am affected by their business model...

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 36 points 10 months ago

Isn't it

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in this example?

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 38 points 1 year ago

Humanity isn't progressing uniformly forward like this. Lgbtqia+ people were considered normal part of society by various cultures. Also Magnus Hirschfeld was an advocate for lgbtqia+ people a hundred years ago. Slavery has been transformed into modern slavery because the western world has found other, more concealed ways to force people into labor. Ideas may die out, but they will pop into people's head again and again.

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago

Well, but is this really a truthful answer by the AI or is it just predicting what some human would say?

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I've never been into torrenting stuff but usually just do streaming via the usual sites (I usually use any site that fmhy recommends). However, I've noticed that most pirate streaming sites have much slower load rates and need a long time to buffer than commercial streaming sites. This often means that I cannot watch an episode in full but have to pause to buffer... As you can tell, I'm a total noob. What can I do to have a nicer experience streaming pirated content?

(And sure, that's probably why people get into torrenting. I already got a raspberry pi that I intent to use for this, but I couldn't find the energy to set it all up yet.)

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 37 points 2 years ago

Not only the first paper but it apparently was published in nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41570-020-0214-z#citeas

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(Description: Image of Osmia bicornis (I think) chilling on a leaf and cleaning itself.)

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I see your point of trying to help everyone communicate with each other. However, as has been pointed out repeatedly in the last few months, the threat of a 3e strategy (embrace, extend, extinguish) applied by Meta is imo very real and dangerous to the whole fediverse. That's why people want to defederate threads. And when large corporations use their huge userbase to make everyone else's life harder and peer pressure you into joining them then that's on them. I mean, there is a reason we few people are here on the fediverse. For most it's probably making the effort to stay away from those privacy-invading, controlling corporations and create something by the people for the people. I get that it is tempting to be able to reach the masses stuck in platforms like Facebook or Instagram. But this comes with the real threat of destroying what we've build here. Restraining from federation doesn't cost us anything though, as we've already made the decision to get together here in this small community.

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 33 points 2 years ago

Why not convince people to use Signal as well? Even my family has a group chat on Signal. Of course, it's a slow move with most people sticking to non-open chats. But it's worth the effort I would say.

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 50 points 2 years ago

Uff, besonders schlimm, wenn die Person sogar vor dem eigenen Zuhause verprügelt wurde. Das nimmt ja dann total das eigene Sicherheitsgefühl :(

Und mal wieder muss die Polizei ganz genau ermitteln ob ganz eventuell ein politischer Hintergrund zur Tat führte. Wenn Linke Wahlplakate abreißen oder Autos anzünden, ist das für die immer glasklar. Aber Nazis, die faschistische Parolen schreiend jemandem verprügeln oder eine Geflüchtetenunterkunft anzünden, könnten ja auch bedauerliche Einzelfälle ohne jeglichen politischen Hintergrund sein...

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hm, ich weiß nicht. Ich hab das Gefühl, sie fällt in ne ähnliche Kategorie wie Sabine Hossenfelder, die auch fachliches Wissen hat und dann versucht, logisch an Probleme heranzugehen, dabei aber oft eigene biases total außen vorlässt. Glaub in Physik oder Chemie ist das meistens nicht so entscheidend, außer man hinterfragt nicht mal den wissenschaftlichen Bias. Aber beide, Mai Thi und Sabine haben Videos zu gesellschaftlichen Themen, die ich daneben finde und wo offensichtlich wird, dass deren analytisch-"rationaler" Ansatz in sozialen/gesellschaftlichen Fragen eben nicht funktioniert, weil er nicht so analytisch-rational ist, wie die beiden denken. Das steht in der Tradition des wissenschaftlich-rationalen Denkens, bringt uns aber nicht bei allen Themen vorwärts, wenn wir uns nur darauf verlassen. Es werden dann nämlich oft gesellschaftliche Normen einfach so übernommen und ein Problem nur innerhalb dieser diskutiert, statt über den Tellerrand zu schauen und zu fragen, inwiefern diese Normen schon die Diskussion selbst unfair machen.

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 34 points 2 years ago

Haven't watched on fmovies before, thanks for the suggestion I guess :)

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I'm usually not paying a lot of attention to Mr. Beast and such, but recently one of them came out as trans and so I was interested in how it went. Found this wholesome interview with Kris and thought to share here. Hope you can enjoy it as much :)

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 37 points 2 years ago

Krass, ich hätte von der BILD nen viel schlechteren Artikel erwartet. Also, fands interessant, dass die ihm tatsächlich paar kritische Fragen gestellt haben, wie z.B. ob er sich für Selbstjustiz starkmacht und ob er nicht eigentlich doch mit der AFD zusammenarbeiten würde.

Aber klar, dieser Typ ist mega gruselig und merkt es selber nicht. Ruft zur Selbstjustiz auf, will wieder nur der Mehrheit zuhören, das "Migrationsproblem" lösen und er will, dass schön alles so bleibt, wie es ist, weil es gibt ja gar keine Probleme in unserer Art zu leben. Wie krass einfach die Stammtisch-Gehenden die einzigen Protagonist:innen in seiner kleinen Welt sind. Alle, die nicht dazugehören, gehören nicht gehört und wahrscheinlich auch nicht nach Bayern/Deutschland. Wie realitätsfern :/

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I really liked the Some More News episode on this! It explains pretty well how regardless of a rich person's intelligence they probably get corrupted by mental distortions due to being rich. That is, Elon haa probably been powertripping for too long and lost all basis on how to take good decisions because he lives in his own rich fantasy world thinking he accomplished everything because of his own superior genius...

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