Most of Europe I'd say...

I feel like behaving like this is just kicking down. People doing scam calls are also just people and usually in a financially worse situation than who they are trying to call. Not even that, it is especially often people from the global south that we comparatively rich people from the global north exploit and gain our wealth from. And instead of trying to look at the big picture and seeing who the biggest scammer is (the capitalist system itself), most people just bully the ones that are worse off than them... I get that it feels way much more personal and tragic when a grandma loses all her savings to a small group of scammers. But the damages and losses done by large corporations (that also created the desperate circumstances and the motivation of the scammers in the first place) outweigh these scams billions of times. So please show some decency and treat them like normal people.

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...

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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 :/

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...