Survey asks a bunch of morons, bigots and gammons of their opinions on things.
I've NEVER once in my entire 46yrs on this rock been asked for my opinion, probably because I'm well read, do proper research and don't fall for bullshit lies and misinformation... I'm not the target audience for right wing fascist leaning extremists who claim patriotism is all about shouting the loudest whilst being a flag shagging wanker.
(Edited to correct a typo because I am so smrt) :)
Put them all in a mansion with 1 chair, 1 bed, no doors to the outside, no windows, no entertainment and force them to pay a mortgage with not enough income... and live stream it on the internet.
Or better still, take the drives from the servers their consciousness is stored on and put it into a grinder.
The only way to win, is not to play. Cancel your prime, shop elsewhere and you 'WILL' get better deals, for those of you in the UK and EU, ALWAYS use a credit card for online purchases, as that gives you even better protections.
Shop locally, support businesses in your community, because the money you spend there, gets spent there over and over again. When you spend it in chain stores and online, that money is sucked out of your community.
I get it though... some people only care about the convenience of the deal, and that's the real cause of enshitification... the peoples failure to care about the effort they put into things... In effect it's a form of laziness and conditioning, people value their convenience above and beyond anything else. We see it in everything, social media is amongst the very worst of it, with friends complaining that they can't keep in touch because 'you're not on (insert SM name here)'... because the effort of stepping outside the bubble they've been sucked into is far too inconvenient for them, and you get to find out that these people are not really your friends... they never were, because they're convenience was always more important than your existence to them.
As for amazon, brands have woken up... do a search for something and you'll rarely find anything from those branded manufacturers... only 3rd party sellers and cheap crappy chinese knock-offs. Items that don;t even meant safety standards in the country they being sold in. Electrical goods that are a fire hazard and have caused loss of life... and amazon keeps getting away with it because '3rd party sellers' not them.
The only way to win is not to play... cancel your subscriptions, stop using their services, stop buying digital goods that can be taken away from you. Return to physical media that actually ends up being cheaper in the long run. You are the consumer, you have the power... hell... try going without a few times, you don't actually need that cheap piece of plastic crap you just ordered to save yourself a few minutes of 'prep' time in the kitchen that will break after a couple of weeks or be consigned the back of a cupboard after a few uses and forgotten about.
You have the power... use it better.
I lay in bed at night looking up at the stars and the only thing I'm thinking is 'Where the fuck is my ceiling'
Manchester police had a higher body count than the attacker is not the kind of headline that makes them look good.
It's a pyramid scheme, always has been... every decade for the last 30yrs there's been a few of them... The dot.com boom and bust of the 90's was the start, in the 2000's everything went 'digital' which was the same old shit with an LCD added to it and a doubling of the price, digital services for games/music/movies where they could take away what you bought... then they got even more serious in the 2010's where the real enshitification of the internet started... the 'cloud' where you were no longer allowed to own your own data, subscription fees for everything... 'smart' appliances that just tracked you and stole your privacy for the enrichment of a few billionaires... Crypotocurrency, the biggest scam and pyramid scheme to date... and now in the 2020's, crypto as a means to launder money and bribe politicians, massive corruption, fraud and consolidation of power by evil people and their corporate paymasters... and of course... the newest and worst pyramid scheme of them all... AI...
The only way to win is not to play... don't use it, disable it, remove it... every time you use it you are encouraging them to invade you life, take away your rights and exert control over what you can do and think... I know some of you will think that's an over reaction, you will learn one day that I and others were right to warn you as I have been doing for years now... But by then it will be too late, the climate is burning and these billionaires are trying to make it happen quicker, they value their wealth more than your very existence and they will hide away in their bunkers and private islands as the rest of humanity burns.
No... most misogynistic, insecure and incel type men want that... a real man is happy to see women (of all genders) gaining more power and places in the world.
In some countries you can, I believe Canada is one of them... at least I believe it's legal to do so in Toronto.
Takes me back to 2008 and Rockstar claiming that GTA 4... was designed for hardware that didn't exist yet after that shit show of a shitty port to PC... It would be a further 6yrs before I could play that game at a reliable 19080p, 60fps... then GTA5 came out a year later.
I never thought I'd hear of a positive school shooting story coming out of the USA
Friend: Tell me we live in a fascist country, without saying we live in a fascist country
Me: Posts link to this article
Reminds of the old story that I heard (unsure if it's true or not) about Torpenhow Hill in the UK.
Over centuries... various invaders and conquerors had come to that place and asked what it was called... First it was called Tor later on invaders added the word 'Pen' which was their word for Hill... later, more invaders came along and added the suffix 'How' which was their word for Hill.... and finally... it was named in more modern English as Torpenhow Hill.... which literally translates as Hill, Hill, Hill, Hill.
I don;t know if that's 100% true or not... but it's an amusing little story and given the oddities of the English language... I'd like to think it was.
Especially given there's a species of bear out there that's name is literally translated as Bear, Bear, Bear.