• Leomas@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      I think your priorities are in the wrong place if you think about “forums for communists” instead of “telegram channels with incel nazis”.

      • vanillama@programming.dev
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        16 days ago

        I interpreted it as them mentioning lemmy (since lots of lemmy users are communists or socialists of some flavor), but if they meant to complain I agree with you completely

          • Leomas@lemmy.world
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            15 days ago

            Now I feel compelled to ask: Do you this meme is seriously asking for opinions on subversive innovations? Because I interpreted it as asking what is the most dystopian.

            • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              15 days ago

              It appears to me that the meme is complaining about tech breaking laws, not soliciting opinions. In case this needs to be said, I’m using Lemmy because of its ability to resist (legal!) censorship, especially of long-overdue leftist speech.

            • Leomas@lemmy.world
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              15 days ago

              And I hope you would agree nazis killing people are more dystopian than fucking larpers.

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              15 days ago

              I took it as the poll itself, and the results, being entirely irrelevant. They just decided to use that as the format/delivery mechanism for their joke.

    • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      But then the poll would make little sense, because forums for communists would win with 99.97% of votes…

    • Aneorthisio@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      The unconstrained expansion of credit following the end of Bretton Woods system could only lead to the long term devaluation of the currency, something that’s theorically infinite is also inherently entropic.

      • rmrf@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Nah those food delivery bastards. They don’t even go home after they just sit together taking up half the side walk

  • makeshift0546@lemmy.today
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    16 days ago

    I love em all except the coins at the outset. Uber is too expensive these days but air bnb is utterly fantastically.

      • makeshift0546@lemmy.today
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        16 days ago

        That just not true across the board. I’ve found solo they are expensive but compared to getting a suite at a hotel they are competitive. You ain’t beating the king room at a Hilton though, agreed.

        It certainly isn’t true AT ALL for group travel. I regularly stay in very nice homes for under $150/night per person.

    • paultimate14@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Uber is too expensive these days

      That was always the goal. Uber and Lyft prices were heavily subsidized early on. Their investors poured billions into them in order to not just establish market share, but tk drive existing taxi services out of business. Taxi services that had things like: fleets of company-owned vehicles instead of personal vehicles, commercials grade maintenance schedules, stricter licensing requirements for drivers, unionized employees instead of independent contractors, etc

      Uber and Lyft just plain ignored a lot of existing regulations by saying “those don’t apply because this is an app” to legislators who were too old to know how to turn on a smart phone. They got the public on-board by temporarily offering artificially low prices and high payouts to drivers. Now they have established themselves and removed the competition, so the payouts are going down and the prices are going up.

      There are still some US cities that do not allow Uber or Lyft to operate, and there are other countries in the world that do the same.

      • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net
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        14 days ago

        It’s still miles better than Cabs, I can’t believe this even has to be argued! When was the last time anyone here defending cabs/shitting on Uber actually took a cab somewhere?

        The few times I had to/decided to take a taxi, I got absolutely ripped off. And with an Uber, even if it’s expensive, you at least know before hand how much you’re paying. You can decline if you think it’s too much. Good luck trying that with taxis.

      • makeshift0546@lemmy.today
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        16 days ago

        I couldn’t give a fuck any the regulations. They sucked and did nothing. Cabs were broken and Uber fixed that shit right up.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    But srsly to me it does feel like the future, because when I was a kid “by the year 2000” was synonymous with a glorious future of space hotels, undersea cities, moon bases… I can’t believe we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century and none of that has happened. On the plus side we did get really spiffy new ways to buy stuff we don’t need with money we don’t have, and fingertip access to pretty much all of human knowledge, which most of us ignore in our endless quest for entertainment. But oh well.

    • FalcoLombardi1@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      Fucked up thing is some of that has happened, but you need to have been born into generational wealth to be a part of those things. Ritchie Ricn is just moralisticly better version of Musk. Or at least a version less hooked on coach K

      • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        I was or into a generational wealth, as all Americans are do is, as it be in the moder. Day As each rockers the splith, they know egar cons don’t say sme k and I know that’s how they control the hammock, so I swing it do is dee, that’s sby i’m like this.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Yeah, because you were thinking of all the ways technology could have been awesome, while what they were working on was making it funnel all the world’s wealth to a handful of people.

  • dismay3915@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    “Fake money for criminals” is such a dumb, bootlicker thing to say.

    Maybe most “1st world” people don’t undersrand it yet but crypto (although most of it is scam, but the good ones like Monero) really enables international transactions and freedom of money and brings so much freedom to the people.

    Scammers have ruined the image of cryptocurrenvies but there are actually useful currencies out there like XMR,LTC that are being used frequently for actuall services and products. Not just trading.

      • dismay3915@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        Oh yes, because the US and co. Have decided to put sanctions on a bunch of countries, the “3rd world people” are not allowed to buy products or services or make monetary transactions with the “civilized world”? No, fuck governments and fuck their sanctions and rules. People who insist on doing things, especially monetary transactions only the way the governments and states want to are the definition of bootlicker. Free economy requires free money (free as in freedom)

    • FatherPeanut@pawb.socialEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Honestly I’d say the ones who ruined it were the cryptobros who only care about seeing number go up. Gave a bad rep to crypto right outta the gate, especially with causing the (first) GPU shortage. Now if you mention crypto to anyone, even with a legitimate interest, they instantly get a bad taste in their mouth.

      It is always nice when some service allows payment in Monero though. The default of bitcoin is still prominent, but thankfully most people are realizing it ain’t private at all.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    I miss when the tech business model was to find where buyers and sellers were interacting, insert an app in the middle and then add fees.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    I know this is programmer humor but as a tech guy who actually likes tech that isn’t destructive, this just makes me sad

  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I mean if we’re opposed to every new technology than obviously we’re all going to call it illegal. Doesn’t matter what it is. Maybe the pattern is saying something about us and not the tech

    • mabeledo@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      The fact that big money keeps creeping in and forcing harmful stuff down everyone’s throats does tell us something about ourselves as a society, yes.

  • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Well the innovations clearly must be good because people use them so much. Frankly the term “illegal” doesn’t carry much weight for me. Piracy is illegal, but I think copyright is far worse.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    16 days ago

    The first two depend on centralized services and nonfree software, which are things I don’t like. The third doesn’t. The fourth doesn’t have to.

    So by those metrics I like cryptocurrency the most. In fact I have invested a bit of my savings in Bitcoin. I have never used Uber or AirBnB meanwhile.

  • krisevol@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    16 days ago

    The illegal cab company made legal cabs cheaper and more competitive, after a decade of them charging high prices and pricing shitty service.

    Same thing happened when the illegal hotel company came along.

      • nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        16 days ago

        I’m experiencing the opposite, AirBnB has gotten ridiculous with their pricing. After all the fees and hassle it ends up cheaper staying at an actual hotel.