clara

worrisome 🙁

yeah, i was watching him occasionally after the events of 7th october 2023. hasan was doing a react to some parent grieving that his kid was shot and killed, and the parent was saying "i'm glad my kid was shot because then i know she wasn't taken hostage"

the obvious implication was that the parent was expressing melancholic relief of the knowledge that yes, his daughter won't be tortured or worse.

instead, hasan takes that and states "see, he's happy that his kid won't have to suffer like the people in gaza" 😬

(not those exact words, before some clip chimp finds the exact phrase to try and score points. but it was definitely this sentiment)

it forced me to introspect and have a real "are we the baddies?" moment

haven't tuned in since

he really has shit for brains huh? he's seen the word "hostages" being used in the last month repeatedly, and now his brain has made the association

he never said this about them before 7th october 2023? what the fuck

ooh, you're not gonna like this then

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/falcons-planes-middle-east/index.html

is there a secret sneaky reason why this question is being asked? like, is this a trick to boost the number of questions that the MPs have both asked and answered in parliament? i.e, is this political stat padding?

yep i found this one out the hard way when applying for a job in the uk at currys (similar to best buy like in the op)

didn't get the job of course, that's fine, whatever, move on and go to next application

what i learnt afterwards though was that, they don't hire for currys/best buy based on your actual understanding of tech. they hire on your ability to sell the items, and help customers engage in excess consumerism.

the main point being, i obviously wouldn't sell anyone a $99 gold plated hdmi cable. because firstly, that's unethical profiteering, and secondly, i know that a $5 would do the same job. i would point a customer to the $5 cable, it's the correct choice. but this is why i am unhireable for this job.

currys, best buy, euronics, mediamarkt etc need to hire people that can sell the $99 cable. to do that, they counterintuitively have to hire people who don't know enough about tech. reason being, if you don't actually know about tech yourself, you will think that the gold cable is better, and you can then do a more convincing job of selling it. plausible deniability. apply this to every item in the store. you want someone who can push 8k tvs, beats headphones and smart fridges. not someone who will guide the consumer to what they actually need for their use case.

it's the reason why you go into these stores and the staff don't have a fucking clue about actual tech questions. they were hired precisely because they don't have a clue.

yeah people i talk to don't seem to get what's coming. like, they haven't had the misfortune of a medical emergency in their life, and so they've never actually experienced how bad the service provision is getting. but not just for healthcare, it's for every service.

me personally? i'm saving up that money for sure. not for the next emergency, oh goodness no. i'm going to use that savings pot to leave this island for good. ideally before i get my next medical emergency. selfish? yep, you bet! 🙂

but, i am fundamentally sick of living in a place where we pay all this money and get little service to show for it. for me, one of these two options is fine:

1. somewhere where i pay low tax and rightfully get poor service.
2. somewhere where i pay high tax and get premium quality of service.

one or the other i am fine with, preferably option 2. but what we have in the uk is the downside of both of these options.

bit of a tangent i know, but...

rather than national or local governments fix any of this, they've instead embarked on massive campaigns to massage the statistics, through changing the measuring sticks used to assess service quality across the board, and in doing so, hide all the problems. this extends to water standards, and unemployment statistics, and cancer waiting times, etc etc.

don't even get me started about the filthy liars who do the passenger rail statistics 💩

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OH, DID MY POST OFFEND YOU? if so, then I am genuinely sorry, and would be happy to take any suggestions as to how I can be more sensitive in the future. That is, if you want to impart any. I know I'm not a great person, but I'm trying to be better.

this would be good content for !THE_PACK@lemmy.world

i'm stealing it 😈

you're right, and i think that the thing that is being called out in the screenshot is not the money making per se, but the doom loop that everyone is forced to experience when trying to perform any basic information lookup using the internet in 2023. it goes something like this.

1. google "enshittification" to find that neat article you read a few months ago to post in a lemmy comment
2. first three or four results aren't what you wanted, so keep scrolling.
3. click the result you want (beginning of doom loop)
4. "we value your privacy - so please click all the individual opt-outs, because GDPR didn't say we can't harass you with opt-outs to beat you into submission"
5. "subcribe to our newsletter! we definitely won't leak this email to a third party"
6. "do you want to enable desktop notifications for this site?"
7. "this page would like to know your location (so we can serve you geo-targeted adverts)"
8. "get full access to our platform for ~~xxx~~ yyy price!" despite fake discounting being illegal in many countries
9. scroll down to start reading the first paragraph.
10. "...this is your 1st of 3 free articles this month. to receive 10 free articles a month, please register today!"
11. after dismissing all of this, you then scroll 2 paragraphs in, and find out actually, this wasn't the article you needed.
12. press back on your browser a few times to wade back through all the privacy spam
13. scroll 2 more results down on google, maybe this next one was it?
14. goto 3. (you now repeat the doom loop)

this doom loop has to stop. yes, people and businesses need to make money under the current economic system we live in. but it doesn't have to be like this.

but you know something? we all know where this is going.

some ""visionary"" san fran tech bro startup will have the "genius" idea of offering an interface between journo websites and customers, by offering a one-stop subscription shop. pay the tech bros once, they grant you access to all sites.

not unlike how uber operates as an interface between taxi drivers and customers, or how airbnb offers an interface between short term lets and customers, or how amazon offers an interface between cheap plastic vendors and customers, or how netflix operates as an interface between media content and customers, or how...

...the wheel turns.

yeah this is exactly the point lol. 😅

it's so hard to escape out of the walled ecosystems because so much of our content is already written in these places, and so even if fediverse grows exponentially, it will still take at least a decade of content creation for "free/libre" content to outpace the old silos.

but we have to start now, to get to that future.

this comment is aimed at those future "just passing through" visitors, who are still on the fence with regards to the fediverse.

any internet power user will know, and be able to tell you that the internet feels wrong as of late. everything that you try to use is slightly broken for some reason. why is it becoming harder to use basic services that we took for granted 5 years ago?

unfortunately, the internet is changing once again, and it's time to pick a side.

you can side with big corpo, stay in their walled ecosystems, and embrace enshittification.

or, you can side with the fediverse, break out of your silo, and take control of your own means of content participation.

the choice is yours.

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