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TikTok is absolutely scummy in how they nag you for access rights to phone features / data but I don't think there's a way to do this without adding third "Popular" tab next to Following and For You.

If they had this as a setting then it'd have to stay this way. Industry standard is to withhold such setting and constantly default to algorithmic page in the attempt to trap you there or make you tired of switching feed constantly.

I prefaced this with disclaimer that's a personal experience. It's probably hard to measure because people aren't that eager to self report tax avoidance.

It is government's interest though. Hence extensive AML regulations for example.

Yeah, their algo is fun most of the time but it's easy to fall into a bubble and detach from reality. It's also quite transparent how often you're subjected to annoying A/B testing. I'm glad this is happening because it gives users ability to see general view and get more control over their experience.

Building complex systems involving humans is hard because humans are flawed. The best thing we've come up so far are systems involving extensive checks and balances to prevent thing happening too rapidly and without necessary oversight and even then it's a tricky part to balance.

For the record, I'm not for entirely cashless society but organisations that are cash heavy have proven to be source of many headaches. There is a balance to be found on thresholds and barring some types of businesses from using cash and where digital money transfer is required. Banks and other money transfer entities will have to deal with scenarios where malicious parties will try to obfuscate their intent outside of those thresholds.

This is all technically true but cash is not the answer.

Right now there are so many easily accessible ways for governments to spy on people (cell phone geolocation, call metadata monitoring) that I'm not sure that for the purposes you think of you aren't screwed already anyway. From this perspective fight for cash use becomes a bit theoretical.

The only people that I know of personally that are strongly for cash are either people that frequently skirt around taxes ("minor" stuff like car repair shops) and unfortunately conspiracy nuts. Genuine privacy oriented people exist but realistically the majority will be there for selfish reasons.

The societal cost of tax evasion, money laundering and financing organisations that legally require transparency (political orgs, NGOs etc) are massive and immediate.

What we really need is strong oversight of institutions, government transparency, rule of law and healthy democracy. Those are the things you want to enshrine in your constitution.

It's not an Islamic State takeover but it's hard to imagine they won't be taking advantage of chaos and Niger losing French & US military aid.

I'm amazed at the lengths tankies will go to argue for overthrowing democratically governments and supplanting one colonial power for another one that comes packaged with Wagner and Boko Haram.

It's easy - tax evasion, money laundering, secret financing of things you wouldn't want others to know. All perfectly fine reasons to fight for.

Link without paywall:

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/germany-factory-orders-unexpectedly-jump-most-in-three-years-1.1954903

I've heard it's an issue with PWAs on Android but it's fixed in the Play Store version (released yesterday/today).

I wouldn't reinvent the wheel and borrow r/Europe rules as a starting point.

Maybe do a little bit more proactive moderation to that community. r/Europe threads could sometimes go off the rails and had cleanup many hours later - I think it's OK to lock down before that happens (is locking posts a thing on Lemmy?).

Another approach is to keep rules simple and do a complete philosophy and rule walkthrough separately. I penned this monstrosity for polish subreddit back in the day (linking to archived version since I left since then and it got some meh updates in the meantime).

Yet another approach is to have a philosophy page like Tildes does. It's clear enough that you disallow assholery and bigotry but community like this definitely needs submission rules on top anyway.

Chomsky stał się autorytetem dla skrajnej prawicy w ramach wybielania ludobójstwa w Ukrainie. Są nawet w stanie przymknąć oko na to, że Chomsky zaprzeczał wcześniej ludobójstwu w Kambodży.

Co ja pierdolę, Jaki pewnie do wczoraj nie wiedział kim jest Chomsky.