Yeah what the fuck is with that.

It’s a very twitter centric view of the web. If you’re not on xitter you’re “shutting out a significant portion”.

The thing is, it’s not simply that Musk has an ideology that is disparate from my own, he has an agenda that is egregiously contrary to the stated values of the Debian project.

You’d consult with the community over a new logo or blog layout maybe, but on whether to assist Musk in his far right agenda there’s not really any decision to be made honestly.

In Australia most retailers discount specific items for “members”. Being a member is free but you need to sign up with your contact details. They will give you a card but no one carries a million cards so cashier’s just ask for your phone number.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority administers phone numbers in Australia and they publish a list of phone numbers which may not be used by telco’s and are reserved for the exclusive use in TV shows, films, and creative works.

I made a note of one of the numbers in my phone, and provide that when asked. Loads of other people are doing this so the number is always registered at every shop.

The conversation usually goes:

• cashier: are you a club member?
• me: yes.
• cashier: what’s your number ?
• me: <ACMA number>
• cashier: oh. wow. there seems to be hundreds of people with this number. what’s your name?
• me: oh really? who’s there?
• cashier: uh, nigel, john, luke…
• me: I’m Luke.

I’ve been doing this on a weekly basis since reading about it in another thread (on reddit) a few years ago. I’ve never encountered a problem and I’ve received thousands of dollars in discounts. I would’ve gotten those discounts anyway but would’ve had to sign up with my personal number in order to receive them.

This doesn’t sound terrible?

In Australia, it feels like the inverse. We generally have conservative governments until they do something particularly abhorrent and lose government for a term.

We’re presently enjoying our once-in-a-decade progressive government term and sadly I feel they have squandered their term. They seem determined to ignore the core responsibility of making life better for everyone and instead waste political capital on fanciful notions like banning sheep exports and frivolous changes to the constitution.

I think that’s the obvious implication of this question, but you’re missing the implied question arising from that answer: is this a problem we want to solve in this way ?

There’s a real risk to this belief.

There are elements of lemmy who use votes to manipulate which ideas appear popular, with the intention of manipulating discourse rather than having open discussions.

This is really daft.

It’s possible to participate in society in such a way as to uphold our beliefs about how society ought to be.

If you want to complain about Apple’s abuse of employees, don’t buy their stuff.

If you want to abolish slavery, don’t own any slaves.

If you want to smash capitalism, buy a used thinkpad.

Sure, there are some instances where this just isn’t possible in a complete and absolute sense. For example, I despise google, have invested a lot of effort in degoogling, but there remain some google components I rely on.

However, the existence of these instances does not mean we don’t need to invest any effort in supporting the changes we want to see.

I can’t remember the name but I think this is some kind of paradox.

Like the preventative measures we’re so effective that they created a perception that there was no risk in the first place.

I assume these are fine.

In areas prone to guests having parties, hosts need to be able to count how many guests and visitors were present.

It’s a legal / liability issue.

Almost like the US are acting in their own interests.

It was a shitshow when I looked at it a few weeks ago.