BuddyTheBeefaloFrance Is Headed Towards Its Most Feral Right-Wing Regime Since the Nazis
I archived this cancerous bloated paywalled shit show of a website just on principle
Why is so much of the internet terrible now fml
I asked chatgpt & it said this:
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I think that a better answer might have something to do with commercial interests.
VeganCheesecakeThat’s a whole lot of words to say almost nothing.
Yeah.
Flying squids answer was better.
☂️-thats machine learning for you
One thing I thought generative ai would be better at is staying focused. I think this starts well but in the second half has too many unrelated sentences
Flying SquidCory Doctorow can explain it to you. He coined a term for it which has now become widespread, “enshittification.” And it’s all about money.
Because no one wants to pay for anything.
BlizzardWhy would anyone pay for viewing a website?
ObiniceWhy would anyone pay for viewing a website?
Or to put it another way,
Why would anyone pay for using a service that costs money to provide?
We were spoiled when the web started, but now that ad revenue has dried up, someone has to pay for hosting and content creators to eat.
I’m not a fan of giving every website $5 a month, there has to be a better way.
I think the Brits have it right with BBC. It’s not perfect but everyone pays a tiny bit and it funds news and dedicated programming
What we really need is to reinstate the Fairness Doctorine and stare straight at fox
That’s what NPR and PBS were supposed to be, but they’re so perpetually underfunded that they’re almost commercial stations. edit: with corporate sponsors and viewer funding pledge drives.
Some public stations have been taken over by right wing orgs that came in with massive funding.
This is where we got MSG round brown Ross and his happy little mountains after he stoped yelling, never stopped being an American veteran
How you gonna attack happy little mountain brushes?
Bob Ross’ show ended 30 years ago, and PBS and NPR funding has declined even more as a proportion of operating costs since then.
Seems like an issue one might fix as a campaign bullet point, no?
Vote for me and we’ll keep Bob and Fred and educational stuff free to every tv. Crom knows the only way I became a hitchhiker instead of a missionary was shows on PBS like Red Dwarf, no network is gonna air that at 0300
Advertisers did it to themselves.
Pop ups, pop unders, loud autoplay, focus stealing, taking up ungodly amounts of screen real estate, etc, etc.
Why would anyone provide content for free? Everyone needs to be paid for their work.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be ‘work’, people used to make websites out of passion. Now everyone wants to monetize everything.
It is always work even if it’s a passion project.
People used to make shitty websites with good content but now they need to make good, professional looking websites for people to even look at them to decide on the whether the content was good.
This takes time and if you’re doing it for free then you’re choosing to do extra work on top of your day job.
As others have said, there are costs to hosting a website other than the time that you’re expecting people to give for free.
I feel like this is a dialectic that has been endorsed by the ruling class when talking about menial jobs. ‘Now nobody wants to work’ and whatnot
This is one of the reasons I left Reddit. Sure everyone needs to be paid for their work but it gets a little more suspect when I donate my time and attention, and it is monetized, and I still have to deal with too many ads
And someone who does NOT deserve to be paid is the “journalist” who writes those articles “LoveBunny68 on social media site Reddit said ….”. I guess I hope that is some sort of automation because no one deserves to be paid for that and I imagine an actual writer ready to commit suicide if stuck writing those
Imagine how costy it is to pay for individual journalists subscriptions monthly
Which is partly because people don’t have as much money as they used to.
Which is partially felt more because and is exacerbated by the fact that companies and their shareholders feel entitled to capture every drop of money you have, to the point that buying a pizza comes with the option to spread the cost over four months just in case there’s 10$ from a person that they could only capture by offering the option.
I live half a planet away from America and even I’ve seen it. Disgusting.
Remember when we looked at phone apps that cost more than .99 and thought the developers were greedy?
VeganPizza69 ⓋWhen’s the last time you donated to Lemmy.world?
We’re all donating our time and attention to Lemmy, which is worth something even on a non-commercial site.
only if there are ads
Snapz[Deep breath in…]
Wealthy men that are perpetually insecure in life because their fathers didn’t show them any outward affection when they were children are blindly and joylessly driven to increase a bank balance that they couldn’t meaningfully decrease in a thousand lifetimes in the hope that it will make their fathers ghosts smile and pat them on the head (ghosts who don’t even put out the effort to haunt their children anyways)
I’m dizzy, what just happened?
Oh man I book car rides for all of them
Deep breath if we killed them all…
Invalid_nameNot surprised given the illegal migrants there
dactylothecaAmazing take. Back in the 1920’s you would have looked at the rise of the NSDAP in Germany and gone “not surprised given the jews there”
You miss the keyword “illegal”
What happened to “not wasting any time on me”?
Edit: this dude is having a normal one
Hahaha you guys are so predictable it’s not even funny
Emily (she/her)Guy’s profile picture is literally of Joseph Goebbels. I don’t think their opinion has much weight, nor are they worth spending time arguing with
And the person has other comments putting on full display who they really are.
So yes, this is definitely a “block and move on” kind of thing.
Please remember to report before blocking.
I use Sync, I couldn’t find a report button. Maybe I just couldn’t find it cause I’m dumb, but absolutely report then block.
talBetween the lead lemmy dev, dessalines, using Stalin as his profile picture and this guy using Goebbels, we’ve got a pretty WW2-retro vibe going on.
Seems like a very sane person.
There are illegal migrants in every country. Why should the far right be voted on one issue alone. It’s not like their other policies are good (and i’ll put my hand on fire to say that I’m pretty sure it’s inmigration policy will be bad too)
If you cant handle a democratic election not going your way, maybe you dont belong in politics.
And maybe you shouldve curbed immigration instead of making it a wedge issue, and only having the far right party be for curbing it. Just a thought
retrospectologyWhipping up fear about brown immigrants is what the right does when there is no wedge issue.
Pretty easy to do after 9/11, Nice, Vienna(2021), Dresden(2021), the list goes on. en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Islamic_terrorism_in_Europe
When multiple groups have declared Jihad against the west, a little more caution should be exercised.
Remember, immigrating is not a right.
Yeah, I know all about that, they use the " brown immigrants are terrorists" in my country too in order to exploit people’s latent racism.
To have a point you’d have to compare those instances to violence by Europeans against eachother, by being selective you’re feeding a narrative that brown immigrants are more violent than Europeans. That’s already been demonstrated to be false. You’re being manipulated by fascists.
You know, you could be less racist. Not all “brown” immigrants are muslims. Remember, Islam is an ideology, like fascism. Its not about the color of your skin.
Alright, name the 122 terrorist attacks made by Europeans since 2015. Ill wait.
So, even if we assume those 122 attacks were committed by immigrants, how does that compare to violent crimes committed by Europeans themselves? 122 incidents over 9 years is remarkably low for a single demographic. How many bad actors is that per event? How many immigrants are there total and how many committed these crimes?
It’s racist fear mongering.
I said terrorist attacks, not violent crimes. Dont move the goal posts
No ones moving goal posts. Give a ballpark of how many immigrants were involved in those 122 attacks.
You’re making the argument that brown immigrants are more dangerous than Europeans and you’re then trying to exclude all types of violent crime except that labeled terror attacks to obfuscate the reality that immigrants are statistically no more dangerous than Europeans themselves. It’s dishonest.
Even in terms of terrorism, the majority has historically been committed by domestic groups (ex. nationalists, political extremists, separatists etc.), not immigrants. Again, this is very similar to my own country where domestic terrorism is actually the greater threat than that from immigrants.
Okay, you want to move the goal posts. Tell me, per capita, who commits more violent crime? Muslims or non-muslims?
Per capita, men commit more violent crime than women. It’s not even close. Do you support restrictions on men just based on their gender?
One is how youre born. The other is an ideology. What do you not understand about “Islam is an ideology”?
How does that address my point? The Y chromosome is the largest determining factor in violent crime, way more than any “ideology”.
Wait, so you dont understand why racism and sexism are bad? You know they’re bad without understanding why?
You can admit that you were destroyed by facts and logic. It’s ok.
Right, Im just going to block you.
You’re obviously upset because you’re a guy and you don’t want to be excluded. Excluding Muslims doesn’t affect you, because you’re not Muslim.
You don’t care about “violent crime”. Your only real concern is not being in the out-group, because you really only care about hierarchy.