Onii-Chan

You can AfterPay your fucking petrol at some locations now. It’s actually such a sickening demonstration of where we are as a world right now. The guy inside at the till even happily espoused that he “uses it all the time.” Like dude, that isn’t a positive thing.

I’ll legitimately be moving to Linux today. This just broke the camel’s back for me.

Yeah, tbh I was kinda hoping you weren’t going to bring that one up.

Aunts. We’re just a lot more posh over here in Adelaide.

As someone who lives in country Australia, it’s quite common here too. A popular pastime among the young guys out here is to jump into their ute, load up their guns, and go down the highway shooting every street sign they see. I usually hear it every Friday and Saturday night.

Do it, boi. One of us. One of us.

Short of undoing decades of neoliberal globalism and free trade agreements that destroyed a litany of domestic industries by sending them offshore, and as a result, collapsing an economy of ‘repair, don’t replace’, we’ll never ever see the days of buying anything for life again.

Welcome to the future. It sucks.

but what’s the limitations on who gets classified as a terrorist.

Exactly my issue with this. I don’t trust the corrupt Australian government to objectively apply this law. This country is sleepsprinting into authoritarianism one small cut at a time. I may be in my very early-30’s, but I’m making active plans to get out of here before things get worse. Australia has never felt more suffocating and restrictive.

As someone who uses GrapheneOS but knows very little about the technical side of things, what implications does this have for the OS? I’ll actually just not use a smartphone anymore if I’m going to be forced back onto the privacy nightmare that is stock Android.

“If you refuse to return to the office, we will assume you work on behalf of North Korean intelligence, and will be monitored by our WFH bots. Please keep your curtains open.”

So many filthy tankies infesting the other instances. You’re almost guaranteed to spot one even outside of .ml now, which is where I’d hoped they’d remain to save the rest of us from having to deal with their authoritarian bullshit.

Holy fuck, that’s a fantastic comparison. Re-reading that quote in Dwight’s voice fit far too well.

I dream of a world that again exists without big tech, but you know, it’s a dream.

Yep. Pixel, GrapheneOS, be harsh and restrictive with permissions, and intuitive with the apps you install. Simplify your digital life - it’s much easier and less of a hindrance than you’d think.

Holy shit, three replies in and someone is already grandstanding as some anti-racist hero by bringing up the crack epidemic.

Same end result; oppression of the masses, rejection of human rights and personal liberties, concentration of power and corruption. Fascist, authoritarian communist, tomato, tomAto, as far as I’m concerned. Their ideologies all stand directly on the throat of freedom and I want nothing to do with anyone who believes total control of the people is a positive thing.

I just… don’t care about reddit anymore. I really wanted these protests to succeed, but both the mods AND site admins revealed their true colors, and I ended up here. I fucking love kbin, and wouldn’t go back even if reddit fixed its shit. Whatever happens with that site doesn’t bother me one bit anymore.

I hope the protests go well, but I’m 100% certain that this is more a case of going out with a fizzle than with an explosion. I almost feel bad for them.

The very same.

Lemmy.ml is a hive of authoritarians. I’ll be glad to not have to see their oppressive fascist fantasies here.

Bingo. If Meta get their foot in the door, then the writing will be on the wall and the Fediverse as we know it today will slowly disappear. These huge corporations have extremely covert and efficient methods of influencing change and instilling their evil values which aren’t fully-apparent until it’s already too late.

If Meta get involved, personally, I’ll be leaving, and will just accept that the internet will never again be allowed to exist in a free state; the system won.

EDIT: I also left all social media over two years ago, and this was largely because Facebook was making me remarkably unhappy and angry. I don’t want them in my life full stop and have gone out of my way to rid my digital identity of any ties to corporate proprietary bullshit. I like it here precisely because it has no corporate overlord, and it makes me sick to think that Meta can just waltz back into my life in a space users largely want to be left alone in.