no, half of your country votes for trump. You have absolutely no right to complain about voting not working or calling for violence.

Again, half of your country strongly disagrees with you and you suggest violence? No wonder your democracy is so bleak.

Hard to avoid a US political debate on lemmy. Always the same posts about the same threesome of Trump, Musk, and Kamal. And those are top voted posts on every possible sub.

I never understood, and never will understand this.

Even when I was a poor teenager and pirated essentially everything I always knew that this content only exists because someone is paying for it.

How do people go around feeling like the best VoD platform to ever exist, available on every device imaginable, optimized for years by best software engineers the world has, should be free, and without ads is beyond me.

Well, now I need to choose between dictatorship with a free speech and without. What are my options really.

You use the word fascism in a way that it appears you need to look up it's meaning in the dictionary.

If those kids could read, they'd be very upset.

I thought we were building a better reddit here. But turned out we're building an echo chamber where snowflakes can whine to each other all day long. Not sure what this really achieves as 99.9% of them always agree with each other.

Political activism is only valid if it actually reaches someone who disagrees, and when done in a way that it might convince the other party to at least consider your points.

Lemmy fundamentally fails at both simultaneously. Kinda explains why US politics is such a shitshow.

There was a pond called reddit. The water got too warm and all the yellow frogs migrated to the swamp nearby. They now claim that if you're not a yellow frog, there's something wrong with you, and they'll kick you out of their swamp if you don't turn yellow tomorrow.

Next.

This market domination is non-discriminatory. It's not like you go to your local car dealerships and they don't sell you any other brand than GM. Everyone on the internet is free to go and use any other service. It's dominant because users are happy with their ads or subscription fees instead of investing their time into using a competing product.

Is a french flag fine? I don't have any other at hand

It's a bigger echo chamber than any niche reddit community. Literally a hive mind.

It's their private website, they do on it whatever they want. Right, lemmy?

You can run your own federated streaming service that will have no ads and will be free of charge, yeah?

I mean, he's kinda right though. Dems are known for suppressing free speech. Look at lemmy, it's 99.9% blue and you once say something like "Trump gud, illegal immigrant Kamala bad" and instead of a factual argument with a birth certificate attached, you just get a ban.

Dems want an oppressive regimen where everyone who disagrees with them is silenced. So, I understand why he's worried.

And if this does happen, you'll see lemmy cheer. Lemmy values free speech and independent opinion only when it aligns with their.

The other day someone on lemmy kept trying to tell me that if google wanted to shut down ad blocking they would. But they don't, so it's ok.

Lol, spawn me that person plz.

Here's a pro tip: sleep a lot the day before, and ideally the day before that too. On the important night don't exhaust yourself with gaming or whatever, but don't force it. You'll end up sleeping maybe 4h, but if you slept well the previous two days, you'll be fine.

Sleep deprivation only really shows over prolonged periods of time. You can ace a lot of tests with the above method.

Jeez, you fools. How about rolling into the lab at 11, drinking coffee till 11:30, have at most half an hour to reminiscue about yesterday's failures, while looking at results well-knowing they're unsalvageable, and then going for lunch with the crew?

If you start your day at 8:30, you misunderstood that it's not your paycheck that makes a PhD great.

Tourists are not culture. They're a zombie plague.

I promise you, if you move there, learn Spanish and start working for a local company, you'll learn that people there are extremely welcoming to foreigners.

But if all you want is an Instagram shot in the same spot as the other 16 million people who visited just this year a city of 1.6m, and an "authentic" paella (you won't get an authentic one, trust me, but you'll be told it is and you'll keep bragging about it to your colleagues once you return from your vacay, even though the thing you tried tastes nothing like what a paella should taste, digression end), then you bring a negative cultural value. You're an annoyance, and a one that's not worth whatever financial benefit it brings.

One could also argue that most of your financial contribution goes to making hotels and landlords richer, and nobody really needs that.

So, I'm with people of Barcelona who paint "fuck you tourists" on their walls.

Definition of a country is a weird thing as there is no institution to certify that. Countries exist through an acknowledgement by everyone. So, those "international waters" are only international for parties that recognize Taiwan as an independent country.

So, you can keep insisting that this is a simple fact, but actually it's by definition an opinion. E.g. it could be international waters in the opinion of one country and not be in the opinion of the other.

Trump stopped the war in Afghanistan and hasn't started a single new one. Unlike Obama and Biden. I'm voting trump cuz I'm against genocide.

Still waiting for him to show it! Dems want illegal immigrants to rule this country. Probably Putin's dogs. No idea. But someone's gotta save this country.

I kinda don't get it. If someone would oppress me like that, I'd pack my shit and fuckin walked away. Till I reach the country's border. It's anyways all in the mountains.

Wake up early, take your stuff, and walk in any direction. Who's gonna find you?

Yes, yes, it's conservative politics that's ruining Afghanistan.

You hear anything except for your own echo?

Do you understand what is Taliban?

I mean, it's true though, she's an illegal immigrant and if elected she will flood the country with illegals like herself. Think before you vote.

You want the figure 5B from here:

https://www.henrikkleven.com/uploads/3/7/3/1/37310663/kleven-landais-sogaard_aej-applied_sep2018.pdf

The rest of the paper actually focuses on the real reasons behind the pay gap, which should also give you a perspective of why it's probably futile to argue in terms of "a woman makes 78 cents for every dollar a man makes".

But if you really wanna dig deeper there are some studies that try to figure out the remaining 3% or whatever.

The f are you on about? YouTube has a fairly affordable ad-free tier with a transparent revenue-share model that multiple top content creators have openly endorsed.

This ad infested hell only exists because most of the internet users think it's outrageous to pay 10$/month for an all-you-can-eat VoD service. Some top creators did branch out to create their own streaming services, and spoiler alert, it's more expensive, or just as expensive but with muuuuch less content.

I do care if all that YT content is gone. It's a fuckin goldmine.

I'd really wish they actually had the audacity to just paywall the entire platform. Pay or fuck off, no ads.

And then people like you can go back to the good old days of some other random free video hosting service where a 360p video with a cat meme was buffering for a minute on a good day, or was completely unavailable on a bad one.

;( but, daaad, he started first!

(not really, ik)

And here's my horse in this race: https://www.henrikkleven.com/uploads/3/7/3/1/37310663/child_penalty_atlas_june2024.pdf

No, that person specifically implied that once they start publishing salary ranges the gender pay gap will collapse.

That person lives in a fairy tale world of non-existent salary discrimination that they furiously fight.

Their heart is sorta in the right place, but they're essentially a useless idiot, who with their crusade distracts everyone from actually trying to understand the real reasons behind the unadjusted gender pay gap and any efforts of solving it.

What your message shows is that even when the data is in front of you, it's useless, because all you can see is your confirmation bias.

It specifically says "unadjusted".

You understand nothing on the subject and continue your crusade for some holy grail, because you believe it will bring prosperity to your entire nation or something. All this shows is that your average left voter is as dumb as your average far right voter.

There's a decade of research consistently showing that the most impactful factor contributing to the unadjusted gender pay gap is childbirth.

Single childess women with college degrees earn as much or slightly outearn their male competition.

These trajectories spectacularly diverge after the first child.

If you care about the unadjusted pay gap, you need to promote societal change that 1) enables and encourages men to take on childcare duties, 2) significantly improve daycare infrastructure, 3) realize that some couples will still decide that it's somehow better for the mother to spend time at home with the kids and take on less demanding jobs and/or lose many years of experience, and that this unadjusted pay gap in some capacity is here to stay for another century or so, and it's not a societal failure.

My evidence? A decade of research. 134 countries. https://www.henrikkleven.com/uploads/3/7/3/1/37310663/child_penalty_atlas_june2024.pdf

You can look at more of his papers on the subject.

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But hey, you can Google, anon, right?

Lemmy in a nutshell. In like one post. Print it out, hang it on the wall, you never need to log in again.

13bn dollars in missed taxes while already abusing a tax heaven.

When our stupid politicians will grow some balls (metaphorically, and independent of their gender-balanced commission/parliament), and we'll actually introduce a proper minimum corporate tax for the entire EU market, it will be 50bn. At least.

Combine this from all the big tech companies that are dodging our taxes, and we could quadruple our defense budget, double our education and healthcare spendings, and still supply every citizen with a bottle of champagne to celebrate.

CIA bots will downvote this, because it's true: Harris is not a legal US national, her birth certificate was forged. Be careful who you vote for!

I hate that this is even a feature in the web standard. A result of some massive corporate corruption for sure.

Exactly. He did. I don't. So, don't push on me some guy's hometown lowest temperature as a 0.

(Also he did a bit more than just measure the low of his hometown, but it sorta correlates to his location)

You're too far up your own ass.

Vanced got nuked, revanced constantly needs to be patched, otherwise it slips to the low quality settings. Free YT days are numbered.

And no, it's not easy. Unless they want to encode ads into videos, and re-render the whole thing. Which is ludicrously expensive. For as long as they don't there will be a way to not play the ad chunks.

What's there to disagree with? you prove my point.

it stood on the shoulders of volunteers

Yeah. A classic story. A sysadmin took the old server from his work after they upgraded and now runs <insert video game guild imageboard/wiki/chat> on it.

With the amount of traffic modern web pipes through Google's and Cloudflare's servers, all of you homebrewers wouldn't be enough to take over even 5% of that.

You can't go back to the good old days because you'll break your back trying to, and the collective lemmy anon can't, because they're too used to freeload while getting big tech quality service.

Your first-hand knowledge is worth nothing against the data.

Tax reports and social security data has been thoroughly analyzed by multiple countries.

In fact, it's often that women outearn men.

There's a very interesting factor that eventually does lead to an astounding pay gap, but lemme see how many more anecdotal evidence you can pull out of your ass before I tell you what literature to look at.