Leon

Yeah. It’s the one thing I find the most exhausting about how democracy works. It requires an ongoing participation, and our society is sadly structured in a manner where that isn’t easily done for everyone, and as such not everyone gets proper representation.

It’s further hampered by the fact that individuals and other institutions with financial means can employ people to do political work for them. This just isn’t feasible for individuals, many of us don’t have much money to spare, and we’re fully occupied between our professional, and our personal lives.

So once participation in democracy starts slipping, when workers are unable to attend, our rights start getting eroded.

This isn’t exactly helped by media, social and otherwise. We live in an attention economy where explosive headlines and bold attention-grabbing statements win out. We don’t get accurate representations of reality, and thus the decisions we make are based on whatever lies we’ve adopted to become our worldview.

The only real solution I see to this is to empower people to have the ability to partake in unions and cultivate a political interest. Otherwise we’ll just be ruled by the oligarchs and we’ll return to a more or less feudal state of things.

I’m trying really hard to engage politically in my area, but honestly the only party that seems to put themselves out there is the nazi party, so I’m hardly surprised that they’ve been garnering a lot of followers for the past decade.

This would be a nice UX feature. Something like “This community has been banned/blocked from [INSTANCE] for [REASON].”

I’d like to provide some further context. This wasn’t always the case here in Sweden, obviously.

A big shift in our society happened because of the massacre in Ådalen.

This was in the 1930s, during the great depression. People didn’t have jobs, particularly in Ådalen where the unemployment rate was around 85-90%. People were starving. So they worked together, they demonstrated, and the worker parties gained significant support.

The powers that be didn’t like this, naturally. They tried to put a lid on the events, and called in the military. To cut a long story short, the military opened fire and several bystanders were killed. It led to nation-wide demonstrations, and the Social Democrats gained significant following, leading to them being the majority government for decades afterwards. We saw social and worker reforms, and is largely the reason Sweden is held in such high regard internationally.

Things don’t really last however. Private interests are trying to dismantle the system we have here, because it gives workers too much bargaining power. IF Metall has been striking against Tesla for coming up on three years at this point. Tesla has their supporters, because obviously they do. People don’t get that the reason for the strike isn’t because Tesla’s workers necessarily have it bad, but because Tesla is trying to undermine the system we have here, and set a precedent for others to do the same.

In e.g. the U.S., employers have significant power over workers. Some states have at-will employment, where either an employer or a worker can just walk out on the contract whenever. This is only ever to the worker’s benefit when the market is looking for workers; I can’t recall a time in my lifetime where this has been the case. They dangle people’s livelihoods and through things like healthcare, their very lives, to enslave workers.

We are headed down the same path, with well over a decade of right-wing rhetoric, privatisation, and budgets eroding our systems.

It’s election year this year, and I really wish people would remember where we were a hundred years ago.

Yes, this is public information. You can go to the Swedish tax agency and ask for an excerpt. There are also information brokers who make it their business to collate private information that’s available publicly and publish it for a fee.

These companies have been a bit of a thorn in our side because that’s not exactly how the system was intended, and it’s made it a lot easier for e.g. stalkers to find information on you. Information like where you live, your income, your social ID number, birthdate, size of your home, if in a flat, which door is yours, sometimes even with direct instructions from the entrance. It’s bananas.

Personally I think these laws need to be looked over. I don’t think having salaries available publicly is harmful, but I’ve personally had problems with a person being able to dig up my info and harassing me. All this was different in an age where you had to report to the tax agency and request an excerpt, contra now where you can just pay a small sum to an information broker and get all of it without the system knowing who requested it.

Lemmy.world has the problem of being large and successful. As a result they block a lot of instances and topics before they become a potential problem. They want to avoid litigation, and since they’re one of the largest instances they believe that they are a prime target should a crackdown on the fediverse happen.

Tyrion sounds like some medication I’d give my dog, so I guess a Claude?

Postcode.

I’m in this picture and I’m not ashamed of it.

I’m a gay dude.

Aw, hell.

Wait, Keychron is big retail now? :(

It’s been available to pirate at least since late May 2023, so I’d say we don’t have to worry about preservation.

If they don’t want money for their products, then so be it.

I think that already began when they launched them as chat interfaces.

I feel bad for all the poor people named Claude. It’s the Siri and Alexa situation all over again, but worse.

I read it as satire. Is it not?

Startpage is also an alternative. Privacy and no AI. Better than that DDG shit.

…igniting a fire at the exterior gate. No one was injured, but Moreno-Gama was arrested approximately an hour later outside OpenAI’s headquarters, where he was allegedly trying to shatter the building’s glass doors with a chair and threatening to burn the facility to the ground. He is now facing state charges of attempted murder…

Murder of who? The gate? A glass door? Pshaw.

My preference is rårörda, so essentially macerated rather than cooked.

Windows 11 barely runs Windows 11. x_x

Lingonberry jam is really popular with meat here in Sweden. Potatoes, meat, jam, and gravy.

I mean…