On the one hand, better you know what they collect about you than not. And as long as you use a streaming service they’re collecting data on you.
On the other hand, streaming services are inherently wasteful and lead to pointless and excessive power usage which contributes to climate change, not to mention the privacy concerns, all of which could have been avoided by reasonably priced buy-once-own-forever media.
while preaching about Western values.
No, that tracks
Gonna have to ease them into that one, a lot of Lemmy still isn’t ready for that bit of history.
Nazis?! On Reddit???!!! 😱
“In North Korea, if you say the wrong thing or speak out, they’ll jail you for 14 months, even if you’re a senior citizen”
“Ms. Park, didn’t they just do that in South Korea?”
“…also every 39 minutes they stab your balls”
“Free Country”
Early human history and the Falkland islands. But that’s it.
“In other news, ice is cold”
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If they could combine that with weather protection and more public transportation the car might finally die that final sweet death.
And ultimately it’s the tying of Zionism with Judaism that’s going to result in a lot of the anger being misdirected from the Israeli state to average Jews there and elsewhere who had no power and nothing to do with this. If Netanyahu’s goal was to make places other than Israel less safe for Jews (especially places with poor hate-crime protection and prosecution), mission accomplished.
But it genuinely might be, because if that becomes the case then there may be an influx of Jews into Israel seeking safety which he could use to justify expanding further into the West Bank and Gaza.
According to Wikipedia, it’s a non profit with a for profit subsidiary. Interpret that how you will. Nothing shady or deceptive here.
Anything involving software that uses the word “open” in its title should be legally required to be open source.
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Glory to Owlbear 🥸
Let’s assume you’re right. Why would anyone vote for anyone committing genocide? Voting third party or abstaining would be your only moral option in this scenario, otherwise you’re complicit. At this point the number of dead Palestinian children is conservatively 4000. If you contribute to reelecting a leader enabling that, their blood is on your hands.
Because if there’s nothing else you can count on an American president for, it’s them being a standard-bearer for ethics.