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Aceticon

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  • A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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  • The plan is to pillage the wealth of the local population via insane asset prices and extreme rentierism around essentials such as housing and then when the amounts being returned by the pillaging and exploitation start to slow down due to the impact from decades of lower birthrates because of living in such a dystopia, importing young adults from countries with higher birth rates - i.e. immigrants - and have far-right political forces funded by the very people pillaging the country loudly blame said immigrants for the feeling of life getting worse and even pain that most people feel as consequence of the pillaging of the country.

    Certainly this is what I've seen in multiple countries in Europe.

  • Number of Americans applying for UK citizenship hits record levels

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  • Oh, they're 10 or 20 years ahead of the rest of Europe: over a decade ago the local equivalent of MAGA whilst taking over their rightmost main party ended up causing Brexit and in government with an absolute parliamentary majority (and, remember, Britain is not a presidential system).

    In most of Europe the Far-Right is not in power, much less fucking their country up with something as bad as Brexit.

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  • They're so Racist that during the whole Brexit shitshow racism towards other Europeans became pretty overt at all levels.

    Also having lived in Britain and with friends which unlike me didn't look like the locals, I heard lots of stories from them about being discriminated against in Britain and even have one myself (you could tell I was not a local if I spoke, since my accent wasn't any of the local ones).

    Whilst Britain is good at image management, what's under that carefully cultivated image is quite a lot darker.

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  • Having lived in Britain during the time of the Referendum and seen all of that shitshow first hand, I would say that Brexit is the product of British Politics having been taken over by the local version of MAGA (so, less loud and obnoxious, more posh sleaze).

    This was to the point that they even had a Trump lookalike called Boris Johnson.

  • Number of Americans applying for UK citizenship hits record levels

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  • You seem to somehow have missed the whole Brexit shitshow, including the Tory party becoming openly Anti-Immigrant, Racist and ultra-nationalist with massive national delusions of grandeur (made oh so painfully obvious when the pranced into the EU exit negotiation loudly proclaiming they held all the cards, ultimatilly showing that they did not and not getting the things they wanted the most).

    (And lets not forget Britain's very own version of Trump: Boris Johnson)

    You also seem to have missed the insane Civil Society Surveillance levels as disclosed in the Snowden Revelations and the recent legislation forcing Britons to ID themselves on the Internet, which is now being further tightenned with proposed restrictions to VPN use.

    And lets not forget the anti-Demonstration legislation of the last decade as well as the anti-Terrorism legislation and how it was recently used to arrest anti-Genocide demonstrators as "Terrorism Supporters".

    This is not normal in Democracy.

    I've lived in multiple countries in Europe, including Britain, and in my view the UK is the most Fascist country in Europe after Belarous and Russia, it's just that British politicians don't play the loud and obnoxious strongman role like Trump or Orban, they play the posh vaguelly aristocratic type who rather than fight the Justice System subverts it to make it a tool to punish those of the riff-raff who are a bit more uppity, hence things like using anti-Terrorism legislation to crack down on those who demonstrate against His Majesty's Government's active support of Genocide.

    Granted, given how far the Overtoon Window is to the Right in Britain, I can understand that whilst those outside see the present day Tories as a Far-Right party, for those inside that kind of politics is now so normalized that it's hard for most to recognize just how Far-Right the present day Tories are both in broader European terms and even in historical British terms, so they only see the even-more-Far-Right insane nutters of Reform as Far-Right.

    Mind you in my experience the shift to and normalization of the Far-Right is one of the things Britain is ahead of the rest of Europe in: I'm seing happening were I am now the kind of thing I saw happen in Britain over a decade ago.

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  • Having lived there, I agree that Britain is the most Fascist nation in Europe after Belarous and Russia, though theirs is the Posh Aristocratic version, so it's not as loud and obvious as "strongman" Fascism.

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  • Or gets the ones who do speak at least one foreign language, which aren't going to be the close-minded kind that thinks everything that matters starts and stops with America, so that's also good.

  • Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away

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  • Sounds like the police in Britain has automated arresting people for the "crime" of walking on the street whilst not looking white enough.

    Reference material

  • Fr🤮nch

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  • Well, to be fair, not having a proper appreciation for terroir is just barbaric for a French person.

  • Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up

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  • Exactly.

    People behaving as "consumers" supports the current system and hence supports the harmful side effects of such system, from the systemic suffering from wealth inequality to ecological destruction.

    Whilst very few of us, living within this system, can in practice stop living within the system, we can refrain from living in accordance with the rules of the system which are not imposed on us via removing all other choices or force, but which we are "nudged" or manipulated to follow using marketing or even propaganda, and pretty much everything which is "impulse" or "deriving a momentary pleasure from buying" are the latter kind of thing.

  • [Video] NBC cuts interview short after man points to private equity ruining his city instead of participating in nostalgia ramblings

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  • Re-read what I wrote - being black is nowhere as correlated with suffering systemic abuses from wealth inequality as is being poor or working class, more so for gender as per your own numbers: women earning in average 80% of what men earn is far less unequal than the average worker earning less than 0.3% of what a CEO earns (and way less than that when compared to a billionaire).

    There is no inherent poverty in being black or a woman, there's only that which has been placed there by people who - like Reagan - when they look at other human beings don't see people, they see ethnicity or gender, and by following a logic that expects afro-americans or women to all be "something" and "having an obligation to behave in certain way" purely because of their race or gender, you're following THE EXACT SAME MENTAL ARCHITECTURE as the racists and sexists like Reagan of classifying people based on genetics and then having expectations on them and determining what they deserve based on that.

    (Emphasys and big caps because that's the part that really pisses me off)

    Fighting inequality by using the very same proxies of worth and deserving as the Far-Right is validating and prolonging the very fundations of Far-Right thinking that say that people should be treated first and foremost based on race and gender. Those who do so, whether they think that they're leftwing or not, are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

    It's thus not surprising that this kind of thinking is most widespread in Neoliberal countries whose Overtoon Window is way to the right of most countries - you don't shift politics to the Left by limiting yourself to the perspective on other human being of the Fascists.

    You fight the suffering of systemic abuses by punishing and stopping the abusers and helping the ACTUAL victims, not by accepting the reductive and prejudicial proxies of the abusers themselves and shaping your thinking on the subject and fighting around those - that's just willfully playing by the rules of the Fascists.

    PS: But don't trust me, just look at the actual results - Identity Politics has been way worse than things like Social Democracy or even Unionism in reducing the systemic abuses its supporters claim to want to address. In fact in the countries and period were Identity Politics dominated left-of-center (relative to the local Overtoon Window) politics, the suffering due to systemic abuses has actually worsened when compared to periods and places were Social-Democracy or even just Unionism were more dominant.

  • Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up

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  • So best change your investment strategy, then.

    If people persist in riding this bubble out of greed, it's only fair if they get burned when it blows up.

  • Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up

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  • Agreed.

    One single potentially good thing in the middle of bad things still adds to something bad.

    My point is that this shit is happening either way no matter how shit it all is, so if we can recognize and extract one good thing out of it at least on the other side we'll have one good thing, whilst if we don't, we'll have nothing good at all.

  • Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ

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  • "Western Values"!

  • US orders diplomats to fight EU data sovereignty initiatives

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  • Well, duh!

    Digital Sovereignty make industrial espionage much harder, plus it reduces the profits of the massive companies which grew in the previous Tech evolution wave, which are mainly in the US.

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  • The silver lining in all this is that when this bubble explodes we'll probably have a glut in the supply of HDDs and SSDs, driving prices down.

    Just hold any plans to upgrade your hardware for a year or two and you'll end up better of (for many it will even be a good exercise to wean oneself out of the mindless "instant gratification" impulses one is indoctrinated into by Consumer Society).

  • Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up

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  • I, for one, applaud anything that helps destroy the current Intellectual Property system.

    Not the other things, though.

  • I know which one I am.

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  • I suspect that to some level this reflects how varied one's path through life has been.

    Certainly my own varied collection of mugs and cups is mainly the product of having lived in many different places and having picked new mugs up along the way. Also I'll keep old mugs around even after they're chipped because they're associated with my memories of places I lived in before.

    That said, maybe a varied life and a hodge-podge collection of mugs are correlated and have a common cause, rather than having a causal relation - it makes sense that the kind of people comfortable with moving to places were they don't know anybody (and even with different cultures, if they change countries) would also be comfortable with a less than perfect collection of cups and mugs.

  • he forgor

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  • Access to entry level positions is pretty fucked up in this because whilst experts will recognized expertise, for anything but smaller companies candidates get filtered out by HR and those people have no fucking clue what expertise outside their domain looks like, so they use proxies for it such as "stamp of approval from higher education institution" so in big companies the candidates without such stamps of approval (or a pre-existing insider contact) never actually get to be evaluated by the domain experts who can recognize that expertise.

    That said, if a candidate doesn't have at least some domain expertise (so, neither formal study nor having done anything in that area in their free time), sorry but somebody who has actually had the discipline to attend a learning institution and enough capability and domain knowledge to actually pass their exams and graduate, is way more likely to be at least decent at it (no guarantee, but the odds are much better) than a random person who never did either. It's only fair that if you haven't invested in learning it in some way or other (not necessarily college) you're not going be seen at the same level as somebody who has actually invested in learning that domain.

    It's only naturally that some kind of expertise validation system for candidates emerges for any kind of domain were some level of expertise is required and as things stand now in most such domains at the entry level that's colleges (which, IMHO, are better than cronyism-heavy "know somebody who knows somebody" systems), though in many domains something lighter and cheaper (some kind of cheaper test-only option) would probably be better (or, alternativelly, do as it's done in civilized countries and have higher education be Public, thus cheaper or even free).

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    Aceticon @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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