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MerchantsOfMisery

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  • Florida doc not wearing hearing aid couldn't hear colonoscopy patient screaming: complaint

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  • I know a lotta MDs and it's depressing how accurate this is, particularly the last part. Also a huge culture of sexism exists among doctors.

  • Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century.

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  • Why are you generally pretty anti-piracy?

    As someone who has never had much disposable income, piracy has helped me and countless folks enjoy things we otherwise would not have been able to realistically afford. It also helps make educational material far more accessible, particularly when it comes to textbooks, academic papers (i.e. SciHub thanks to Alexandra Elbakyan), even complete semester university-level lectures.

    If wages were higher and media was offered in a format that was a) not subscription based and b) reasonably priced, people would be more likely to buy content instead of pirate it.

    Beyond that, people are sick and tired of things like their favorite TV show or my music disappearing because the streaming site lost the streaming rights to a competitor. Or an artist's discography missing a huge chunk of their music because of some record label legal nonsense.

    The problem is that everything is becoming subscription based these days and it's weird to require that kind of committment if you just want to listen to one artist's album, or a few episodes of a nature documentary.

    Personally, I pirate terabytes of content and I try to buy used Blu-Ray 📀 discs and CDs every now and then. I have a nice external disc readers/writer connected to my PC and an elaborate multi-output audio setup, but most people don't have a disc reader these days. So the problem is instead of just giving people the option of purchasing an actual file like an MKV, FLAC + MP3 files, these companies insist on forcing a subscription as the only feasible option since they know 99% of people don't have or want to deal with disc readers and physical media.

    I get that your comment was less about anti-piracy and I'm kind of going on a rant here, but I really hope my comment helps you better understand at least some of the reasons why people pirate stuff. Even when I did research science, we'd all use SciHub because it was a million times easier to just go on there and search for one or several papers, instead of having to use our login credentials to get into several different databases for multiple papers in different fields. So so so annoying!

    I think with piracy, there are many measurable and immeasurable benefits felt by society because of piracy.

  • Close call

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  • Can't forget Madden

  • Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton

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  • Ya know, you may have just helped me finally make the full switch. Thank you

  • Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton

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  • I've been too critical of them in the early days and will admit that many of the issues that plagued their VPN service years ago have now been fixed.

  • Use a password manager

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  • Bitwarden on Android, particularly if you have biometric unlock enabled, is extremely simple to setup and use.

  • Grant Money

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  • You realize this is just a meme about sexism in science, right? Like why take it so literally?

  • Scientology is on the brink of killing an entire medical industry

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  • Makes you wonder why journalists don't bring this up.

  • Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes

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  • That's because it's Wired. Basically a big ass advertisement.

  • Examples of racism on Lemmy?

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  • As a POC I'd say Lemmy is way better than most similar sites but there's still the prevalent sexism that always seems like the "acceptable casual bigotry" and I'm not a fan of that. The kind of "jokes" that guys mostly laugh at while women mostly roll their eyes at because the punchline is usually heavily reliant on sexism.

  • Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion

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  • Super accurate comment.

  • Elon Musk’s backing of Donald Trump is hurting Tesla’s struggling EV business in Europe

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  • Average person has no clue about this compared to Musk. Not surprised that the founder of a luxury brand is a bastard though.

  • Elon Musk’s backing of Donald Trump is hurting Tesla’s struggling EV business in Europe

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  • Is it weird that a part of me wishes I was as confident in myself being right about stuff as you are about yourself?

  • Elon Musk’s backing of Donald Trump is hurting Tesla’s struggling EV business in Europe

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  • All the rich folks I know avoid Tesla like the plague because they prefer some level of political ambiguity while driving. Even if they're driving a $500k Porsche, it doesn't come with the "this company is proudly run by a right wing asshole everyone has heard of" vibe, just the regular "I'm rich, SEE!" vibe.

  • Woman who first shared fake Southport suspect rumour that sparked riots arrested

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  • Should I be allowed to feed rabid folks misinformation to encourage them to murder you and your family, with no repercussions? Yes or no, please no long winded diatribes.

  • Why Are You Staying On Windows 11?

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  • My experience with Win10 for what I use my computer for has been far less janky than any Linux distro I've tried, and I'm past the stage of my life where I could spend hours and hours troubleshooting and enjoying it.

    As for Win11... I may very well made the dreaded switch to Linux when Win10 officially loses updates. I just wish Linux had viable alternatives to a lot of Windows software that wouldn't result in my workflow being significantly altered in a way that will require watching countless god awful tutorial videos and going through forum nonsense.

    Like for sure Windows has its problems but we shouldn't pretend Linux and the community don't do a lot of things that massively turn off new users.

    Want regular ass people to switch from Windows to something new? Check out how/why Mac OS is so popular among those who've switched from Windows, and perhaps there's some things of value there that the Linux community can learn from.

    The Linux community is packed with toxicity and a stubborn insistence that it's nothing but helpful and if a user has a problem, it's always their fault and never the distro's fault.

    Laptop shows your unlocked screen briefly when you open it before unlocking? Never had that issue with Windows, Macs, but on Linux this happens with Ubuntu when installed on several Thinkpad models.

    And nearly every response to this problem on Linux forums is "you must be doing something wrong" or casually telling a new user 'just switch to DingOS 3.14 bro, it's what I use and I've never had an issue" like that's NOT a major pain in the ass for the average user.

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  • Describing Reddit as altruistic is some next level delusion.

  • Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line

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  • Family practically thought I was David Blaine when I got a first gen Chromecast back in the day.

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    Lemmy's how do you feel about Kamala Harris now that she picked Tim Walz? Will you vote for her or the orange?

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  • You think people use downvoting to change a person's mind? I always felt it was mostly to express disapproval or disagreement.

    In this case, I think it's shallow/selfish thinking that leads people to not vote or throw their vote away with a third party vote just so they can smugly say "don't blame me, I didn't vote for Harris/Trump 😏" like it's the most clever thing ever.

    As a POC, I can't help but shake at folks like this because it's like they'd rather play these little games when shit gets real rather than ya know, getting real.