Lemmy copying Reddit with the downvotes system is something that really frustrates me.
The downvote button is one of the most toxic things about Reddit. Nobody uses it the way it is supposedly intended to be used.
Lemmy saw that and thought great, let's copy.
I don't know whether they did it because they wanted to make a straight up Reddit clone, or whether they mistakenly thought Lemmy users would be above that kind of behaviour (lol), but either way it was a mistake IMO. It just encourages division.
The UK has been doing plenty of good, just look at the workers rights bill, renter's rights bill, expansion of free school meals, expansion of breakfast clubs, massive increase in infrastructure investment, banning single use vapes, massive increase in tree plantations, massive increase in green energy/nuclear projects, big increase in pothole-filling, nationalisation of rail, quasi-nationalisation of steel production, large increases in the minimum wage, restarting SureStart, ending the two child benefit cap, getting closer to Europe again, extensive Ukraine support, etc.
It's just that there's also been a handful of bad things (e.g. OSA and other bits). And we all know what the billionaire-owned press and social media who are desperate to get the Tories/Reform in will focus on.
E: apparently some people hate those things. But I think they're pretty good.
Although on the other hand, our possible next PM came out with some anti-vaccine bollocks recently, so I'm not sure how long sensible vaccination strategies will be in place for.
I'm also not sure how many Reform-brained people will end up not vaccinating their kids and end up compromising herd immunity for the rest of us.
I'm really tired of people letting perfect behaviour the enemy of good in every single online discussion.
I'm very well aware that parental controls aren't a 100% foolproof protection for my daughters, but that certainly doesn't make them useless.
Based on that mentality we may as well not ban murder, because some people break the law anyway. We may as well not have vaccines, because no vaccine is 100% effective for all people. It's so brain-dead.
That pronunciation took off because Top Gear was going to record a segment about Dacia before they hit the UK market.
Top Gear did reach out to Dacia and ask how it was pronounced, but Dacia took so long replying to the email that by the time they did, Top Gear had already filmed it saying Day-see-er. It was too late.
And because of the enormous reach of Top Gear at the time, that pronunciation became solidified in people's minds.
Or at least this was the story told by Richard Porter, the ex Top Gear producer, on his podcast.
Of course we should. And so should everybody else.
Unfortunately though, it'll take a huge amount of time. These things always do. Anybody who thinks we can do this within even 10 years are kidding themselves.
It is, of course, still worth doing. Second best time to plant a tree is right now, and all that.
We'd best start funding open source, and exploring domestic/trusted country-of-origin alternatives ASAP.
Lenovo is about as good as you getting for a mainstream brand, and they are ultimately owned by the CCP so meh.
In addition to being owned by the CCP, they purposely installed rootkits on consumer hardware for intense data gathering, and it ended up getting compromised.
Nobody mentioned child labour.
Thinking gay and trans people should have human rights does not mean you must be fine with child labour.