I would go broader and say that the privilege of wealth is freedom from consequences.

This is a win for everyone in Europe, and possibly beyond. [Emphasis mine.] Companies may no longer secretly track your behavior based on “consent” given under pressure. Hopefully, this will not only put an end to these dubious practices, but also to those pesky cookie banners.

But we’re not there yet. Regulators have ruled the system illegal, and the court’s ruling has now confirmed it. Still, the companies making billions from this model won’t stop on their own. That’s why European regulators must now truly step up: enforce the law and make sure these companies actually comply.

Regulators try not to get compromised by lobbyists when billions of dollars are at stake.

I sincerely wish you good luck.

You can sell me on Piefed without trying to cancel Lemmy out of nowhere.

How does it compare to mbin as a Lemmy alternative?

Meanwhile, her mother grandmother:

The way to stop surveillance capitalism is to… replace the beeg capitalists with a bunch of smol capitalists?

In ten years, fifty smol capitalists will have merged into five beeg all over again.

I don’t see the solution here.

I’m waiting got hbomberguy to come back.

May be the wrong thread for this, but isn’t it really common for people to not even know that have aphantasia?

I’m imagining the whole community from The Giver, where people didn’t know that they

and they didn’t even realize.

I support content creators being able to make a living in the fediverse (without enshittifying it).

So… good luck. I hope you find a healthy way to go about it.

Shouldn’t you have talked to them before starting the non-profit?

I do not claim to have any expertise (and defo not an accountant), but that sounds backwards to me.

revenue share or something for content creators

Where’s the revenue coming from? The content creators paying to store their own videos?

I remember someone tried to monetize Mastodon feeds like Substacks or something.

It didn’t last long.

I can’t imagine any way to monetize content other than individual Patreons or collective subscriptions (like Nebula, Curiosity Stream and whatever Linus Tech Tips thing is called Floatplane).

I was going to say something snarky and stupid, like “all traps are vagina-shaped,” but then I thought about venus fly traps and bear traps and now I’m worried I’ve stumbled onto something I’m not supposed to know.

If you’re going to keep doing these, why not make a newsletter?

I hate that I could figure out what that means just by looking at it.

Necromancy gone wrong

NPC: My poor husband and child. They were murdered by a group of orcs. Will you help me get revenge?

Britt (the Necromancer): Accept.

Later, at the orc camp.

NPC: My child! My family!

Britt (the Necromancer): Yea, I thought I’d bring them along for the revenge mission.

I feel like almost anything would work if you say it the right way:

• Well okay then!
• As you wish
• This should be good
• Sounds fun
• Right on
• Aaany time you’re ready
• You must construct additional pylons.

Isn’t that second one just porn?

Edit: actually, nevermind. I’ve seen this in weekly detective shows, but now they make the handymen gay so it’s different somehow.

Why November 4th?

As someone who worked at a local roaster, the coffee was objectively better, but the owners were trying really hard to be like Starbucks in every other way.

I wish the employees had a union, but it was a college town.