Why did I have to see this right before bed

I had no idea. You’re right. It was a $15B business in 2019. https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-alphabet-earnings-revenue-first-time-reveal-q4-2019

Makes the ads seem even more obscene now that I know that.

I think it’s running it at a loss too. But there’s no reason these platforms couldn’t be publicly owned.

That would be so good if they had a competent author.

There are over 3,000 billionaires worldwide, with a combined net worth exceeding $16 trillion.

Even minding one’s own business while the world is as it is could be considered evil, with those kind of resources at their disposal

USA are searching people’s phones for signs of criticism of government policy. They are detaining and deporting people (even citizens). China is not the sole bogeyman you think it is.

My mother decided my father would explain to me. I was dreading it. He turned up looking pretty uncomfortable / fearful himself. It was excruciating before it even started. He opened with “they teach this at school don’t they?” and I saw my exit. “Yes”, I replied. And that was it.

We spent a few hours on it in school.

How many hours do people work each day? And do people get enough sleep?

Thanks for the AMA.

Most people understand that the people are not the same as the government.

If we feel good about it, we’re primed to continue the dark pattern. The first step is acknowledging the problem. If you remove the first step, subsequent steps can’t happen.

I get where you’re coming from. I see land acknowledgements used in colonies like NZ, Canada and USA yet treaties remain broken. I think (IMO) the answer is “all the things” rather than some. But we’re not even shuffling the deck yet as a population so making first steps accessible is important in my own experience. Too much in one go and peoples eyes glaze over.

Ah, thanks & sorry. I only saw the GitHub one somehow.

Can I try it as a user or do I have to deploy it myself?

Good question. The first step with any endeavour is mindset. So when people ask “where do we go from here?” my first thought is that we should stop the glorification of exploitation. Stop wearing brand logos. Stop showing our new devices to people with enthusiasm. Stop celebrating the “winners” of capitalism.

I don’t think we should despair - that doesn’t scale well. But we should (IMO) buy these things with a sense of regret or realism. We should normalise the discourse. I want us to be as up to date on this as people who follow sports.

Otherwise, not only will we never think of ways to fix this, but we won’t even recognise the solution when it’s in front of us.

We need to become conscious and informed of the dilemma of people who look different to us and consider them our brethren. That does wonders for the exploitative appetites we’ve developed.

I find it difficult to respect the way we exist in society. Most of us in the west enjoy what we have because someone elsewhere is being exploited. The general pride and vanity we have is unjustified and we should be using that power for good instead. We are focused on the right wrong things.

You could say that this opinion isn’t unpopular, but just try bringing it up in conversation. Many don’t want to know.

I wonder if he would even know that Greenland exists if his handlers hadn’t pointed it out to him and said they want it.

I don’t know why Mastodon got passed over either.

So some Zionist leaders negotiated the exit of Jewish people from Nazi Germany is what I get from that discussion. Like EU leaders today are negotiating with Trump. Is that the point you’re trying to make? I wouldn’t call Europeans Trump collaborators.

I don’t think that’s right. The Haavara agreement was pragmatic, not ideological. Those groups were not allies and the Nazis targeted all Jews (because it was a racist policy, not a political one).

The island was so small that it was a camp itself, just referred to as Ireland. I can understand how that could be missed in a relative brief search.

It was heavily surveilled, controlled and garrisoned with similar abuse and exploitation that Native Americans faced. So the name and presentation is different maybe, but it’s essentially the same.

Later there were further camps called internment camps and prison camps. You’ll find reference to these around the time of the 1798 rebellion.