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MisterFrog

@ MisterFrog @lemmy.world

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  • Divide & Conquer

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  • The meme is literally about people are traditionally labelled different classes fighting against themselves.

    The whole point of this comic is to point out the absurdity of working class people with different incomes fighting each other, when there are people extracting extreme levels of wealth.

    Yes, people's definition of working class may differ, but the message of the comic is the same regardless. It's pointing out how silly it is to fight at the kiddie tables.

    And if successful, then becomes the system, including the legal system, and then the same flaws appear.

    There's always going to be problems in society, but this type of argument is unconvincing, considering how much, and how frequently society has changed over the last 2000 years - practically in the blink of an eye in the scope of human existence. The same problems aren't guaranteed to appear under a new system. The various forms of society throughout history have definitely had different problems.

    The revolutions that have been most successful kept in mind the laws and legislation that needed to be changed or enforced

    I'm just saying that the fundamental key here is mobilisation of the people, who are the ultimate arbiters of the law. The law is fundamentally democratic in origin and only exists because we collectively believe in it.

    There have been numerous movements in the past that were illegal at the time, but are obviously moral in retrospect (the civil rights movement in the US comes to mind).

    "Just work within the system" as a blanket statement is not a serious argument to be making when the system is massively rigged in favour of wealth. (Apologies if this isn't exactly what you were arguing just seemed that way)

    No one's suggesting you abolish rules/laws entirely and start completely from scratch. Well, no one I take seriously anyway.

  • Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns

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  • Me every day at work.

    It's even worse working in the company's network drive.

    But damn, it often takes ages for a right click to appear in the goddamned downloads folder (which is in its default C drive location...)

    I feel you pain friend.

  • Divide & Conquer

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  • Oligarchs conduct class war by seeding division within the working class. The working class fighting amongst themselves isn't class war, and is just self inflicted pain to distract from the oligarchs. This is the message of the comic.

    Focusing on those entities that have excessive wealth and actively spend it to lobby against our interests while paying only for a fraction what we pay for our share can be handled through laws and legislation, no class warfare needed.

    In theory, but the whole legal system is so weighted towards people with money it's not even funny. So grass routes mobilisation/organisation seems required at this point, otherwise, the status quo continues on.

    Especially in countries that have terribly voting systems (the US), but also in those where the voting systems are decent.

  • Divide & Conquer

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  • Presumably someone from a non-english speaking country made this, considering the dots used as digit grouping separators.

    Having the $ at the end would be nice though. It's nice having your units in a single fraction instead of at different sides of the number. It could then be consistent with how we write all our other units.

    We don't write m 1000/s, for example. We write 1000 m/s. We even say it this way already "4 million dollars per hour".

    4,000,000 $/h makes way more sense than $4,000,000/h to be honest.

  • The 49MB Web Page

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  • I like it at the top of the view-port, but I agree the auto-hiding/showing feature is excruciating.

  • Retailer denies memory replacement due to 4x increase in DDR5 pricing, says price increase would equate to an 'upgrade' for the customer — Australian retailer refuses to replace faulty Corsair kit

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  • Best part is, they don't even have to go to court, this sort of thing can be taken to your state or territory's administrative tribunal, which costs peanuts to file with, and it's extremely common to represent yourself. Hence why it's an extremely effective threat when you're obviously in the right, like in this case.

    Basically Umart is fucked and Australian Consumer Law is really not shabby :)

  • Positive affirmations from your favorite captains

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  • I feel like I'm not on this sub enough to get the joke. Are we referring to the Tuvix incident?

  • Encountering Mr. Fog

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  • Me too, lol

  • They seemed nice and normal until....

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  • I feel mean, but at first I thought it was subtle CGI to indicate mutation over generations due to radiation living in the vaults.

    Hope she never reads this comment. She is very good looking, just has comically large eyes.

  • Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket

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  • It might not be legal, but it's already morally acceptable to shoplift from Coles and Woolworths

    I just don't because it would be a massive pain if I were to be caught

  • Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

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  • This is so fucking stupid. I've worked in hospitality, saying please and thank you just comes with the territory no one needs to be checking if you do it.

    In a cafe that's the whole service (in my country at least): being friendly to people, and providing a nice place to hang out and have a coffee, the actual beverage is secondary.

    Saying please and thank you is such base politeness. You can easily be rude or cold even when you do use them, and conversely, be absolutely lovely without using them at all.

    People don't go to burger king for the pleasantries, the amount of politeness you should expect is the same as anyone else walking down the street.

    Policing politeness with technology is stupid. People should ask each other how they're going genuinely. Not from a place of corporate greed.

    Fuck this capitalist dystopia.

  • Behold.

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  • Eh, it's already fairly obvious using both systems side by side across the internet.

    Though I suppose in actual work you're correct. I use 3 decimal places for metres on drawings a lot, because I like it to be easy to read the mm.

    It being 1,000 m or 1.000 m is of course a huge difference haha

    A boy can dream 🥹

  • Behold.

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  • But commas and dots don't form part of the metric system?

    Ihr könnt gerne umwechseln wenn ihr wollt :3

    My main argument for the English/Chinese/Indian system (I have no idea where this system originated), is that in many languages (including German), commas function as pauses and full stops (period, by the Americans) as a stronger separator between thoughts, so it makes more sense to seperate digits with commas (in my opinion)

    It's all ultimately arbitrary, and I don't really care which we pick.

  • Behold.

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  • I don't really care which, but if I'm not mistaken it's the majority of the world population in this case not just the US.

  • Behold.

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  • I just hurts my soul that it's inconsistent.

    By population decimal point wins?

    I don't really care which, but my heart craves standardisation*

    (*where it makes sense. I don't think language based differences in how many digits between separators needs to be world-wide. Eg. In East Asia you separate in groups of 4 digits, not 3 because of language)

  • Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that

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  • lol serves its own grammatical function now I reckon.

    It's a marker for response to irony (actual irony, Americans...), or as a way to indicate you think something is stupid to the point of humour, or as a kind of "that tracks".

    Or at least, that's how it's used amongst people my age in Australia.

    I don't think I use it in a positive sense at all any more

  • Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses

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  • This is a great propaganda* image. Yoink ⚒️

    * word used in the neural sense

  • Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses

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  • The general strike in Minneapolis shows what the working class can achieve.

    From the provinces (Australia), I suggest you join whatever local movements exist.

    I'm wishing you great success, because I worry what will be in store for us if the US falls even further into racism.

    Stay strong friend

  • ‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

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  • They won't because we are expected to toe the imperial line. We are a vassal state of the US.

    It's batshit that DFAT haven't issue a travel warning, I agree. There's warnings for China (reasonable), but damn, I feel no worry about travelling to China, just don't do anything political.

    I'd never in a million years consider travelling to the US.

  • Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.

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  • Props to the camera person for showing the message.

    Every small resistance counts ✊