‘Oxfam’s research found that fifty of the world’s richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single year, spending 425 hours in the air.’
#WealthInequality
#RichPolluters
#ClimateBreakdown
Consumption of the world’s wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit global heating to 1.5CJonathan Watts (The Guardian)
You know, really thinking about it I've realized why so many people can't be bothered to do anything about reclaiming their privacy. It's because doing so means not using Chrome, ChromeOS, Microsoft Windows, Android, Amazon, Facebook, Xitter, iOS, Macs, etc...
The apathy has existed so long, and the problem is now so endemic to all things tech, that giving it up basically means giving up the tools and services the vast majority of people use every day.
This issue is now so bad, that there's no functional way to even "vote with our wallets" to get rid of it. There's literally nowhere else to turn for most users. And every available option requires they give up things that they've been using, probably for years.
There is no way out of it, at all. And that's hard for me to say as someone that has advocated for digital privacy for a long time.
Any way out we have would have to involve laws banning data collection. I don't see that happening
This is absolutely it. Insisting on existing outside of those systems is increasingly not merely impractical, but kind of insufferable.
"Sorry, I won't click the thing you're trying to share with me because I'm boycotting that platform" really just adds fiction between a person and their own social groups, no matter how valid the grievance is.
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If you're one of those people that doesn't care about privacy because “you’ve got nothing to hide, you never do anything wrong."
Just remember one thing.
Until the overturn of Roe Vs Wade, there were millions of women in this country that never did anything wrong either. But since the abortion laws changed, their smartphones and the data they collect are now being used against them in court.
You don't have to be doing something wrong to care about privacy.
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If I was going to sit in your car with you while you drove around, write down everywhere you go, how you drove while you were going there, what time it was, who was in the car with you, and then came with you into the places where you were going, would you be alright with that?
I hope you wouldn't. I hope you'd tell me to fuck all the way off.
So now is the time, to tell that to the insurance companies that want to do just that with their apps.
To save on auto insurance, some customers opt in to programs to have their driving habits tracked. In the past, customers were tracked through devices that plug…Harry Hairston, Katie Suiters, Charlie Wellock (NBC 10 Philadelphia)
and they ruin things they steal
Edit: I think that you are correct on the Norse part too. It was used millennia before they co-opted it to mean something very different from what it means today in various cultures.
this is the ethical gaslighting we need in the world
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/1g7w3pg/is_it_true_that_fortnite_stops_working_after/
@xoagray When outlawing furries and pornography is on the table, more of the weird internet needs to take a stand for sure.
Though the Trump votes on FM seem to have weakened in position considerably as of late. So they claim, who knows how they'll actually vote.
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"software/hardware from china cannot be trusted because those who made it have to do whatever the ccp orders them to"
because everyone knows china is the only country in the world with the law of "if the government tells a company/person to do something, like making backdoors and spyware, they have to", and btw every single developer/engineer/game creator from there has been personally told to make their creation a spying device /s
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