MisterFrog, misterfrog@lemmy.world

well the US has now totally gone rogue.

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They’re just saying the quiet part out loud now

To me this attitude is the equivalent of telling a comedian to “stick to comedy” when they make jokes about politics, or how “woke” sci-fi is when they make commentary on society.

These things are intertwined, to a large degree.

This is why I’ve just never liked super hero universes.

In isolation, it’s passable, fun even, and I’ve enjoyed some marvel stuff.

When they actually try to do world building, it’s just so, so bad.

This is my opinion, apologies to those who generally like the Marvel universe, but I just can’t stand it. (Based on the handful of films I’ve seen or heard about).

It’s an apple inspired UI thing. Luckily, the built-in android date selector isn’t stupid anymore.

A banking app I use (on Android) put in a bespoke date/time selector with scroll wheels, with no option to type.

It’s like they went out of their way to make using their app a pain in the ass.

My biggest pet peeve is doctors referring to medication by brand name instead of active ingredient.

Should be illegal, in my view.

I’m a little shit and whenever “most dominant brand name for paracetamol"* and “most dominant brand name for Ibuprofen"* are mentioned by a doctor, I play dumb and ask if that’s paracetamol/Ibuprofen.

They’re literally advertising for companies who’s product is 5x more expensive for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

*I refuse to give them free advertising

Why would we do that to ourselves? I’d be willing to bet the proportion of people who watched the film who also regularly played the game at some point is less than 50%

#DIV/0

If your software runs on windows or MacOS, this point is such bull, sorry.

Do you monitor what software people have installed accessing their banking needs on those platforms?

Haha nice

There are currently 5 parties vying for position here

I know you’re not disagreeing, but I find it absolutely hilarious (in a bad way) that UK political parties will put out flyers of who is most likely to win, as a way to convince people to vote for them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLxgEquxA0

All while having rejected bringing in preferential voting at a referendum, not even that long ago.

As an Australian, may I say, you royally fucked up on that one. We have issues in our electoral system too, (mostly around lower house electorates being single-member, and not say 3-member to more accurately represent the electorate), but thank Christ we have preferential voting.

This is why I hate coins. Good luck keeping them neatly sorted in your wallet.

Notes only gang~~~ (sorry coin collectors)

Just gonna take a moment to hate on UK bank notes being different sizes in both dimensions, though. Wtf is that?

(From Australia)

Sort of. A lot of us (countries) have some kind of public healthcare, but it’s not really universal.

From experience in Australia: dental isn’t included, physio is limited, out of pocket costs can be large for non-hospital visits because it’s not a public system just a private subsidy model (mostly), wait times for “elective” surgery can be way, way longer on the public system because private health is permitted to exist and the public system is underfunded/understaffed.

What’s worse is that private health cover is allowed to just cover the difference between public and private, meaning even if you go private, the public is still paying. Like, you wanna be private, fuck off and go be private then… (Talking to the private healthcare advocates, not the people. I have some level of private healthcare cover, even though I think it’s a fucking stupid system)

List goes on.

It’s WAY better than the US, but I refuse to call it universal.

Which is extremely annoying

News title grammar is stupid and I’m rather annoyed at the journalists continuing its use.

Use an “&” ffs…

Can we stop it with journalists’ insane use of commas in place of “and”?

If space is so precious, use an ampersand (&) for Christ’s sake.

Reading this sentence normally, it could seem like allies ARE joining the mission.

Gotta love the spoiler effect :3 yikes first past the post sucks

Just seems to me you are redefining the middle class into the working class and are focusing on making the distinction be based on belonging to some arbitrary class. I don’t even think the psychopaths we are referring to really care about belonging to anything if they can get ahead.

Indeed, it’s only a categorisation, though I’m certainly not the first to say if you primarily work for your money, you’re working class. What class the billionaires feel they belong to is irrelevant, I agree.

You can mobilize people, but if you are excluding people that could be included or trying to address what’s actually an arbitrary definition, don’t forget, there are psychopaths interested in taking you for a ride.

I do not know what you mean by this. If you feel excluded by me then that’s not my intention at all.

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.

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.

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.