As someone who doesn't know much about China aside from the high competitiveness of their academic environment, I'm curious as to what sort of issues your friends face due to surveillance? Does it affect their day to day lives? Or does it just foster an atmosphere of "be careful what you say"?
Sometimes on Lemmy these seem like the only jobs that actually exist, but I'm sure there's a lot of people here with different and unusual lines of work.
It depends on the class and the school. Some of them are a wonder to work with, especially if you try to make the lessons fun and turn them into games. Others make you want to pull out your hair.
But all in all, the worst thing, to me at least, is admin. They stick their noses into what they shouldn't and ignore the actual issues. In my experience, they can either be people who give 200% and are overworked to the point of burnout or they are power-hungry tyrants.
Imo this doesn't impact the men who would do such a thing in the slightest. You're just making the ones who have empathy feel bad, those who would rape are just getting their egos stoked by this fad: "Look at me, I'm more dangerous than a bear! That means I'm badass"
I don't know, I have removed close to 80% of ads in my life. None on my pc, none on my phone, none when I listen to music, none when I play games. Adblocking, Linux and a dash of the old yarr matey worked like a charm
I'd prefer no implants ever if I can help it. I'd only be fine with one if it saved my life. Otherwise, there are just too many things that can go wrong with it in ways our current technology can't. You can go off-grid now if you get sick of tech, but that becomes infinitely harder if you have a chip in your brain
I'd be pretty interesting to have access to age demographics for social media. I assume Reddit leans younger than Lemmy, but I'm in my early 20s and so are a few of my friends, and we use Lemmy a lot more.
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
If a friend asks me to help with something, I don't removed and moan about my unpaid labour. Fuck that, they're my friends and I wouldn't take the money even if offered. That's just what friends do. The same applies to if I wanted to do something nice for them, like sending them a cool mixtape I made. That's how you build communities! Focusing on payment like you do reduces everything to capitalism but with even less empathy and humanity.
No, the solution would be for every app to be able to licence the music without any exclusivity, making them compete over the features their apps and services have instead of on the music itself. Video streaming is an oligopoly right now, which can be just as bad as a monopoly.
As other people have said, it doesn't really matter as long as it helps solve climate change. Boo hoo, western corporations didn't get to overcharge for stuff, big deal.
EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians ( www.theregister.com )
Majority of Japanese support government-run dating apps ( www.asahi.com )
[Meta] Did we drop the "what are you playing" monthly thread? Also, mods haven't been active for a while, should someone take over?
Basically, title
If you don't work IT, retail, or food service what do you do for work?
Sometimes on Lemmy these seem like the only jobs that actually exist, but I'm sure there's a lot of people here with different and unusual lines of work.
A bit late ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
"b-but bears are actually dangerous!" Shut the hell up.
The Linux Experiment - Linux kernel variants explained: Zen, Xanmod, TKG, RealTime, Liquorix... ( tilvids.com )
EA gonna EA ( lemmy.world )
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip ( arstechnica.com )
How old were the founding fathers? ( lemmy.world )
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
China launches world’s largest electric container ship with 50 MWh battery ( thedriven.io )