Probably not, the way Russia is right now it’s more likely some nationalist military commander fills that power vacuum then a sane democratic regime.

It’s more that the national health systems can negotiate prices for the whole country. If you can go to the pharma companies and say you’re selling this drug for $100 or you’re not selling the drug at all here then they’re much more open to lowering the price.

Health insurance companies will also negotiate far below the sticker price listed above so they can go to their customers and say look this drug costs $900 but we got them down to only $200, aren’t we a useful company and not a bunch of leeches? The problem is this makes it so the pharma companies have no incentive to lower sticker price as they’d only be missing out on the uninsured who aren’t going to get it anyway, and the insurance companies like a high sticker price because it makes their “discounts” seem larger.

The person was talking about how certain people annoy them, he may have implied it was you but if you don’t think description matches say so and move on.

But if we’re talking about being a good digital neighbor, you should try and see how your implication is annoying or offensive. There are issues with credentialism but it is not just some arbitrary aristocracy, people put in a lot of work to get there credentials and take pride in them. If you start saying all these experts don’t know what they’re talking about and I found out something they couldn’t is dismissive of all the work those experts put into learning about there field. Like don’t you think doctors get annoyed by all the homeopaths or anti vaxers who dismiss all there work because theyve done there own research?

Assuming this is setting a price ceiling on tickets to there performer set price, then whoever refreshes the resale site most often and is able to get the tickets as soon as they go up will get them.

If anything this will hurt Ticketmaster as with any price control it will lead to a black market, so scalpers will just go there to sell there marked up tickets instead of Ticketmaster because Ticketmaster has to operate above board.

OP might but a majority of people won’t, thus contributing to the landfill issue compared to if the controller just came with a rechargeable battery.

Yeah but most people don’t buy them. If you release a product that uses aa batteries most people are going to buy disposable ones and most of them will not dispose of them properly and just throw them in the trash. Some people using rechargeable AA batteries is nice but it’s better to just remove the option for disposable batteries and make it with a builtin rechargeable battery.

It seems a lot of your critiques are more of the media in general and not social media.

if I got my news and my understanding of the world from Lemmy, it would be easy to believe a whole bunch of people in the United States have given up on civil society and committed themselvesto political violence.

Yeah and if I got my news from Fox News or the New York post it would be easy to believe the cities are full of gangs of maurading immigrants. At least lemmy doesn’t pretend to be a “fair and balanced” representative of the US. Everyone here knows lemmy is far left relative to the US just like they know everyone’s not using or interested in Linux .

As for the favoring of longer form more in depth content vs short form out of context content, that’s just what people like and are drawn to regardless of the media type. More people will watch TV news with shorter segments and less content then a newspaper, and more people will watch late night with even shorter form and less context then TV news. And then there are people who don’t watch or engage with the news at all because they have other things to do.

If anything lemmy is better then a lot of the other social media because it doesn’t disincentivize links. Most other platforms the algorithm is optimizing for watch time / keeping you on the platform, so links to long form news articles get down rated because if you click on that link and go to that site for 5 mins, that’s 5 mins your not spending on the platform. For that sample you took half of the top posts were links to articles, see how long it would take you to find one article link scrolling through tik tok.

Of course, the most passionate, angry, dramatic, and emotion-provoking memes get the most upvotes and go to the top of the algorithm.

Again this is a problem with all media, if it bleeds it leads has been an adage for centuries.

In general lemmy is showing people what they want to see, which media in general has always tried to do. Yes there are a lot of valid critiques of the behavior that this prerogative incentivizes, but that’s different than the critiques of algorithmic social media that prioritizes engagement and staying on the platform, which brings in a whole new set of problematic incentives in addition to the standard problems of media.

Yeah, most of what the article complains about is algorithmic social media and how it boosts engagement of any kind, whether positive or negative. This leads to “extremist” takes gaining ground easier then moderate takes. Combined with algorithmic siloing, echo chambers etc. That we’ve heard a million times, make people more radical and disconnected from reality.

The “algorithm” most people use on lemmy is just most up voted, so controversial takes rarely rise to the top. A lot of the stuff would be considered controversial outside of here, but within lemmy there’s a “hard left” consensus where the moderates are probably democratic socialists.

Idk, a basement is starting to seem like the best place to put RFK Jr now.

They have to have a degree on the relevant topic. I assume most of those influences have business degrees or whatever that wouldn’t qualify them to speak on the dangers of vaccines.

What they deserve

Like heading the department of health and human services?

You can run your own signal server and federate it with others, you just can’t on the standard app you get from the app store that just talks to the central signal server.

It’s all open source though so you’d just need to flip some conf flags and compile it yourself.

In the UK (and like many places) there are 2 systems of water drainage

Not necessarily, older systems tend to be combined systems where sewage and rainwater go down the same pipes and are treated before going into the river. London (where this story takes place) is like this as the system was built in the 1800s when they didn’t care about treating water before it went into the Thames. This becomes a problem when it rains too much and it overwhelms the treatment system so they just dump untreated sewage into the Thames like the good old days.

Then again maybe they’re building a parallel separated system to try and reduce the load during heavy rains. Ie. We were rebuilding this road anyway, might as well connect it to a new storm water drainage system instead of sending it to the old Victorian one, and that’s why they don’t want people dumping.

Your main point is correct for most people living in places that were developed in the 1920s or later, don’t dump shit in the storm drains.

Here’s hoping this ends up like the last time a king Charles got a little too cozy with the Catholics

Due process would be great if there was a functioning court and prison system, but Israel bombed all that

Maybe, but those specific targets were more often than not killed. So yeah, people who survived may say the russians were worse because you can’t ask a dead jew who they thought were worse. The Germans killed 36x as many people during the occupation. Yeah the soviets taking your shit and trying to suppress your culture and autonomy sucks but that’s better than the Germans doing the same while sending a good chunk of the population to death camps

Again, I think that perspective is more shaded by the more recent soviet occupation after the war. If the nazis won and implemented their full lebensraum plans for Poland, nobody would be saying the russians were worse.

Poles hating russians makes sense historically, but historically Germans, both Prussian and Austrian , have been just as bad, if not worse with the nazis, so why don’t they hate them too?

I think the “russophobia” today has more to do with current events than history. If Germany did anschluss 2 and invaded Austria, I think Poland would be just as scared of them.

Probably will get it anyway, companies don’t like to build and maintain software for two different markets so they tend to just follow the regulations of the strictest market, especially if those regulations don’t really cut into there bottom line like this one.

This, people love to think Rome fell because of moral degeneracy and corruption, but that was probably at its height under Commodus or Nero when the empire was very stable and secure. The later emperors were relatively modest and to an increasing degree impotent, so it mattered less if they were incompetent, though many of them were, and that didn’t help.

The reality is empires all eventually fall, they lose the military edge that won them the empire, either by degrading or the “barbarians” learning and catching up, and the forces that were kept in check by the military tear the empire apart.

Sucks to be Mexican. The world cups finally coming to your country after 40 years and the tickets are too expensive for the locals to afford.