Dyskolos

Lol. They couldn’t pull that off here, so many elderly would just shrug aimlessly and leave. I would laugh and leave, seeing qr-pricetags.

Rules are for thee not for me.

Not familiar with those price-tags, but how should they do this? Detecting your presence at a product and raise price? What if two ppl are standing there? Three?

Oh man…do they also try to throw a “to protect the kids!”-sticker Onto that destructive bullshit?

It sounded awesome.

Maybe only to US-americans? To me it sounds equally, but a tiny lil less, horrible than it is now.

Why not fund it entirely by the state? You know, the one profiting very much from a good paying job you’d get. Maybe just invest a few billions less in Military, but more in education and its own people. Like a civilized nation should do. It could do wonders to a society.

Yeah sure, i hear you. Though one could argue if having the (silly) opinion to scratch modern gendering off the agenda is actually “evil”. It’s stupid, but it’s just a political opinion one is allowed to have and share. And fully live out in one’s company. So, quitting here just because they’re narrow-minded and stupid would be a bit overkill. But just staying there until you find something better: Totally acceptable I’d say. I might’ve sound very harsh and black/white-ish, but i often talk in principles, not in simple 100%-always-appliable-rules-for-everybody.

And kudos that you do your protest in the means possible :)

Sounds exactly like the kind of evil to leave. Well done! “Gross” nearly fits. It’s disgusting. Preying on the weakest amongst us is plain disgusting.

Ok, “evil” surely isn’t black/white. Capitalism in its roots borders around evil, that’s true. But it’s still a difference of selling crap to idiots who won’t question their purchases and ripping e.g. people off of their stuff or just…well, selling arms, munition, addictive drugs (knowing there would be non-addictive versions), making/selling alcohol/nicotine and whatnot…

Everyone has a choice. It might be harder for some, but it’s still a choice. Work for the evil company or not. Noone forces me at gunpoint to go to work. I’d argue it’s possible to change. Maybe not easy or fun, but possible. There may be exceptions in uncivilized countries where it’s “work or die” where it’s “me or them”.

I, personally, just couldn’t. Working for someone that’s clearly against my ethics or moral code? I would probably prefer welfare over that. Couldn’t enjoy anything I would buy from that salary. Better be poor but proud than rich and ashamed of myself.

Sorry, but if you know your company is evil and you still work there, you’re evil too.

Once worked at a very major German donation-based organization as an it-admin. Wanted to do something valuable with my sparetime. What I learned there made me never donate a single cent again to any organization ever. I left on the spot, knowing they would never dare to sue because they fear the truth could come out. People could literally just not show up for weeks without explanation and wouldn’t even get a slap on the wrist. Before that I donated like 50k a year to many.

Could I work there and still call myself “a good people”? Absolutely not.

I don’t have enough facts to render a judgement, but even if, it would be innocent. If a state can murder a murderer, so can the murderer. And this CEO surely was a mass-murderer. Just with money, not a physical weapon.

But yes, I hope for this guy to be freed. At the very least.

And that’s when I switched a while ago from a modern Bentley to an “ancient” mechanical car from a past long forgotten. Every electrical gadget is local, and it just has android auto (dedicated isolated phone just for the car) with a fake google account for navigation. Everyone thinks we’re broke lol, but I’m so fed with this shit. Even a silly backlight went from 5 bucks for a replacement-bulb to 1500 bucks for the whole led-package. Parts alone, add the mechanic and the many hours needed.

Heard that all brands do this shit though. Like even disabling things remotely that are there but you didn’t subscribe to. This is bonkers.

You killed someone? The worthy sentence is that we kill you now. Because we are allowed to, you are not. Unless you join the military, then we pay you for it and give you medals and you can have fun doing it. Or maybe you’re rich, then it’s OK too. Unless you’re brown or black, that might pose another problem.

We are civilized and free!

Barbaric nation…

Wouldn’t even pin the early problems on the billionaires. Every corpo smelled money in the net. Every scammer and similar dirtbag. That, in combination with the average joe being able to “surf” was a bad combo. Like everything else where a clueless mass meets greed.

The net is great, i love it. don’t get me wrong. Decentralization was kinda a core of the net. Usenet, IRC…everything was great, simple, redundant and fool-proof (i mean, it’s still there and kicking). Even google was great when they emerged.

Fair point. Though using a PC you rent someplace foreign can’t be outlawed. Not even in the US. I’d argue the ban would be the usual kind that just has a list of banned IPs which are “shared devices”. Everything else would be death for all companies and whatnot. For me a reason to emigrate.

Thank God I’m not in the USA, but it gradually gets worse everywhere.

The moment the average Joe could access the net, was the begin of its downfall. And it hurts me to see one of the greatest inventions of all time to get more shitty day by day.

Also, VPNs might be outlawed, but that just means vpns for the masses. If you throw money at the problem, you’d still have a VPN. Doesn’t even need to be much money, though that’s relative.