This bears the question: is that what the elite wants? I mean you wouldn’t accept a shitty job and you would consume less to compensate your dissatisfaction, so…

It is the same with all industries I guess: for each one of the mass consumption alternative there is a well-defined tipping point. The problem is that the people who, for a job, are informed about what these tipping points, most of them work in banks and other financial institutions as analysts.

We would need more of them to come and speak out, even anonymously, here on Lemmy, to inform the public about how close we are to achieving change, since so much more can be achieved when the goal is in sight.

For example, I believe we are closer than we think to the tipping point of the intensive cattle industry, but if someone well-informed would come here and say “you are this close, just call for X more people to join your consumption level and the whole thing goes to shit” I would mobilize A LOT more.

I know this is a joke, but it is important to point out for others that such policies get years to be designed, discussed and published in the EU.

What is an alternative to burning for long-term immobilization?

Asking for a friend.

3465 € in 21 years at today’s prices for 287 games. Given that I mostly buy at historical lows the estimate of 1033 € that can be found on the same SteamDB page applies to me.

3,6 € per game, 49 € per year.

Given the tears, the emotions and the joy I got repeatedly from all those (mostly indie) titles, it’s well worth it. Praised be GabeN and all of Valve!

Disclaimer: I work in the marketing analytics industry

And you declare any site that has not yet discovered a better way than Amazon affiliate links to make money off-limits for you and suggest everyone else to do the same?

There are two problems I see in your approach:

1. You are not letting Productfrom and everyone else that a better way exists. In this case it could be setting up a similar program with someone better than Bezos or even turning everything into a crowdfunded operation.

2. You are cutting yourself off immense portions of the web for no good reason at all, since there are quite simple ways to prevent the harvesting of useful data from you.

If the site was a little better (a lot of products have the 5 years disclaimer on them) I would even voluntarily let them know more about me on their analytics, if they had one (they are on the old version of GA, which has sunset 2 years ago), since the idea is actually good.

I didn’t even get to click on a product, just getting to know where stuff is made is inspiration enough for me.

Having other “special interests” like Malta and Cyprus in the EU is a luxury we cannot afford, imho, especially given the support all of these countries show for Russian interests.

They are not in the EU (that’s EU’s flag) and I for sure wouldn’t want today’s Switzerland anywhere close to joining the EU.

I have a rule: I don’t pronounce the word fascist (in private or in public, I don’t care) without prefixing it with “lurid” in English and in Italian appending “di merda” after fascista/i. As someone who had nightmares at night about them, given the testimony of my grandmother, I feel that not qualifying fascist people is somehow working in their favor.

The day I will see a politician using that rule in a TV interview I will know that we have again a chance.

2 years ago, when I first heard about them in Helsinki, I genuinely thought they were a Sami party. But yeah, that is usually the underlying message of such names, like for example Forza Italia in Italy (which also meant that football journalists were directly turned into political megaphones during the games of the National team).

Apparently now the official English name is The Finns. Calling themselves Basic in English wasn’t to their taste apparently.

I just congratulated my Finnish friends and one of them explained to me that Perussuomalaiset (the party’s name in Finnish) directly translates to “The Basic Finns”! I really hope the opposition is using that in English interviews.

I hope they fail then. The level of intrusion and power on internal EU affairs the platforms have is immense and getting rid of it would arguably compensate for any losses, especially when we have the rest of the world willing to talk to us.

As long as there is a conditional, I won’t think so.

Do we have any documentation about the origin of the infrastructure providers for Wero?

My attention will be on the selection of providers, planned for Q2 2025. If non-EU (and I would personally exclude also non-Eurozone, because incentives) providers are allowed in the infrastructure, especially American, Israeli or Chinese, the whole thing is not only a joke, but an extremely risky operation.

A private company that is already enshittifying, to be precise. After years of gathering market share by being a zero commissions solution, lately they introduced commissions in some cases higher than what more consolidated payment solutions have.

I hope we will be able to hang a prosciutto or two this time as well. Maybe not just ours this time.

Vance is coming to visit on the 18th, just sayin’

Tiered strategies get my approval. We can start from Hungary.

Qwant (at least the way I would pronounce it, let’s say in a French way) doesn’t sound bad at all.