But we can’t call it a genocide!

-CBC/Radio-Canada

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18875168

Actually simplified explanation

ELI5 means they wanted the simplified version. The simplified version is that privacy focused individuals don’t bring revenues to platforms like Reddit so for these platforms it’s a good idea to get rid of these users to reduce costs and to only keep the users who bring in revenues.

People who love privacy won’t be seeing adverts anyway because they’ll block them, get them off the platform to reduce server load (thus reducing costs) and only keep the users that will generate revenues.

And Newell is Valve because it’s his private company

Sanders doesn’t have control over (probably) thousands of the games you “own” or, if we’re honest, the PC gaming market as a whole.

If you just pay attention more than the average person you quickly realize that he’s already a shitty billionaire.

Steam underage gambling profits him directly.

He owns a yacht collection while his clients can’t afford to own the place they live in. How’s that for an environmental impact?

His reaction to George Floyd’s murder wasn’t that Valve should release a statement as he considered that problematic (source), instead he gave each employee 10k to spend however they felt like. Where I used to work we used to call that a “shut the fuck up”. Employees are complaining about something? Here’s 10k each for them to shut the fuck up. Hell, they could spend that money to finance far right groups if they wanted, Newell didn’t care!

Women employees with managerial positions at Valve? What women employees?

Valve takes a 30% cut but Newell is a billionaire, which means they could afford to take a much smaller cut, he could have hundreds of millions instead and the devs could have more money in their pockets.

Some people are starting to wake up to the fact that the guy is just another libertarian billionaire, he just happens to be in charge of a company that made a product people love enough to give them monopolistic powers.

Edit: these people aren’t in this thread

Edit 2: first edit was from when the votes on that comment were at -8, happy to see that for once one of my comments on this subject ends up in the positives

Weren’t they supposed to create their own version of Lemmy?

Yep, force businesses to pay taxes based on the countries where they make the revenue Don’t want to do that? Can’t access the market.

Settings, filter list, cookie notices

Ublock Origin has that option!

Didn’t Obama remove the sanctions and Trump put them back?

It’s an a diversion, media and people are focusing on that when there’s much more pressing stuff that needs to be taken care of.

I don’t get it, my girlfriend only uses video calls with her family… If you want to do a video call with me you better warn me, meanwhile it’s like any other phone call to them except that when they’re driving they panic and find somewhere to pullover to take their call instead of using the car’s phone functions!

Had a lady scream at me because I passed her while jogging and she was “having a private conversation”… On speakerphone… On the street…

But again, and you’re saying it yourself, it’s because she was his wife, he wouldn’t have killed a woman colleague or his sister and there’s a term for that, it’s just not as well known.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxoricide

If a woman kills her husband we call it a mariticide, not a masculinicide…

Or you can just disable RCS and solve the issue for yourself

I’ve been using it for years to chat with people on a bunch of different carriers… Seems like carrier incompetence, not Google’s fault

Around here they’ve started calling all cases of men killing their wife a feminicide and it bothers me as those men (in most cases) wouldn’t have killed any woman, just this one in particular because it was their wife and had they been gay they would have killed their husband instead, not any man…