no invite and I’ve been on the waitlist since it’s been announced :(

That’s exactly what will happen.

Good, last time I was in Osaka the urban cyclists were plenty dangerous even without texting. Japan doesn’t have a great cycling infrastructure and definitely needs more safety rules because of it.

I fear the price point on this will not be able to compete with just getting a new SteamDeck OLED

considering the track record they should start putting “courts” in quotes when discussing Russia.

Apple absolutely harms other companies to the point where are taken to court all the time.

There’s no such thing as “their own ecosystem”

As someone who writes on Medium ocassionally — no.

Medium like all other blogging platforms has a problem of incentive. The pay is too little for quality writing and there’s always a gamble on whether your article gets views as you don’t control SEO or even formatting for that matter.

It was always filled with low effor slop because most are either:

• practicing writing
• building out their brand which is basically newbies
• trying to make pennies through low effor churn

I feel for Medium here as it does have an unsolvable problem really and AI has nothing to do with it.

They’re just jumping the newscycle for the propaganda machine. Russian government doesn’t care about tech or linux unless it can help them deliver more bombs to Ukrainian babies and you don’t need to fork the kernel for that.

The way Apple gets away with stuff makes me feel very conspiratorial. Like, how?

How is Apple getting a pass every time and my tin foil hat would say that they are protected by the US government. Maybe because it’s just an important corporation for the US economy but maybe it’s an important corporation for US spying too.

It’s incredible how long Apple has gotten a pass which makes me wonder why are they so protected.

100% this is not technology Russian citizens will ever see domestically. It’ll be some front for the propaganda machine.

cult, sect, religion — all the same thing in practical reality tbh

From what I can tell is that japanese baseline is quite conservative so all parties are quite different from what we would have under the same name in the west. Though, they are definitely not left like the name would imply.

For example, LDP is known for it’s “Japan, Inc.” policy which advocates for close ties between the government and business. LDP also supports for “traditional family values and social order” which in all fairness is a must for every major party in Japan.

In the west we’d probably refer them as centrists or slightly-right of center.

Komeito on the other hand is a much more intersting party which is a Buddhist pacifist party with conservative but socialist ideologies. TBH I fail to find a western equivelent reading through their wiki but as someone who spent some time in Japan as a foreigner their policy against kafka-esque beraucracy in Japan make me like them them at least a little bit.

One tries to make money by gathering data and targeting advertising to people intentionally addicted to a platform. The other is, you know… a blog.

but that’s not the issue in question. The issue is social media is introducing negative mental effects into teens life. Which we can all agree is true to some extent.

Now, how should we address this? Should we target specific elements like algorithmic timelines and lack of anti-bullying moderation which btw are 2 things that are scientifically proven here or we prohibit teens from accessing all social media even one that has no these harmful designs?

Do you see how this is just a shitty policy no matter how you look at it? It doesn’t prevent big corps from making a bank and does zero things to address the actual issue. It’s fucking stupid.

I know this might be difficult for some people, but it is absolutely possible to be critical of both sides in a conflict

Seems like we’re in agreement here but somehow Lemmy even when Israel is put against Iran which is straight up a comic book evil level regime Israel are the bad guys?

This logic that “X is bad and they can’t do any good things and are always in the wrong” is bigotry and prejudice i.e. anti-semitism. You can say Israel is evil and agree that Israel is in the right in this particular conflict, those two things don’t cancel each other out.

I swear Lemmy is turning anti-semitist. Clearly Israel is the good guys in this Israel vs Iran conflict and yet anything that suggests this is being down voted to hell. Isn’t that crazy?

Iran is rules by a purely evil Islamic State regime and somehow it’s not OK to enjoy their down fall?

Frankly, I’m tired of every reddit alternative being captured by these extremist bafoons.

Iran is the “find out” stages now. Weirdly enough Iranians actually welcome Israeli strikes. If they couldnt overthrow the brutal Islamic State regime then maybe a bit of Israeli rockets can lend a hand.

Where are you getting “corporate website”? when it would affect all social media websites including Lemmy and Mastodon or your moms blog comments.

The idea of online social exchange of opinions or experiences is absolutely a social construct. We literally didn’t have this and now it’s part of every single person’s life in some shape. How can you just prohibit that? Imagine prohibiting phone calls lol it’s incredibly stupid.

Again you compare this to substances and driving? You can’t be serious here? If you can’t even understand this issue then you shouldn’t be parenting let alone tell other people how to.

comparing substances to social media is fucking stupid and you should feel bad.

How would this even work globally and on places like fediverse tho?

it wouldn’t work. I’m betting 100$ right now that nothing will come of this law it’s purely populist virtue signaling.