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  • How much do some mega-expensive things cost?

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  • Mega-yachts.

    Here is a yacht buying/selling website with a filter for mega-yachts: https://www.yachtworld.com/boats-for-sale/type-power/class-power-mega/

    The most expensive ones listed there are in the lower hundreds of millions (US$). I didn't check if these were new or used. The smallest ones I would start to call mega-yachts were mid-to-upper hundred of thousands.

    There's also this calculator site for the purchase annual operating expenses of superyachts: https://www.luxyachts.com/yacht-cost-calculator

  • You say ONE thing, and Reddit decides to ban you

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  • Depends on your instance and the community you're posting in.

    For example, on lemmy.world a user might get warned or banned for openly celebrating the shooting of Brian Thompson. (I forget exactly where they draw the line, but it's an "advocating violence" thing)

    Or here, a user on lemmy.ml might get banned for bigoted statements, even normal things that plenty of people don't even notice are bigoted because it's "common sense" in their own country.

    But you've got to be pretty damn intolerable to get banned from more than a few instances. Like, actual Nazism.

  • Tor VPN is slow

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  • Tor VPN is slow

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  • It’s nearly useless unless you TRULY need the highest levels of privacy.

    Absolutely not. My main adversary is simply commercial surveillance capitalism tracking and I daily drive Tor Browser. Most of the time, it's fast enough for my browsing and video watching.

    That’s why it’s annoying when people say “just use TOR”

    I'm more annoyed when such people treat it as a panacea. See: https://medium.com/@thegrugq/tor-and-its-discontents-ef5164845908

  • Tor VPN is slow

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  • Tor is not a VPN, so something calling itself "Tor VPN" is ringing alarm bells. Is it official? Who developed it?

    edit: Yes, it's official - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/vpn/

    I was confused since I didn't understand the difference between it and Orbot, and misunderstood its name.

  • Lemmy liberals calling everything communistic "russian propaganda" 😁

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  • A government or state, like a corporation, will always act in its own best interest.

    I can't think of any human structure, or any person, who doesn't tend to act in their own perceived best interest. The issue is when self interest contradicts mutual interest.

    Self-interest is an important concept in understanding why capitalist corporations are consistently antisocial and why most states act against their citizens, but self-interest isn't a reason in itself.

    It was just called thoughts before governments weaponized it.

    Government propaganda definitely predates the modern English language. e.g. Roman Empire

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  • Can a moderator please explain how this post violates rule 1?

  • Have you been exposed to an IPv6 address at work?

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  • Just make your IP addresses pronouncable words like feed:deaf:babe:beef:cafe:: problem solved ez (working 2023!)

  • Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment

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  • Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment

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  • That would be far more provocative.

    Yes, but depending on the country that could be (public + illegal) if it lists [what is legally considered] personal sensitive information or accidentally reveals someone's secret like the Coldplay incident.

    It would be fascinating, but IMO unnecessary and unethical.

  • Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment

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  • extreme ironer

    I did come across that hobby when I was trying to list examples of productive sports. Yeah, it's a thing.

  • People who watched the show "The Big Bang Theory", what is your opinion on it?

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  • I haven't watched much BBT, so grain of salt, open to being called out for mistakes.

    I'd say The IT Crowd was more centered about a workplace, even if many of the jokes are about their romances, hobbies and personal life, and even if BBT had workplace episodes. The central set of IT Crowd is their basement office, the central set of BBT is an apartment. And I don't think that's a trivial difference, it changes the kind of humor and how relatable much of it is.

    Also, a big gripe about BBT was the laugh track. It's normal for sitcoms to have canned laughter, IT Crowd had it too, but BBTs is uncomfortable. Like trk said in another reply, "If there was no laugh track you wouldn’t even know jokes are happening." There are plenty of BBT No Laugh Track edits on YouTube and it highlights how much better it could be without the forced laughter.

    Finally, BBT is a lot more US humor than British humor, not to say that as point in itself, but I feel like it makes the BBT feel to me a lot more like "laughing at nerds" despite that being a major factor in BBT. I also feel that Moss is played more wacky and exaggerated than (say) Sheldon, who certainly has strange peculiarities but is played more subtly or realistically, which I feel makes their character more mocking than absurd parody.

    (also I just like the theme music much more)

  • have you found a good use case for generative AI?

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  • Creating low-effort images for ideas that don't warrant effort, like silly jokes.

  • Ubuntu mod team takes anti-queer "Don't say gay" stance.

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  • You have to understand, it just wouldn't be fair to put inclusion over exclusion ! You care about equality, don't you?

  • Nostalgic for older websites

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  • Other replies have listed a lot of them, and there are plenty more. Lots of webrings for personal sites are still running. Plenty of BBS-style forums too.

    The bottom line is, there are plenty of other people who enjoy those aspects of older websites, whether for nostalgic aesthetic reasons or for the benefits of minimalist design. So there are many new sites being made in the same vein of twenty and thirty year old sites. Just like Lemmy is a breath of fresh air for those who are only used to having ads shoved down their throats, old-style sites can be surprisingly relaxing and refreshing.

  • Paywalls

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  • I don’t think many anti-capitalists suggest abolishing currency entirely.

    Why don't you think that? You're right that abolishing currency isn't implied by abolishing capitalism, but plenty of anti-capitalists advocate for eventually abolishing money in any form (I assume that's what you mean by abolishing currency, although there are other interpretations), and some others advocate to abolish it as soon as possible (I believe, although I can't prove right now, that many intentional communities/communes have done this).

    Communism's long-term aim is ultimately to create a communist society. That is, a public, stateless, classless, moneyless society - goods are distributed by need rather than for wealth.

    We don’t want people filling swimming pools with cheese and diving into it.

    I actually had to check to make sure some e-celeb hadn't done this stunt for content. I don't think currency is what stops people from doing that, just like how for-profit healthcare systems aren't what's keeping people from injuring themselves.

  • Paywalls

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  • Ubuntu mod team takes anti-queer "Don't say gay" stance.

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  • "If we allow your flag, then we have to admit also other similar political flags, both supporting and opposing diversity."

    Consider the following: no, they don't.

  • What are you doing about it?

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  • but this rant happens early in the film, and the rest of the story shows how the network it aired on figured out how to capitalize on the ratings it generated

    Absolutely, even when I gave the scene a quick watch before posting this, I thought about comments various writers have made about capital's ability to subsume critique of capitalism. The contract reading scene in the Ecumenical Liberation Army house really pulls it into the forefront.