Serinus

joined 2 years ago
[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I was in M2-XFE. That whole experience certainly taught a lot about the power of narrative and propaganda. And the later blockade showed what leadership failures look like.

We always had the advantage in that blockade, and could have stayed there for another year had the allies stuck together. Or we could have executed real plans to break them and end the war. Instead we did the worst of both.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Probably Netflix, YouTube, and streaming apps first. I'd say banks, but banks are slow. Games won't take long. If there's not enough blowback it'll spread to every website that uses captchas today.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

You can get an old version of the software without the features blocked.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 years ago (15 children)

On the Fediverse, you can go to a different instance.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Advertise. And Geocaching is a great way to do it.

I'd recommend a post in the community encouraging people to put a url and/or QR code into some geocaches. Maybe with a sticky at the top of the community that explains what Lemmy is.

Consider the point of view of a person who finds the QR code in the geocache.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

And they think everyone just ate the WMDs in Iraq thing. No, I was there at the protests. Many of us knew it was a bullshit excuse.

The only thing Iraq and Al Qaeda had in common was the Q. We knew that then.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 years ago (6 children)

They can sell colors and themes as DLC! Cosmetics for your home!

[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

I would make sure the firmware can't be updated. Uninstall the Hue app for sure.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 91 points 2 years ago

After they make the change, someone with an old Hue bulb should go to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Making this decision retroactive is clearly false advertising and anti-consumer. I don't really give a shit what their terms of use were.

They can do what they want with their future bulbs. The old ones need to be grandfathered in.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Serinus@lemmy.ml to c/lifeprotips@lemmy.ml
 

The prices of the items you buy are not based on how much they cost to produce. The price is based on what people are willing to pay. And the corporations know that most people aren't paying that much attention.

If you put things into your grocery cart without considering what the price was two weeks ago or two months ago, they'll just keep jacking up the price.

Have you noticed that the price of coca-cola has doubled in the past 5 years? Do you look for alternatives, or do you just keep putting it in your cart? Is there a point at which you'll stop buying a particular thing, or does it have to be truly egregious?

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