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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • All of my life I been lied to
    Just found out my boss makes 500 times what I do
    And still wants to cut my hours back
    To 39 and three quarters ‘cause 40 gets you a health plan
    And I got a feelin’ I’m a need it
    Losin’ feelin’ in my knees and my lower back
    And I’m going back, trapped like a lower class clown
    Hold a rat down, so we kill each other over cheddar
    Keep us hungry so we never organize for nothing better
    Just make it through the day, make it through the week

    – You Say Millionaire Like It’s a Good Thing, Guante










  • mumblerfish@lemmy.worldtoWikipedia@lemmy.world•Day Fine
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    2 months ago

    Swedish day fines have, contrary to its Finnish counterparts, a maximum limit so as not to render too excessive of a fine should the offender have a very large income.

    This is such a joke. One of the good features is to force rich people to also respect the laws. But politicians have to get away with stuff I guess.


  • I think this has existed as an intentional goal for a long time, albeit from another point of view. I’m thinking of like the piracy days of early 2000, then there was talk about how to lock down devices to prevent any sort of copying of media. The discussion sort of died when Spotify came. But I’m worrying that this development will trigger a reemergence of such a goal. As your self built computer will be more and more expensive, a new possibilty may open up to sell prebuilts that are more locked down. Similarly to how Android is moving from a more open device to a locked down one. HDMI forum locking down their protocols. This may become reality for your general purpose computer. Companies controlling compute and media streaming have a similar motive here, if they do set their mind to it to have this as a fully intentional goal… sigh