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  • Zombie@feddit.uktoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Let them fight
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    23 hours ago

    Calories in calories out, except, fast food has minimal micronutrients therefore the body craves micronutrients and asks for more food.

    You eat more fast food and the body is satisfied because it’s been fed. But then it digests the food and goes “damn, I need more micronutrients, more food please!” so then you eat more. The body is satisfied because it’s been fed. But then it digests the food and goes “damn, I need more micronutrients, more food please!” so then you eat more. The body is satisfied because it’s been fed. But then it digests the food and goes “damn, I need more micronutrients, more food please!” so then you eat more. The body is satisfied because it’s been fed. But then it digests the food and goes “damn, I need more micronutrients, more food please!” so then you eat more.

    Suddenly you’ve put a lot of calories in and now you’re unhealthy because you’re deficient in a bunch of things and have eaten far more salt, sugar, and fat than you should. Now you’re fat and getting healthy is even more difficult. So you eat some fast food to feel better about yourself…

  • Zombie@feddit.uktoTechnology@lemmy.world•Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from SpotifyEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I’m just some random on the internet but I’d rather you didn’t pay Spotify. Here’s one example for why, among many.

    In November 2021, Prima Materia, an investment company cofounded by Ek and Spotify investor Shakil Khan, was announced as the lead investor in a €100 million fundraising round for Helsing, a European defense company that develops military strike drones and AI systems. Ek also joined Helsing’s board along with its co-founders Torsten Reil, Gundbert Scherf and Niklas Köhler.[171] In 2025, Ek’s firm increased its investment in Helsing, leading a €600 million funding round in the company that valued it at €12 billion.[172]

    Several artists have objected to Ek’s investments in defense technology. The German DJ and techno producer Skee Mask urged his nearly 17,000 Twitter followers not to give their “last penny to such a wealthy business that obviously prefers the development of warfare instead of actual progression in the music business.” According to Sameer Gupta, a percussionist based in Brooklyn, New York, “All that money that’s being taken from artists and musicians is being funneled to this,” referring to Helsing. “I don’t know a single musician who would ever say, ‘That’s the function of music.’”[173] In 2025, the bands Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hotline TNT, Massive Attack, and Sylvan Esso removed their music from the streaming service over objections to Ek’s investment in Helsing.[174][175][176][177][178]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Spotify

  • Zombie@feddit.uktoMemes@lemmy.ml•Venn diagram of cops and bastards
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    23 days ago

    https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person

    This article is a fun read.

    The system only works because millions of cogs step in line and allow the machinery of that system to work.

    I have been part of a larger evil system. Because where I grew up that’s what everyone did, you went into the industry propping up the local economy (oil and gas). As I grew older I learned of the evils of fossil fuels, about climate change, and no longer work in oil and gas. I have no intention of ever doing so again.

    So you could quite rightfully call me a bastard. But I left and will never be returning, does that absolve me of the bastard title? I don’t know. But while you’re actively part of the machinery you’re definitely a bastard. Especially if you’re the part of the machinery that is systemically racist and assaults and restrains people on a daily basis.

  • Zombie@feddit.uktoMemes@lemmy.ml•Venn diagram of cops and bastards
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    24 days ago

    Intentions vs actions.

    All cops are bastards because it doesnt matter what their intentions are when their actions mean they prop up injustice, legal slavery, oppression of the right to protest, and corruption.

    Cops enforce what their boss tells them to enforce, as is the way in extremely hierarchical organisations. Their intentions no longer matter, they do as they’re told.

  • Zombie@feddit.uktoTechnology@lemmy.world•Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support MozillaEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Their support isn’t required though, it’s desired.

    Mozilla have millions of $, they are actively investing in various money making schemes (sorry, financial investment vehicles) well outwith the original scope of Mozilla.

    They take the money because they want the money, they could refuse it any time they want. But they won’t, because they don’t want to. They’re not a poor FOSS project with an independent developer that needs donations to survive, stop treating them like they are.

    Mozilla has created some brilliant software, but they’re leaving their original mission behind, burning goodwill with many people around the world, and setting themselves up to be shunned by the open source community the second a viable alternative pops up.