TheOctonaut

Well yeah, you mistook posting memes as doing anything about it. When’s the next No Kings Just Controlled Opposition peaceful march of strongly worded displeasure and unoriginal signs for instagram?

You think that was the most racist way possible? Really?

You don’t get it. We have billionaires - trillionaires - because we allowed millionaires to happen.

Both are problems. One is the direct result of the other though.

Define “fabulously well off” and explain why they deserve that and someone who works twice as many hours to feed twice as many people does not?

You need “just” 30 million dollars to be in the global 0.01% BTW. Not a rounding error. Again, you’ve let the fact America has created a few actual supervillains get in the way of recognising where actual inequality begins.

I’ve just explained to you that in the unrealistic circumstances that someone with 1,000,000 buys a boat for 200,000, that puts them in the top 0.1% of global wealth. Again, what part of that says “everyday worker” to you?

On a global scale, anyone dropping 200k on a pleasure boat, lets assume they have a net wealth of at least 1 million (insane to spend 1/5th of your wealth on a toy but anyway…), is in the top 0.1%. It’s not “kind of well off”.

Even possessing 200k dollars puts you in the top 5%.

People don’t understand numbers and that’s ok. You let one lunatic have a trillion and now you’re excusing the 0.1% as “kind of well off”.

If you have 200k to spend on a boat that isn’t your livelihood, that’s nice, but I need you to stand up against this wall for a moment

I lived and worked there, and transgender farang were near zero. They are treated worse than kathoey or tom which isn’t a very high bar. You can get surgery done cheap and well, but it is usually cosmetic stuff (top surgery, generic facial plastic suegery) rather than more complex bottom surgery. And you can’t legally change your gender in Thailand - all those kathoey are still treated in paperwork as men.

As for fake documents, maybe. I knew people that had visuals convincing visas in visually convincing passports for the purposes of carrying around in Thailand. However in this day of magnetic and RFID digital passports, document theft is far more realistic and common than fakes.

Yeah don’t bother discussing actual Japanese culture with the “as one does” anime guy

I know it happens

… does it?

You literally specify about Lemmy’s Hot and New feeds, why would you try to bluff about only talking “memes”?

It’s ok to be wrong some times. Bit embarrassing though to, 2 comments lower, claim you meant something else.

This… This is a link aggregator website. It exists to link to external sources and discuss them. I’m sorry did you think this was Original Thoughts dot com?

Ireland would probably be “region” if it was more fine-grained, nobody is attached to their 30-year old EU NUTS2 demographic division, they’re attached to their counties.

Or at least Cork would be.

“in the EU, journalism is oppressed and genocides can’t be recognised without special consideration of which special people are doing the genocide” would be a useful sentence by your logic.

I’m aware. I’ve been.

Belgium has the right of panorama, an essential right for journalism.

There is a significant majority of people on Lemmy who think installing Linux made them a software engineer and think that code completion is “vibe-coding” and not a basic feature of fucking Eclipse

Germany is not “the EU”, even if they think they are.

Denuvo hasn’t been cracked. It’s just that the first generation of kids less tech literate than their parents are comfortably installing rival rootkits

You are aware that Bayern have been nicknamed “Planet Hollywood” since the 90s and your current richest club is Red Bull, right?

Americans seem to very directly associate the organisation FIFA with the sport of soccer and the World Cup itself.

I think it comes from the literal ownership of sports leagues and sports teams by corporations like MLB, NFL, NHL.

FIFA doesn’t own soccer, it doesn’t own any of the teams, and it barely owns the World Cup. It is tolerated as a necessary evil that someone has to do the organising, but historically for example, major nations have shrugged and ignored FIFA as inconsequential.

Sport in general is just vastly different on an emotional and political level in other countries. The immediate dismissal of “sports isn’t news” and “sports shouldn’t be political” very obviously shows who has grown up in an environment where sport is primarily a backdrop over which corporate sponsorships and endorsements are laid.

The politics associated with sports isn’t always good or nuanced but it is there.