They don’t affect me because I’m a childless adult.
I said slightly better, I wasn’t trying to get in a pissing match. We have a huge amount of preventable tragedies, yes, but the surveillance the UK is implementing, and their curbing of free speech and protests, are two areas that would have a profound effect on how I live my life. Ergo, I feel slightly better.
I’m sorry if I insulted your favorite government.
Everything I heard about the UK makes me feel ever so slightly better about living in the US
Not even; overstaying a visa is a summary offense in the US, no different than a parking ticket.
A Republican introduced a bill last year to increase the fines and create a criminal offense for it as well, but that never even went to a vote.
There’s exceptions, though; that’s why we’re here :)
I totally read what you’re saying. My work requires me to maintain a personal cell phone (Intune business profile) and, with any OEM implementation of a smartphone OS you’re essentially paying to donate everything about you to a megacorp to sell it to another megacorp to siphon more of you’re life away from you. The beauty of modern advancements, though, is that if you don’t care to be within 20% of the “bleeding edge” of attention extraction and intention fabrication you can spend your time in communities like this and with tech like graphene and linux making few sacrifices, if any.
I don’t know about you, but the lemmy atmosphere feels a lot like that of early forums to me. Not quite the same, but the community aspect is more present.
I think my stance is that technology doesn’t suck, as is the case with most things; it’s the unchecked and rampant abuse of a given thing.
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