AFAIK it’s the same in Germany too. Unregulated. I could just go and call myself a chiropractor, trying my best to fuck you up.

And how does that gun protect you against the masked thugs? They are cops and hence, I assume, you cannot legally shoot them when they enter your home. So resistance is useless? As a non-US - american, correct me if I’m wrong here.

As for the gamers… I’d argue that most of those don’t “accept” but simply don’t know better. Ignorance is bliss.

Also true. But I would assume that any tech-billionaire that would be started to get threatened by lemmy would just kill it :-(

I’m not really sure, if “more users” is actually what would be beneficial. More users = more attractive = rising viability of ad-bots. But sure, some more can’t hurt :-)

We can only hope it keeps being “niche”. Right now I wouldn’t spend an hour or a buck to make guerrilla-bot-ads here. You need 1000views to generate 1 click. and 1000clicks to generate one sale. Roughly. That shit just wouldn’t fly here…YET.

“Nice” read, thanks for sharing. I miss the interwebz from when it all started. I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago!

Polo puts the polo brand on everything. Ralph Lauren, GAP, etc

Sure. And Lacoste was “made in France” at that time too. Nowadays the prices went up, the quality down. I would too, knowing people will buy it anyway, as long as my logo is on it

Are you talking about bespoke tailoring? Even they get their fabric from Bangladesh.

Well, if they do, then they lie. But I surely can’t speak for them all. And wouldn’t really matter, as they stand in for the quality for life. Anyhow, that wasn’t meant as if Bangladeshi couldn’t do good stuff. They sure could.

…and possibly even better. looks at his 20yr old, still working original PANASOANIC(sic) phone

Sticking a label on a piece of clothing doesn’t change it’s quality.

No, that was my point. They do that on cheap shit, even the expensive cheap shit. In tendency ofc, there surely might be some line of some fashion-brand that isn’t crap.

Textile mills in Bangladesh produce a wide range of qualities.

Might be, but you won’t find the upper range in fashion-brands. But you’re free to replace Bangladesh with any other cheap slave-country that produce clothes for us.

Those who know exactly what they’re doing are probably even worse. Despite a good education is absolutely no indicator for a lack of indoctrination. I have seen so many incredibly dumb people that still had PhDs and other titles.

You know that the REAL quality clothes don’t have labels? The stuff you buy at a tailor never looks fancy nor dons cool labels.

Also most fashion-brands are really shitty quality, made in Bangladesh, too. Because they know people only care for labels, not real quality.

Many murderer, eerrrrr…soldiers, are obviously against your opinion, but without the balls to say so.

And yes, if no nation would find people willing to die for money, errrr freedom’n’stuff, the billionaires would have to fight each other themselves, and then wouldn’t.

But there will always be clueless people, indoctrinated by enough bullshit to do so. Probably especially in the USA where the observationally challenged are legion and even wear red hats.

Maybe you never had the joy of loosing yourself in something that is really fun and forget time? And then it’s suddenly 5am…

Well, if you COULD sleep at work, great. Then why sleep at night at home ,-) I don’t work so luckily I don’t have to care about that.

But I would also help you if gamed all night and forgot time. A newborn would not be some special reason to grant help. Even less so, actually as you also decided to have one and also knew that it will basically eliminate your sparetime.

Maybe, yes. As said: as long as it’s healthy.

I lived alone since i was 15. No complaints though, I loved it and partied all day :-)

If you have great parents that you live with, who cares what others think and how old you are. Their narrow mind should be no concern for you. Be glad you have such parents…

As long as it stays healthy 😉

Hustle hustle, advance yourself and be productive. But don’t you dare to have more fun than work!

I stay up all night to game or have other kinds of fun. But still not tired because I just sleep as long as I want to. I must be a disappointment to our people 😁

Have yet to answer one captcha correctly. If even. I don’t work for free 😁

Guess in the time I was self-employed I was lucky enough (IT just became mainstream-y) to make enough to get us through and finance our hobbies. We can’t buy a new car every month (not that we’d need more than two anyway), but we can’t complain either.

I tried a handful different jobs but they all only were exciting for a week, then they bored me silly. Being self-employed lasted a while longer but became boring too.

Never tried again, that was almost 30yrs ago. No regerts. Traveling with wifey, music and videogames can surely fill a day too and are way more exciting. Still.