- jerkface ( @jerkface@lemmy.ca ) English3•1 hour ago
suppressing wages and social housing so that starvation and homelessness make labour cheaper
- Crozekiel ( @Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ) English2•1 hour ago
Motorcycle airbag vests that will not work if you aren’t up-to-date on the subscription payments when you have a crash…
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 8•3 hours ago
Today I heard Meta has laid off workers because they brought their own food for lunch instead of buying it from the company cafeteria.
- kibiz0r ( @kibiz0r@midwest.social ) English9•4 hours ago
A more recent example comes from the med-tech giant Abbott Labs, which used DMCA 1201 to suppress a tool that allowed people with diabetes to link their glucose monitors to their insulin pumps, in order to automatically calculate and administer doses of insulin in an “artificial pancreas.” -eff.org
We joke about someday having to jailbreak our own organs, but we’re basically already there.
An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk. Then its maker refused repairs.
- teawrecks ( @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ) 4•4 hours ago
Did OP ask an LLM for the “most Lemmy question to ask”?
- Achyu ( @Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org ) 28•10 hours ago
Recently?
How a lawyer in America got jailed for legally fighting against(and defeating) an American multi-national oil company that polluted the Amazon and more importantly harmed the lives and health of the locals with the pollution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OtIAZMqrZE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger- sigmaklimgrindset ( @sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ) 6•3 hours ago
In June 2022, a federal appeals court affirmed Donziger’s criminal contempt conviction. In March 2023, the Supreme Court declined to hear further appeals.
I’m shocked.
- BertramDitore ( @BertramDitore@lemm.ee ) English11•8 hours ago
Donziger’s story is heartbreaking and infuriating, and I’m continually disappointed that so few people are familiar with his story and what the courts did to him. It’s one of the clearest examples of judicial corruption and the power and benefits that are afforded to corporations and almost never extended to the people fighting for what’s right and just.
- POTOOOOOOOO ( @POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com ) English35•11 hours ago
Health Insurance that covers next to nothing but costs a fortune anyway.
- Vanth ( @Vanth@reddthat.com ) English19•11 hours ago
☝️ recently got a covid test that based on all my research beforehand, it should have been covered except for $10 I would pay.
Jokes on me, it actually cost me $200 they charged to my credit card two weeks later. I didn’t even get to know the price at the time I needed medical care.
Sometimes other countries make fun of America for things they don’t understand. Not on this one, America deserves every bit of mocking it gets for it’s medical coverage atrocity.
- 1984 ( @1984@lemmy.today ) 2•9 hours ago
It’s a developing country. You will catch up.
Also we guys in western Europe are happy we are not ruled by Russia or China, and that’s because of the USA I think.
I kind of like the US culture, but it’s ridiculous how they treat human beings when money and power is on the line.
- Random123 ( @Random123@fedia.io ) 1•8 hours ago
Americans stupidity is another one that they get correct but there’s plenty of things to laugh about America as there is to laugh about 3rd world countries.
- LalSalaamComrade ( @velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml ) English24•11 hours ago
Microloans, also called microfinances. Very popular in developing countries in South Asia, and also the same thing that is responsible for the suicide epidemic of farmers in India. With high interest rates and fixed time-period constraints, they’re the most cruel and fucked up things to ever exist, they’re worse than indentured serfdom.
- Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) 20•11 hours ago
Sounds like ‘pay day loans’ in the US.
Back in the day, a loan shark was a criminal who charged an outrageous 20% interest for money. Working class folks were at the mercy of these “six-for-fivers.”
Ronald Reagan became President and now established banks could charge 35% or more.
- Phineaz ( @Phineaz@feddit.org ) 7•10 hours ago
I’d like to add that there are good versions of “microloans”! I learned that there used to be (or still are, didn’t check) non-profit " banks" in some parts of India (and South africa I think) that would give out small loans of a few dollars to a few hundred dollars (which can be quite a lot of money in India). There was no collateral and low interest, but a group of people had to apply for a loan together. Until the first loan was paid back, the rest of the group couldn’t apply again. It was meant to provide financial backing and capital to microbusinesses (e.g. fishers, farmers, peddlers) that would otherwise be excluded from the financial market due to a lack of collateral and otherwise be forced to take high-interest loans.
- LalSalaamComrade ( @velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml ) 2•10 hours ago
SHGs (which is what you’re talking about, also called SBLP in some places) are not a majority, their lenders/borrowers are often people within the same marginalized group, and it is very slow, so people tend to avoid them. MFIs dominate the microloan industry, and they’re very exploitative.
- Phineaz ( @Phineaz@feddit.org ) 2•9 hours ago
Thanks for the info! I didn’t think they were widespread, but figured they might be a bit wholesome and would light up this thread :)
- PolandIsAStateOfMind ( @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml ) 6•10 hours ago
To be fair, usury is much older plague than capitalism, but it’s been one of capitalism roots, and capitalism cranked it up incredibly.
- aramis87 ( @aramis87@fedia.io ) 6•8 hours ago
That person who was in a car that ended up crossing three lanes, hitting a pole and then hitting a tree. They declined an ambulance because they were scared of the ambulance bill - then got a bill for $150 for refusing the ambulance. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- fckreddit ( @fckreddit@lemmy.ml ) 11•10 hours ago
My boss once said to a group of new joinees including me," Eventually you will be able to afford subscription to all the streaming services."
I once read that there are some states in the U.S. where firefighters don’t put out fires in houses that don’t pay a monthly subscription.
- Stepos Venzny ( @SteposVenzny@beehaw.org ) English3•9 hours ago
That sounds apocryphal.
- DampSquid ( @DampSquid@feddit.uk ) 12•11 hours ago
Owning more than one home
- mke_geek ( @mke_geek@lemm.ee ) 1•3 hours ago
There’s nothing wrong with that.
- Phineaz ( @Phineaz@feddit.org ) 5•10 hours ago
Projecting ads onto the tunnel walls off of a moving subway. Seen in mainland
TaiwanChina. - Cowbee [he/him] ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 8•11 hours ago
The US Empire.
- zante ( @zante@lemmy.wtf ) English3•10 hours ago
You can’t make me pick one.