How about not looking for an argument at all? This toxic us Vs them rhetoric is getting old and makes Lemmy a hateful place.

Didn’t think it was. Looks like Japan creating similar laws as EU.

would other countries help a little

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/apple-opens-up-its-app-store-to-competition-in-japan/

I don’t know about New York specifically but I have noticed a decline of people just generally going outdoors over the last few decades. The internet, streaming TV, remote working, online shopping and unabated capitalism has all had a compounded effect on people’s desire to do just about anything.

I’m still using revanced. Is that not considered good anymore?

Sounds like a new game to play instead of knock-door-run for the kids. Hilarity ensues.

I said this to myself. Tapped comments. Not disappointed.

That’s an odd way to twist it. I must have had “parent” tagged to my avatar so to avoid the nasties.

When my kids were younger I treated the internet like a large room full of strangers of all kinds good and bad. I wouldn’t let my 8yr old wonder around on her own there so why would I on social media or multiplayer games.

I played Roblox with my kids for years and didn’t find any shady shit. Not saying there is no shady stuff on there, but after 100s of hours either it’s suddenly gotten worse, we somehow dodged all the shady shit or the media have exaggerated the issue. Take your pick.

I played with my kids because they desperately wanted to join in on the fun but the reports of it being pedo land made me create a rule of “you only play when we play together”. We had great fun, have many fond memories of our time on there.

Using this tool https://federation-checker.vercel.app/

I don’t recognise any of the instances that are blocking .ml

Sigh, I knew you were trolling, but tried not to jump to conclusions. Quick look at your profile and I see you are having several simultaneous bad-faith arguments on multiple threads. I feel stupid for falling for it. Will block and move on.

Everything

Everything? Like everything?

How can anyone have a discussion if you blanket the world in a single argument.

Edit: There are some questionable (more than that, but trying to be polite) surrogate practices in post-soviet countries such as Ukraine/Georgia.

Where I’m from surrogate for financial gain is illegal, and where I’m currently living surrogacy is banned entirely.

What should prevent something like this from occurring in the first place, is ethics, not capitalism. Sure, I agree that any large enterprise in a capitalist environment would be influenced by capitalist tendencies, but the same decisions could be made in a socialist world. That is what makes me say “its not capitalism”, as these decisions could be made for a variety of reasons and in this case it doesn’t look to be financially motivated. It may become financially motivated down the line, but you can’t blame the economic system at the time.

I wasn’t accusing you directly, and this is social media, not a white paper. The point being that it is easy to just paint “capitalist” on everything and argue how it is bad, however that is a lazy rhetoric and instead feels like just being cynical and fault-finding for the sake of it.

Neither the meme itself or the article it is referring, mention financial gain as the motivator.

I am cynical of capitalism as much as the other, but each story/article should be discussed in good faith with evidence to corroborate any accusation of cause. In this case, I don’t agree capitalism is the cause, and if you do, I’m open to discussion if its not in bad-faith.

Your example includes the transfer of wealth in the story and yes I agree it’s likely the driving force behind the event.

This OP doesn’t have the same pointy capitalist part. It is only being assumed so. I’m not oblivious to the type of community this is but the blind hatred of capitalism is just that. Blind.

It’s an ethical judgement, not capitalist

I guess if you assume the worst in people you can make any story fit any narrative.

It’s not. It has nothing to do with capitalism. It’s some other horror.

I don’t think Crowdstrike are nearly as large as half.

Crowdstrike. I don’t think that fits the “single point of failure” part.