Woofcat

joined 1 year ago
[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Next time if you're comfortable with it under always found the personal and household income questions great from Reddit's Ontario polls. It helps you understand why the politics are as they are.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 36 points 8 months ago (6 children)

In what world would this make sense? People really need to think these things through.

The NGO claimed it has documented Israeli forces confiscating dozens of dead bodies from the al-Shifa and Indonesian hospitals in northern Gaza, alongside others in the south.

Medical professionals reportedly found vital organs, such as livers, kidneys and hearts, alongside cochleas and corneas, were missing, which the Euro-Med Monitor called "evidence" of potential organ theft.

After death you have 4~ hours to harvest a heart. So they're claiming someone died in Gaza, they got the body to the morgue then Israel captured the hospital, took the bodies and fast choppered them to another medical center, to harvest a heart... all within 4 hours of death.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sure, but here there are many communities about subjects instead of one.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

John Redcorn?

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

So what you're saying is there is no model besides complete subsidy for news to exist?

It would be impossible for them to you know build a subscription model where you get access to all of their news sites for one fee? Kinda like credit unions do with their ATM networks.

Perhaps offering better value to consumers and incentivize upsells rather than demote them. As someone who had a paper version of the economist they tried /real/ hard to convert me to digital only. Which is a far worse value proposition.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is it destroying a public good?

The public good is being destroyed by themselves. They've been acquired and are running 90% AP Wire service pieces. My local news in a top 10 CMA area is basically nothing but opinion pieces.

Our news has been declining for years as people have moved away from a subscription model. People don't wake up on Saturday morning and read a paper cover to cover anymore and they have failed to adapt.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

"Without access to real fact-based news created by real journalists, Facebook will become far less attractive to users and advertisers," Deegan said in a statement. "We expect more and more advertisers and their agencies will begin pulling advertising from the platform in response to this unilateral, undemocratic, and unreasonable move."

This is complete horseshit. How is it undemocratic, it's a private company and they're free to do what they want. Canadian Government decided to mandate that by linking you owe a share of your profit. This is not how the internet works. No-one forced the CBC to create an instragram account and maintain it, sharing their own news on the platform.

If you demand to be paid for something, they're free to not pay for it. Welcome to the real world where you can't just dictate things to people and expect them to take it.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Here we go... Finally.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It seems odd to me that these are often discussed at a "server wide" level. If a community doesn't like the posts they can ban the user no? Shouldn't the Administrators try to focus on running the site and gross rule violating content and not be involved in random bots?

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not an admin, but I think an instance wide rule against links anywhere that are affiliate links would be insane and maybe you should go.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So you're saying if lets say GCPGrey moved his community here, he couldn't have links to his store here or other material as that would be "bad".

Let's get real here, Advertising is going to happen, donations are going to happen. If you don't like that you're going to have a hard time on the Internet.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think so really. I picked my national instance and here I am posting to a kbin server.

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