LordOfLocksley

joined 2 years ago
[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

I just scrolled Facebook, and out of the 44 posts I came across 10 were from friends or pages I had liked. The rest was sponsored slop, or "you should follow this person" type posts.

No wonder the social interaction is down, when less than a quarter of posts I come across are from the reason to have Facebook.

I'm not friends with corporations, so don't push me their shit.

Prime Facebook was 2007 - 2011/12. When they started algorithm-ing friends posts, that heralded the end. I don't care that I haven't interacted with friend XYZ for a long while, I'm still interested in seeing their stuff equally as much as friend ABC who I interact with daily

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So was he promoted or fired by the man upstairs?

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

EU should freeze the funds intended for Hungary, and then see how quickly their tune changes

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Privatising the profits, and getting the tax payer to fund the upkeep... name something more Thatcher-esq

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for clarifying

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Uk has a weird system. The government owns the tracks and rails, but private companies own "the stock", aka the physical trains.

I think GBR is the parent company that owns the rail. I could be wrong, but this is what I remember from looking into it a few years back

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 103 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Now do the same with water and rail companies

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

FIFA isn't the only one guilty of this. Eurovision also have the same double standard. Russia banned from competing straight away, meanwhile Israel weren't banned last year, despite much complaining.

Then again, Eurovision's main sponsor is an Israeli company.