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[–] [email protected] 41 points 18 hours ago (10 children)

Sorry to be honest, but this is my view...

Voting between two parties, and then getting whatever the "electors" pick. All the while, thinking they live under the biggest democracy of the world.

Having all sorts of inhuman behaviors, like robbing childs from immigrants.

Child marriage.

Having lots of weapons in the country but all wars outside.

Mmm.. What else? Ah, prisoners are slaves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

no, IMDb is. And between the alternatives given, I like TMDB.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

trakt.tv or tmdb.org are common. I like the latter, it has better DB than the amazon-biased imdb..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I loved the end!

SpoilerIt was open.

Did you see how the "other guy" behind opens his smile with the knife?

To me, that detail, meant like yeah now every crazy person will be 'the' joker.

But I'd rather think he just survived. I think it's the main interpretation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Not boring, just somewhat lengthy. To be fair, I barely noticed it's length, until a moment ...when it seems to be the end, but then well, no, that wasn't the end. Movie continues :P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

On this matter, I'm an ignorant myself too. Perhaps searxing with the model name and brand there's a post somewhere that shares some insight. Hardware support on linux is great, until it isn't ;/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'd say you need to check for drivers or firmware upgrades...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if it's somewhat related. But I started to see posts from blocked communities in both Home and All feeds. This seemed to me like a bug on Voyager client and I reported it there. I switched to Jerboa now, seems to work.

But I still wonder, maybe it's specific to client but also related to this, depends on how interaction with server is programmed...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

We, humans, have a whole lot of resilience and solidarity.

I rather have some hope, even as adversity hits us in the face. It's a decision. Not. to. fall. in. despair. Else, you risk playing into the counterproductive game that doesn't move the needle at all.

My own solidarity may not save the world by its own. But it can help my neighbors survive one more day, week, or month. That's a step. Better than nothing. I value that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Objection! Hehe... No, wait. Really, I see a problem...

If registration are closed, mods would be exclusively from outside. And, since reports are not federated, this communities would be prone to difficulties for moderation. Unless reports are correctly federated, I don't think this is a good idea. And, even if you were to open registrations only for mods, we would have only moved the inconvenience to this (who wants to have so many accounts, really?)

There's also the problem with centralization of domain names under you. I don't know you, and perhaps you're well intended.. So, it's fine for the most part, let's just assume that's okay. Now, what happens if you had an accident or decided to go live in a farm? Without domain name renewals, etc. all communities would be in trouble. There's centralization in the shape of a single point of failure.

I can't see this happening even if the domain names are cool.

And, leaving disadvantages aside. What's the point on this? Can you name any advantage?? I agree that it would be more ordered and I like that. But it's quite subjective, and hardly anything huge to really break the inertia or status quo of things as they're now...

Thanks for the intentions. Let's focus on some new ideas, they'll come...

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19843233

I'll just leave this here.

 

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Some have argued that Yabo (aka Yabo Sports, Yabo Group) and its many constituent brands comprise "the biggest illegal betting operation targeting Greater China." You probably haven't heard of it before, but you may have come across it unknowingly in passing, hundreds of times, if you watch European football, aka soccer in US parlance. The operation enjoys multimillion-dollar partnerships with some of the world's biggest clubs, like Manchester United and Bayern Munich.

Less visible to the public are Yabo's modern day slaves, forced to staff the debt-fueled pyramid scheme underpinning its gambling empire.

[...]

"Often, as a culture and as an industry, we separate technical stories from real life," Dr. Renée Burton, head of threat intelligence at Infoblox, says. "But these are monumental human crimes that are occurring [in] human trafficking and money laundering. It's the most interesting research I've ever been involved with."

[...]

On paper, Yabo Sports shut down in 2022 amid media scrutiny. But it fact it actually passed on through other brands like Kaiyun Sports. Kaiyun's logo has featured prominently on the sleeves of Aston Villa and Crystal Palace kits, or uniforms, in recent seasons, and the front of Nottingham Forest's (all England). Kaiyun reportedly also has a partnership in place with the world's biggest club, Real Madrid.

[...]

As Burton tells it, "Essentially, they use a ton of shell companies in multiple places around the world. And then they'll come up through these white label providers in the UK, like TGP Europe, which was linked by journalists to [gambling organization] Suncity, which has been accused by the Chinese government of money laundering. So it obfuscates those [groups] which are already obfuscated. It's just this ridiculous chain of false identities."

[...]

"So it draws people [into the sites]," Burton explains, "and they're browsing around a little bit. You've got your Manchester United logo. Then it starts popping up: these lures for you to come gamble." The sites include images of scantily dressed women and live chats with purported customer service agents. If a user stays idle for a period of time, the site might offer financial incentives, like a sliding scale of up to $1,500 free for any user who deposits up to $70,000 in a week.

"It draws you in further, and eventually you're losing. Now you're in debt, and you move into servitude. It's essentially a pyramid scheme: you have to go recruit people to gamble, then you get a portion of those people's losses to go against your debt," she says.

[...]

A 2023 report from the Asian Racing Federation (ARF) Council on Anti-Illegal Betting and Related Financial Crime described how Yabo betting sites are also staffed by physically imprisoned individuals:

The walled-off complexes have apartments, offices, supermarkets and other facilities, and are guarded by armed security whose job is to keep people in, according to reports in Chinese state media and elsewhere.

[. . .]

According to victim testimony, staff must work 12 hours a day, six days a week and cannot leave without a ransom. Staff are sold between operators, with ransoms increasing on each occasion. Videos and photographs online in 2021 showed people being physically threatened, beaten with sticks, and struck with electric batons.

[Edit: Deleted tautology in the title.]

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