Basically, nobody sells it, but you could technically produce milk in a way more animal friendly way. The current breads of cows all over the world have an influx in milk production, so even if you do not take the calf away and milk them manually, it would still be enough milk to use/sell.

This is all hugely theoretical unless you yourself have a couple cows that you milk for personal use or a small farm.

You are probably just anti-milk industry than actually anti-milk.

Well I agree we need a better structure to keep people in check I agree with that. Things like social media and a companies like RTL having a massive stake in private television will help to destroy the planet and keep the difference between the lower class, the middle class and the rich.

But I disagree that we should just get rid of all advertisement completely. Again there is nothing wrong with banner ads, websites, vans with logo’s and other low stakes form of advertisement.

If governments would start to pay YouTubers instead of YouTubers earning money from adverts and sponsors it would not only allow the government to control the narrative, but people will still abuse the system. Same way as that social security or subsidies are abused currently.

Consdering I work in an accounting firm I do see the amount of cost some companies have with advertisment, but most of them with a lot of costs do it to get more customers. Some of them need to do it to keep their profit rising or the same.

There is an issue with misleading adverts including misleading prices (excluding tax), there is an issue with hidden ads (like logo’s). But personally I think social media (including Lemmy) is just the bane of our existence. Yes a lot of that is funded by adverts, but also by selling your data and the like. Personally I believe that they are brainwashing people more with that, than with a lot of the advertisement. Ow and the people who keep on defending companies like they are their family are also a big part, people saying they are going to get Domino’s instead of pizza f.e.

That I don’t know, but they also show prices excluding sales tax. Some online stores even do that when they are selling to Europeans and they are required to include the VAT (we also can’t know if they have to pay VAT or not)

Yeah, but that is the US and my point still stands.

Can also be in Canada and the tax would be excluded

Not sure how long iMessage has existed, but it never properly worked for me on any iPhone, and neither for my partner. I also helped others change the settings to just default to SMS. By default it doesn’t show that you need to send a SMS, and it definitely doesn’t retry it, at least not in NL.

There is a difference between a country being corrupt and a country having corruption or a lot of people in a country paying for corruption (in other countries). You can check the corruption index if you want.

Yes it should, but by default it doesn’t, at least not in NL

It has taken a while, but now regulating bodies are actually looking at who is the ultimate beneficial owner of a company and they will try and stop overtakes. Well, not in corrupt countries, but it is so hard to get anything properly done in a corrupt country that it doesn’t surprise me.

it wasn’t only NC that was a hassle on TrueNas lol, now with Docker Compose most seem to be working a lot better imo.

To be fair in the real world we do have instances stopping people from buying everything, it is just that some countries are corrupt af.

I have become more left orientated after years went by, but I have always been decently progressive. Not every country allows for the full political spectrum sadly so a lot of people have to choose between progressive left and conservative right, but it isn’t the only way/

I rather have that than the prices excluding tax

Yeah that’s fair, Kagi should be held accountable for the lack of compliance, but besides that there is nothing wrong with them as far as I know.

And everything non-Google/Microsoft/Amazon etc is a win in my book. I kinda wanna say everything non-American/Chinese, but exceptioins exist

Considering most of those technofascists are American’s who cannot even have proper payment platforms and proper bank connections I doubt they will actually succeed.

If it is only just them doing this AI movement (spoiler they aren’t), they would also stop at the US borders, because just like a huge part of the American businesses, they don’t care about anybody else

I never heard of an ISP offering a free website to host, the free mail address I do remember sadly.

A lot of what is wrong with the web is the result of governments lacking the ability to stop companies from growing too much. It doesn’t help either that the best country for startups is as corrupt as fuck and has been for decades, including from before the start of the internet.

We all should chose to use parts of the web we want to use, like Lemmy and actual non-profit organisations like Ecosia, Proton and what not.

I despise subscriptions a lot, I also believe that the use of a search engine shouldn’t be something that is run for profit, see where it got us with Google? I also dislike Kagi (and other sites) who refuse to comply with the rules and regulations we have in Europe surrounding prices on sites. They are American iirc which doesn’t help for that and that also means they barely have to make any financial figures public.

I prefer Ecosia (or Qwant), which are making their own search engine together and while they are still funded by ads, it wouldn’t surprise me if in the future (if not already) they get money from the governments. I also prefer actual non-profits (not those American non-profit statuses that can be bough) compared to for profit businesses.

In The Netherlands it doesn’t and last time I checked we are still part of Europe lol

Not sure if we will even really notice that in our lifetime, it is taking decades to get things like invoice processing to automate. Heck in the US they can’t even get proper bank connections made.

Also, tractors have replaced a lot of workers on the land, computers have both lost a lot of jobs in offices and created a lot at the same time.

Jobs will change, that’s for sure and I think most of the heavy labour jobs will become more expensive since they are harder to replace.

Ah, yeah right, the US is still stuck in the 00s with that (and payment methods).

But iMessage doesn’t work on Android and by default the message will just fail if they have an Android phone and you use iMessage.

Independent reviews are a good thing yes and they shouldn’t be sponsored by a related company to keep their integrity, that doesn’t mean they can’t get paid from a different form of advertising. Heck you can even check on the integrity of professionals differently. In the accountancy, we are paid by the clients who we need to audit or need to advice etc. Using things like third party audits and a high accountability for professionals.

Ratings aren’t that great especially on platforms like Amazon/AliExpress and other crap offering dropshipping platforms from corrupt countries.

Corporations generally don’t do anything for free, but a lot of companies do, but that is generally to get their name out there or because the owner wants to decuct his private life from his company profit … Even governments can’t spend money or personal all they want, in the end it is money from the people. People here in NL are pissed that the government spend money on things like getting the NATO here for the last meeting or for the royal family. The public broadcasting is also something that is under heat and not just here.

In most countries you have some kind of government funded press heck I think most press aren’t even corporations, but more companies except some of the larger once maybe.

Almost nobody is going to work for free for the majority of their life. It would be better if all of us did more work for society, but most people aren’t in the position I am in that they just can take an extra week off to do that.

I agree consumerism is killing our planet, but there is a huge difference between the crap a companies like Google are doing and your local plummer who has advertisement on the local radio on their van and make a slightly SEO optimised website. Advertising is often the only way to get your company visable if you are competing with a well established company. Same reason as that there is nuance between companies and corporations.

Yes we need to promote repairing, reusing, recycling and the circular economy I agree, but somebody like iFixit wouldn’t really thrive without their advertisement. We also need more financial transparency by the company we buy from and just skip on companies from China, the US and other obvious corrupt countries.