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  • Xuderis@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlThe brittleness of white billionaires
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    The regulation states:

    Equality 8. (1) Every person shall have the right to equality before the law and to equal protection of the law. (2) No person shall be unfairly discriminated against, directly or indirectly, and, without derogating from the generality of this provision, on one or more of the following grounds in particular: race, gender, sex, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture or language. (3) (a) This section shall not preclude measures designed to achieve the adequate protection and advancement of persons or groups or categories of persons disadvantaged by unfair discrimination, in order to enable their full and equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms. (b) Every person or community dispossessed of rights in land before the commencement of this Constitution under any law which would have been inconsistent with subsection (2) had that subsection been in operation at the time of the dispossession, shall be entitled to claim restitution of such rights subject to and in accordance with sections 121, 122 and 123. (4) Prima facie proof of discrimination on any of the grounds specified in subsection (2) shall be presumed to be sufficient proof of unfair discrimination as contemplated in that subsection, until the contrary is established.

    Source: https://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/acts/1993-200.pdf

    “Black Economic Empowerment” does not mean “no whites”. It means “blacks need to be part of the economy”. BLM does not mean “white lives do not matter”. It means “blacks shouldn’t be dying”. Feminism does not mean “women should be held above men”. It means “women should be treated equally”.

    The only thing excluding Musk: he isn’t part of a marginalized group. He’s a billionaire. He isn’t marginalized.




  • Screw is slang for copulate and dates from the late 18th century and, from about the same time, also meant a prostitute, hence ‘screw you’ is often used as a euphemism for "fuck you’. Screw, as in a prison guard, is slang from the early 19th century and derives from earlier slang, ‘screws’, from the late 18th century, which were the keys that the guards carried. Screw as in money or wages, as in being ‘on a good screw’ is slang from the late 19th century. Screw, as in to swindle or cheat someone out of money, also dates from the late 19th century.

    Source: https://idiomorigins.org/origin/screw











  • There is the Brave chromium browser, but it lacks Mozilla’s previous track record. This is enshitification at its finest.

    You could host Mozilla’s sync software yourself and integrate it with LibreWolf.

    From an online post:

    “DisableFirefoxAccounts”: false, in the policies.json

    lockPref(“identity.sync.tokenserver.uri”, “https://token.services.mozilla.com/1.0/sync/1.5”); in the librewolf.overrides.cfg

    You need the 2nd one to enable LibreWolf to look for the sync-server. Otherwise every sync query ends nowhere.

    Someone else online in the same thread said:

    Seems it changed

    defaultPref(“identity.fxaccounts.enabled”, true); // sync and firefox account

    in the /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf.overrides.cfg

    I haven’t done this myself, so I can’t say for sure that this process works. But hopefully my findings are helpful.

    On another note, I personally avoid chromium based browsers because the major players are all involved in its development and have incentives that do not favor the user’s best interests. Firefox, with all of Mozilla’s flaws, is still the best option for supporting the open web. But instead of being the force for good it was, it became the least evil.





  • There isn’t anything inherently wrong with stealing if you need to, but in our society, you’ve done some things that are socially unacceptable. However, you can’t change the past so don’t worry about it. People do dumb shit when they’re young. You can only change your behavior to better yourself and your neighbors in the future. Be better tomorrow than you were today.

    “What is better: to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?”

    • Paarthurnax