JoJoGAH
@JoJoGAH@lemmy.world
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 11 months ago:
I feel this, but more along the line of chosen ignorance rather than actual stupidity. Either a new topic us overwhelming or they worry\fear they’ll get it “wrong”. Also, being from the south, where so much has been politicized, they fear the tribal back lash of thinking for themselves. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I was never the type to “go with it”.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 11 months ago:
The kitchen disco requires really good headphones. You don’t get ear covering sound without a jack.
- Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies 11 months ago:
I was shocked when he got a gov’t contract after he admitted to all that fuckery in Ukraine. Wtf is happening in gov’t???
- Comment on Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language 11 months ago:
This is what I came here for
- Comment on Open for discussion 1 year ago:
I’ve loved the thoughtful discourse on Lemmy, I’ve grown weary of seeing news about reddit in the feed. Reddit died long before this last bit, becoming a haven for a particular, ill informed, consensus seeking group.
Then tonight, I had a reddit moment here on Lemmy where some non socialized, rude, consensus seeking user wanted to snipe and sounded like an over protected , suburban, adolescent boy.
I haven’t seen one of those here yet and they are the absolute plague of open discourse .
Please Lemmy, don’t let it go on.
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 year ago:
I went to join Planet Fitness, they insist on an app. They watched me leave. Kroger charged more than advertised, ooooh it was a digital coupon only available through the app. I left the item with the cashier. Order out? Only on an app? I guess I didn’t want to eat that so much anyway.
Not going to do it, it feels controlling and abusive and I’ve worked too damn hard to let that shit go on.
- Comment on The water from my faucets suddenly smells like stagnany pond water. How can I tell if it's to drink? 1 year ago:
I live in the south too and the last time this was a problem the water stank smelled like sulfer. If you’ve just moved one of the things I’d check is the water heater . That was the problem in my case.
- Comment on “Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated] 1 year ago:
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- Comment on Former Australian PM wins $715,000 settlement against Google/YouTube for enabling comedian and journalist Jordan Shanks aka FriendlyJordies to mock him 1 year ago:
Wow, I’d never heard of this . Just now playing the video. This is indeed a terrifying decision to protect a very corrupt man, and a system that allowed him to do these things.
- Comment on Coming to you soon... 1 year ago:
Egregious is the perfect word, I can only add that the adds are offensively stupid as well, and loud. I’ve been clicking back and forth until the content comes on but now it’s three times at least. I’ll install one of these ad blockers now but the real problem still isn’t solved. I’d love to leave the platform altogether but don’t know of an alternative. I tried PeerTube at one point but that was a dumpster fire , at least at the time I peeked in.
The other thing I hate about YT is the obvious click baiting the platform does, over the creators wishes. If I’m not clicking on any of the videos, the thumbnail images get weirder and crazier until I just leave the whole mess. Anyone else noticed this? It’s like they are convinced this will gain more engagement and maybe it does but I hate it and feel manipulated and degraded by it.