HorseWithNoName
@HorseWithNoName@lemm.ee
- Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans 10 months ago:
If it’s at all profitable it will end up being companies making up a bunch of new personas eventually. That might be good in that it’s more jobs per “influencer,” but also maybe lower paying.
Although I’m pretty sure this already happened with fake Instagram models and I don’t think it ever really went anywhere. It was just a novel thing for awhile.
- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 11 months ago:
What happens when social security does run out and the millennials and gen z who have paid into it for years get 0 benefit? Ok, we’ve helped the boomers retire. But then when we need it it’s not going to be there.
- Comment on Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 11 months ago:
I see so many of these comments I can’t help but wonder if it’s an ad campaign by Kagi.
- Comment on Microplastic overdose 11 months ago:
The name brand in the US is Kraft Singles, but at least here that type of orange cheese is just referred to as American regardless of brand
- Comment on A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school. 1 year ago:
I would add: teaching that romantic relationships are not the end all and be all of life.
I feel like this is part of the problem, because it creates misogyny, incels and depression when people have their entire self-worth wrapped up in another person liking them. Any person. All of our media pushes this message, especially to young people. I was a serial monogamist all my life until several years ago. I’ve been more productive and accomplished and more in touch with who I am than I’ve ever been. I don’t have the need fpr another person in my life, and that’s how it should be. A partner should be an addition to a person and a life that is already functional. I can’t help but notice now how every. single. song, movie, show, book, etc. is not just about romance, but about another person making someone’s life worth living. It’s fucked up and we need to teach kids that they are enough, by themselves, and that being in a relationship is a choice. It’s not mandatory.
- Comment on YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market 1 year ago:
These arguments that always try to absolve giant corporations of any responsibility are so tired, and so nonsensical. They decided to start a company that hosts random people’s content, then they and the content creators can take responsibility for it and face the consequences of allowing for, and profiting off of, the exploitation of vulnerable people, bigotry, violence, hate speech, etc etc. There has to be a line drawn somewhere or else you end up with “free speech absolutists” who only allow alt right content on their platform. Gee, where have we seen that one before.
- Comment on YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market 1 year ago:
Finally someone is noticing this.
I report this garbage every time it gets recommended to me on YT, which is way too often. These are real human beings going through the most difficult and humiliating experiences of their lives.
One thing that’s always overlooked about homelessness is the complete, total, utter lack of any privacy whatsoever. It seems obvious when you say it out loud, but no one seems to acknowledge it. Imagine every bad day you have, you have an audience. When you wake up in the morning after a shit night of sleep, everyone gets to walk by you, judge you, and gawk at how shitty you look. I’m sure not everyone in these videos is homeless (likely fewer than people would automatically assume), but probably a significant enough number.
The fact that there is anyone out there who believes treating people like they’re in a zoo and then profiting off of their suffering for “entertainment” is an actual, unfeeling psychopath.
The worst part is that there are a bunch of channels like this and even more videos. They’re not limited to addiction but exploit any marginalized people they can. I blame Vice for having constant drug/addiction content with no real message besides “watch this person shoot up for some reason. No, we’re not blurring their face.” Wtf.
- Comment on life 1 year ago:
Well aren’t you special
- Comment on Disconnected (2023) 1 year ago:
I don’t think it’s so much that they’re offensive. They’re just stupid.
- Comment on Amazon drivers’ urine packaged as energy drink, sold on Amazon - A documentary shows how easy it is to bypass Amazon's buying and selling safeguards. 1 year ago:
They just did for selling those coal rolling kits. I don’t see why this would be any different. They’re facilitating the sale. It’s their platform. They have a responsibility to the people who use it, as well as a responsibility to treat their workers like human beings.
- Comment on Joy 1 year ago:
I take it you don’t work in academia
- Comment on One of the absolute best features of lemmy is that everyone is simply allowed to post. 1 year ago:
It’s like r/history and r/science. Every single comment thread was completely empty with nothing but [removed] over and over. Why the fuck even have a sub at that point? And then anytime anyone mentioned how ridiculous it was, in other subs even, they’d get piled on by people defending it somehow. It’s like being in the fucking twilight zone.
- Comment on FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” 1 year ago:
FreeTaxUSA also tried to charge me for state after saying it was free though.
I guess I could have printed out the forms I had just filled out and mailed them, but that’s not exactly what was advertised. It’s “free tax filing” not “free forms.” I paid it because it was cheap, but then they kept kicking both my federal and state back to me with error messages saying they were not “accepted” by the IRS.
Cash app had no issues with the exact same information being “accepted.” It just worked. And it was actually free.
- Comment on Danny Masterson Is Sentenced to 30 Years to Life in Prison for Two Rapes 1 year ago:
It’s a power/control/ego thing