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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hoggies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like positioning the ‘average person’ as always disengaged or never doing enough reads more like an attempt to define in/out groups than a genuine effort to actually do anything about the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disagree. I think everyone deserves a reasonable degree of privacy and interoperability and choice as a protected right, within the markets and services we already have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this is true. Most people do care, in my anecdotal experience. I am not in tech circles. It is not a niche thing to be concerned about these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, good news, they have! Google just lost its search monopoly trial with the US government, and they see to be about to lose their advertising monopoly trial too. The US FTC also just released a report (not a legal action) concluding that all the big companies have abused data collection and recommended that the government do something to make those practices unprofitable for companies. I know the EU has also been doing some significant stuff, both against apple specifically and big gatekeeper companies generally. You can certainly argue it’s not enough, and I would agree with you - but it’s given me some optimism that more action and real enforcement might be in the near future in many countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do social workers get upset when you don't want their help?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People who work in helping professions can sometimes have a lot of their identity and self worth tied up into it. A person who has not processed their emotions and baggage about their job/themselves/their place in the world/etc will unfortunately take that baggage out on clients. It is nonsense and I’m sorry you had to deal with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People always say shit like this as if people don’t have a multitude of different life circumstances that affect and coerce how they interact with technology. That’s just how capitalism works. It’s not a matter of willpower. Privacy Bootstraps Theory is unhelpful. Being able to completely opt out of entrenched tech monopolies is a privilege. It’s great that you can do that, not everybody can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s excellent that alternatives and ad blockers do exist but we need regulatory action to hold companies accountable for things that are designed to worsen user experience to pressure people into paying. It’s also a serious accessibility issue, to increasingly have everything be bright and loud and motion filled and unpausable all the time. This trend goes beyond YouTube and it sucks, we need to regulate this nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s subscription based, but Nebula is creator owned I believe. Sucks though that everything free gets acquired by some extractive company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine is not, it has two shelves which would each fit a 9*5 loaf pan with a little room on each end. Or like four cereal bowls of cookies. They do make bigger ones, but I imagine a microwave probably works just as well for something that gets eaten quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have one! I love it, it’s got a magnetic door my cat can’t open is one of my best purchases ever. I use it for baked goods, though, not bread. It’s too humid where I am to keep bread fresh at room temperature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disagree. These companies are exploiting an unfair power dynamic they created that people can’t say no to, to make an ungodly amount of money for themselves without compensating people whose data they took with9it telling them. They are not creating a cool creative project that collaborativly comments on or remixes what other people have made, they are seeking to gobble up and render irrelevant everything that they can, for short term greed. That’s not the scenario these laws were made for. AI hurts people who have already been exploited and indistries that have already been decimated. Copyright laws were not written with this kind of thing in mind. There are potentially cool and ethical uses for AI models, but open ai and google are just greed machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a website called Happy Daze that only features positive science news⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent idea. Thanks for sharing/ making this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly think it’s about degrading the right to free expression. But yes also probably. The people who cast women and kids as pawns in need of protection are usually not super respectful to the real women/kids in their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure the normalization of sexual violence and harmful attitudes came from the adults in my life. If parents and teachers adequately teach kids to identify those things and know that they are unequivocally wrong, then teens who see unhealthy stuff in porn will notice and be critical of it. Probably indignant, too, since no one is more justice focused than a teen who has just learned something about the world.

  The issue is backward ideas about relationships being reinforced by adults, either through active misogyny or just never talking about it. This argument boils my blood because the porn itself is not the problem. Awful attitudes about relationships and women start very early and they often come directly from parents themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Facebook ad that doubles as a god-tier shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the funniest thing I have ever seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s not the man I knew. He doesn’t have the wisdom I thought he did.

  The grief is really, really real. I’m so sorry. I feel this way about several people I grew up around, It sucks to realize people you respected aren’t interested in doing the right thing or even acknowledging reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tried to make a phone case.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is super cute aestheically. Did you use a regular stapler?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey what’s the little eye icon doodad at the top of the feed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Lemmy won’t let me upload one yet though.

• Hey what’s the little eye icon doodad at the top of the feed?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the actual point of a bra?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So there is a fascinating historical rabbit hole here that I went down a few years ago. I think it is Nicole Rudolph who did a deep dive video into the history of bras and other shapewear. If you smoked a lot and like history I recommend it.
  Bras and similar garments give the proper ‘shape’ for the clothes and cultural norms of the moment, and give people comfort and support if they need it. Lots of people need something sturdy to keep everything in place, but it’s also still a very grey area of social acceptance to choose not wear one.