StopTouchingYourPhone

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Reading some comments here, I want to leave a gentle reminder to my fellow redditfugees: the block user option is your friend. Curate your feed or get fed.

When you see an aggressively oppositional account dropping shittastic hot takes, of course you can always engage and Have The Conversation if you want. You know what happens after you reply: the person likely leaves a bot to mess with your good intentions, raise your blood pressure, make you depressed and waste your time. Or maybe you successfully Prove Them Wrong and they change the goalposts, or wander off to needle someone else.

We know by now, the more we engage, the more online space they get to fill with accelerationist Content.

So just click the account name, then click the block button, and you’ll never see their viral brainrot again. Nobody needs to know; no need to announce it. If your freezepeach philosophy prevents that, maybe just upvote one of the replies you agree with and move on. If you’re on mobile, you can tag the account through Voyager etc instead of blocking, if you prefer.

However you manage it, removing doomscroller ragebait from your Feed is worth doing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Could be she set it to private. It’s what I did when I left my last gig.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meow⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My favourite origin myth for human over-civilization is we’re the science project of cats. They saw our ancestors tossing their own feces at each other, and thought, I wonder…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Bomb Cyclone' Becomes One Of The Northeast Pacific's Strongest On Record As It Hammers West Coast⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
On the off chance someone reading is feeling mildly irked by the bombastic language used to describe this fucked up weather, ysk ‘bomb cyclone’ is a technical term in use since the 50s and has a formal definition. TIL (and you can too!)

Or just scroll down OPs page to the Bomb Cyclone 101 link.

BC had gusts at almost 160 km/h from this beast yesterday and about 150K people lost power. At the last update I read, about 90K people were still in the dark.