GalacticGrapefruit
@GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 hour ago:
Comparing the audience garnered by corporate media vs unethical independent media vs ethical independent media, America functionally does not actually have a free press. Take it from someone who had to stare down the barrel of a camera and get blasted on live TV for doing the right thing.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 12 hours ago:
Hello Invidious, my old friend.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 12 hours ago:
I’ve been meaning to learn how to sabotage the pump to get the ads to not even play. It’s on the list of anarchist things to do.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 12 hours ago:
Literally though! This is literally the entire reason I got fed up with ads! What’s the point if I’m too poor to buy the junk they’re hawking?!
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 13 hours ago:
There are a couple of VPNs with built-in DNS blocking for advertisements. Athena is a solution that uses your phone’s VPN functionality to route traffic served from known ad networks into a digital brick wall like Roadrunner baiting Wile E. Coyote into a painted tunnel.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 13 hours ago:
Brave is run by a fascist tech oligarch. They’re still collecting your data to send to ad companies, they’re not even half as ‘privacy respecting’ as they claim to be. If you’re an American, you should be worried. Those ad companies are, by extension, selling their data to the government to bypass the 4th Amendment.
Brave doesn’t do anything that uBlock Origin and Mullvad don’t already do better.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 13 hours ago:
It’s happening, it’s just taking a little time.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 13 hours ago:
Do we have a free press?
I was a Palestine protestor at my college encampment. When I tell you that I lost so much faith in journalism after the lies they printed about us, I want you to take my full meaning. For persec reasons, I won’t say where or what they printed. But I remember camp being equal parts hopeful and defiant, and angry and resolute. I was one of the few with any real camping experience, so my self-assigned task was repairing tents and reviewing sleeping accommodations to make sure no one was cold or sleeping poorly. What the press made it look like was ‘group of absolutely clinically loony college kids invite hoards of homeless bums to their college and start trashing everything in sight under guise of protest’.
Without fail, it was recognizable and ‘reputable’ news orgs that were printing bald-faced outright lies about us. A few of the journalists I interacted with expressed… regret. Despair. Only one I met seemed happy to be there. The rest, the look on their faces made it feel like they were at our funeral. The ones that printed the truth? A local headshop magazine that usually covered what strains of cannabis were popular, and Unicorn Riot. The offbeat weirdos or dedicated ideologues.
It was so jarring to see a profession I regarded so highly eviscerating the truth. I’ve lost all faith in corporate media, and I will never get it back.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 14 hours ago:
Bodies would be washing up on shore or limbs would be showing up in the stomachs of fish.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 14 hours ago:
Finally someone mentions the fucking loophole in the 13th Amendment. Slavery is still legal in the US. It’s just illegal when anyone other than the prison-industrial complex does it.
buycott.com/…/boycott-companies-that-use-prison-l…
CostCo, John Deere, and AT&T are all on this list.
- Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 2 weeks ago:
Any dolt with half a brain
Can see that humankind has gone insane
To the point where I don’t know
If I’ll upset the status quo
If I throw poison in the water main
- Comment on Where do you all get your (indie) gaming news from? 1 month ago:
SUPERJUMP is nonprofit, and they cover a lot of indie games.
- Comment on Woke up this morning pondering THIS question 1 month ago:
So, the prior comment about the woman who raised a pet beaver… lemme guess, every time she takes a shower, by the time she opens the door, every non-stationary object in the house has been dragged in front of the bathroom door.
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 1 month ago:
Brothers, I am AFAB, and this picture still reminds me of one of my most infuriating roommates.
Trust me, she’d annoy me a little too.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 month ago:
Seriously?? That’s the price of FIFA’s bribe? Not, idk, “Call off your ICE ghouls at the next match, because we need to sell tickets?”
- Comment on Choose wisely! 2 months ago:
Stellaris players: How it feels to have a Spiritualist empire on one side of your border and a Materialist empire on the other.
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 2 months ago:
Bastard in a Pasture
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 2 months ago:
TIL Deadpool is a sponge.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 2 months ago:
Yank here. I dunno what these fucks are complaining about. All my phones have either been cheap, or refurbished secondhand. Hell, I even learned how to fix my own so I could make them last as long as possible. And when the OS gets too slow, I start throwing out old apps like I’m bailing a leaky ship. My average phone’s lifetime is nearly five years.
You know what this smells like? Smells like rich people complaining about poor people being pragmatic and sensible. “Decreasing productivity by 1/3 of a percentage point.” Spoiled little prince can eat my entire ass.
- Comment on Labcoat! 2 months ago:
That sounds HeLa awkward.
- Comment on How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"? 2 months ago:
The Rocketeer, when Jenny found Neville Sinclair’s secret radio room.
- Comment on Pronouns history 3 months ago:
Sent this to a friend. Xe laughed and said, “If they have an issue with it, they can come find me and tell me. Good luck, BTW, we make up less than 1% of the population. If people that rare are pissing you off, find a fucking hobby.”
- Comment on CNC 3 months ago:
You can’t deny, even though it was literally just straight American imperialist propaganda, it was a fun game series. And my lesbian ass definitely had a huge girl crush on Tanya.
- Comment on CNC 3 months ago:
Command and Conquer?
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 3 months ago:
I beg to differ. It was a lifechanging game for me. I can trace a half a dozen major life decisions and events to the people I met through the Undertale fandom. It has some deep personal sentimental value, too.
- Comment on Thanks satan 4 months ago:
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 8 months ago:
I might just be a massive god damn nerd, but I would rather build my own with an old Pixel, a printer, and a Pi. If I can’t be up to my elbows in its guts, from board to code, then it isn’t mine.
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 8 months ago:
Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being ‘Amen’ spam. It’s just fucking dystopian.
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 8 months ago:
Not maintaining artificial connections with people who would reach out to me if they actually gave a damn about me has genuinely been liberating.
I like how Discord- and Slack-like socials are set up. It’s just more natural. Instead of a feed, it’s a forum. It feels more like a physical place, with couches for discussion, corners of the room where people take conversation, and a hall outside for privacy. And if you understood that metaphor, then you know how I feel.
And if I don’t like a server, I can just… leave. Never have to run into them again, but still have access to friends. No holes in the conversation where an obvious block or ignore leaves gaps.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 8 months ago:
Oh, take my damn upvote you punny bastard. 😂