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- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 5 days ago:
Don’t threaten, just do it. Enshittification must end.
The only reason we have mainstream paid video streaming now is because early Netflix was genuinely better than dodgy, pop-up riddled mirrors on movie4k.to. The convenience was well worth 8 bucks a month. Same for Spotify.
Fast forward 10 years and Spotify wants me to pay 15 €, scan my face and listen to forced podcast ads AND pay extra for paywalled audiobooks that used to be free? Meet my good old friend youtube-downloader, then.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 2 weeks ago:
Sure, keep inflating that bubble
- Comment on 'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future 2 weeks ago:
I and at least two other people once called robots “tin cans” on social media. Can mashable turn that into a “news story”, too?
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 month ago:
Ok
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 month ago:
It’s called “Das perfekte Dinner”, it’s been on the air for 20 years and is one of those shows that defies the death of classic television.
It can appear quite boring if you come from watching things like chef’s table or hell’s kitchen, as there is little drama, its unscripted and it’s mostly very positive and no-nonsense.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Does it need to be a laptop or could it be a refurbished Mini-Office PC like a Lenovo m710q? Because you could cut that price in half.
- Comment on Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and ‘A Better Tomorrow’: AI-Powered Kung Fu Film Plan Debuts in Shanghai 1 month ago:
So what’s the agreed-upon purpose of up- and down votes on Lemmy? Because I feel like the news of this clusterfuck of a bad business decision is technews-worthy and doesn’t deserve the downvotes.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 month ago:
A little out of the blue but I watched an episode of a German cooking show today where strangers are coupled in groups of five for a week and every day one of them has to cook for the rest of them. They then vote who was the best host.
This week was ALL 30-38 year-old straight Dads. Nobody talked about football.
Nobody chestbumped anyone. Nobody was mansplaning anything. Instead, they were all swooning over each others’ cooking skills, making each other cry over how much they love their kids and hugging each other for feeling insecure about their cooking. In other words it was the most realistic and “manly” portrayal of the male reality that I have seen in the media ever.
It’s easy to blame the media and the “culture war” for male alienation but I strongly believe that our perception of ourselves is largely influenced by our peer group’s portrayal in society. In other words: if I feel antagonized, I tend to overreact. If I am being told by Hollywood or social media to “stop being a mansplaning patriarch” I will be imprinted with the very idea to identify as such.
So long story short: non-toxic masculinity needs more representation AND it needs to come from a place of positivity, not judgement or condescension.
- Comment on What the fuck 1 month ago:
You are not pregnant, but your child is carrying your grandchild who is also not pregnant 👍
- Comment on You will cum immediately! 1 month ago:
A ghost is haunting Europe - it’s a 50yo horny housewife and lives near you!
- Comment on mood 1 month ago:
Lung cancer is color blind! ❤️
- Comment on GendBuntu: How France’s Military-Police switched 100,000+ PCs to Linux 1 month ago:
This has become one of the major incentives of the scheme for staff; transferring to GendBuntu from a proprietary system means the staff member receives a new computer with a widescreen monitor.
Smart! What I wouldn’t do for me equipment…
- Comment on Just be that way 1 month ago:
Correct
- Comment on Just be that way 1 month ago:
What?
- Comment on Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast 1 month ago:
And you already know they’re gonna autogenerate audio-ads and product placements in these summaries as soon as people start using them.
- Comment on Hmmm this came from the gutter of the gutter of my mind. You have been warned. 1 month ago:
Let’s math! An average egg holds 52ml in volume. The average ejaculation delivers between 2 and 6ml. This means you’ll have to nut into your pie crust 9 - 26 times to keep it from crumbling.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 1 month ago:
Great, now that 50% of a video can be a direct call for genocide, does that at LEAST mean I can use ONE instance of a “bad” word or speak of “icky” things like death and drug abuse without being demonized?
- Comment on Literally this community 1 month ago:
We’re all works of art and deserve some rest? Aren’t you just the sweetest
- Comment on How to celebrate Pride 1 month ago:
You’ll need a load-bearing bottom…
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 1 month ago:
Can’t wait for Google to AI-summarize AI-generated social media posts for artificial Google users created to hike ad prices. It’s gonna be wild
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 1 month ago:
Which is such a shortsighted move because as soon as all the news portals close shop Google’s scraper will have nothing relevant to summarize and is gonna be shit.
- Comment on It's a rule 1 month ago:
“Putting diapers on now, DTF?”
- Comment on EG Sign in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 - Launch Gameplay Trailer 2 months ago:
Yeah, the original soundtrack would be half the reason to buy it for me.
- Comment on Keeper - Official Announce Trailer 2 months ago:
Double fine as in brutal legend? Damn