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- Comment on 4 hours ago:
But people are talking about it on Twitter, and what happens on Twitter is more real than reality itself!
- Comment on rawr xD 10 hours ago:
Sun bears are definitely justifiably cursed.
So when she first said this. It was long ago, a time when red pandas were much less popular. So many in the group did not know what they looked like, I among them. From her fear, I inferred it must be something like, well, a panda, but red, and maybe skinnier and freakier. Then she pulled up a picture, and everybody lost it
- Comment on rawr xD 10 hours ago:
This was asked of her. The answer was no, and the reasoning was that they won’t walk like that. She knew it was irrational lol
- Comment on rawr xD 11 hours ago:
I once knew a lady who was terrified of red pandas for exactly this reason, the fact they would stand on two legs “like a human” despite not being human just freaked her out. So maybe there’s something to it.
- Comment on Kinky 11 hours ago:
Dolphins stay freaky
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 13 hours ago:
If we’re lucky they’ll do something that speaks to the youth, like doing Tiktok dances in protest
- Comment on Senators Press Amazon’s Bezos on Unfair Scheduling Practices Hurting Workers: Amazon’s “just-in-time” scheduling leaves hourly workers with volatile schedules, uncertain paychecks 3 days ago:
Senators: You are doing something very bad
Bezos: No
Senators: Yes
Bezos: What are you gonna do about it?
Senators: …
This concludes today’s session
- Comment on You donkey 1 week ago:
This has gotta already be a popular kink within the restaurant industry
- Comment on No I'm really not sorry. George Floyd was a father too, and before old Charlie had his personal turning point he called him a scumbag. 1 week ago:
Better, but not ultimately valid :)
- Comment on No I'm really not sorry. George Floyd was a father too, and before old Charlie had his personal turning point he called him a scumbag. 1 week ago:
The “he’s a father” line has got to be the most slave-morality, don’t-ask-questions, get back to work and serve the Economy, don’t make trouble for the system, obvious bullshit I’ve ever heard.
One can make plenty of better arguments for why not to make fun of him posthumously, so why pick such a bad one? Oh right, because the vast majority of our society has never been educated to care about the logical validity of an argument, but only its emotional gut-feeling truthiness.
- Comment on gun, nuts 1 week ago:
The Black Panthers got a lot out of theirs. It’s very likely that African Americans wouldn’t have rights in America today if not for those guns.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
Fair, fair
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 1 week ago:
We need to start badgering our local politicians to remove this shit. This is one area where local action could feasibly make a big difference. If a few towns start becoming “flock dark zones” then the network, and value prop of the company, as a whole loses efficacy.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
The best thing that could possibly come of his death is if nobody ever spoke of him or thought of him again
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
Yeah I know more than a few people fitting that description. But I do believe things can turn around. It’s less likely to make converts of people who already have that mentality, but things can resurge among new people and I think there’s a real movement there with tech literacy.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
Exactly my thinking. You could even have some sort of containerized environment so that people can easily just download and run containerized apps for various things. A podman image for your music server, for your photo hosting… almost like apps but less proprietary and less closed source
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
This makes me think that a big part of the solution is some sort of very low barrier to entry guide or product for self-hosting. Like something even a non-technical person can do. Imagine if it became the norm to have a little always-on device that serves up your personal website, instead of social media accounts…
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
I had recently heard about that service for the first time and I do think it’s a good step forward. But like you said, being properly walled off is a big miss w.r.t the ideal vision of Internet culture. I think that’s why I like the idea of server bill crowdfunding (same model that Lemmy instances use basically). Some people need to step up and pay for it, and once a threshold is reached, the content is publicly available for all. But it’s not like the people who pay are martyrs, since of course if nobody pays then the thing is lost entirely.
For a video hosting service, I feel like paywalling features is a good compromise, too. Once the bills are covered, everyone gets to enjoy ad-free, unsponsored videos… something along those lines would be preferable, at least to me since I feel like the openness of the internet is a great component to what makes it such a special place. Not that I mind private internet spaces either. I think both are important. So I think Nebula has a place in my utopian internet landscape too lol
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
Yeah no denying YouTube is particularly hard to replace, hence why there’s been nary a competitor even after all this time. I think paying for server upkeep could be a model that ekes out a victory…it would be drastically cheaper to users, and would come without ads or any of that other annoying junk. Ultimately someone needs to pay the bills, so it’s not like I even blame YouTube for making you choose between ads or subscriptions. It’s just when they push it further than that, always further, forever further and further…
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
I really wanted to like and use Peertube more, but it’s so devoid of any content aside from political podcasts, as far as I can tell. I can’t tell if the search function is bad, or I’m using it wrong, or there really is just that little content. Any recommendations for Peertube content?
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
I really think corporations are starting to overplay their hands here. People don’t need Prime as much as Amazon thinks they do, people don’t need YouTube as much as Google thinks they do, and so on. Especially in the case of YT, yeah, turns out it’s easy to compete when your service is free. But once it gets freemium enough, things like Peertube start to take a place on the optimal frontier. Right now Peertube only competes with YouTube if you’re sensitive to the dimension of a service being centralized or not, most people don’t give a shit about that. But the dimension of cost and ads? Enshittify YouTube too much and suddenly Peertube has its place for anyone who cares about money or time (i.e everyone).
And Prime? Don’t think people won’t start just going to stores again, or buying directly from producers. At least if I go to an actual website to buy my stuff I don’t need to worry about getting ripped off by some drop-ship fake brand garbage.
People love their little conveniences and will try to hang on to them, sure…but I think this could really start to backfire if they push it much further.
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 2 weeks ago:
Stolen from GeneralSam:
Chairdolf Sitler
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 weeks ago:
Asking if people could spot the antichrist has always seemed paradoxical to me. Isn’t the antichrist’s defining thing that he will deceive people into following him? Lost cause imo
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 3 weeks ago:
Yooooooo what he’s the Flashbulb!? Crazy lol. I’ve loved his music for years now. Did not at all realize it was the same guy. Taste goes with taste I suppose
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 3 weeks ago:
Woah, this guy is great. I wish it were possible for me to do something like this full time, but I lack the wide skills he’s got. I wonder how long it takes to get to that level? And I wonder if there’s any organizations that might sort of scratch this itch? Been fantasizing about working for the IFF or something like that.
Really really love how he ends the video by insulting and criticizing the companies that asked him to sponsor them. Insane power move
- Comment on Birds of peace 3 weeks ago:
ADHD brain is multi-threading
- Comment on Birds of peace 3 weeks ago:
I like how this style of writing seems to honestly reflect internal deep-level thought processes. It feels like debugging into the assembly level of consciousness.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 3 weeks ago:
Oh God yes a still sentient and thinking brain just completely devoid of sensory input for eternity until he goes mad. Ironic fates ftw
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I am always very proud to say I am a bad driver for this very reason. I am a very bad driver. But I am a better than average bias-recognizer
- Comment on do what you love 4 weeks ago:
This is PURE speculation, but I feel like this could be caused by the only people who feel comfortable getting a philosophy degree are wealthy connected people. I know a lot of people from my high school that have stereotypical “be poor forever” degrees and are doing great - but if you knew them in high school, you’d know that they had millionaire parents. All the poor kids went for safer degrees because they knew they’d need money.