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- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 1 day ago:
Damn, you’d really think these bozos would have learned to read a room by now, you know?
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 day ago:
Tbh, I’m super into this. Especially if the range could be extended slightly or if the truck is somewhat hackable.
But then… Bezos. Ugh.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 2 days ago:
Sure. But the costs for implementing such a thing are certainly above simply using the tools on the platform on which the dev has decided to release their work. If they disagree, don’t release it there.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 2 days ago:
But remember: the design and initial implementation of the internet was paid for by the populace. It is supposed to be filled with cool and useful, free stuff.
Corporate interests and “web 2.0” have turned it into a weird hellscape of misinformation and targeted advertising. It was not designed for it.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 2 days ago:
It’s the walled garden thing that gets me. At some point, people got complacent. I’m 100% confident that there is an entire swath of the population which has never considered that Discord is a corporate entity with corpoate interests. We made open standards for a reason.
- Comment on China invites European countries to form united front against Trump tariffs 2 days ago:
As they should.
DJT may as well have handed them the keys to the goodwill the US used to enjoy on a silver platter.
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 3 days ago:
As others have said, this seems like an ill-formed question. Do you have reason to believe that politicians “cling to the idea that these voters can’t be reached”?
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 3 days ago:
On whatever platform(s) you sell your games. The key is not expecting someone to sign up for a different service for your updates.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 3 days ago:
Hopefully they just post updates on the platforms they sell their games on. I shouldn’t need to sign up for anything else.
- Comment on I'm a 64-year-old Amazon employee. Retirement wasn't even on my radar, but now I have to leave due to RTO mandates. 3 days ago:
Becoming the norm in Corporate America, if it isn’t already. Every employee is disposable. It doesn’t matter what you do. It doesn’t matter how good you are. It doesnt matter how loyal you are. You are disposable.
There is no social contract anymore between employers and employees. “It’s just business” is a cop out to wriggle away from ethics – but it is now the law of the land.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 3 days ago:
Once Discord enshittifies, lazy devs won’t be able to say “follow our Discord for updates!” anymore.
- Comment on Praise jeebus 1 week ago:
He seems pretty short for a messiah
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 1 week ago:
Yes, exactly this ^
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 1 week ago:
The FAA is changing the rule which makes this information public. The FAA is fully controlled by the rich.
- Comment on Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey Call For Abolition Of All Intellectual Property Laws, Arguing There Are 'Much Greater Models To Pay Creators' 1 week ago:
Wasn’t blockchain the griffty buzzword years ago? We have all new grifts now
- Comment on Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive 1 week ago:
I’m not a Mac person at all, but I always, always loved the Pismo PowerBooks.
Sadly I think I waited too long. I can’t really justify one at all.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 1 week ago:
I don’t feel bad. It’s a big number, but it was spread out over 20 years. I’m sure I’d be shocked at a lot of numbers amalgamated over 20 years.
- Comment on Zuckerberg on the Stand: The Trial to Break Up Facebook Starts Monday 2 weeks ago:
Won’t matter.
Laws only apply to those with less than a billion dollars.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
It was much easier to fake a resurrection back then.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Avenues exist. But money is corrupting.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 3 weeks ago:
I tried giving you an opportunity, but I’m going to block you now.
I really don’t even know what this means.
I wish the best for you.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 3 weeks ago:
Your problem is that you want to censor ideas you don’t like.
This is a natural result of media controlled by corporate interests. It’s also a misunderstanding of “free speech” – even when you are free to say what you will, it does not mean you are free from the consequences of that speech.
You want to control what other people think by dictating what they get to see and what they’re allowed to share with others.
Again, I suggest looking into how propaganda works. Letting everyone speak about anything (without vetting of topic, qualifications, or direction) has consequences. We are seeing those consequences now and will continue to see more as the propaganda machine runs wild on the back of “let everyone speak”.
Your view of this is overly simplistic and I am, in the most polite way, attempting to direct you to self improvement. It is a common issue at the moment across all discourse – probably vestigial of the information sharing capabilities now available.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 3 weeks ago:
It’s right there in the TOS! /s
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 3 weeks ago:
I recommend you take strides to learn how propaganda works, most specifically the purpose of shifting opinion (i.e. the Overton Window): “I’m just asking questions” and “I’ll let anyone speak” are two of the most effective methods of propaganda.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 3 weeks ago:
“Don’t Be Evil”
(I know this hasn’t been the Google motto in years – when it stopped was one of the biggest corporate red flags)
- Comment on The rise of far-right political support among the rich is partly a diversion, so that people start getting more upset at the far right than at being exploited by the rich 3 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree, though I will add: there is a lot more to right-wing politics than being anti-trans. Shit is bad for all groups except the rich, and divide and conquer is a thing.
None of that is meant to belittle the trans experience at the moment. I am aware of the fact that they are, minimally, a kind of sacrificial lamb, and I can only hope that the situation improves.
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- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 4 weeks ago:
Hm, I may need to rewatch it myself. That also doesn’t match what the link above suggests about interpreting the ending.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 4 weeks ago:
What did he save?
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 4 weeks ago:
It is implied that Tom Cruise dies at the end. I think the confusion comes from a voice over, but you never see the character on screen again.
He also does not “become a samurai”. He fights alongside them, but at no point do they call him a samurai.