deacon

@deacon@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like tattooing your new girlfriend’s name on your ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have to go and download an ad, and then upload it, and then select it from new additions in order to hear an ad on Plexamp.

  But the subscription model is the framework for fuckery here.

  It wasn’t long ago that subscribing to something, implied a consistent (usually periodical) delivery of actual goods or services that were in some way distinct from the previous periods good or services. Issue #33 is different from #32. March’s soup of the month is different than February’s.

  And you could hold issue #33 in one hand and #32 in another hand and directly interact with two months worth of that subscription.

  The tech bro idea of innovation is to get two revenue streams from each customer; keep us paying for the same thing over and over but never owning it, and sell our data to advertisers. The fact that they are also showing ads to subscribers is just dripping lemon juice in the paper cut because they can. They were already making money off that data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 17th of March⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is anything I said incompatible with the statement all slavery matters?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 17th of March⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve sat here and read this carefully a few times and I do not follow your point. Who is me and who is you in this scenario? Is you Ireland? And is me America or who is Africa? How does this seeming reciprocal rape relate to either, or indeed any, slavery situation?

  I’m going back to reread the Wikipedia article just in case you’re too deep for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 17th of March⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  One is too many, but, the in American discourse at least, the implied equivalence is used to undercut and diminish the Atlantic slave trade, which I think no one can dispute echoes much louder into our present day.

  One is too many, and I don’t mean to diminish that but at least in the context of the US I would argue there is slavery, and then there is Slavery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Muad'Dib Dib Dib⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I am genuinely not sure I ever see myself tiring of this format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2700 K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Cause she was living la Vida Loca…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you as having no reddit parallel. You are singular and we have no need of such comparisons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahoy there me matee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sabrina Carpenter is esoterica in my point of origin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I have to be in a large group I exclusively want to be in large groups that I can be ignored in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want, nay *need*, to see your favourite pet photos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am exercising restraint here.

  Image Penny, Rocky, and Honey napping together.

  Image A much younger honey sleeping on my shoe

  Image Penny, Rocky, and Arty the tripod

  I will leave it there but there is real tension between posting an obnoxious amount vs omitting some of my cats; so basic cat dad problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I have to? Ok, fine...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they have brownie brittle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for nothing but enshittification has really sparked a renewed appreciation for good old fashioned taxi drivers. Especially to and from the airport.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoy the posts, I’ve just always assumed this is another user doing a bit though — which is fine

  All the better if there is a real person behind this, it gives me some hope for the younger generation, and I hope nothing you encounter here makes you regret sharing who you are and what you’re going through.

  But you’re in a community that is skewing older and more early-internet, and thus most of us find it prudent to pretty much assume every identity in a community like this is partially or largely fake. I am, for example, a 4 year old Australian Shepherd in real life and my human has no clue.

  Real or fake, I enjoy my game of “Stamets or Violet” every time I see a horny or uncouth post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨planned date fell apart so i'm going clubbing wearing a see-through bra as a top with my girlfriends instead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my favorite Stamets alt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨planned date fell apart so i'm going clubbing wearing a see-through bra as a top with my girlfriends instead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t tell me what to do

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally we do not need to count it on fingers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Call me when there is a self-hosted solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fascism bad.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Trust me, the more explorations I do on the nature of consciousness, the more I wrestle with all of that.

  I don’t believe that it is inherently wrong to kill in order to eat. But as a species we don’t. Which isn’t to say there aren’t members of our species who very much do still need to kill to eat.

  But I don’t need to kill to eat, and I’ve outsourced that killing so it feels like more of an abstraction than it is. I can at the very least acknowledge this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fascism bad.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Veganism is my unattended moral compromise. I am positive that future generations will look at us and our factory farming and, aghast, see us as the monsters as we are - much like we look back at slaveowners, even those who were against the institution at the time.

  Since I am not living in or near the wild and not hunting for my own food, it is clear to me that veganism is the only real moral choice, and yet I still participate.

  I am complicit in this delightful supreme pizza and complicit in this breaded chicken sandwich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meirl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what, you’re right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This actually explains the infamous Fig Newton Debacle of ‘92, which my extended family is still divided over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meirl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some things are good habits whether they are strictly necessary or not. Like looking both ways or signaling your turn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨strictly enforced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  She caresses his waddles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically it is comments like these that led to Reddit gold. But thank you kind stranger for saving me having to descend into The Depths for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But, XcQ!

  XcQ!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I see it in his eyes, the longing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t even need to click. This is a classic, so I clicked anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In other words, everyone is vulnerable to this totally new form of hazard if they use these “tools”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They seemed nice and normal until....⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It has a slightly different effect with her. At least to me it does. I don’t mean that in a creepy way but her big eyes are cute and that’s now how I’d think of Rami Malek

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not funny⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Incontrovertibly funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be a hero⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “before “E” except after “C” and when sounding like “A” as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and YOU’LL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!!!”

  -Brian Regan