Chetzemoka

We have to pay for the services we use somehow. I’d rather it be cash than the details of my entire life. But the money to operate those services has to come from somewhere

Maybe let’s try focusing on content and not personal characteristics of the presenters:

https://youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU?t=1347&si=wZjBIJkdmK8CwzIm

I’m way more annoyed by that terrible echoey microphone

“The truth is you love censorship, and so does everyone else. The only question is whether you’re ready to admit it.”

https://gizmodo.com/why-censorship-is-part-of-everyday-life-section-230-1850095976

That’s a nice looking Nebelung you got there. They’re such beautiful cats

Their content promotion algorithms are not protected by section 230. Those algorithms are the real problem, pushing more and more radical content onto vulnerable minds. (The alt-right YouTube pipeline is pretty well documented. Reddit, I think, less so. But they still promote “similar content”)

It’s a rather bizarre argument, essentially saying “it’s not the whole solution so it’s not a solution at all”

Lawdamercy, can you please say it louder for the people in the back whinging that they refuse to vote for Biden because his Climate Bill wasn’t perfectly everything all at once? In the face of the Republican denialist obstructionism, it’s pretty fucking miraculous. The ultimate solution to climate change is going to be a patchwork quilt of a million different tiny solutions

You’re a good teacher, working around the things they find important in their lives. Thank you

I’ve had multiple issues with very recently released movies (like Crazy Rich Asians) not playing at all and only giving me pixelated nonsense or the aspect ratios being completely fucked up. Never happened on HBO Max. Only since the forced migration to the new app

I only have WhatsApp because I have so many non-American friends ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I dragged my mom and sister over to using it, and everyone has been warned that the second I see Meta trying to monetize it, I’m going to whine until they all move to Signal (which has pretty much identical functionality.)

Malala Yousafzai is a famous activist for education of young girls who the Taliban attempted to murder for her activism. Hence her comment “Boo 👎” on this young girl’s post about skipping classes.

Young girl is just shocked she got called out by a famous person.

Yes. Literally.

If the United States Constitution were really being respected, extrajudicial killings would be exceptionally rare events.

If the carbon is in my body, it’s not in the atmosphere where it would contribute to climate change. Checkmate, atheists

Never. Leave. This baby. Again. Lol

Haha, I have a blanket burrower too. Bedtime = “you’re letting me explore the blanket cave now, right?”

Seriously, the handful of times I’ve checked back in on Reddit recently just made me think, “Wow I hate it here.”

I’m so much happier on the Fediverse.

Sadly the cat summoning ritual only works on half of the cats in my house. Which is one. It only summons me one cat

All economic bubbles do that

https://freakonomics.com/2007/06/the-benefits-of-a-bubble-even-when-burst/

Fully admits to being a literal child at the time. Still talking like they have something to contribute about the situation they fully admit to knowing nothing about. Gets snarky with the people who were actually impacted by it.

Fucking why do people like you feel the compulsive need to open their mouths about every god damned thing? Maybe your opinion, I dunno, isn’t relevant.

I would like to introduce you to a different possibility. It’s called keeping your mouth shut and listening. Crazy idea, I know, but it’s often followed by this thing called learning.

Give it a try sometime.

Well there are two of us right here in the comment section. I had a great job at a startup online retailer. They had a good business model, it was a great place to work.

We had been beating our sales projections and were only a couple months away from being profitable when the Sept 11 attacks happened. Within two weeks, our VC funding stopped and we were all out of jobs because the company owners had to choose between paying rent and paying us. They chose to pay us all severance, bless them for that.

Thankfully I was young, didn’t own a house, didn’t have kids. But a lot of my colleagues did.

Well, we’re not. There’s a reason you don’t see New York City jumping to adopt this tech, and it’s because they bothered to invest in a public transit system that makes cars obsolete for a lot of people. If we got decent public transit in more cities combined with an actually functional high speed rail system in this country, you’d see cars become obsolete for a whole lot more people.

This “lifestyle/culture” developed out of sheer necessity given the geographic size of this country and the complete failure to invest in mass transit. It can and must be changed, if we want our future to be viable at all.