To be more specific than mobile apps, sports betting apps are so insanely predatory

And it’s not even like Internet trends are a new thing. TikTok has simply offered a platform that’s extra predatory about it.

I can imagine that TikTok has been for Internet trends, to what slot machines did for gambling.

Nobody gonna at least honorable mention Walmart? It’s been a bane on local small business from the start, but it’s also been funnelling wealth out of communities.

When employees have to both live off assistance AND can only afford to ship at Walmart with their employee discount, more wealth goes to Walmart than they ever pay the employee and the community just gets poorer all the meanwhile.

Leach wood ashes with water to make lye. Soap is easy

Hey, maybe you’ll be the most successful neolithic brain surgeon and only kill half your patients

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning

Without due process, they don’t even need to take away citizenship. They’ll just kidnap you and it won’t matter.

Yea that’s my issue in this argument too. Saying forums are replacing everything, or even that that’s a big problem is like saying “Swords are disappearing from warfare and that’s a problem” in the late 15th century. We don’t need forums for everything because the format isn’t the only tool we have anymore.

This has been said about every significant invention ever.

The fact that “luigi’d” as a verb has become pretty common slang very quickly, it’s not crazy to associate it with violence.

Now we get to the actual matter. Several years ago saying “Someone should shoot that CEO” (which would be the same statement as something like “Hoping that CEO gets luigi’d”) would not have gotten you banned. Wishing death upon someone is not the same as actual threats of violence.

Who needs satire when you have reality?

I blame the voters who just flat out couldn’t be bothered. If they’d all showed and at least voted 3rd party on the president, at least the fascist wouldn’t have control of Congress.

I blame Dems for shitting on everything so hard that people made the choice to not show up.

Non-voters can’t fix what they’ve done, protest voters can’t change what’s happened. The Dems can absolutely still fix their party. There’s only one group who deserves our ire in this moment.

The way they approached Threads is part of why I stuck with LW. Instance location doesn’t matter much to me and why would I go with an option that is more willing to take choice out of my hands?

Corporate or not, it should be my decision to interact with it. Unless it’s Nazis or some shit similar, I can block rather than rely on defederation and being told what to do.

Best I can do is tree-fiddy

Arizona, figure the context being the US would at least make that an easy search but guess not.

Then sometimes you’re like me, living in AZ, not even on a VPN, being told “You Texans should be asking for ID” and just wondering how the fuck that’s happening

Leaves from the Vine is the most “try not to cry, cry a lot” moment in any show for me.

If it wasn’t eligible for the FIX (this is NOT an upgrade, you are entitled to them fixing this shit if it does effect you)maybe it wasn’t the right ignition system? My 2013 Elantra needed it and it seemed to be on the older end of cars who had the vulnerability.

Okay so as someone who’s getting fed up with Windows and Microsoft as a whole, I’m interested in Linux.

I just wanna game and watch videos. Video calls n such with friends. Nothing too spectacular.

Now can someone who doesn’t work on computers for a living, or even isn’t a hobbyist programmer. Someone like me, who couldn’t write a line of code on their own, answer me how difficult would it actually be?

My biggest fear is that I’m convinced by all the tech nerds here who can of course run this no problem and don’t see why a beginner would struggle, and then my anxiety shoots through the roof while I have a breakdown because I just wanted to get home from work and relax and suddenly my PC is a paperweight.

It’s a handful of addons (open source, available to be added via files) rather than the whole browser that are now available in Russia. Seems better to cut loss there and remain available as long as a workaround exists I’d think?

So I typed out a long reply with helpful tips and everything but Lemmy broke and I couldn’t send that, and I really can’t be arsed again, this is already too much effort.

Massage/Wellness: your posture sucks and your back hurts all the time because you have a flabby gut and no ass. Get to exercising.