Sorry, bud, you’re just gonna have to work through the slow rolling apocalypse. Speaking of, we’re going to need you to pull a few doubles, we had to lay off a few people to raise profits.

FTFY

FTFY: People who ~own Apple devices and~ believe they are superior are morons.

Don’t downplay it like that! They also removed the tabs button in Safari. Brilliant! (who needs it?)

As a European it has been interesting over the last decade to see a whole new family of predatory dark patterns emerge after the implementation of GDPR. The regulation that was intended to safeguard privacy, to a large extent is underwriting companies defaulting to spying on you for no gain to yourself. It’s an uphill battle.

Aha, yeah the ”Gaben” fetishism and absolute support Valve gets in some cliques has always irked me. Not that I don’t see the merit in a lot of their product philosophies (e.g. Linux support)

I don’t understand this sentence

It’s the Streisand effect, when an ineffectual government actually does something it becomes a reminder of its failures

Sure, that’s fair, but by that standard I was replying to a pretty aggressive comment, no? E.g. lazy blanket condemnation of anyone who has signed up to Lemmy via the instance with some of the largest piracy and privacy communities.

You’re free to agree with OP and they too are entitled to their opinion about either lemmy.ml or dbzer0, but don’t try to tell me I responded in bad faith to a good faith argument.

I don’t understand why pointing out the clear irony of complaining about bias and toxicity while making huge generalizations makes you clutch your pearls so hard, what’s outrageous about it?

Some people here think it’s a huge life choice to pick an instance and get weirdly tribal about it. For most, it probably isn’t.

There’s no doubt that some instances have a certain flavor and attract some types of users that don’t mesh as well with others as the rest, on aggregate, but it’s still just a fucking window to the same boards.

It’s good that you openly declare your bias and preconceptions this way 👍

Still a bit confusing to me. In my jurisdiction, child pornography is the legal term, which really applies independently of whether anyone is abused or have had their sexual integrity violated (e.g a 17 year old, above the age of consent, voluntarily is depicted in a sexual context and voluntarily shares the content with peers, e.g. depicts a child that doesn’t exist)

I don’t quite get it, is it a wider term than child pornography or more narrow (e.g. excludes some types of materials that could be considered porn but strictly speaking doesn’t depict abuse)? The abbreviation sounds like some kind of exotic Surface to Air Missile lol

I have an M1 Macbook Air with 8 gb of ram, it performs great for everything I want to do with it – except for the fact that a ”few” active browser tabs are enough to bring the memory pressure to the pain point. Editing HD video? Reasonably snappy for an old, base spec laptop. Browsing a news site? Potato.

While it may make Nato less credible in terms of military assets and industrial capacity if the US were out, it would make Nato more defensible in moral terms if the whims of Donald Trump weren’t a cornerstone of the Alliance

Eliminate, as in make liminal. He’s gonna make the poors mad liminal, brah , and he’s got the shrooms to prove it

That’s already killing people, he’s looking to the future with his robot army

Is that an actual thing? Nvm not gonna Google. I WANT TO BELIEVE!

It’s no smaller thing to build infinite nuclear power than it is to build railways and walkable cities etcetera, quite the opposite.

Just fuck right off with that internet chud language.

You’re right, it was not an interesting opinion at all. But it seemed more rude and confrontative to lead with calling it a deranged fantasy cosplaying as realism.

Happy to hear I was able to offend either way 👍

It’s interesting that you envision this radical change and still think people should be driving cars. EVs are a solution to keep the auto industry going in the face of scrutiny, not a reasonable response to climate change.